horse latitudes

They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

March 2, 2010

We used to use this blog to write coded love letters to each other. Hiding in plain site so to speak.
The need speak our quixotic dreams into life in this way has long since past, so we are finally leaving the latitudes, the breeze having picked up enough to take us on towards our destination.

Thank you for sharing the ride, for those who contributed, made music amazing enough for us to obssess over or who linked in or took the time to comment.

We had a great time.

If you have a thing for analog synths, geeked-out scifi and lazer powered soul you can find all of that (and more) at firemusic.

Otherwise…we’ll be seeing you.

Category Uncategorized

Ulysses82 @ Hustlers Don’t Dance this Saturday

January 29, 2010

Can’t wait for this one-Inie and Karen sure know how host a party.
It’s a slightly different kinda of vibe to the shows we usually play-a little bit more intimate and potentailly really quite sweaty (and that’s just Christoph). We’re gonna be playing a load of new stuff , including the first ever play of our just finished AD Bourke remix for Citinite. (we’re really excited about that one!!)

Come down if you’re local (half the door goes to Haiti, so it will be good for your soul as well)

More details here

Category music, ulysses82

Ain’t it Back

January 5, 2010

New Venue, new logo, same killer party.

Ain’t It Black is back! After a mystic hiatus, the underground house-party extraordinaire of Shoreditch will be holding its relaunch party at East Village.

I can’t freakin’ wait. It’s Ulysses 82‘s spiritual home and we will be setting lazers to kill for this one.

More details here.

Book it in.

Category ulysses82

The 10 Commandments

December 10, 2009

To celebrate the Dieter Rams exhibit at the Design Museum.

Here are his ten principles for good design.

Category design

Merlin is a prophet for our times.

December 9, 2009

What I can’t afford to do — and I deeply hope you guys also won’t even attempt to do — is to live in a world of unlimited access (in- or outbound) that requires you to pretend anyone who happens to trip over your doormat should get precisely the same attention, respect, interest, and focus as Real People You Know. They come first. Scarcity. It’s a real thing.
Because that way lies utter madness and, frankly, it makes a charade of your actual life.

Interrupting your focus on your own work, family, and friends in order to harvest anonymous compliments or deflect anonymous dumbassery does a disservice to everyone involved and is, in my opinion, an utterly depressing and unscalable way to slouch through life.

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Category culture, monologue

Mount Rushmore carved with a Swiss Army knife

December 4, 2009

Cormac McCarthy is auctioning the Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter he has used for the past 50 years (and 5 million words).

Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable Olivetti manual typewriter he bought in a Knoxville, Tenn., pawnshop around 1963 for $50.

The way you do things always affects how the things themselves turnout.

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Category books, culture

Objectif:Lune

December 2, 2009

It’s all Dam-Funk‘s fault.

After weeks and months procrastinating over what to do with the ever increasing Archive de Ulysses82-it was the chance to hand over some ‘cheap heat’ to the west coast’s leader of the nu-funk revolution, that finally prompted us to get our act together.

The result is a 4 track ep of edits and versions we have played and given to friends over the past 6-9 months or so. It’s a chance for those of you weird enough not to be checking hypemachine every week for new beats to catch up and also a chance for us to say thank you for all the support and amazing feedback we’ve received over the last year. The EP is called objectif: lune and will be available to download, here.

In the meantime, in honour of a great nights out with friends and journey’s round city streets trying to find the party, here is a track that has never been posted anywhere -but has been played out by us and Red Rack’em (God bless him) a few times.

Enjoy.

Ulysses82-The Action

Category firemusic, music, ulysses82 Tags arch

Here’s comes the Futureshock

November 12, 2009

All roads lead to Vauxhall tonight for the Citinite X LuckyMe party at the Lightbox,

Time Out has described it as the one of the parties of the year, and with a line-up like this, they may well be on to something.

LIVE:
Dâm-Funk
Rustie
Jimmy Edgar
Gosub

DJ:
Hudson Mohawke
Kode9
Ikonika
Greena
Spencer
Citinite & LuckyMe DJs

I can’t freakin wait !!-we will be there in full fx-witnessing the futureshock firsthand.

See you there.

Category culture, music, scifi

And the horse you rode in on.

November 11, 2009

Elizabeth Kolbert’s amazing takedown of Superfreakonomics, for the New Yorker.

Truly career ending.

Category culture

The Coen brothers may just have made their masterpiece with this

October 28, 2009

A review of the Coen brothers’ forthcoming film ‘A Serious Man‘

Category film