Recent content by MATT MAson

I had no idea K-punk was no longer with us until yesterday. Very sad to hear. I'm really glad to see Dissensus is still doing its thing. ❤️

Not a mix from my days on Ice FM / Mac FM - but something I uploaded recently because I noticed the popular garage mixes on YouTube were all mixed like Ministry compilations: Great to find this thread. There was something really special about how pirate DJs mixed garage that seems to be...

If I was an alien and I got a text message from a girl called Samantha Swing from another world, I would definitely link her.

CONTACT!!!

Ortofon Concordes are great.

Should be on the way Mr Adams. Continuum - it will be out in May in the UK. Thanks for the support!

I’ve thrown a six-minute sample of my stump speech up on slideshare as a slidecast. You can watch the whole thing here. If you like the music bed I made for it, that’s also available here for download under a Creative Commons license.

I just found this tape from 2000, in my Mac/Ice FM days, which illustrates the kind of cohesion I’m talking about. A few years back it was cool to play 2-step with 4/4 with break beat with MC tracks, but music got really segregated for a while. I’m thinking maybe cohesion is coming back around...

A new cohesion? It seems like there is a real convergence going on between all the (not so) different London scenes; grime, dupstep, UKG, bassline and funky house are all being appreciated by DJs and clubbers who claim to be into different sounds. To me a set of all these styles played...

Zero Punctuation's weekly game reviews are great, even if you don't care about games. I had to jump in with my top ten: 1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 2. Shadowrun (SNES) 3. Earthbound (SNES, Mother 2 on the Super Famicom) 4. Streetfighter II Turbo Edition (Arcade) 5. Super Mario Bros...

In the words of Cam'ron Giles: "I called this shit about five years ago."

Cow in Thailand gives birth to alien!

This could be my favorite all year - looks pretty legit to me...

Ew.

I just put my blog up for the book - see below...