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Ok as reported in the Dubstep thread a few weeks back this shiz has leaked. So any comments? The whole vocal/instrumental double CD bet hedging idea is actually pretty smart, but does seem to imply a certain lack of confidence (either in the quality/suitability of the vocal additions to his...

OK, not being discussed elsewhere as far as I can tell, interested to hear what people are thinking about this one... So far it seems to me to be rather a pedantic mix, overly dry and simplistic up until about half way through when it greatly improves (although the ranting woman may not be to...

If this thread hasn't been closed can I ask Blackdown to tell me all about the unreleased Pinch tracks he's heard.... and when the album might be coming out?

Responding to this recent Woebot piece... http://www.woebot.com/2007/06/thoughts_on_blogging.html Woebot turns to theory and how "Stuff I picked up and read more recently, Badiou and Spinoza, (unlike the Virlio, Rorty, Deleuze, Popper, Bhaba, Gilroy and McLuhan I'd read in the past) just didn't...

Anyone heard this yet? With reference to my previous comments last year about Booka Shade and how I felt their minimal version of trance was somewhat, well, lacking-- this is basically precisely what I dreamed of- exquisitely engineered, endlessly shifting and re-formulating textural...

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop06/0706,reynolds,75737,22.html Reynolds' makes some interesting points here, but I can't help the feeling that he's being somewhat disengenuous as to the de-poptimization of "hipster" (he uses that a lot unproblematically) tastes. He also presumes that the...

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2006/11/al-qaeda-is-misunderstood_22.html Lenin's Tomb on Mohammed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou's "Understanding Al Qaeda: The Transformation of War." The central idea (that Al-Qaeda are not irrational by any means and are explicable as a political movement "embedded in...

A question to those who use "the other place"... it seems to be spending more time crashing than not at the moment. Even the "poxy fule" message is now not being displayed- is it completely fucked?

Climate change and environmental collapse-ultimate challenge to the capitalist "real"? On a political and philosophical level how do the coming problems of resource crisis, climate change and ecological/environmental collapse challenge the dominant ideas of the capitalist "real">? In many...

I might be being a complete twat here, but every time I try and download something off Rapidshare.de, I end up being told to either buy some premium membership thing or wait forever for it to download-- a problem which does not occur when using Turboupload/download and the like... If I'm not...

Was reading this last week about this:http://eustonmanifesto.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=1 In essence an attempt by Leftists of the Iraq war favourable/pro Blair persuasion to rebrand their ideas--- (ie a manifesto that appears to have been constructed by Nick...

I dunno if anyone else has mentioned this, but thought it might be worth discussing this latest "reform"... see here... http://www.saveparliament.org.uk/problem.html (thanks to Cornelius for a link to this site) At the committee stage of the legislative and regulatory reform bill, MPs were...