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Had 200+ notification emails, starting from early this morning...mostly from the DANK MEME thread, plus some from Societas X, Funny Autechre Stories and a couple of others too.

I think you're all getting a bit distracted and need to concentrate your energies on the BoCset, people.

I could easily post shit-tons of stuff in here, but aye....Coldplay, Timberlake, Taylor Swift...etc., but for now: Not guilty, I schponked a few quid to own this version (only available on his inconsequential LP) on vinyl...

I'll condense these into one because the LoLs are minute...if at all. Oncechre: Back in 2010 I downloaded an Oversteps zip file, prior to (i.e. intending to) spunking £XX.XX on the vinyl version...hadn't been into the 'chre that much since LP5, to be honest, so this new one sounded like a return to form (for me)...proper beats, some tune structure recognisable to my pathetic brain etc., oh my stars. A few months later I then got a copy of the boxset in MVE Notting Hill for £20. Rushed home and stuck the needle on track 13, thinking "aye, let's start with 'krylon', no fucking about"...gutted. WTF was this? Not what I had listened to previously, obviously. After some searching I discerned it was an Altered Carbon LP...and krylon was actually called 'Sleav'. Subsequently downloaded The Real Oversteps and um, nah. The OG AC is still a damn fine release and I don't ever listen to Oversteps much. Dostechre: So I got the chance to see them play in Leeds in 1997, at some University thing called Planet Alice. Was down from Scotland visiting pals, it seemed like a belter of an idea. Beer + Weed x Autechre = ? Never having experienced them live before, I naively expected a greatest hits thus far kind of set with Second Bad Vilbel played around ten times in a row (of course), plus Basscadet and Crystel for encores. Didn't happen haha. Trestechre: Cut to 2000 and it's the Lighthouse party in Docklands...I'd bought tickets because of Boards, whilst still in Scotchland, but then moved to Norwich in the intervening months. My lass didnae fancy a night of electronica (who would?) and so a mate from Fife came down for the pairty. T'was a pain in the arse queue to get in (gotta get them minidisc recorders banned lol) and then we're in and BoC's spacebar stuck, heh. They were grand after the Great Unsticking though, worth the admission fee alone (as expected). We then try for some Ae action and it's nul on the banger front again. WTF guyz. No Windowlicker, no Brace Yourself Jason, no Bad Vilbelz...fuck. Left before the end. Then we catch a bit of the Skam Records DJ set and there's good ol' Eutow blasting out, shaking those aged Trinity Buoy Wharf windows from their petrified putty foundations. Yeah, this was what I wanted, sorry cheers mate. Then me and my pal couldn't be arsed to hang around for Aphex (cos the "let's not advertise timings" thing reaaaallly worked out well) and so we walked for a few hours back to Highbury, which was as awful as it sounds at 3/4/5am in the morning. Happy days.

Yep, £17 for a 12" isn't madness at all. Luckily I can pick this fucker up from Phonica and save on the shipping at least. I'm just a slave to an illusion (or something).

I work at a Museum as a Technician and we regularly undertake pest trapping as part of what is known as 'preventative conservation', i.e. keeping tabs on what sort of insects are coming into our stores and liable to 'eat' the collections...e.g., clothes moths, silverfish, furniture/carpet beetles, etc., etc. We were checking traps back in January and I picked up quite a spicy one, with several large woodlice on it, in numbers above normal. As is the way, I always have the mp3 player and Popmaster speaker on the trolley...do like to whistle as I work, and all that....Corc was playing. Knowing this particular Autechre track as well as I do, a tiny bit of inspiration then occurred...which I documented for reasons. (Trigger warning: possibly urgh / dead insects / not sure if funny)

(One for you MCU Brexit un-fans out there...)

No one else getting massive Bacon Mountains vibe from the T69 vid? I like APhex and Bacon so this is a fucking gamechanger for me. If he isn;t reinventing the music-wheel, so to speak, I'd like to thank Richard for making me think of Bacon Mountains (copyrighted)

2 from whenevs, 3 from whatevs etc #arithmetic

... take a guess at the locations in which the tracks were recorded. five overall, three recorded in cornwall, two in london. might also relate to the locations shown in the video? it got me thinking of the countdown numbers round Ooh rachel riley Well, possibly...but he's an old-timer, so he's probably more intae Carol Vordermanhosbn..?

Enjoyed it for what it was...a great blockbuster with heart. It resonated more with me when Luke and Leia were on screen, but that's because I'm 47 and they're from my youth. The new characters were good value, Rose especially I thought. Poe is still a bit of a dick and Rey as wooden as hell. Obviously there are amazing little moments, interactions and 'what-have-you', but they're spoilers so I'll keep them to myself. pewpewpewpew/5

Same here...bought mine from Rough Trade for £29.99 this afternoon...support your local shop and all that. If 'free' digital is only available by buying from the Mu shop, then they should maybe make that a bit fucking clearer on their page. BOOHOO F1RST W0RLD PLOBLEMS FFS GUES ILL JUST ILEGAL DONwLOAD FILESZ 4ROM RUSIAN EXE SITE (It's a fucking lush remaster and top jerb all round effort though)

I took this photo after eating some Chinese food last year. Seeing as RDJ has been picking o'er the bones of his back catalog for the last few days, seems apt to post it now. Thanks for all the soul food Mister James, I'm stuffed.

oooh, a wee bit of thievery, heh. this is one for the older heids...featuring a nascent http://youtu.be/Gh0k4jdkV9E?t=1m1s (sorry if jazz) won't embed ffs oh well...it's the end credits of TV show Rainbow, from the 70s Start at 1:01 ;)