Sorry I can't make this prettier, Tony, I know you'd want all your obituaries to be art.
Ned Raggett: "...had he not helped bring together a variety of kindred souls in various fields, not all musical, then the world would look different, sound different, simply BE different."
Metafilter: "I'm a minor player in my own life story."
"We drain dry the old pleasures and then never think new ones are going to happen again. Rationally, we know that wonderful things are around the corner, and yet we don't believe it."
His coffin had a FAC number
Ok, you are really fucking cool. You're a loosely associated set of labels, promoters, production companies, and friends. You get NYC legends to spin at your loft parties. You have titans like John Tejada and obscure geniuses like Dubloner. You DO NOT HAVE A MAILING LIST FOR EVENTS YOU FUCKING FUCKING IDIOTS, FUCK.
Apparently a lot of the Underground Resistance stuff got repressed recently, but a reliable source says "avoid the dodgy electro records in the 30's of the UR catalogue.".
They just released a great idmdowntempo compilation called "Shadowmath".
The whole back catalog. Everything.
"Hi quality music with hi fi compression. there are two major lines; Laboratoire Moderne presents new and contemporary sounds while Laboratoire Classique presents online re-releases of old and long deleted master releases."
Free mp3 labels.
Boston electronic label with a new compilation (with the best liner notes ever) out. Founded November 2001. Mascot is cyborg Dan Paluska. Free candy.
Yeah, check the Avril mix, the comparison to Kasparov is merited.
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