December 2011
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2011 - End of Year Mix by JC →
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Following a ‘Best Of’ list for albums, inevitably it would have been rude not to do something similar for electronic tracks. Any extra motivation I needed was whetted by Resident Advisor’s usual gargantuan ‘Top 50’ effort, which, whilst not being too succinct or palatable, also got it horribly wrong with their number 1, Blawan’s...
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Eclectic Picnic's Top Ten Albums of the year......
Welcome to the Internet event of the year. Glad you could make it. Its a pretty big deal when you upstage Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Joey Barton’s Twitter, but hey, I’m pretty chilled out about the whole thing.
Let me preface this by saying numerous times over the course of the year, I felt 2011 seemed to be a very poor year for music on the whole. It was more about...
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Boiling Over
The Social (media) event of the year… Thom Yorke ensures Boiler Room goes stellar.
What do you think of when you hear ‘Boiler Room’? If it’s a late 90’s/early 00’s poor man’s Wall Street, with Vin Diesel in his edgiest performance ever, you’re not very with it. If the term ‘Immersion’ springs to mind, there’s even less hope for you. Boiler Room, if you had never heard of it, has rapidly...
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The Importance of Stewart Lee
Many of Stewart Lee’s long time admirers have never had any doubts about his comedic credentials, his trademark razor sharp brand of intellectual wit, and the astonishingly clever structure to all his routines. However, ‘cult’ status would be a more fitting term to bestow upon the popularity that Lee maintains to have. He did after all, memorably name one of his runs ‘41st Best Stand Up Comedian...
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Thoughts
Inactivity leads to oblivion.
Activity leads to fruition.