Sunday 12 July 2015
Rolo McGinty - Mix No. 268
Tracklist:
1. Pluto - Let me Lie (Pluto Rising Lp unreleased mix)
3. Keith LeBlanc VS Pluto - Snakebite
4. Pluto - Way down InsidebyPluto
5. Bang The Party/Rolo/Magnetic North - Mapfumo
7. Pluto - Pluto Beat
8. DJ Applebad v Wai - Hammock
9. Pluto - House
10. Pluto - Diablo
11. Pluto - Rockerfeller
12. Insync v Pluto - Subway Route
Pluto is the name for the electronic music made by Rolo McGinty, singer and writer of the Woodentops, the Uk Indie Rock and Roll band from the 80’s who had one of the first band\club crossover hits, with ‘Why Why Why’ an original Ibiza anthem.
Much of the Bands work was composed electronically before being brought to the band to perform live.
With The Pluto Project more designed for the club floor than the live stage Rolo found much critical acclaim and a couple of albums “Pluto Rising” and “Demolition Plates” contained tracks that proved themselves worthy in the hands of Dj’s across the board.
http://www.woodentopsmusic.com/
Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem
Saturday 11 July 2015
Friday 10 July 2015
Molly Crabapple: The New York Stock Exchange goes down - inside the dystopian aftermath
I was met by fires in the streets, the screams of the dying tourists and the shouts of former traders offering sacrifices to their new gods
Thursday 9 July 2015
Tuesday 7 July 2015
The NME's last gasps
The Guardian reports that the NME is to be given away free around the UK with an expected print run of 300,000. It currently has a circulation of just over 15,000. Meanwhile over at the NME itself they assure us that music is 'firmly at the heart of the brand'. Have you spotted one of the major problems yet? I must admit that I stopped buying the paper religiously back in 1988 or so but back in the seventies and early eighties it really was the first port of call every Wednesday for music news and interviews as well as the amazing photographers (eg Chalkie Davies and Anton Corbijn) whose work was featured inside. For me its glory days were from 1974 to just before punk hit the mainstream in 1977. Writers such as Nick Kent, Charles Shaar-Murray, Mick Farren, Roy Carr and the late Ian MacDonald amongst many others really were in a class of their own. Though I must admit that I found the writing style of Ian Penman and Paul Morley a little bit high falutin' back in the early eighties (and I certainly still run a mile as soon as someone mentions Derrida) in retrospect I will concede that it mostly worked in relation to the arty post punk of the time. However on the few occasions that I have read a copy in recent years or indeed gone online to nme.com it was just so underwhelming. As a friend of mine who wrote for them just posted on Facebook:
'Obviously I can't be too sneery about the NME. Putting Pere Ubu on the cover wouldn't necessarily have arrested the decline in sales. I think you'd need to go back in time and prevent an awful lot of people from being born in order to save it and most of them would have been in publishing and marketing, not in editorial. The fleas had started wagging the dog long before I got there. And Sly Bailey did more to fuck it thanever did. Maybe, just maybe, this gives them an opportunity to inhabit a world where they don't have to put Noel fucking Gallagher on the cover ever again. I really hope it does well. But I'm not what you'd call an optimist, am I?'
Will it survive?
Me? I give it six months (a year at the very maximum)
Remember it this way instead
Monday 6 July 2015
Prince Harvey Made a Secret Album in an Apple Store
'I don’t think I’m poor. Poor is a mentality. I mean, I can be broke - no money in my pocket - but I’ve never been poor. I’ve been rich my whole life'HERE
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