Diary of Musical Thoughts

Plastikman 19-04-2010. In the '94 or '95 Xmas issue of Melody Maker, there a joint interview featuring Richie Hawtin, James Lavell...

I have no idea where to begin with this one.  Donna Summer ... dead?  Impossible. Music for me has simply never existed without Donna Su...

Catching up on stories and links that are a few weeks old ... (hat tip to Resident Advisor for these links) 1.  Orbital interview each oth...

The tributes to Adam Yauch are unlike anything I've seen before.  This is what it looks and sounds like when a particular generation of ...

I may have been in denial that I was finally going to see Lisa Germano play live, and it probably didn't help that I forced myself not t...

"The production of coherent mixes was restricted by the large physical size of the components" - 85 minutes This came about be...

Nothing against them, but it's about time we had a break from the usual Chicago and Detroit legends making the rounds.  This was billed ...

Matt Elliott has an incredible talent for making time stand still with the brooding Eastern European folk epics on his solo albums, but neve...

The Guardian published an article about club closures in Berlin.  Is Berlin's run as the club capital of Europe coming to an end?  The ...

-- I considered going clubbing on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg last Friday (Ewan Pearson was the headlining DJ at Baalsaal) but I needed to che...