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Journos would get sent on trips - the papers couldn't afford to fly people to America or Europe. They might run to a train ticket to another city in the UK, but usually the record company would cover that too. This was so normal and widespread, that in practice it had the opposite of a...

i took it to be a not entirely reverential honorific

probably okay since the cigs bit doesn't apply, nor the alcohol really either too late to change now anyway

Same with tea actually. It has to be nearly scalding. You want to feel like there's a bonfire in your chest. Tea is an odd substance because there's this very narrow band between 'perfect temperature' and then all of sudden it's just warm, which is too much of a preview of the abjectness of...

Always preferred it piping hot. And then you keep topping it up to maintain at that optimum level. Ideally controlling the tap with your toe so that you can stay fully immersed Then there's that glum moment when the bath is as full as it can get but the temperature starts to go down and you...

It is - and of course I was really buzzed to see that (I think it was in Esquire or GQ, one of those "what are you reading / watching / listening" type listicle type things) Then, recently, I thought, "hmmm, why is it a warm bath?". Like, personally if I was to have a bath, I'd be wanting a...

I did like the first disc of 4 Hero's Two Pages, and probably nowadays would enjoy listening to that more than the harsher, mechanistic second disc, which I rated higher at the time of release. But that is 1998 I think, so maybe not post-98. There's hardly anything! Faint memory of buying a...

it's a minimalist statement. saying the essence is the drums and the bass and any "musical" coloration should be sparing So a good example of that to me (no idea if Nico Sykes would agree) would be peak era Roni Size + DJ Die, things like "Music Box" and "11.55" , or "Daylight", where there's...

"This is about the lack of music" is a great quote from Nico Sykes. Would that it had been heeded more...

He's wrong about "the no rules" bit, though. As the technical pages article on engineering the sound kind of indicates - there's parameters. Quite strict specifications. Standard talk for producers back then, of courses - "we can do anything!" Hmmm, no - please don't.

Born again believer

I never used to bother looking at the technical pages in Melody Maker might have learned something!

A French fellow I know made the most extravagant testimonials online about this Paris show from last night "Autechre, group of a lifetime. How is this possible, with all these songs, all these melodies that exist in the world? .... A decidedly exceptional concert, fierce, lively, abundant...

A soulja has faaaaaaaaaaaaallen

There's a thing in the Guardian that mentions it: "This Heat specialised in crashing together disparate elements: lo-fi recordings and cutting-edge technology – their use of a harmonizer, the pitch-shifting digital effect notably deployed on David Bowie’s Low album, resulted in 24 Track Loop...

Ah, so that's how that sound is achieved! Same machine that Goldie used on "Terminator". And This Heat on "24-Track Loop" And Tony Visconti all over Low

Classic example of the Superproducer where every record - regardless of the band - sounds exactly the same. He just has his sound and imposes it. The only way to differentiate the groups at all is by the vocalist. One of his particular hallmarks is a kind of chiming rhythmic guitar sound -...