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Has anyone heard the Prince Far I compilation on Blood and Fire? I listened one of the ROIR cassettes into tatters about a decade ago and may have exhausted my appetite for Far I for all time--but I've been tempted.

I don't think many people have mentioned the reggae choices, which I love. "Zig It Up" hadn't jumped out at me before, but listening back through Woebot's lens it's absolutely great. And Burning Spear is solid, unimpeachable. I might have chosen other, equally idiosyncratic 12s--"Bogle," "Jumpy...

You can really hear Pearson's love of stuff like "Hounds of Love" or 1985-era Ryuichi Sakamoto in it--you can almost picture Kate Bush singing over the first track--and those stuttering vocal stabs in "Broken Dream" remind me of Arthur Baker's [awesome] remix of "Big Love"

I really like this mix, "Lovebass" and "Maraud Your Ears" especially: Attractive slabs of prickly, sweaty squarebass. The last half gets too tracky for my taste; I lose it somewhere around 'Key Generator." It holds back when I want the sounds to get _really_ corrosive or wildly ethereal, and...

It may be worth having a look at the chapter on the history of oil politics in Afflicted Powers. The authors are quite skeptical of both the "Blood For Oil" slogan and 'peak oil'. The book has been attacked by some, often for what seem like strange reasons, but not knowing a ton about this...

Perhaps I'm confusiing the nature of the endeavor, but wouldn't a "Now That's What I Call Grime" include even more obvious songs? And _every_ grime novelty song ever. I don't think it'd be too discerning Lady Sovereign, "Cha Ching" Donae'o, "My Philosophy" Dizzee Rascal, "Dream" Roll Deep Crew...

That said there's surely something to be said for recordings as objects, even beyond the sonics. As Adorno implied, they're anthropomorphic "analogs," images of people--as such they can "age" and "live" in a way dematerialized digital info can't. This is one way mass-reproduced objects gain...

I miss not at all buying something on impulse, getting home and going..."fuuuuck! this is awful!" and getting the feeling that the entire industry, from band to label to press to store, had colluded to hoodwink me into buying some piece of shit. Curiosity had a steep price. Surely some share in...

Also: Who made "Polar Bear" then? Jammer? Danny Weed?

I gave it a shot <a href="http://rhinestones.blogspot.com/2005/09/antarctica-continued.html">here</a>. For convenience's sake here's the meat of it: WK030 Wiley “Fire Fly/Fire Fly Bass Mix/Colder Bass Mix/Cuts and Paces” (Wiley Kat) WK023 Wiley “Ground Force” (Wiley Kat) WK022 Wiley...

Right: cobblers? It can't be good, can it? Workmanlike? A baked fruit dessert? An iced drink with rum and sugar? Clarify, please. I think the production's likeable, though Damian's just any man.

I'm looking forward to hearing this

If I had to pick five, they'd be: Paul Wall, "Sittin' Sidewayz" John Doe, "Rollin'" The Team, "It's Gettin' Hot" Three 6 Mafia, "Stay Fly" Frontline, "What Is It?!!" But there's a wealth of bangers out there, available on "Southern Smoke," "Got That Purp," and so on--though since records can...

Sorry, Eno's been a dry wank twenty years, whereas Hobosapiens I liked a lot; Eno's vocal albums are great but overrated. He's got a talent for being in the right place at the right time but that's (mostly) it, though I love some of the records lots: "Spider and I" and Music For Films...

It would seem to me that mixes like these aren't signs of anything much--especially if they're not getting radio play in USA. I wonder if it might not be Dupri aiming to specialize for the UK market rather than Roll Deep making inroads to the US.

I always use his "Periodizing the Sixties" when teaching postwar art history--he takes a slightly more accessible voice there and I think it pays off well. "Postmodernism, or..." is deservedly the most famous one, but yes, ponderous, and seems like it came out eons ago. As Mark says the essay's...

The Carter Family The Staple Singers Jonah Sharp's kids have a band called Slot Machine, they're punk.

I'd take the video mix of Perfect Kiss over the entire Cure catalog I do have more use for some aspects of the later Cure than you seem to Mark--there's not much separating "Plainsong" from Bark Psychosis far as I can tell. Disintegration (at its best, which is only about half) is more than...

Gah, what's with the UK and their novelty hits But then I guess you've got Cam'ron sampling Cyndi Lauper or--what was it--the theme song to "Hill Street Blues"--which is just as bad

Kitsune 12" seconded, its pretty good I loved the cover art, that weird goaty thing. But I found even the first record sortof insubstantial. With the benefit of hindsight it was maybe due to its mixed impulses, music by committee