The future is a spam filter stamping on a human face forever

Or so it would seem, judging by the fact that anyone who emailed me with the subject “Romania” after my recent post asking for Romanian readers to contact me ended up in the “spam” folder in my Gmail account. I fished the emails out, but still, I find this quite bizarre and kind of […]

Cultural Amnesia

I found this recent article in the Guardian about the birth of rave in the UK really interesting. I guess now these names, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Johnny Walker, etc have become synonymous with so many bloated dance brands that you don’t really think of them as people who played a role in popular culture […]

Something Else

A second blog is something I’ve wanted to do for a while and with the vigour of being back from holidays I’ve now done it. It’s called “Everything Else” and on it I’ll write about pretty much anything non-techno from books to films to videos to paintings and beyond. I will still be keeping this […]

Communication breakdown

So I’m back from my holiday, and on plugging back into the matrix I did find this post over at Test raised some interesting points.
Anyone writing a blog nowadays is probably well used to getting sent a lot of email about new releases, and a huge portion of it is unsolicited. What I find most […]

Holiday

I’m going on holiday tomorrow and won’t be back until Saturday. In the meantime here’s a stream to keep you busy, it’s Stimming’s “Funkworm”, I really love this. There’ll be no podcast or radio show this week but normal service will resume once I’m back. I thought about remote posting or hiring a guest to […]