Me too although do have a soft spot for Deodato, Lalo Schifrin and 70s ‘crime jazz’
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And a bit of Herb
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this is absolute bloody murder, but I would say the same for punk and even some post-punk, so feel free to declare murder on me as well.
Although it explains how progressive house seemed like a good idea to some british whiteboys in 1992! The aversion to jazz resulted in strange bedfellows in order to retain a deal of abstraction.
Anyway, my boy said it best:
In all seriousness though, jazz is a 100 year old tradition, I’m not sure how most of it can be dismissed. It’s not as if it had its popular moment and then was rendered irrelevant — not until the late 70s at least, which is impressive given phenomena in pop culture tend to last less than 20 years.
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Some good David Sylvian instrumental stuff though with Jon Hassell etc
I don’t like his singing voice either but he did branch off into other stuff
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‘Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot’
Fuck off
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What I love is when you get an SMS with a 6 digit number to authenticate with…from…
A fucking 6 digit number! 
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Their security is their responsibility.
Trying to suggest it’s an end user priority when reality is they just wanna generate sign ups and people being more likely to sign up for premium access to YouTube. That’s all those c***ts care about.
Internet was so much better when commercial interests weren’t asking you to ‘sign in’ to every single thing.
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The similarity between Northern Soul and ‘wasn’t ‘88 great’ bores doesn’t go unnoticed
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Online retailers asking for a review of whatever product was purchased without providing any incentive to do so
Just be grateful I haven’t returned the item, or make it worth my time
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I’m sure it’s only so they can claim to offer a review service and then post fake ones. Pretty much every advert on FB has the first comment as ‘I received mine yesterday and it amazing etc’. Utter bs.
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Don’t forget companies like Trustpilot allow companies to challenge reviews and have them removed. We do it all the time.
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Yep same here that deeply worries me. “ The road to fascism is paved with people telling you to stop overreacting.“ 
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in the attention economy we’ve repeatedly been told to ignore edgelord chud troll behavior because those fucks are happy with any response they get, good or bad. but by ignoring it, we’re also allowing it to normalize.
so now, here we are. and i hate it here.
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The bar I was playing has new ownership and as a result a new musical direction, which is fine it happens. They don’t want disco, balearic or whatever anymore but in their words, “house remixes of Charlie xcx and other music our clients know”. Not me so I’m bowing out. All good.
Here comes the fun bit though, another DJ who is taking this as his chance to get more work - fair enough - got a list of tracks that the management would like to hear in the place and they’re all SoundCloud bootlegs that aren’t available on vinyl, and it’s whole thing is that it’s a vinyl listening bar.
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How AI is going to ‘take my job’ - the irony here being that the company where I work (comms, brand, advertising etc) announced lay offs last week.
Up to 26 people are going to get the boot out of 90, fingers crossed I survive. Of course there are more reasons behind this than ‘AI is making us redundant’, but it’s definitely part of it. For production work I kinda get it, some things can be made more efficient when it comes to post-production for example, but for design and creative work? Naaah.
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‘clients’ charlie xcx remixes…ooooffff…sounds like your best out of it tbh
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Haha ridiculous, sounds like you’re better off out of it
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Sorry to hear that, where are you based, I have some contacts in that world and if the worst happens, might be able to help.
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Has there been any backlash in the UK yet? Haven’t read about anything but would’ve thought most are generally too apathetic or unaware of the bigger picture.
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Not sure…
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