

DJHistory.com, a website created and run by Bill “Last Night DJ Saved My Life” Brewster and Frank Broughton has long been a hang-out for true music nerds, be they DJ’s, famous producers, vinyl junkies who can’t afford to pay their utility bills because they buy too many records or, more often than not, all of the above. Every month they play a little game on the site, post a mix of obscure and overlooked tracks they call a Mysterymix by one DJ and let everyone else figure out the tracklist on the forum. This months mysterymix is done by Ashley Beedle, man who needs no introduction nor should it be said that the mix is awesome.
Also, the site has opened a digital music store, which obviously enough sells kind of stuff you would not find in any other store. Latest addition being a DJHistory exclusive mini-compilation of “Secret Weapons” by our own Rhythm Doctor. That’s the second one in the series. But the whole shop should keep you busy for hours.
The whole site, however, should keep you busy for couple of years. See you then.

I have a secret crush on Lily Allen and I’m not afraid to admit it. This is a track from her upcoming album „It’s Not Me, It’s You“.
Some say, that stop-motion videos are so last year (and everyone and their mother is shooting HD video with their new fancy Mark II’s), but these dudes are cool nevertheless. Break dance, stop-motion, break dance, stop motion, something sounds so right about those two.
via synthopia

No more messing about, no more iloveyou’s, no missingyou’s, no heart melting pop or sugar coated house, this is serious stuff. Tales from far off places, creatures you have never seen, sticky and raw. This is what kept Moog up at night. Are you man enough to take the cosmic energy? Beam it down (80M MP3).
Picked this up reading Mojo the other day. It’s an algerian take on the Clash’s “Rock the Casbah”, in my mind one of the best song they ever did.
„One theory is that the song was inspired by the banning of rock music in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. The song gives a fabulist account of the ban being defied by the population, who proceed to “rock the casbah”. The King orders jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignore the orders, and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios.“ - wikipedia
Ironically the song became sort of an anthem among US solders in the first Gulf War „largely on the basis of the line about dropping bombs between the minarets“.