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Socialism dead? The prime ministers of both Norway and Sweden are socialists. Of the social-democratic kind, but still good old Scandinavian socialists. Arguably two of the wealthiest and best countries to live in (Norway seem to clinch those UN lists every year) - lead by freely elected...

and put his money where his mouth is. He owns myspace.com now where the youth and loads of bands (ugh even Coldplay I think?) seem to hang out these days. Good to see that the Bot has been awoken.

I had a quick lookup last night. Taking only the artists mentioned in the index of Simon's book on postpunk and then checking in "The Great Rock Discography". Public Image Ltd - 12th for "Pil" and 5 for the "This is Not a Love Song" singles, debut album went to 22 Magazine - 28th in the album...

never heard of Sa-Ra until now, but there's a free legal download of "Second Time Around" at download.com - http://music.download.com/sa_ra/3600-8544_32-100808056.html -- It is great, hints of the late Billy MacKenzie/The Associates as well - the echo, the way the second vocalist comes in...

funny what you can get if you got the dosh, Tokyo - A self-confessed Japanese cartoon geek said on Friday that he would become the world's fourth space tourist next year - and he wants to gaze down at the Earth dressed as an ace pilot from a hit animation series.

seem like the Beeb are afraid of the labels - the Bach downloads are in the balance http://techdirt.com/articles/20051102/1339257_F.shtml

They sure did: Talking Heads, Soft Cell, Siouxsie, Magazine/Ultravox/Visage, Echo and the Bunnymen/Teardrop Explodes, XTC, Joy Division/New Order, The Cure Johnn Foxx/Gary Numan, Human League/Heaven 17 etc all charted. I think even Wire were on the(album) charts, and possible Cabaret Voltaire...

Tried to send this private Woe, but your message limit has been reached (I thought you guys gave yourselves a hefty limit?). I am quite pleased with Dreamhost after having hosted my podcasting experiment there for a year or so. 8 dollars for 120/GB month. A high profile website like...

or as the case may be just one line, not to be confused with trawling (a net dragged after the boat). Nessie (summers spent in fishing factories in the Arctic north)

Me neither. Let's just call'em Starbuck Stones (NME) (The Stones is basically a business).

Yesterday I listened to a field recording of a train on my way home - by train. For once I've done a little writeup (with a couple of more links) on the stuff we post here on dissensus with a short Nessie article on these finds (and a few more) (with credit).

Just did an advanced search and "no" seems to be the answer although the word itself has been used a handful of times. There's also http://soundtransit.nl/ which I have not checked out yet.

I'll check it out. Field recordings thread: 30 views Grime thread: 9000 views :D

I've bought the book (in the post together with the new David Sylvian), but decided against any new filing cabinet or whatever (rather use whatever I have of shelves etc). The reviews on Amazon.com sold me. I'll see if the book is of any help, if not it's a tenner lost. I can live with that...

Yeah Soundscape is nice. I am really enjoying this From Webbed Hand at the moment (free download or stream, but you can get the CDs if you like it) "Far Afield: A Webbed Hand Compilation" http://www.webbedhandrecords.com/wh055.html [/size] <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3"...

Yes they are on Domino and they have been widely tipped; but the use of free MP3s, Myspace.com, blogs to build a band to go number one is a first (at least the on this scale). The marketing budget for the Arctic Monkeys (Artistic Monies?) compared to the resources used by the...

ha! no peace for the wicked. Arctic Monkeys straight in at number one. K-Punk and Blissblogger are pushing out the can(n)ons! If nothing else it's quite a funny little moment, keeping the 50-milllion pound man at number four. Am I wrong, but didn't someone (here?!) predict this moment? I...

"Getting Things Done" and filing systems Have anyone seriously tried these new (or re-packaged) filing systems? Ie the book "Getting things done" (GTD, based on having a filing cabinet nearby) or the Noguchi Filing System (documents recently used goes in front, gradually putting stuff you...

As would Vincent Price's long intro for Alice Cooper's "Black Widow" (lyrics) from "Welcome to my Nightmare" (1974 I think), "Welcome to my Nightmare" itself would be a nice opener come to think about it and "I love the dead" to end the set? ("I love the dead before they're cold, their bluing...

For those who want to compare - here is the dissensus thread called "Covers that mess with the DNA"