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I definately agree with the Junior Boys - type vibe going on. Their latest 7" is damn cool too, and they're not anyone else under a different name. I might have to make the that trip up to Manchester.

I think it's just the most popular of the friend/networking websites. It's certainly seems to be important in the indie music biz - lots of people I know use it to find new bands or spread the word about their band to a wider audience. The built in music player thing definately helps...

Still no tape at my end either.

Eh? I thought that the whole point of a DJ being "exciting" talked about upthread was that the DJ was using physical skill to mix. By that criteria, Jah Shaka sticking on a record on one deck would be even less exciting, surely. The reasons he is exciting to watch are more to do with the...

So far, the reasons people dislike DJs with laptops is; 1) sound quality - debatable, obviously, and more dependent on a decent sound system than the source perhaps? 2) the visual/skillful aspect of watching someone DJ. So presumably someone using Final Scratch or the Rane Serato system would...

Does anyone hear know anything about a band called Arturo? Noise/drone indy, a little bit MBV, they were around 1999-2000 as I recall, from the UK. I have a tape of their demos, and a promo CD single they did for Blood Records (home of Skycutter)... then I heard no more from them. Anyone?

Eden, your blog post about big beat really brought the memories back... cheers! Made me want to dig out those Skycutter 10"s and my Hardnox records too...

(For those of you who don't know, Oyster is a card based system on the London transport network, where you charge up your card with pre-pay or season ticket and its deducted automatically as you travel) The Oyster system has only really impacted on my life recently, since I've only just...

I've been using Traktor for a couple of years now, mainly because it means I can take more music with me when I got house parties etc instead of a limited set of records. I've got version 2.0, so everything I say below might not apply to the newer updates: 1) It can be unstable - I've read...

Ardisson's first record, which I can't remember the name of, is even better imo. I've got a 12 called "cum cakes" by Versatile and B-Live, on Honey Beat - is this the same track? Looking at the label it says written by M. Jordan and R. Drysdale, I guess I've answered my own question! Good...

Juvenile Records - Future Beat EP, by DJ Fresh Although I'm not even sure if this is really 2step. But is is mental.

Hah.. what do I think? Well, I think it would be arrogant of me to state what I think is going on... I do think there is collective at work, but not collective mind in the common sense. More like Hegelian collective spirit, but without the religious bit. I'm more interested in describing what...

although look here to see an example of the robot head they've built already: http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/biomimetics/Biomimetic-robot-Hanson.mov its weirdly creepy and pathetic at the same time. I like Simon Schaffer - I'll have to read that article.

From what I've read, there appears to be a bit of a difference between El Bulli and Heston Blumental's style. I'm far too poor to have eaten at either though, although a friend of mine is going to the Fat Duck this weekend, so I'll get his report. Heston's scientific gastronomy seems more...

There's definately some thing up if Nick got two... Can you look into it Minikomi? After the hours I spent on my tape. :( sob

Not got mine yet still. Anyone supposed to be sending a tape to Brighton?

Two kinds of burning at the stake: the burning of heretics, which was generally done by religious groups, and usually for reasons of politics and power within the Christian church (the Templars, etc) The other kind would be the burning of "witches", carried out by the superstitious. The two...

Um, no, I think you'll find it was the superstitious and ignorant who did the burning at the stake, not the rational. I've read the Celestine prophercies and it's selfish, anti-intellectual, with the most badly informed caricature of what science is. So I'm not "assuming" or "projecting". The...

Just cause I got reminded of it in another thread: The Celestine Prophercies. And everything else that twat has written.

Word. What about "World in Motion"? Not really a pop star, but pretty f'ing awful.