Can spin a canny selection of chunes, the Fabric mix I have is ace, old skool beepy with just that required bit of groovy fun. It's the sort of thing that on a solo MTB ride would have me off and having a groove in the woods, actually it may already have had that effect in Epping...   Read the rest of the entry...

Really how hard can it be to sort this out, the recipe for success for the UK is simple. 1. A really shocking upbeat europop/house anthemesque tune. 2. Performed by a young male Russian immigrant with dodgy facial hair. 3. Slaggy backing dancers. Sorted victory should be assured...   Read the rest of the entry...

I've bought a selection of new choons in the past week, and they're all really quite good, well apart from the Goldfrapp hippy album, what on earth went on with that, I'm guessing they must have broken out the crack pipe, it's not dire but it's not the usual groovy electro funk that is Goldfrapp. Happily Hot Chip's Made in the Dark is superb, poppy and electro and just cool, I really like it, bought purely on a Soulwax remix as well. I succumbed to teh HMV sale and ordered a load of Ellen Allien as well which is just wonderfully precise minimalist German Techno, I'm really liking Orchestra of Bubbles the Album she did with Apparat whose also on her Bpitch control label. I think my next purchases will probably be by Nathan Fake and or more Ellen Allien, oh and possibly some Kiki if I can find a stockist....   Read the rest of the entry...

Well Nicky came over for Curry on Wednesday which turned out to be fantastic, my local curry house, Priya on Hoe Street in Walthamstow really is fantastic, they've got a huge range of southern Indian vegetarian food that's all fantastically cooked, the Paneer Tikka is marvelous though. Bargainous prices too three of us for less than £40 which is incredible really, meat dishes and traditional pisshead dishes are considerably more expensive, which is an eminently more sensible approach although no more than usual. Before curry though I managed to fall down the three inch step outside of my flat and land twisting my ankle, it's nastily sprained I can't stand and this is my second day off of work, I've got a huge black egg shaped bruise on my foot which hurts when I stand on it, no riding for a while as I can't imagine clipping in and out of pedals is going to feel even remotely pleasant..... Time with my feet up is letting me catch up with reading I'm currently working through Will Self's The Book of Dave, which I have to say is certainly less Ballardian than some of his other work, and is fantastically dark, as well ...  Read the rest of the entry...

I should have known yesterday was going to be a bit dull, the first day back at work after a wet bank holiday weekend, it was confirmed at 7 a.m. by a bowl of Museli that contained nothing but oats and bran, no fruit no nuts,  nothing of interest not even a solitary sunflower seed, if that's not a dull mouthful I don't know what is. work was dull although I did win twenty pounds in the office Eurovision sweepstake, although the rapture of this was somewhat dulled by Sir Terry of Wogan's threat to resign his position as Eurovision commentator. I got home and decided I'd go for a ride in Epping Forest and with the pollen dropping I was having problems breathing and missing entrances to trails and when I found them riding badly, then after a while the pollen went and I found my Mojo and the sweetest bit of Singletrack that just kept going and going and going, until I was truly lost, a quick climb to a high point and I found a climb I'd done on a previous ride as a descent and took a fork to lead me out of the tress, I was ...  Read the rest of the entry...

Is actually alright for riding, not great, but then I can ride from my door without trains or anything else and it seems reasonable for a morning or an afternoon of riding although it will certainly be mud tyres and singlespeed territory in the winter I reckon. Saw Radio Soulwax on Thursday night they were excellent in fact it would be fair to say that they RAWKED the venue was a bit odd being the Royal Festival Hall and the crowd was really quite old as a result, so I'm either listening to Dad music or it attracted a different crowd, a few people looked a bit unhappy with me dancing and sweating next to them but they'll get over it. I can't help but feel 2008 is the year when I've just not seen anyone, everyone, well all of my friends seem reluctant to really meet up in one place like we used to it's a shame really I miss the banter and fun, sadder still there's some good people I've not seen for nearly a year. I guess people's commitments change as they get older but life without fun and frivolity is rubbish...   Read the rest of the entry...

Truly awesome I may have to get a copy of this very soon perhaps a trip to HMV in the morning, the video's got bikes in it and everything. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oec8RuwVVs   Read the rest of the entry...

This is totally awesome, I'm proper excited about this being released, available 28th April httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsuz4ki31zA   Read the rest of the entry...