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Time for a Buzz Kill — I’m killing Buzz

16-Feb-10

So in the last year I count Google at two strikes. First off Wave is… pretty useless, as it turns out. The one place it would be great — collaboration and ad hoc interest groups — don’t really work so well, primarily for performance reasons. Try loading a wave with [...]

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The Internets: #squarespace & amiestreet.com

12-Jun-09

OK, now I get it, though since I don’t give a toss about Squarespace or iPhones, I was just annoyed and baffled by all the #squarespace tweets.
While we’re on the subject, Squarespace seems to be appealing to some people. But it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me — $8/month for hosting, and [...]

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Surfing the Nuum

06-May-09

As has been pondered lately, here and elsewhere, the loftily titled Breakbeat Continuum is every bit as baffling and recombinantly bizarre and wonderful and horrible as ever. I think part of the reason very few US artists have made a serious mark in any of the UK-originated break styles is that by the time [...]

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Rolling Stone Prejudice Against Anything Un-Rawkish Abides

26-Apr-09

Rolling Stone still thinks Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music is Controversial?
Really? Hasn’t it always been blindingly obvious that “Metal Machine Music” is not intended as listening music for general audiences? I thought this was all settled canon law a long time ago.
I am especially puzzled by all the people showing up and then leaving. [...]

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Is Boomkat’s “Also bought” Algorithm a bit too on the nose?

21-Apr-09

I spend more time than is probably healthy (financially or otherwise) exploring new music on Boomkat. They seem to have fairly no-bullshit reviews for music, and they seem intent on hyping things they actually like, for actual musical reasons. As opposed to a site like Beatport, who seem to hype stuff based on who [...]

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Law and Order Valentines, 6 Weeks Too Late

02-Apr-09
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A Critique Of Pure Jargon

24-Mar-09

As regards My post about Micachu, a friend wrote to me:
not intended to be sarcastic at your expense. I went through your review and xxxed out all words that either conveyed nothing to me (in my ignorance; like i know who matthew herbert is but not what that implies abotu how the album would sound) [...]

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