looks like we lost a recent post about jimmy iovine predicting the death spiral of spotify - please repost if you can, googling doesn’t get me to that substack or blog post or whatever it was.
edit: never mind, found it. The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete
props to whomever posted it in the first place!
So good
My friends son who lives in ‘that’ London was telling me that he was going to Deptford Northern Soul & also into reggae so when I saw the DJH Interviews in a charity for 50p I bought for him & dropped round
Obvuously an early edition as still got Savillle in 
This is great
That’s brilliant. Hooky goes on about that night and meeting the film lookalikes in his book Substance. He ended up leaving saying it was just too weird!
100%
it wasn’t a retro brand in its heyday, it was pioneering and unpredictable… I stress how important it is for every generation to find its own spaces, inspirations, styles, and attitudes and to make its own culture, just as we did.
Too bad nobody told Ibiza and the rest of the travelling branded circus
On a related note, the piece reminded me of this Essential Mix tribute to Tony Wilson, made 2 weeks after his death, from Pete Tong and Mike Pickering, I think Pickering hadn’t been behind the decks for 10 years or so before he made this in tribute.
We had a bit of the floor of the hacienda in our old house. God knows what happened to that.
Parquet and pickering ?
I met a bloke on a train & got chatting ( 1st class Euston - Picadilly as you do!)
He said he bought a 1m of teh supporting girders that were on danceflloor
He said it weighed literally a ton & every time he moved he needed an army of mates to lift & move it
I used to work on the same street. After it closed all the doors were open and workmen were walking in and out with armfuls of stuff and chucking it in skips. I joined in, had a good wander round and found a stool and a few bits of dancefloor which I liberated
A booklover’s dream…
Omg love her
Dragons are more likely than spaceships (no idea how I got here)
On a similar note, this reminds me there’s a book I’ve been meaning to read for years that I remember the name of then totally forget again that suggests we’re alone in the universe…
That ^ is an excellent piece by the way!
posted this earlier, but it got lost in the wash. and may yet again.
for our purposes, this is about records.
Yeah, it’s like friends with Spotify playlists that are six years long
I enjoyed reading this, then had a mini existential crisis thinking about my poor descendants being obliterated by the sun in a billion years, unable to escape to another solar system! 
I’ve always found the idea that we (who?) needs to move into space if Humanity is gong to survive. Making the planet we actually live on habitable is a mere drop in a vast ocean compared with the absurd idea of Humans ever living on another celestial body. We are of this earth, and will end on it. Even if we made it to Mars (forget interstellar space), we would still be, thankfully, Humans, with all our flaws. Extinction is much preferable to the delusional utopia of people I would not want to spend 5 minutes with.
A complete lack of any historical awareness makes these tech billionaires particularly dangerous. A wild combination of the utopian ideals of the early internet and the unlimited greed and power grabbing of the reality. Death is just a technical issue to be overcome, not the base fact of Human life that gives us meaning.