Holidays and friends.

This summer I was in the priviledged position of being able to take an extended holiday; 5 weeks camping in Scotland, Wales and my sister's garden in Rochdale (the glamour!). It's probably not a cool thing to post your holiday pics here, but, what the hell.


I have my first myspace friends, amongst them a certain Mr Justin Robertson. I first discovered Mr Robertson's music and D.J.'ing in the summer of 1995. I was at college near Bournemouth and I bought a copy of now defunct music mag Select from the newsagent next door to my friends Alex and Kat's flat. It had a Justin Robertson mixtape (yeah, a cassette tape...like...totally analogue dude!) with tracks from Underworld, Transglobal Underground, Richie Hawtin, Chemical Brothers, etc. It rocked and I played it until the oxide on the tape wore off. It was as a result of that mixtape that I discovered a vast new range of music, from the DJax-Up-Beats label to the second wave of Detroit techno (a la Kenny Larkin, Alan Oldham, Carl Craig, Drexciya) and onto British electronic music by Black Dog, Plaid, Reload and labels such as Evolution. Amazing what a fortuitous encounter with a mixtape can do huh. Thanks Mr Robertson, respect due.

DK.