Going out to Idiot America

http://www.americanedit.org/

Needle

Geoff Turner, fab writer and all round top bloke is currently the writer to have on your coffee table (well, his book, not him, his family would miss him).

Here's what you need to know:

Cynicism, drugs and rock n roll - Milo Snuff's dreams are haunted by the ghost of a long dead rock n roll icon. When he starts receiving anonymous telephone calls and letters threatening that he has "5 days to live", his dreamworld and reality terrifyingly collide taking him on an underground musical journey that includes the world's shortest lived punk act, a betrayed and psychotic lead singer and the most bizarre Elvis impersonation act ever witnessed. NEEDLE - a darkly comic thriller about the dangers of honest music journalism.

And here's where you need to go

http://www.lulu.com/content/146062

So get a hard copy, or download it, read enjoy and spread the word.

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I have recently been introduced to a great site called MashCulture. The team there collect the cream of boots and link them on their site for your listening pleasure. It must be good - one of mine made it into their Beyonce Boots promo ;)

The site is nice on the eye, with slick graphics, and there is an English version for those of use whose Dutch is a bit lacking.

Check it out for a selection of boots, remixes, albums and sets. I'll be going back for another visit.

Ones to watch

Well, I may have been a little quiet on the posting front, but I have still been avidly listening to the output of bootlegs that are churning out at a daily rate. As always, there is some godawful crap to sift through - but a few faces, new and old, never fail to delight.

Alex H (aka junkwaffle aka yogi_beer)

I suppose if you wanted a label for Alex's creations, "blends" might not be a bad one. With the skill and patience of a master chocolatier, he layers the nutty pralines and creamy cocoa that are a diverse range of tunes to create treats for every appetite. Go forth and check out his tuneage.

www.alexh.org

Sam Flanagan

He's slowly developing his site, I hope he's going to make the rest of his mp3 links as good looking as the first, but it seems his talent for making tunes to rock a party is taking higher priority at the moment. With four online so far, Sam uses things that he know will work when played out to make tracks that you can't help grinning and tapping your feet along to.

www.samflanagan.co.uk

team9

Mindblowingly good tunes, executed well, and seeming to finally achieve the recognition they deserve. Go, listen, enjoy.

www.team9.net

futuro (posts as houseman on gybo)

I'm always impressed that Futuro's tunes have that little extra to keep you interested, like a good mix of genres or decades. Good wholesome bootie fun.

www.stevelima.com/futuro.html

Lenlow

Yes alright, so I've mentioned him before. Don't care. I love his tunes, he always looks for the unusual combinations to make sure his is a style to be remembered, and most of all, enjoyed.

luke.enlow.net/music.html

Heard something you think I'd enjoy? Leave me a comment with a link please :)

Go forth and Leech!

Gawd Bless Matt at goodblimey.com, he's sharing a whole tonne of bootleg goodness from all your 'legging favourites, without having to wade through the sometimes surreal world that is GYBO.

And Hell, even one of my tracks is on his jukebox, man clearly has good taste ;)

So go, listen and download to your hearts content!

www.goodblimey.com/tunes/

Let's go Dutch

The sun is try to shine - so let's pretend it's summer!



Missy Elliot and Backini meet for a little bit of A and B fun down on the beach.

Undomesticated Urban Princess - Dutch Pyramid

The Day the Music Died

GYBO v3.0 - Neither a Beginning or an Ending

On Monday 13th December 2004, Get Your Bootleg On (the Proboards version - hereby known as v2.0) disappeared without reason. Most presumed it was because of the grey area that the board occupies. Some even went as far as to hatch conspiracy theories which were consequently proved baseless.

Even though the board was to reappear equally swiftly (and without explanation) some 24 hours later, the whole episode raised many questions concerning the future of GYBO. V2.0 has survived for almost 3 years on Proboards without so much as a blink of an eyelid, with over 7,500 members and 192,000+ posts, and yet it is due to the sheer mass of information held on GYBO that we should not be complacent about it's existence and fate.

Proboards has been a wonderful home. It is the undisputed central hub of internet activity for bootleggers. And yet it is severly flawed. There is no way to back-up the information on GYBO. If it's shut down, then it's gone for good. (We had a taste of that yesterday - it sucked). The board is dated - the calender is not practically maintainable, you can't modify posts per page, and perhaps most restricting - it's on someone else's server. If there were plans to expand GYBO to a website as well as a forum, then it would make it possible to interact with the forum a lot easier if it was contained on the same server.

And that's the plan for v3.0. The internal server errors are gone. The colour scheme is sorted. It'll take some getting used to, but that's life. The old GYBO will remain open to read, but not to post.

When will this change happen? Soon, very soon.

Grant

The new and complete version of GYBO - version 3.01 is now open for business at www.gybo.org