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you guys are from boston? d'ya ever play in providence?

didn't this already happen once? I sorta feel like there was a whole little phase of laptop acts, and a whole way of talking about them ("yup, he kinda just sat on stage and pushed play"), which led to a whole backlash... (maybe it's all in my head) not *quite* relevant but worth quoting...

any more reports?

yup yup!

thanks! I also downloaded the Magda mix you mentioned on yr blog, and you're right, it is sick. One of these days, I might actually start getting techno...

yeah, the lemur does look incredible. abso-fucking-lutely incredible. However, I'd imagine it would take a lot of computer power to run and would require some pretty complicated programming know-how to create yr own applications. The exciting thing about the Monome 40h is that the order of...

oh, and I'm sure you've heard of the devices like Final Scratch and Miss Pinky that allow to you use turntables to control computers... Miss Pinky is particularly cool, since it outputs directly into a Max patch, with which you can control absolutely anything!

(quiet rush of dissensians signing up for his course...)

and further out (jus' a little) into the geekery, there's amazing stuff you can do with Max/MSP and the like. Check out this new hand-built device people have made for interfacing with computer: http://monome.org/ video here: http://monome.org/media/monome40h.mov

I'm pretty sure that at least some of those worrying above about the direction grime's taken/taking REALLY did like Grime and the surrounding culture in the first place! At least I hope they did, since their writing is how I learned about it!

what, kid A??? Clearly a laaaaame copy of the White Stripes!

I think it is... at least, many of the people who go to GGD shows go to Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows (YYYs are defos indie). Are Japanther indie? I always thought of them as straddling the punk kid/hardcore scene and the indie scene proper...

definitely key in the post-punk revival stuff.. Probably the first band to do it and meet with a lot of success.. (arguably their sort-of but not really Joy Division rip-off is also a lot more palatable than Bloc Party et al...). I think Six Finger Satellite would be the actual first band in...

yup yup. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People

very jealous about Kode9 in the t-dot... I won't be home for it! Have you been to any of the sub.trac nights in Toronto? From the photos, it looks like the crowd is pretty cool!

wow! i would never have thought...

re: audiophiles vs. music lovers... blissblogger links to a Stylus piece about dynamic range compression etc., and mentions, in passing: On the other hand, see this post at the original soundtrack, where Geeta says: Obviously, people posting here aren't against having a decent sound system...

my edition (ordered online off of caiman.com from the amazon marketplace) is the same as yours.

that's of course the big question. have you heard any of the various productions stuff?

there was a rumour or something about this, but it turned out to be a joke, right?