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

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.

To celebrate the Dieter Rams exhibit at the Design Museum.

Here are his ten principles for good design.

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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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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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

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.

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

Truly career ending.

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

Many observers of the smoking wreckage which now passes for our banking system have opined that, in addition to being hobbled by a fragmented regulatory system riddled with overlapping and ill-defined responsibilities, the regulators who were supposed to be watching the chicken coop were woefully overmatched by the foxes.

The Epicurean Dealmaker on how best to regulate the banking system.

Hire psychopaths.