My friend Ian Wallman and his friend Jim Ryan (who owns Miss Moneypenny’s) get together and do a spot of producing under the name Zoned Out. They tend to do a lot of remixes. Here’s one of their latest ones. It’s for someone called Ashanti. Wikipedia thinks she’s famous. I’m so not down with the [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
Tagged: Birmingham, Music
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- May 28, 2008 – 5:00 pm
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- By dubber
Warning: this is long and quite geeky. I’ve always been a little bit obsessive about music consumption. I love records and I have a large mp3 collection. They suit different purposes – and the best way I describe the difference is that I say that mp3s are for having on, while records are for listening [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Music
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- May 25, 2008 – 11:27 am
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- By dubber
Bobbie’s at work, Jake’s off to town to hang out with the goths for a bit before staying the night at Ethan’s place, and I’m sitting here at home with a list of things to do (mostly writing) and not much in the way of energy or motivation. The lawnmower man has been and made [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Personal
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- May 24, 2008 – 11:49 am
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- By dubber
I was in London yesterday, dispensing podcasting and web advice to an international aid agency. I’d travelled down with Sam Coley, who’s our radio guy at the university (I remember being the radio guy…). We stopped off at Euston station for a bite to eat, and as I was buying my bagel, we noticed Mark [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: Personal, Travel
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- May 20, 2008 – 7:06 am
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- By dubber