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cheese analogue

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About Me

whatever!
about me ____ hello my name's tom donohue. i come from wakefield. i like music and computers and stuff.
what do i do? ____ i DJ at Potterrow (edinburgh univ's students union) at a night called The Big Cheese . i am privileged to play some amazing records to people.
i write some stuff for the skinny magazine in edinburgh.
and i run a web site about clubbing in scotland called cscot.com .
factoids ____
* i like music (both 'cool' and 'rubbish' music), going out, photography, food and the internet
* i am a firm believer in being critical about things
* i like to collect records
favourite colours _____ grey, blue, brown, white
favourite foods _____ mashed potatoes and gravy. chicken salad. cheese. houmous. yorkshire pudding. anything burnt.
favourite drink _____ pint of bitter/heavy/real ale. or failing that, a G'n'T with plenty of lime.
favourite places that i've visited _____ blackpool, yorkshire, the highlands, iceland, serbia.
general things i like _____ cardboard boxes, lights, trainers, special offers, cold places, high-contrast or black-and-white photos, bleak things and bleak places, regional accents, pints of bitter, old man's pubs, dark clubs, deserted places, ambience, LIDL, neat and tidy things, stationery, thought-provoking sounds, supermarkets, mountains and coasts, featureless breathtaking expanses, train stations, packed lunches, nice t-shirts
places i'd like to visit _____ svalbard, greenland, arctic circle, antarctica, russia, ireland, canada, norway, sweden, japan, croatia, baltic states.
links _____
my records for sale - stuff i'm selling on discogs if you want to take a look
my flickr photos - various photos from various places
my home page - a useless collection of things
my recently-played tunes on last.fm _____
how incredibly unembarrassing these are.
alphabet video _____
jukebox jury. here's a small selection of videos from youtube for you to view and perhaps enjoy.
speedy j and chris liebing (from the collabs album):
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12:
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ukulele:
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john cage:
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My Interests

music / clubbing / photography / graphic design / radio / internet (css, accessibility, design) / djing / walking (but not proper lets-go-on-a-big-long-hike type walking - just 'walking about') / riding my tatty old bike / gadgets / food / keeping fit

i am also interested in ____ hydrogenated vegetable oil / date-expired foods / mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids / evil hypnotism / cats

I'd like to meet:

paul hudson & peter levy

Music:

i seem to quite like the following things.

genres ____ techno
hard techno
minimal techno
detroit techno

progressive house
electro
electro house (well some of it)

classical
minimal composers

acid house
deep house
'underground' house
tech-house

hip-hop
leftfield hip-hop
old skool hip-hop

trance
electronica
IDM
warp

breakbeat
drum-and-bass
liquid drum-and-bass

italo disco

hard house

ambient
early music
choral music
field recordings

and also quite a bit of cheese

artists ____
kraftwerk / speedy j / monolake / underworld / vince watson / oxia / the youngsters / joris voorn / alexander kowalski / orbital / technasia / modeselektor / ame / trentemoller
akufen / matthew dear / basic channel / steve bug
radiohead / theaudience / embrace
basement jaxx
global communication / sufjan stevens / christ. / leftfield / rjd2 / aim / matthew herbert / dextro / ada / dj shadow / subtractivelad
lionel richie / s club 7 / girls aloud / abba / scotch / elton john / madness / nine inch nails
steve reich / arvo part / gyorgy ligeti / philip glass / brian eno

djs ____
james holden / calibre / marcus intalex / sasha / john digweed / dave seaman / andy farley / damian lazarus / twitch wilkes / paul glazby / jp & jukesy / tidy boys / annie mac / hernan cattaneo / ricardo villalobos / nick warren / adam beyer / terry francis

Movies:

black comedy / good horror / crap horror / violence / mild peril / frequent jousting / cheesy 80s / japanese / world cinema / etc

favourite films (in no particular order..) ____ ring / the blues brothers / the goonies / full metal jacket / 2001 a space odyssey / clockwork orange / if... / the lion king / the shining / blazing saddles / battle royale / wayne's world / the wicker man / alien / terminator /

other films i've enjoyed ____ calvaire / austin powers / shaun of the dead / salo / working girl / audition / the witchfinder general / kontroll / superman / sheitan / time bandits / next door (naboer) / severance / borat

Television:

hardly watch any tv at all, but when i do i try and catch decent new comedy, but that's quite rare. i also quite like doctor who.

tv shows i've liked over the years ____ the prisoner / spaced / the day today / brass eye / alan partridge (or pretty much anything armando ianucci like time trumpet) smack the pony / chewin the fat / still game / big train / murder one / e.r. / friends (when it was funny) / simpsons / family guy
quantum leap / tfi friday / going live / live and kicking /

Heroes:

if by hero you mean 'someone you look up to', then i would probably say... Cannon and Ball.

My Blog

congratulations

congratulations to this dog, Fabulous Willy, who won this year's Crufts.well done Willy....
Posted by cheese analogue on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:40:00 PST

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well since i last wrote on here, nothing much has happened. ok that's maybe not quite true. here is a tidy summary:* went to Wakefield for a night out and quite frankly had an AMAZING time* had Christ...
Posted by cheese analogue on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:29:00 PST

i have 104 friends

just to say that"I have 104 friends" (on myspace)....or at least i did. then i had to prune some. sorry.and also a couple of things i've learnt recently....1) it's OK to play "Do The Conga" at Potterr...
Posted by cheese analogue on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:31:00 PST

7 things i've learnt recently

1. The start of "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" by the Scissor Sisters sounds like the start of "Let Your Love Flow" by the Bellamy Brothers. coincidence?1b. "Up All Night" by Matt Willis is one of the be...
Posted by cheese analogue on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:26:00 PST

music to listen to

well i've not posted about music for a while so here's some things i've been enjoying over the past few months...Last Days - Sea (n5md.com)Ada - BlondieAme - AmeM.A.N.D.Y - Body Language Vol 2Dextro -...
Posted by cheese analogue on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:54:00 PST

cousin itt

i have come back from T in the Park where i saw very few bands.here's a picture for you....
Posted by cheese analogue on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:07:00 PST

trempe jusqu'aux os!

so we went up to Blackford around 4am Saturday night/Sunday morning for a quarry party. it was all going well, we were having a nice sit-down on a rug, quaffing some gin & juice from a plastic bot...
Posted by cheese analogue on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:15:00 PST

duddingston

went to duddingston at the weekend......... here are the edited highlights."radge goose on the loose""peck peck peck peck peck peck peck peck""rank"for more see  http://www.flickr.com/photos/mono...
Posted by cheese analogue on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:27:00 PST

some camera phone photos

just cleaning out my camera phone and found these. class. "refusal may offend" "cat in a box" "you may not leave" "tomato ketchup" ...
Posted by cheese analogue on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:45:00 PST

some mixes to download

hello. well I've just done a new mix of girly electro/house/breaks stuff. At 40 minutes long, it's only short, but so is the average attention span.It's called 'Superladystyle', and you can grab it on...
Posted by cheese analogue on Wed, 24 May 2006 02:39:00 PST