In another deft display of massive comprehensiveness, check this startlingly large gallery of old skool audio cassettes. Takes ya right back to your musical zygote-hood, where rent was free, jollof was plentiful, girls wore plaits and doing the backspin was still possible and frictionless. *ahem* ... Where are the ubiquitous cafepress knick-knacks (like posters?) when you need 'em?

Coolpix above link back to the motherload.

Thanks to this tasty interview over at aurgasm, I've re-discovered the aural pleasures of that girl Frou Frou, who incidentally is much more popular in North America since her appearance on the soundtrack to Garden State last year.

After listening to the impossibly expressive and exquisitely beautiful Hide & Seek (prolly not online for too much longer), I promptly ordered the 7" vinyl single from some online outlet in the U.K. Needless to say that I'm in love with this track not in the least because it is just begging to be fixed up with a low-end textural deployment. *ahem*

While you're rocking out check out her blog and flickr jammerjams!

Check out this fiery rant by A Guy Called Gerald, jungle/techno pioneer and producer extraordinaire. Love the brilliant quote relating the isolation he felt towards a scene that he was instrumental in creating as akin to a bunch of rastas putting on an opera show and then preventing white folk (Italians?) from attending.

Check this more comprehensive interview with character-full quotes like “I like my music like sushi, cut up precisely, dead and raw”, in response to a question about musician's unions.

While we're on Gerald, peep this Electrospective (haha!) mixtape by Greg Wilson of classic cuts he played @ Legends/Wigan Pier between May 1982 through Dec 1983.

Blue Beats for longing: DJ Flak in the mix wiff heartstring tugging downtempo beats. correct.

Gallopierende Zuversicht: I saw these Swiss producers back in July @ Rx. Check out 6 minutes of deft frequency modulated saw-toothy goodness @ 56:48 from their live set.

Hot Pepper: Sami Koivikko's latest mixtape features some super choice morsels, notably Tomas Andersson's absolutely sick and deliciously anthemic “Happy Happy” out on BPitch Control @ 46:10

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is an irreverant and humourous take at deciphering all the cryptic all-to-exclusively-fashionable micro sub-sub-genres used to describe much contemporary music. Ishkur definitely doesn't take himself too seriously and feels no compunction to cater to or assuage the feelings of any one group or demographic. Thankfully.

At times he's hilariously forthright ... like in the description of Hard Dance. In that sub genre you have NRG and Stupid, yep, Stupid registers as a canonical genre, but you knew that already right ??

He get's props from me though for a nice attempt at the “electronic pioneers” from Musique Concrete (Pierre Schaeffer et al), Minimialism (Terry Riley, Steve Reich, etc) and composers and thinkers like Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Subotnick and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Okay enough chit-chat, I gotta go listen to some "embarrassing [..] banal melody-driven trance"!! hehehe :)