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IanFondue

Dropping the mad notes

About Me



When I'm not busy writing enterprise scale Java and having 'fun' with terrabyte scale databases I'm either making my own music, abusing other peoples or putting on records to make people dance:

Part of the semi-retired 'legendary' bootleg collective Fondue Meltdown

Currently a resident at the Crimes Against Pop nights at the Buffalo Bar

adopt your own virtual pet! Genius anime FLCL cut with Weezer
Surkin - Radio Fireworks (Unofficial vid)

My Interests

Music:



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Slint, Mogwai, J Saul Kane, Boards of Canada, Ennio Morricone,A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Prince Paul, Gang Starr, Wu Tang Clan, Edan, Prefuse 73, Four Tet, DJ Shadow, Muggs, DJ Falcon, The Beta Band, Shins, Beulah, Finlay, Pretty Things, Johnny Cash, Simian Mobile Disco,Gram Parsons, Kinks, Zombies, David Axelrod, Super Furry Animals, M.A.N.D.Y, Alan Braxe and Fred Falke and Savage, Dick Dale, Campag Velocet, Gene Clarke, XTC, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, El Goodo, Silver Sun, Weezer, Cut Copy, The Presets, Avalanches, Envelopes, Handsomeboy Technique, Diplo, Rex the Dog, Jeffrey Lewis, Sparks, Dan Nakamura, Ultramagnetic MCs, ELO, Secret Machines, Led Zepplin, Underworld, Buzzcocks, Phoenix, anything on Teenacide Records, Switch/Solid Groove

Movies:

Me and You and Everyone We Know, 2046, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Heathers, True Romance, Infernal Affairs, Old Boy, Fight Club,Alien, Once Upon a Time in the West, Ghost World, For a Few Dollars More, Ipcress File, Get Carter, Barbarella, My Name is Nobody, Unforgiven, Mallrats, Saturday Night Fever, Wall Street, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Voices From a Distant Star

Television:

The Prisoner, Spaced, Mighty Boosh, 24, West Wing, My So Called Life, This Life, Coupling, Teachers, Married With Children, FLCL, Samurai Champloo, Attention Scum

Books:



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Heroes:

Bill Drummond, Bill Hicks, Grant Morrison, Brian Clough

My Blog

Weekend tunage 11/05/07

SebastiAn PIG mix - electro rock noise synth goodnessD Ramirez - Sessions 13 : 2 CDs worth of electro house goodnessThe Field - From here we go sublime : Lushness, a very interesting and melodic take ...
Posted by IanFondue on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:40:00 PST

Tunes for the weakened - 28/04/07

Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks (Datashat remix) : I lurve the original; Scando English boy girl vocals, bongos, whistling, what's not to love? Add in a load of C64 computer game blip production ge...
Posted by IanFondue on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:31:00 PST

bastard 106 @The Macbeth

Piccies here.Just about recovering from this on Tuesday - Operation:Wrong' Un was clearly far too much of a success That is all....
Posted by IanFondue on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:38:00 PST

Tunes of the week - ending 19/03/07

Buffalo Springfield - Again : Great song writing and some nice psyche touches here, including what sound like some bits that gave Steve Mason some ideasTodd Rundgren - Something/Anything? : Loving the...
Posted by IanFondue on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:57:00 PST

Tunes of the week

This week I've been mainly listening to :Cherry Truckers - Newnu Rave : Mates of the Lo Fi Allstars put together a tasty horn driven dance chuggerVarious Van She Tech remixes : I am listening to your ...
Posted by IanFondue on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:12:00 PST

If we meet in the future

Why indie rock sucks in '07I was lucky enough Sunday evening to get a ticket to go and see the Shins.They were great, possibly even better than when I caught them at Reading festival the other year. T...
Posted by IanFondue on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST

Together

As several of you know, I have a bit of a love for the French touch sound - tunes that use side chain compression, disco loops and vocals repeated to infinity with phat bass lines have been a love of ...
Posted by IanFondue on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:23:00 PST

Into year 7-ah

More of the freshness ... although maybe not the hotness. This seems to be a phrase running around the mp3 blogosphere at the moment which is annoying me a bit. Just because it's brand new doesn't nec...
Posted by IanFondue on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:34:00 PST

California dreaming

Podcast from our time DJing and dropping science in San Fransisco can be found here. Full-on backroom set shizzle can be found here....
Posted by IanFondue on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:52:00 PST

Party hearty

Got a great 10 days or so of club goodness coming up.This Saturday sees the Crimes Against Pop third birthday party at the Buffalo Bar. Yes, three years of us escaping the pop authorities :) Come join...
Posted by IanFondue on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:39:00 PST