Wicked curry over the weekend with a bunch of miscreants including Howard Slater of Break/Flow and infopool.

Howard gave me a photocopy of his text “Lotta Continua: Roots Music and the Politics of Production”, which I think is destined for a future issue of datacide. It’s great stuff – just the sort of thing I want on uncarved:

“There are threads running through the 1978 film Rockers that encapsulate the musical production process. From the opening scene of impromptu drummers and the horn rehearsal in the yard, followed by the studio session and manufacture of the single at the pressing plant, through to the distribution of records by motorbike and their reception at the counter of disco-shops and sound-systems – the whole process of production, inclusive of the social practice from which it springs, is highlighted. But crucially, each moment of this process is presented as a site of conflict…”