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Eminem’s Homepage
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Eminem’s Homepage: courtesy of (who else?) PopJustice.[…]

Pitchfork puts the case against Moby
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Pitchfork puts the case against Moby and does so with aplomb and a side dish of good old-fashioned techno snobbery (“One can’t even imagine Jeff Mills or Richie Hawtin spinning a Moby 12″!”). Paul Cooper is the most intelligen[…]

Marr’s attacks
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Marr’s attacks: some ex-members of Kula Shaker try to get jobs in market research, others end up in Johnny Marr’s new band. Interesting enough interview, though not one which raises hopes terribly high for the guitarist’s new materi[…]

Liner Notes Of The Gods
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Liner Notes Of The Gods: from Mike, a link to still further amazing sleevenotes. “AND NOW IT’S TIME FOR BUCK DANCING!”.[…]

Great Liner Notes Prose
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Great Liner Notes Prose: exactly what it says. Ridiculous sleevenotes from old exotica LPs, lovingly typed up in order to amuse you the surfer for thirty more seconds. “The electrifying good-time music of the coming age, the switched-on dance m[…]

Our local theme park
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Our local theme park acquired a karaoke booth in the early 90s, in which punters were given the chance to make a tape of their warblings, which would be simultaneously broadcast across the park. Our idea was obviously to recite Lou Reed’s &#822[…]

This
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This is a useful, cool corrective to excitable heads like me who’d unthinkingly endorse industry-fuelled claims that hip-hop is currently outselling everything ever. I’d still question whether the bulk of the writer’s beloved 45s-an[…]

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT – “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan”
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MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT – “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan”
Industrial is disco, obviously. The most fun things about industrial music (which like most genres can’t be defined, but you know it when you hear it) are its beat-ba[…]

Pop quiz at
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Pop quiz at not so soft – is the first Underworld album good or bad? I’d say OK – some gorgeously sprawled dark chocolate techno grooves, marred by Karl Hyde’s hammy voice and back-of-a-bus-ticket ‘observational lyrics&#[…]

SPILLER – “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)”
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SPILLER – “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)”
Spiller’s turned respectable heads, and people sharper than you or I are saying Single Of The Year to this easy-sliding disco confection. Let’s hope not – oh, it&#82[…]

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