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The UM Archive for December, 2005

FYI: Bumskipper 1 sleevenotes.

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Analogue Hope. This is just an Oberheim Matrix 1000 and a Line 6 DL4 Delay modeler getting to know each other. The Devil Chortles At Human Wickedness. OK, in the video for this: The camera pans in slowly during the first section of the tune to reveal the [...]

Rich! He’s behind you!

This is the “press release” for my new project: Bumskipper:
We may never know whether Richard D. James is a genius, or whether he’s just gone off the boil, or whatever. Personally I’m a Selected Ambient Works 2 man. With the Analord series, however, one is forced to accept that he’s ingeniously got shot [...]

Midsummer House: A Restaurant Review.

For her birthday I thought I’d surprise the missus with a meal in Cambridge’s poshest restaurant, Midsummer House. We’d often talked about the place, and since she runs a catering business herself and I work for her, we had a professional interest too. What would it be like, this posh food? As I am always [...]

More Um

OK, we all know this site is very, very old and I’m not Artist Of The Year anymore (this is a supposedly amusing reference to the YOTA button on the front page which makes me look as though I’m proud of something that makes me look like a twat) but between me and my enigmatic [...]

No rest for Bad Pete

Obviously there are some risks involved with selling your soul to the devil in return for proper ROCK POWER. Why, only yesterday I tried to fire up some Satanic rock attitude by joining my brother in a gin and tonic at 4:40PM GMT but after a couple I realized that it just wasn’t happening and [...]

Mrs. Gee delivered by rickshaw to open proceedings.

Lord Charles got married yesterday and my synapses aren’t firing at all well. My brother made a speech. He was introduced by the father of the bride as the person who had lead Charlie astray. If you follow this logic through you get to Satan, via me, I presume.
Got an appointment with Dr [...]

The Lidell question.

If you go to The Wire website right now you can see links to some MP3 selections from UMM and Ascoltaire but the links don’t work.
The other week at a party I was sat next to a very drunk chappie who played a CD of his band playing at The Junction from way, [...]