http://toddlburns.com/blog Musings Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:08:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I remember when I was 14, in the car with my father who is a musician. I was singing along to something on the radio, and he said, "You're singing is really good...but you're a bit flat." I was like, "Flat? What does that mean?" Even since then, I've known ... http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=163 by Matthew Styles, celebrating Zanzibar, 1993. http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=161 memorials http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=159 "I felt the label was really big—even though we never really got as huge a hype as other labels in the press. I always thought we were...not underrated... but maybe for what we'd been doing—and for how long we'd been doing it... Maybe it's our personality. Because we weren't outgoing. ... http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=157 "When I got to play [in Japan] first, in 1996, I was so blown away. I had not done that many gigs outside of England. And the Japan trip was really due to Jeff Mills using two tracks on his Liquid Room mix, which was obviously massive over there. It ... http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=155 In July 2010, I interviewed Plastikman for Groove Magazine. They published a German version of the chat in their September / October issue. Here's the unedited transcript in English of our exchange. http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=153 “At that point, there wasn't a lot of good music coming out in my opinion. And we were always thinking that maybe we should do a more US house-inspired sound and bring it down here [to Frankfurt]. Playhouse, at that time, was going in a different way. They didn't have ... http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=150 slack http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=152 "A lot of the time when I was buying stuff, I found maybe one track on a record with four tracks that I liked and the other ones were like, 'Hmm, OK. But…' Sometimes I bought a record for the single, but I wanted to make a label with four ... http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=148 "The decade-long Apollo program was the largest and most expensive undertaking in the history of man that wasn’t devoted to a war." http://toddlburns.com/blog/?p=146