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it's ruined my life. only a slight exaggeration. they are demonic devices. would like to go back to the little crap flip top phone, barely more than a pager, that i had for long long after everybody else had gone smartphone. then my wife said you really need one and gave me her old iPhone...

Basil Hardhaus 2 is quite a name! also recorded as Brutha Basil

this also fantabulous - and a great "tribute to the DJs" type tune

not really proto-rave but totally NYC at the cusp of the 80s into 90s - and a great great house track

Burgaboy - such a great name Wittyboy is a bit of an odd one though

thanks a bleedin LOT rudewhy, you're going to give me repetitive strain injury again, like with the speed garage 100, from copying youtube urls into MP3 converters

it's a hideous song but the one good dance routine / stage set bit in Absolute Beginners

he was asked to do a song for Absolute Beginners, was sent the script, and insisted on playing the advertising executive character with the fake American accent

there is a great Bowie quote on precisely this, it goes something like "It doesn't matter who did something first. What matters is who did something second" another version of that would be - about getting a party started - that it doesn't matter who is the first person to step on the...

on the thread subject, as opposed to Bowie-aversion - one of the reasons why solo careers of people who once in a great band are often disappointing that because they are famous or established, they can assemble a new band by calling on the best players around / their famous mates - or they...

his melodies are like nobody else's melodies

overpreening - it's partly the digital, hi-res thing - and the overly mobile camera-work, whizzing about and swooping all over the shop - also the omnipresence of superfluous drone shots but it's also something to do with how insanely detailed the people who design sets and do the costumes...

there's something about the sound and the look of contemporary cultural production that I find unappealing, even aggravating i can't put my finger on it exactly - i think it's related the kind of level of detail and burnishing that current technology affords, and that therefore it's...

want him to survive to see the blue tsunami; be too shagged out to lead a coup; be well enough not to get clemency in any prison sentences, and to watch all his executive actions etc etc reversed by Biden-Harris.

if the upper echelon of the Republican party all comes down with it - hoping 'n' secular-praying for everybody Barr none to catch it if not necessarily snuff it - it's got to put a crimp in their coup plans. They'll all be coughing and sniffling and lying in bed and "i can't be arsed with this...

Kieran might join if you spell his name correctly

I didn't know Dele well but enjoyed running into him over the years - lovely guy. One of the few NME people we at MM fraternized with. Classic example of the kind of oddball who found a home on the UK music papers he wouldn't have been able to find anywhere else There's a story I've long...

third construable meaning - actually listening to the sounds made by your intestines in my case it's Basic Channel in there

funnily enough it's exactly what happened with punk new york invented it; UK perfected it, completed it i think the answer actually is that there was no societal NEED for rave in NYC - just as there was no real NEED for punk in NYC, it was bohemian slummers who were living a fairly...

actually that's wrong about the Spiegel, it's a collection of pieces done on obsolete synths, but not done retroactively as it were - they were pieces done at the time when the synths - Buchla 100, Electrcomp 100), tape, digital synthesis, Echoplex, Bell Labs' GROOVE Hybrid system, etc - were...