This list has taken me bloody hours. I had to narrow down from 60-70 albums to this final top forty. None of the following are losers, in that respect. Whether they’re 40 or number 1, they’re this year’s essential albums. Unlike every other big list you’ll see, this is completely un-influenced by labels or advertising [...]
Archive for December, 2005
So there you have it. I’m black and I’m brown and I’m a brother and I’m Indian and I’m Jewish and I’m Muslim. White people have told me I’m white, too: after all I went to Oxford and I talk properly, don’t I? Wherever I go, I can fit in. So I’m everything. But I’m [...]
Above is one of my Christmas pressies: Made In Sheffield.
Of course, I’m going to love this DVD. It’s my generation, it’s the pop music that I loved as a teenager and that shaped the music I make myself. For a couple of years, music made on guitars seemed completely irrelevant and outdated. Everything exciting, [...]
Seasons wotsits to you all, be you Christian, Muslim, Jew, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, pagan or atheist.
(Not agnostics though - you can bugger off, you indecisive bastards.)
If you’d like a music-related pressie, pop over to the White Town site, I’ve just uploaded a nostalgic goodie,
love and kisses,
Jyoti
Today, after a day (and two hours last night) of wrangling, I finally got the new cable modem to work. And it says I’m getting 10 megabits per second:
But when I go here I get this result:
Hmmm…. where’s my other 6.5 megabits per second, eh?
A very Christmassy night tonight, much busier than normal and quite a few old requests (hence the Kraftwerk and Prodigy tracks). Also cool to be asked for The Chalets!
Berlin funboys, Modeselektor
Tonight’s best new tune was Modeselektor’s ‘Dancingbox.’ It’s from their lovely album ‘Hello Mom’ and it’s a flippy, boppy, bippy masterpiece of dreck electro.
HMHB
The [...]
I’ve had my Monomachine for a while but I didn’t truly start having fun with it till I used it when I gigged in Sweden recently.
When I was programming songs into it for Sweden, something happened. Although I was using simple, stripped-down arrangements, the Monomachine was making them sound fantastic. It was playing them [...]
Tis the festive season, when we splash our money around money on gifts, choccies and fripperies. But how evil are the companies we’re buying products from? Will your box of After Eights help fund killing babies? Will that economy-sized barrel of Coca Cola funnel money to a company that murders trade union organisers? Is the [...]
Via Marie:
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A boy weeps as others survey the damage caused by a US air strike on Fallujah. Picture:AFP
A 30-year-old Oxford graduate with no public relations experience has been handed a $100m contract by the Pentagon - to plant false stories in Iraqi papers.
(Source: The Independent)
I wrote previously about the totally unsurprising revelations concerning US propaganda [...]