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nano.nano
i will not be talking about mork and mindy here unless it is requested. which hopefully it will not be.
no, today i am referring to these bad boys. the new Korg Nano series..
i need a midi controller. i’m fairly limited without one and i have been looking at these guys lately, they seem quite decent and at a lovely price of just £42 for the keys and pad and £47 for the kontrol which is very reasonable. there is a set you can get with all three and a nifty little carry case for a cool £155. bargain if you ask me. i had been looking at the Korg MicroKontrol but at the moment it is out of my student/peasant price range though i’m keeping my peelers open for a second hand one to drop off the back of a lorry and land on my lap. so if you know of any going, give me a shout.
i’ve started work on the new myspace, and also a couple of tunes, but none finished and won’t be for a while.
what? oh ok then…
the things i do for you.
f*ckity bye
week.nutshell.in.
haven’t gotten upto much this past week. i started progress on a radio programme i’ll be doing as part of university. it focuses on the hacienda, the rise and long fall of the worlds first super club. the place should have been arrested for the money it nicked from people. not the punters though, the people that ran the place, Rob Gretton, Tony Wilson and those New Order fellows. i’ve been interested in it for a long time now, well since i was old enough, that and Factory records. there’s a great background to the whole thing, which we’ll be covering in the show. which i suppose i’ll drop here when it’s done. which won’t be soon let me tell you.
been reading hooky’s (that’s peter hook-new order bass player, lovely boy) book, the temptation to call it hookys booky must have been fierce. it’s caled ‘The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club’. decent read, writing style isn’t upto much but then he’s not a writer really is he. some cracking tales in there though and he tells them well, which is the aim at the end of the day. pick it up if you get the chance or have any interest, a fast, funny and fascinating read.it looks exactly like this.
i’ll leave you with this for now, it’s where they got their title and tagline.
And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. Now that’s finished. You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist.
The hacienda must be built.
f*ckity bye
