Posts by Peter Darlington
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I'm not saying it is a beautiful pad. I don't really know, and I think no one else who is commenting here does either.
If you judge it in terms of modernism then it's not a beautiful pad and that photo tells you all you need to know. I love modernism and with enough dosh it would be bauhaus and scando heaven at my place but if you take some of the key tenets of modernist architecture such as simplicity, practicality, space, proportion etc... then that place stinks. What it is, is a cheap imitation of modernism, an ugly hat-tip to modernism that destroys what it is trying to mimic.
Hey, if Key doesn't give a stuff and he likes the place, all power to him, he paid for it after all. But it ain't the Barcelona Pavilion.
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I will do Dusty at your next event for a modest fee. :)
Dusty rocks! And no, that's not another reference to John Key's holiday pad.
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And do want.
Heh, one of my colleagues had her newly purchased, highly anticipated Inspiron complete with silver racing stripe turn up a mere two hours ago.
She feels a little deflated now...
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...Re: Key's Bach. Doesn't look too bad to me. Much though I love the cacophonous random cheapness of the traditional kiwi bach,
Ummmm, cacophonous random cheapness seems a very apt description for Key's bach to be honest. I was thinking how nice it is to see a multimillionaire like our John being prepared to knock up a Golden Homes spec house on his beach site instead of erecting a pristine modernist shrine to excessive wealth.
I mean, he couldn't have paid more than $150k for that piece of crap, surely?
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...either way I have trouble attaching such a desription to Carl Craig, and cartainly not David Holmes or Adam Freeland. imho. for what its worth.
You're probably right although I think Carl Craig might fit the bill. I mean big happy house music that all folks can have fun with. Not dumb or stupidly repetitive hopefully but there might be a little bit of that.
Several years ago we had 9 Sydney gay blokes staying with us in our little house in Brightwater, a very conservative logging/farming town south of Nelson (they were doing a frocktacular holiday rampage down the South Island). A couple of the guys were really into music and one of them, Max made the comment that he didn't expect to find such a lot of big gay house music in a tiny little village in the South Island. Then he chucked on a Darren Emerson mix CD, so there you go.
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You could go to emusic.com and get it as part of your no-obligation 25 free downloads. You'd have enough for Prince Fatty too -- I'm sure you'd dig that.
Good idea, I might have a look at that.
I've kept buying music in CD format up to now apart from the odd tune grabbed from elsewhere, but the new addition on the back of our place had spanky big bright CD shelving designed by me and built in and when I got the whole collection together I'd pretty much filled it from day one. I decided that I couldn't really justify filling up more and more of our house with the things so I should make more of an effort with online music. Especially if it's decent bitrate/lossless etc...
I have a reasonable amount of vinyl storage left mind you so I could just go back to that...
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...attracting attention away from other acts who IMO are much more worthy of it: Kode9, for example, whose recent album Memories of the Future (feat. The Spaceape) is just frankly incredibly good.
Don't know it Stephen, I'll check some out.
Peter, I wasn't being facetious. Did it really make perfect sense? (In terms of listening to an artist called "Metro" Area while traveling in the remote heart of the country?) If so, how?
Ah, I see what you mean. I should say Metro Area is the band name so the eponymous album doesn't specifically point to any kind of 'urban' reflecting sound. It's funky electronica giving a hat tip to 'Rockit' era Herbie Hancock, but much cooler than that description sounds. It's interesting dance music, nothing dumbed down about it at all, and was perfect for a drive we did through the Pass a year or two back.
Actually, another time we were driving up the Wairau Valley in Marlborough in Autumn and had Bic Runga's 'Beautiful Collision' album on and it was perfect for that drive. It's quite an ambient album and it went really nicely with the big scenery (loads of colours, Richmond Range mountains etc...) , just a really good fit. It's not an album I'd regularly throw on at home, probably, but it was perfect for that drive. I like it when that happens.
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"big gay house"???????
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Just as Burial went rather well spinning along the Bypass into Seminyak this afternoon.
Ooh yes, Burial is on my list to grab at some point. Unfortunately (or fortunately) we're doing the big family OE later this year so all our dosh is going into savings and all the fun things I like to do like buying music is on hold until we get back. Well almost, I'm really looking forward to visits to Dub Vendor and the Soul Jazz Records music store in London and suspect this is where my baggage allowance will take a bit of a hammering!
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Myself I listen to so called club / electronic music at home, in the car etc, not in any way exclusively but whenever the mood takes me.
straight?
Depends what your definition of dance/club music is. For me, hard-house/trance is less likely to float my boat but beats and breaks, and twisted electronica from a ton of artists and labels such as Ninjatune, Mr Scruff, Chemical Bros and gorgeous big gay house music from Ian Pooley, Carl Craig, David Holmes, Adam Freeland and a load of others makes home and car listening eminently possible without external stimulants.
Listening to the Metro Area CD while cruising through the Lewis Pass of the Southern Alps is highly recommended, makes perfect sense.