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Yes, it's really tough. Whilst Barafundle has more quirkiness and is jammed full of more ideas - there's something about the slightly more melancholy/whimsical Spanish Dance Troupe that wins me over. Plus for personal reasons the album got me through a tough patch. Losing a close friend about...

In this age of digital listening, there are a few albums that would win out if you were allowed to skip 50% of the tracks. But taking an album as a whole, something you would listen to all the way through, then these are my winners. Electronic: Ed Rush & Optical - Wormhole Non-electronic...

This Ommm?? http://www.discogs.com/Ommm-Testing-The-Equipment/release/402674 Used to follow the AD AAD AT / 19T labels closely back in the day.

Steering clear of artists who misappropriate arabic samples, what about Mutamassik? And of course DJ/Rupture released some interesting stuff; But this kind of thing does't really make it on to Youtube. Both have released tracks verging on breakcore but I can't find them. I should really...

I spent 250 on a lovely Arcam CD player a few years ago, you could probably get it for 50 quid on eBay now. This stuff is dead technology. I haven't used it since I got a squeezebox shortly after buying the bloody thing. So my advice would be that perhaps now is the time to consider streaming...

I think that Dream Continuum release is a cruel teaser of how good jungle/juke could be... I've not heard anything else near it's level. I realise it was Om Units progression from the Phillip D Kick releases, I'm hoping he can magic up some more work of that calibre. I agree the Philip D Kick...

So, the 1% is actually the 5%?

Who on Earth would trust a wifi connection in a club environment? Oh, and it's called the Nexus. Just bought myself one of these cheap little Allen & Heaths to replace the Vestax. Home noodling only...

Not seen that. Looks a bit plasticy. If you have an existing mixer you could drop the idea of an all-in-one and get some older A&H Xone 1Ds. Should be able to pick them up fairly cheaply now that the newer models are out. Like this...

Vestax VCI range or anything by Allen & Heath. You want something built like a tank.

It's completely the other way round for me. The first album is timeless. Still skeletal, still haunting, and it takes me back to the shock of first hearing it. Everything that has come afterwards has struck me as a lack of progression and a rehashing of the same concepts. (I'm not saying its...

Did no one else find it odd that a sizable chunk of the ceremony seemed to be all about celebrating Harry Potter? I know GB is otherwise bereft of literary history, but even so....

Not sure if serious...

You are paying for a user license surely? ReDigi is one of the best trolling mechanisms ever thought up, and that is not a bad thing. The real question is who inherits your iPad apps when you die?

No, that is bollocks. There was no issue caused by the rain. There were thousands and thousands of people trying to get into venues that were too small. It wasnt even raining by the time the problems began. The worst part of it all, and something ive not yet seen addressed is that Ray Keith was...

Perhaps it's this quote? He is right, as a method of conversation / two-way communication it is terrible. However, I am prompted to read his latest writings directly by his official twitter account (maintained by someone else). And this is where Twitter excels, serving as a jump point to...

Forget about the 140 limit. For any real user of twitter they will know it is hardly a barrier to communication. I click on more links supplied via contacts in twitter than I use Google. And don't forget you can always use the radical idea of spreading a message across two or three tweets. A...

There must be a flac to alac converter to avoid losing tags surely?

Flac also supports ID3 tags and embedded cover art.

Having been lucky enough to live in a few of Englands idyllic tiny rural communities, I can say from experience that the more idylic the location, the stronger the level of racism and fear of other bubbling under the surface. Which makes the Olympic opening ceremony all the more perverse in my...