Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak

Aug 31, ’10 10:26 PM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (2008) This album blew my mind completely. It not only shows a personal side to Kanye as a song-writer. The coolest thing is that the album could more or less have been produced in any bedroom studio in the world. We all have the tools at home to…

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Burial – Burial

Aug 31, ’10 10:22 PM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (2006) I stumbled upon this album on bleep.com by mistake. What a find. So dirty. So atmospheric. Nothing like “normal” Dub Step. Really in a genre of his own. It also helped that he (William Bevan) remained very anonymous for a very long time. No interviews, no real…

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Cliff Martinez – Solaris OST

Aug 29, ’10 8:40 PM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (2002) This soundtrack is a pure flash of genius. I’d say it has a lot to do with making the film a pretty good film and on its own the music is just as good. Watching Solaris for the first time I could not wait for the credits…

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Photek – Modus Operandi

Aug 29, ’10 8:37 PM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (1997) I love a lot of Rupert’s work but Modus Operandi was the one that made me take notice in the tidal wave of half-assed D’n’B from the late ’90s. To get the best of Photek, though, you need to dig out the rarer tracks. My old favorites…

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My Reasons for Jailbreaking

Aug 29, ’10 8:32 PM

I don’t generally use my iPhone jailbroken. But every time I go on vacation of a weekend trip I make sure I jailbreak the phone in advance. I do this to get access to only a very small number of features that really should be part of the OS. Internet Sharing using MyWi MyWi does…

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Lamb – Lamb

Aug 15, ’10 8:46 PM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (1997) The first I heard of Lamb was a remix of Gold on a Future Music cover CD. Lamb also have some great tracks on their later albums, but never managed to equal their debut. D’n’B with real vocals and real instruments… and on top of this in…

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DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…..

Aug 15, ’10 8:41 PM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (1996) Compiling this list I cannot now recall how I first came in contact with this album. I was tending bar and DJing at university at the time so possibly from a fellow barman/DJ. Endtroducing… was one of a few albums that really gave me the MPC bug.…

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Nginx + WordPress caching that actually works

Aug 11, ’10 7:13 PM

I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to enable WP Super Cache, and subsequently W3 Total Cache for this website. SInce none of the hits I got on Google did the trick I thought I’d post my working settings for page caching with W3 Total Cache. I went with this plugin mainly because it…

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Tricky – Maxinquaye

Jul 30, ’10 10:48 AM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (1995) This was love at second sight. Being a Public Enemy fan I thought the single was a bit cheeky. But I truly love the rest of the album. All of it. It was released while I was an intern at IXM, a creative multimedia agency in Milan,…

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Portishead – Dummy

Jul 30, ’10 10:47 AM

Part of the series Milestones in Music (1994) Another revolution that blew my mind completely from the first note. I remember hearing Glory Box on the radio on the way to the ski slopes, instantly pulling over and scrabbling for a pen and paper in the glove box… I was not going to miss the…

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