Here’s where things go really badly wrong for Dance producers when TOTP decides it wants to be more “authentic” and have everyone do Karaoke style performances with badly mixed live vocals over backing tracks. […]

Yeah, Mark Moore was on the documentary about 88 TOTP and said he wanted to present them as an imaginary band and go for a Family Stone/Soul Train thing with the look (which would have been v novel at the time). […]

On the contrary, I have it on good authority ‘the kids’ are mad for classic House, Rave & Drum & Bass. Mate of mine runs a 2nd hand record shop – House & Rave 12″s from the late 80s/early 90s are his 3rd biggest […]

Or- just pretend to be a band, and have people pretend to ‘sing’ the samples – this is by no means the worst example:

This is how you do it:

Here’s Stakker (one half of Future Sound of London) – the fact that hardcore Acid Techno charted and is on TOTP is still mind blowing -he’s brought some decent dancers at least – not sure about the guitarist though.

Harsh! If you want perfect pitch and perfection from vocalists look elsewhere, but the older I get the more I realise what an amazing band Soft Cell were (I took ’em for granted in their heyday)- and Marc CAN […]

The Piccadilly Records chart is decided by the staff who work in the shop so inevitably will favour local artists, local tastes of their customers (or indeed former Staffers, hence ….ahem….Horsebeach at No.2) […]

My advice is tread carefully. There is an avalanche of Fall live CDs and LPs out there with zero quality control due to a chaotic and unfathomable web of licensing deals that MES may or may not have made over the […]

I don’t buy huge numbers of box sets, but I do enjoy and listen to the ones I’ve got. I’m dismayed at the way prices are being hiked up…it wasn’t that long ago you could get a lovely box set of the Kraftwerk […]

For reasons I can’t fathom, Jim and Charlie dispensed with the services of Mr Gaynor a couple of years ago. I hope the sticksman is getting a few quid from this advert which hinges on his work – albeit on a song […]

Autechre’s NTS Sessions is 8 Hours Long – and yes I have listened to it all, several times but not in one sitting obviously.

Didn’t Flaming Lips release a 24 hour long song on a USB stick mounted in an actual […]

Electronic Sound is good and does look very stylish. They do tend to cycle around a very narrow corner of what could be a broad topic – multiple Kraftwerk, Numan, Foxx, Radiophonic Workshop articles and they go […]

I don’t know if it has a name but in my line of work we’re painfully aware there is a generation of people who are hitting their 50s/60s who might have been told by careers advisors to go for jobs in the […]

I’m too young to be a “boomer” but I’m so out of touch I’ve never heard that phrase in my life.

Yep, Peel wasn’t a music snob by any stretch of the imagination. His role was to find stuff that was new and different, and he’d often play stuff he wasn’t entirely sure about on the basis that someone out there […]

Number 21 in the Vinyl Only chart this week is that ubiquitous charity shop staple that is No Parlez. This is due in no small part to Paul Young signing purple vinyl copies via the SDE shop and selling out a […]