For the first few years of its run, the South Park character Kenny McCormick would die in every episode - yet he would return in the next episode alive and well. No explanation was ever provided, and characters on the show would rarely acknowledge the phenomenon - although McCormick’s weekly…
One of those things which used to be frequently referenced in old films and on shows like the BBC's Tomorrow's World was virtual reality. Often, it was portrayed as people wearing some kind of headsets which would immediately bring them into some sort of different reality. The technology to enable…
When the Business Teshno account first appeared on Twitter, I liked what I saw. They had this rebellious streak and weren't afraid to annoy powerful people - they reminded me a little of myself. And when they weren’t exposing plague rave DJs, they spent their time writing stories which made…
For people who work in quite a technology focused genre of music, DJs and such show a considerable amount of ignorance sometimes. Take Jeff Mills, for example. He became known as "The Wizard" due to his incredible skills on turntables in 1980s Detroit. Yet when it comes to at least…
Whenever North Korea has a big announcement to tell the world, they always bring in the lady dressed in pink. Her name is Ri Chun-hee - and if their latest dictator has died or chucked a nuclear bomb into the sea to annoy the Americans, she's who they turn to.…
Yesterday, I wrote about something which has started bubbling up over the last few days - the lineup of the MDL Beast Soundstorm festival in Saudi Arabia next month. I posed the question of whether any of these DJs care about anything but money - and on this Monday morning,…
Most people who get involved in the remix game have a story of someone who didn't like the new version of their work. For example, New Order blocked the release of Danny Tenaglia's remixes of "World (The Price Of Love)" by New Order in 1993. Tenaglia stated that "Warner's dance…
Another day, another festival announces its lineup. Or at least the first phase of the lineup - telling people everything they’re actually paying for in a ticket expensive enough to buy a small country with is out of fashion these days. This week, the Ultra Music Festival announced their biggest…
Cast your mind back to the early days of the pandemic. The scene started having discussions which aren’t normally had - mostly because there was nothing else to do. Talk soon turned to the enormous fees being demanded by the higher echelon of DJs - and I’m probably not the…