ATTENTION TIM FINNEY

Only if it were some sort of vocoded Zapp and Roger version.

...did you finally get the new Orbital album? And have you added me to your slsk list and shouldn't I add you and maybe you should drop me an e-mail etc.?

Ah! There are Mac clients now my friend, for I am Macboy too. :-) Drop myself or Elvis T. a line, or check out some of the threads around here, there's been some posting about them.

And yes, quite good, I just finished relistening to it.

Jess I want some reciprocal suggestions!

Ned I'll check that out asap - thanks.

How ya doin?

" a handsome man"

I'm good! V. busy as per, working too much, not studying enough, but who needs Civil Procedure anyway? How are you and Keith etc?

Also official video in production now.

Did you know that you're one of my most respected?

-- strongo hulkington (dubplatestyl...), May 10th, 2004.

haha

"I'm just sorry you didn't include your Weekly writings in with the "Articles" links :`-( "

Also in the works (note the links are all horribly out of date, so don't be offended edward, dee etc.)

I like that this page gives ILX a chance to micro-manage my publishing...

So how's Europe?

JON CARTER is spinning at, er, FAMOUS at the qbh next week. would I be advised to brave the haircut house crowd to see the man in action?

yrs,

Haven't ever seen Jon Carter play live - and haven't been to Famous for that matter - so can't say for sure. Carter's new Chinese Laundry mix looks like it might be good but it also looks very safe, so I'm not sure if you'll hear anything you wouldn't hear by going to any random electro/tech/house night. This is the tracklisting:

1 Trentemoller - Beta Boy
2 Sharon Philips - Want 2 Need 2 (Trentemoller remix)
3 Ame, Derrick Carter And Friends - Where We At
4 Trevor Loveys - Legwarmer
5 Roysksopp - Only This Moment (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Remix)
6 John Starlight - Shadowbreaker (Boys Noize Mix)
7 Smitty vs John Kelley Feat. Raya - Universal Love Vibration (Angel Alanis Mix)
8 Darkmountaingroup - Lose Control (Main Mix)
9 Peter Rauhofer - Believe In Me
10 Jon Carter Feat. Patra - How Do You Love? (JC's 06 Rerub)
11 Azzido Da Bass - Lonely By Your Side (Play Paul Inst. Mix)
12 Ramsay - Shake That Thing (Max Graham Throwdown Mix)
13 Christopher & Raphael Just - Popper (Shinichi Osawa Distortion Disco Edit)

As for Famous, I never have a problem with dancefloor crowds on the assumption that one doesn't feel physically threatened, and we can safely assume that won't be the case here! I can't really complain about haircut house types anyway b/c I basically look like a haircut house denizen who doesn't go to enough effort slash doesn't spend enough money on clothes.

This seems like as good a thread as any in which to relay some news. Probably more suited to ILE, but at least this thread is more likely to attract the actually interested rather than be blatantly self-aggrandising.

Anyway, since I spend far too much time here it's probably a good idea for me to let you all know that I won't be around for a while, probably about a month.

After a month-just-gone of increasingly severe headaches, this week I was diagnosed with an impressively large, but hopefully benign, brain tumor lodged in my cerebellum behind my right ear.

I'm having this removed on Monday, in what will hopefully be a fairly straightforward operation - the tumor is fairly close to the skull so the surgery will be on the less invasive side of things.

All things being equal I can expect to be fully recovered in about two months. If worse scenarios move from faint possibility to unavoidable reality I will certainly let people know, but there doesn't appear to be any reason to panic at this stage - I've met with my neurosurgeon and the signs are all fairly good in this case.

I will be missing my pontification soap-box horribly I'm sure, not to mention all of you. Look after yourselves. Perhaps listen to music you suspect I would approve of.

omg please get well Tim, good luck with it all. will miss your critical science-droppage and 2step mp3s in the meantime. take it easy.

Awwww thanks all.

Tracer I have been complimented on the CRJ t-shirt several times!!

HI TIM F

So glad it fits and chuffed that you have worn it :)

truly a hero. congrats

I didn't have the physical or emotional energy to do 2023 write-ups sorry (maybe 2024 will be my year), but I did make this incomplete/partial playlist of stuff I loved from last year:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5h47izuNqetbkpyOumi8rk?si=0ae54b77556d4f99

Will try to call out a few in the EOY voting thread.

so much good stuff I wouldn't have heard otherwise! thanks Tim. enjoying Madeline Kinney right now.

Thanks Tim! I see 5 out of 10 of my own top 10. 7 if I count the artists from which I chose other song instead.

A shame there’s no writeup this year, would’ve loved to read your takes on them but the playlist is terrific.

Are they ranked in order? First time hearing this Cloth song and I loved it.

Not in order but in a vague attempt at flow, and I also tried to minimise overlap with other playlists I had made so sometimes the song chosen isn’t necessarily a standout favourite from the artist’s album.

But yeah the entire Cloth album is just really lovely, one of my favourites of the year for sure.

I keep finding great songs in here. Delilah Holiday - silent streets was off my radar and I’m currently obsessed with it.

Cheers for this and for your artpop playlist, Tim! Also loving Cloth.

thanks Tim, excited to hear your playlist. recently I'm taking a break from deep dives into older genres/artists to check more new music. like back in those lovely UKG days. whatever happened to r/t/c - does he post under a different name now?

thanks moka and etc!

This is the 2023 art-pop playlist etc means btw: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WdPNCsDegk7ZdsdKwswwu?si=ae075c46ed50449c

Paul, sadly I don't know what happened to r|t|c, but he hasn't posted for many years now - and if he had changed user names I think we would have worked it out by now!

i miss him

2023 Wash Up AOTY 2024