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I got hold of this long before it's March release date, before the year started actually. Straight away you could tell that James Murphy had managed to streamline his efforts into making a modern classic. He already got the party started long ago with his brillant 7" 'Losing My Edge'  in 2002 and then his ( Read more... )

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This changed the way I perceived the idea of an album.  The idea of a record as a whole orange is nice but normally tracks have orders of preference and can stand alone  - an album is  logically construed by the sum of it's parts. 'Afraid to Dance' instead employs a ( Read more... )

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This producer remains elusive so much so that he's anonymous. It'd be a shame to harp on about dubstep because the sublime effect of Burial's music shouldn't be limited to genre classification. Instead, it's better to talk about the sheer cinematic feel,'Untrue' can sound both svelte and sparse, reflecting London ( Read more... )

as always my pretentious and compulsive mind has to group musical shit into some turgid list, started at the beginning of the decade witrh eels and up until last year with tv on the radio. top 10 follows but for now these 'very-nearly' made it and are staggering in their own rights

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And so it goes...

Tales were made. People were met. Good times were had. Nearly 6 months after I was there for like 17 days, NYC remains the best city I have ever visited. The place was shit-kickingly exciting, but the people there made this possible. The Icelandics for starters were the best company ever. Mani, Jonas and Teitur . Mani stayed in the ( Read more... )

Man so here we are it's taken me long enough! This roadtrip from Miami to New York was totally nuts. It took in 2000 miles and 3 and a half weeks. Granted 2 and a half weeks of this duration were in NYC but that's a minor detail kitten. Minor detail. This entry will focus on the journey to NYC and that surely deserves one of it's own in a bit.

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I'll remember Miami for going with my love to Scotty's landing with all the beautiful candles burning the colour of sunlight  shining on olive skin tears aflowing that's literally the first thing I think of when I see the boats I think of Miami and then I think of robots dancing and the all the colours of the spectrum flashing in my eyes as i watch ( Read more... )

The University of Miami has an empty vibe right now as people deapart and more goodbyes are said. At the end of last semester I said hard farewells to Simon from Copenhagen, Denmark, Brendan from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia and many more just like Alex beck from Brighton, UK. Now my roommate has gone, and David Martin is categorically the ( Read more... )

My mind is layered but sitting on top for the past month and more has been Chloe. I need to write about it. I don't write enough. Everything else has taken a backseat but now I can tell you what's been going on.

Aubrey and I are planning an insane road-trip to New York as my time in Miami comes to an end. An end that is going to happen in abrupt ( Read more... )

seems like shit breaks down and then keeps getting fixed and then breaking down and then getting fixed. a lot of pressure on at the moment, the eccentricity of this time of year always goes to my head. i am as erratic and as wild as ever but am still optimistic, i always am.  i am a tough nut and not a total klux. i have learnt a lot of different ( Read more... )