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You need to buy the shirt. It's on the pricey side, but the t-shirt does look good. It ships from the States, but with December and COVID, might take a while. I did get a dispatch note straight away Friday, so fingers crossed.

Sisko is my favourite Captain, I think he has a great character arc over the 7 seasons. Jake can be a little annoying at times, but you don't get many shows that have quite a positive view of single parent, father and son relationship. It's quite tender in places. Wait for some Jake and Nog high jinks, and some self sealing stem bolts. Ahhh Dax, aka the "one with the slug", is awesome. However, she would face being cancelled in today's cultural appropriation wars, for the fetishisation of Klingon culture. Before re-starting Voyager Season 1, I did watch the 2 parter Future's End the other night. I forgot how good some of the Voyager episodes could be, and that ep was easily up there with the other series. Love a bit of temporal prime directive shenanigans, and capitalism is bad, bad dudes.

In the interest of continued peace in the Alpha Quadrant, I will happily re-watch Voyager, and I hope you will watch DS9 ? I'm not a fan of JJ Abrams, always found his work "meh", and I think he missed the point with Star Trek with the films. I managed 2 episodes of Discovery, but it was just full of 'plosions and people running around corridors. You've got a whole galaxy - and time - to play with, and they keep trying to add to the history around TOS. That being said, I did finally get around to watching Enterprise this year, and bar a patchy first season, I really enjoyed it, though that last episode... I'd like to see a Trek series that has something a little bit more positive to say about the future, showing us being the "better angels of our nature". Have a show that can act as a pull to get people into science, and fit in some of the great discoveries from astronomy and physics from the last decade.

TNG was a bit shaky in the first few seasons (though I love them all) but you really start to get some gems, with the occasional duff episode. Never got into Voyager, though it's still worth watching. DS9 has always been my fave, awesome cast, and great character development. At its best Star Trek is just awesome. They could still do something awesome with it, just need to sort the rights out, and get people that actually like it behind a new show.

Well worth checking out, up to Vol.12 now. I've had quite a few Jeff Mills days during lockdown when I need a musical pick me up. Very happy to finally delete my vinyl rip of Vol.4

Vol.4 was the first Jeff Mills release I picked up on vinyl, worth the price of admission for A1 alone (IMO). I've been enjoying the series starting up again this year, and now Axis are offering offering Vol.4 as a free download (MP3/WAV) from today, until the 26th of December. https://www.axisrecords.com/axis-shop/

Arrived! the tee looks pretty good too.

Awesome news. I nearly picked this up on eBay, as it's on my wantlist. Glad I didn't pull the trigger.

There should be a biopic of the Autechre story, or maybe a series a la Wu-Tang: An American Saga. Start off on the mean streets of Rochdale, bus stop tagging, making tapes... Each series comes with a selection of unreleased tracks from the archives for that time period. I'm thinking, maybe Gary Barlow could play Rob now. Not sure about Sean, maybe Adam Levine? Both have acting experience, and would be able to tap into their vast musical reserves to nail the roles. Still loving PLUS, but no shipping update ?

I've been picking up the Millsart releases on Axis, but need to check this and the other releases out.

That QR code only takes you to the https://whoisactress.com/ store...Hmmm. I love both 88 and K&D, so anything extra will be welcome.

Awesome artist. Very much looking forward to it arriving. Been listening to Pt.1 and Pt.2 a lot recently.

Interview https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=532

How to overcome the licencing issues for the remixes, so you can get a box set released? (and would a https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/sign-a-petition/ be useful in getting this cultural project off of the ground?)

Looks like Ninja Tune have taken 88 down from Bandcamp. No download code came with the tape (at least with my copy)

Just calling out that the crystal fuchsia version was available from Bleep, not about the cassette bundles, lack of clarity on my part ? Bit annoying that they haven't sold the cassette separately, or extend the bundles as you say. I ordered from Ninja Tune, got the clear version and tape. My copy is a tad on the noisy side, which is a bummer. I'd have liked the options of the other copies, before buying.

That's the Bleep exclusive: https://bleep.com/release/202780-actress-karma-desire

So did I, now I want the bloody vinyl. I've not paid any attention to the last lot of Modern Love releases. This is sounding pretty good so far.

His fantastic leadership of Labour was reminiscent of...

It's shaping up to be one of my fave tracks. I've had some great albums delivered this week, but PLUS has totally derailed my listening.

Porn/Brand safety breaches will always be an issue, even with Google's ad network on occasion. I know of VigLink, never worked with them directly, but they were bought by Sorvn, an SSP/Programmatic platform. Are you quite opposed to banner ads, page skins and video ads? I guess you would be, as they are pretty annoying. The industry is under a lot of scrutiny at the moment from a privacy perspective, and quite rightly too. GDPR in Europe is raising a lot of questions on how some of the key protocols for ad buying aren't particularly compliant. And the CCPA is shaping conversations in the States. The impending death of the 3rd party cookie will make things harder for everyone reliant on them for targeting are scrambling to best understand how they'll be able to find their "users". Ads don't have to be bad, but it's hard to do them well, especially on forums. Adsense will probably be painless for you, and won't require much effort.

Out of interest, what ad vendors/network partners did you try to work with before?

Saw this earlier, though haven't looked fully yet at what's available in today's news cycle about the report. However, I did see that Ken Livingstone was called out in particular too.

There's always a strong feeling of "family resemblance" with Autechre's work, so totally getting comments around ISS:SA, Draft and Confield... ecol4 really makes me think of Tangle Ill, from 28 seconds onwards. Was searching like mad yesterday, thanks for the reminder. (edit) Going to have to listen to ISS:SA now.