Recent content by Steve Catterall

My two favourite Dub LPs

` We have a Rancilio Silvia & Rocky Grinder. It's quite expensive (around £600 for the pair these days), but we've had them for over 15 years, and they are still making great coffee multiple times a day. The pod machines might be easier to use, but they don't last

Gill played through transistor amps, as he did on 1979’s Entertainment and 1981’s Solid Gold (in this case, either a Peavey Classic 50 Combo or Blackstar Artisan 30). “Everybody looked down their nose at me, because proper musicians are supposed to use valves,” says Gill. “That’s always been...

I still have my Gnat too ... but very tempted to get this https://www.behringer.com/Categories/Behringer/Keyboards/Synthesizers-and-Samplers/WASP-DELUXE/p/P0DN6#googtrans(en|en)

XLD - which is free

Tribbles are back ...

My 2 favourite E.P.s from when I was around 10 years old

Strange that so many seem to have done just that

Great interview with the composer, Hildur Guðnadóttir, of the music here "Guðnadóttir, the composer and cellist (she’s played with Throbbing Gristle, scored films, and toured with Sunn O)))) was joined by Chris Watson on field recording. But this wasn’t just about gathering cool samples, but...

Apparently the Russians are planning to do their own version https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/04/putins-media-struggle-to-deal-with-hbos-chernobyl-a65866 "Still, an attempt will be made to put an entirely different spin on those events. Russia’s NTV channel has already announced that it...

I'm finding that modern Pop music has a lot of low end - certainly much more that older rock music. Maybe because they don't even consider vinyl constraints. Try Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy

More popular than Corbyn apparently