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Musical Musings
All change
I have not posted here for a while. Have a look at my new blog project if you want to know what I'm up to nowadays.
The Gurn.net blog
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Escape Into The Park
I played the Gurn Bus stage at Escape this weekend and we all had a lot
of fun playing some classic tracks. Links with pictures and sounds up
on Gurn.net soon.
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Nobody cares?
Not much to say at the moment what with the new site over at gurn to
get to grips with. A lot of it kind of replaces my need for this blog
in fact. I'm considering it's future.
In the meantime remember that Nobody cares that you're a DJ.
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more hard music blogging
99th Floor Elevators (most famous for hard house clas(sic) 'Hooked') have a blog. Apart from that I have no idea what's going on. Godamn chalets don't have broadband.
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Gurn.net is offline
If you are one of the lost souls wandering round the internet because the Gurn.net forums
are currently down, then never fear. It will be back up shortly with a
shiny new design. If you have never heard of Gurn then where have you
been? The MOON?? It's the best clubbing website on the intarweb!
So as tribute here is a charming picture of the old site. Never to be seen again.
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Nightclubbing at Home
Money, health and time mean that going out every weekend
isn't a realistic proposition for a lot of people (including me). Lucky
for us frustrated clubbers, Jess Harvell
is keeping the dance music flame alive by kindly providing links to
some mixes that can be enjoyed as much on the iPod and stereo as they
can in the darkest corners of discos across the world.
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Dave Clarke - World Service
Probably the biggest album that got me excited about electro was Dave Clarke's live mix CD World Service.
I admit I was attracted to the techno disk and didnt really consider
the electro side when I was buying it. On first listen I thought it
sounded like an out-of-date obessessive throwing back to the 80s with
the wierd music, but it's the electro that has got more listens and
still gets the odd play to this day.
Somehow Dave picked up on the whole electroclash thing before it
happened, and as the sound burst onto the club scene, most notably
through Fischerspooners £1m signing to Ministry of Sound, the music
that I first heard a year or two ago started geting played on Radio 1s
dance shows.
The fact that a DJ could have such foresight amazed me and as the
electro sound has grown the CDs sound has remained current - 4 years
after it's release. It's timelessness is still being proven, but so far
it's proven itself as a landmark in the mix CD history. This is the main reason Dave Clarke remains one
of my favourite DJs. That and the fact he doesn't seem to give a shit
about pandering to the media or building an image.
Now there is a sequel cunningly named World Service 2 on Resist. It's going to be just as good and if it's half as influential then it will be a job well done.
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Fabric: Is there a better deal?
£6 a month for a consistantly brilliant education in all that is current about club music?
That's all it is to subscribe to the always excellent Fabric CD series.
The CDs are always mixed by named DJs with an amazing reputation for quality (bucking the trend for anthem
lead mixes without a name on the cover) and supply just about every
genre you could possibly want to know about. For your £6 you get 1
mixed CD a month and just look at the current and upcoming names: DJ
Heather, Meat Katie, Adam Beyer, Scratch Perverts and Ivan Smagghe.
I figure that even if you are not fully into certain genres, but you
like to expand your mind then the subscription is worth it. I don't
think they have done one dud in the 40 odd CDs so far. The only better
deal I can think of is the Essential Mix but you can wack that on the mp3 player anytime you like (unless you download it which isn't very supportive of the artists).
If, like me, you want to legally support the scene without pandering to
huge faceless international major labels then the Fabric series has to
be top of the list.
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