I am struggling to process how all those words combine into a foodstuff.

…for reasons of, say: more drum machines and click-track tempo perfection, more featureful mixers with channel EQs, etc…

Was just having a conversation elsewhere about where long, slow blends as a DJ style like you mention about the Pickering ‘91 mix came from… (I first experienced that kind of patient style from Graeme Park and Kid Batchelor, and wondering if it was particularly UK, or we all were tending that way…

Yeah, succeeded in being more not-of-its-time (while still being of-its-time) than a lot of online-disco-enthusiast stuff from that moment.

His edits still hold up better than a lot of peers too.

I feel like it’s impossible to overpraise “Inspector Norse”—can play it anywhere, whether to the most jaded undergrounders or clueless normies, and the second it comes on everyone knows that it’s a *Party*.

When I was out to lunch today, I couldn’t recognize any of the artists behind the Christmas music—and as unsurprising as that’d be even for human-produced Christmas pop, it occurred that some budget-line-minded corporation could def be like, “Nah, let’s play the machine-made slop instead” this year.

Wow, haven’t watched the video in FOREVER. 🙃

Makes me want to make a list of videos of the era where a synth part is mimed in the video with an acoustic instrument.

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I’m still mad not to have gotten the laser loon from Ramsey… 😤

It is tremendously expected, disappointing, and amusing to me all at once.