http://www.poisontothemind.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:29:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For some reason, big hip-hop acts have trouble with promoters in Australia. OK, perhaps in a lot of cases it's dudes like Busta blowing out two tours then sitting backstage once they finally come to the country and refusing to go on stage unless they're delivered an extra 10k in ... http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2008/04/27/doin-it-and-doin-it-and-doin-it-at-a-substantial-loss/ this blog is not actually dead. I've got weeks worth of files up, just waiting for me to have the time to write posts a couple of times a week. See you in summer? http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2007/10/04/incidentally/ ...or any other pre-teen kids you've got about the place: Frenzal Rhomb on Hey Hey It's Saturday Buy: The song they're doing is You Are Not My Friend. The single's still in print. http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2007/02/22/this-ones-just-for-bryn-dylan/ Speaking of underwhelming gigs, this was possibly the most ludicrously well-appointed-for-choice New Year's ever in Sydney, with somewhat unsatisfying results. Ostensibly the biggest event was Basement Jaxx at Bondi Beach, but with Bob Sinclar as an ill-matched headliner for $150 or so. And reports from the night suggest that not ... http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2007/02/21/moving-backwards/ Early contender for dud gig of the year came in the last week of January, at what should have been a killer - Spank Rock and Diplo co-headline. Except: MC Spank Rock himself didn't actually make it out of the US, Armani XXXchange wasn't on the tour, and Diplo was ... http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2007/02/08/spank-it/ beep bang bang http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2007/02/05/lenny-d-kiss-fm-1991/ bleep bleep boop http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2007/01/28/dj-pierre-essential-mix/ seriously http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2006/12/04/back-soon/ No uploading this week, so here's a lengthy YSI to tide over. For a decade or so, I've repped Will Smith hard to sneering non-popists of my acquaintance. Yes, his film career is a bit hollow, yes his "solo" records are complete clownshoes, and I never really watched his sitcom, but ... http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2006/05/24/dj-jazzy-jeff-that-there-fresh-prince/ In the mid-'80s, a future KLF art terrorist teamed up with a former Killing Joke bassist, got a bird in to sing, and attempted to take over the pop charts with inoffensive electro-soul waffling. THEY DID NOT SUCCEED, despite being an early production job for the Stock/Aitekn/Waterman team (indeed, Waterman ... http://www.poisontothemind.org/archives/2006/05/16/not-quite-the-beginning-of-ambient-house/