Monthly Archives: October 2006

the legend of buckley

john legend’s new record dropped last week. i didn’t go out and buy it. i’d heard a couple of tracks back in july and it was a bit… well, *pftut* i guess. the album’s produced by jack splash but i… Continue reading

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Tokyo Drifter

Okay so one (new) member of the stable (geddit?) was given leave to visit our friends in the East. It was a short but refreshing trip and the first with full family in tow. Having lived out there before it… Continue reading

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no one likes us, i don’t know why

about thirty years ago (before I was born even) randy newman – that cuddly los angelian guy you’ll have heard singing on the toy story soundtrack about being friends? well he was a little bit political. dude’s a great songwriter.… Continue reading

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work and life’s vissicitudes

we here at horse latitudes have been hella busy in the outside world recently, for which we’re more than a wee bit sorry. normal service will be resumed shortly. in the meantime, enjoy this big fat dumpling of hand-claps in… Continue reading

Category other

God is in the detail – the science of shuffle

isn’t it funny how quickly we not only adapt to technology but come to embrace it wholeheartedly?my copy of the new j.tillman album, minor works, finally arrived from out of la france and i’ve been indulging myself on my ride… Continue reading

Category apple, miscellania, music, my big thing Tags

Carrying the Fire

Cormac McCarthy’s latest book ‘The Road’ is quite possibly the best thing you will read all year. Stripped of some of the author’s usual dense, impenetrable prose the story of a father and son’s journey through a horrifically bleak post-apocalyptic… Continue reading

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waving not drowning (fast enough)

Thanks are once more due to Stereogum (afterall, t’was they brought me that picture of massively dead, Rick James’ gravestone) who posted this cover of the Strokes’ Reptilia by Howie Beck. That track was always a stand out on Room… Continue reading

Category miscellania

Never meet your heroes

So Madlib last night was pretty rubbish. Great producer-average rapper-really average drummer. Highlight of the night was J-Rocc, who is without doubt one of the finest party hiphop djs I ever seen. Great tunes, incredible technique and a really natural… Continue reading

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exodus

we try to be on it. but sometimes we’re late. like today. so, i’ll apologise and try and bring you bang up to date with the Margate Exodus. last saturday (the 30th) saw the launch of the margate exodus down… Continue reading

Category art, music

MADLIB

So it’s Madlib day on ‘the hl’.And I’m mighty freakin excited. Gotta admit I was a bit of a late comer to the whole madlib/stones throw party. I was aware of it, all the stevie cover white label things, but… Continue reading

Category music