Month: April 2012
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Steve Albini on John Peel, Sonic Youth and how GQ & Fashion should Fail
Steve Albini, everyone’s favourite ‘don’t give a fuck’ misanthrope this side of Mark E, was interviewed in GQ a few years back. Yes THAT GQ – I missed it then but a link to a quote is doing the rounds again and I tracked down the interview. It’s funny, and right on the money and…
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There’s No Vibration But Wait; or how I got into psychedelic music
Strange how conversations go, a discussion about early DJ Fresh (my how he’s changed, from breakbeat drum and bass to aping like the Cataracts or LMFAO?) to Aphrodite with Shiggi which then lead me to ‘Aphrodite, in her see through nightie…‘ which as well as probably being a Pete Seeger lift, is by the Edgar…
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Ill Manors Funtcase mix & Plan B
Late with this, heard it a while back but it crossed my path again and I thought it worth posting, the incredibly evil Funtcase mix of Plan B’s Ill Manors, you can keep yer Skrillex, mate. Oi! OI! OI! I also do like the original, I think working with Chase and Status has rubbed off…
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Future So Bright I Gotta Wear Glasses – Project Glass
This is obviously still in the concept stage, but Google’s Project Glass they announced a few days ago isn’t a late April Fool, it’s a real product, although still in development. The possibility and also viability of the technology behind this does feel like a jetpack moment – like we are living in the future…and…
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I’m in the Bootie Top 10!
My mashup ‘Her Breath is the Wind’ – (Fleetwood Mac’s Rhiannon vs Sia’s Breathe Me) made the latest Bootie Top 10 – well 20 since this is a bumper March/April edition – and love the comment: ‘This one has “late-night closing song” written all over it. Gorgeously epic.’ *blush* Watch this space because it seems…