Max Kane

It's been ID'ed as the new Lemon & Einar K track mate

Bootlegs I think are a different proposition in some ways. They're definately over-done at the minute too but I don't think they really irritate as much as the wave after wave of classics being remixed. Making a bootleg of two popular (contemporary) tunes is a great way of getting that instant 'wow' factor. People thinking that you're playing one tune that they have heard loads before & then bang something else comes in. Bootlegs do at least require someone to creatively fuse the two tracks together (thinking ah, wouldn't it be great to use the vocals from that on this track or whatever) whereas the remixing of classics seems to be an individual raping an earlier idea for their own means. I think what really, really irritates is that these 'new' remixes are often so similar to the original track that there's no point in them anyway. If someone uses an older tune in a completely different way then fair enough, it's given the original idea new life but also made it into something different. Doing as some producers seem to do often & just taking a classic & putting into the production template they use for a lot of productions seems a little pointless, all in my opinion of course.

The Hands Burn one is a grave injustice to my ears, the original version of that tune is still so amazing & would still generate such a massive reaction that you don't need someone tainting it with a 15 minute hash of a remix. If I want to hear a DJ play 'Good Shot' then I want to hear the original version not this new one which is complete tosh in comparison. The same goes for 95% of these new remixes but the fact is that as long as people (especially people as influential as Jules) keep on supporting them then the guys making the remixes are not going to go away or try to make some actual original music. Oh how I envy the amount of outstanding original music the A-list DJs receive (& for free as well), yet they still fill their sets with novelty tunes.

Wish I could help Fuzzy but I'm the same as you. I can remember it pretty vividly but I wouldn't have a clue as to where to find it in a set.

Personal trainers are a waste of time (and lots of money) unless you really want to become Arnie or you desperately need help. All of the equipment is self explanatory to use & a programme is so easy to write up anyway. Most decent gyms will do you a basic programme when you join & have the induction. I've been at my current gym for over three years & visit around 3 times a week, I used to go strictly for cardio but that got dull so the past few months it's been weightlifting & general muscle toning.

For those of you that haven't heard or seen anything of it thus far here's the tracklist & a link. 01. The Blizzard With Gaate – Iselilja (Sunn Jellie & The Blizzard Dub Remix) [Armada] 02. Moonbeam feat. Avis Vox – About You [High Contrast NuBreed] 03. Way Out West – Jupiter 04. Ron Hagen & Pascal M – Riddles In The Sand (Armind) 05. Q.T. Quartet – Hold That Sucker Down (Jerome Isma-Ae Mix) 06. Josh Gabriel pres. Winter Kills - Deep Down [Different Pieces] 07. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge feat. Meighan Nealon - Faces [AVA] 08. Purple Haze – Bliksem [Doorn] 09. Gaia - Tuvan [Armind] 10. Lange vs. Andy Moor – Stadium Four [AVA] 11. Klauss Goulart – Deep Universe (M6 Remix) [Armada] 12. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Ana Criado - Sunset Boulevard [Vandit] 13. Neptune Project - Aztec [Future Sound Of Egypt] 14. Armin van Buuren feat. Cathy Burton vs. Cosmic Gate - F.A.V. (Armin van Buuren Mashup) 15. Robert Nickson - Circles (Andy Blueman Remix) - with LIVE guitar by Eller van Buuren [A State Of Trance] 16. Darren Tate vs. Jono Grant - Let The Light Shine In (Filo & Peri 2009 Remix - AvB Edit)[Mondo] 17. Claudia Cazacu feat. Audrey Gallagher - Free Falling [A State Of Trance] 18. Stoneface & Terminal vs. Rex Mundi feat. Susana - Stardust At All (Armin van Buuren Mashup) 19. Lemon & Einar K - The Oslo Syndrome (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix) [Agenda] 20. 3rd Moon - Monsun [A State Of Trance] 21. Depeche Mode - Peace (Sander van Doorn Remix) [Mute] 22. Armin van Buuren – Blue Fear (Agnelli & Nelson Remix) [Dedicated] LINKY LINKY

I've not got through this entirely yet but was wondering what everyone else's opinions on Armin's Essential Mix from last week were?

Watch the South Park episode with P Diddy in, then you'll realise that every vote counts

'Rheinkraft' all the way

Best of luck mate, we got off the plane to torrential rain & had about an hour of sunshine the whole weekend.

Black Pudding is amazing, delicious food & completely makes a breakfast. It's no worse than most of the other food we eat anyway. Chicken Nuggets are the worst food to eat in terms of the s*** they put in them. On a positive note the weather related news is definately something I'm enjoying. Having been in a dull & rainy Prague for 4 days coming back & sitting in the beer garden for an hour with this radiant sunshine is a godsend.

I have respect for United, they play a kind of football which I enjoy watching as much as any other team out there, they play classic attacking football, employing wingers & using the ball much more effectively & quickly than some of the other premier league sides. I dislike Chelsea as they're a club built on one man's wealth, they're greedy & full of players that I passionately dislike, such as Drogba, Ballack, Obi Mikel, Malouda, etc. I hate their petty attitude & I didn't mind them losing at all in the semi. Arsenal are the team I really dislike though, Wenger is the most arrogant there is, his constant 'I did not see it' line is a joke & his policy of recruiting seemingly only foreign players & then claiming he has a 'world class youth system' is absurd. Signing young players from abroad then 'developing' them from the age of 16 amounts to robbery basically. How many of the current Arsenal side actually came through the ranks at the club? Walcott, Ramsey, Fabregas, Van Persie, Adebayor, Fabianski, Toure, Gallas, Glichy, Eboue, Song, Sagna, Denilson, Rosicky, Bendtner, Flamini, Senderos are all names supposedly 'developed' by Wenger, in reality he waited until other clubs had spent all their time nurturing their talent then poached them for a pittance of a fee. The only examples of actual Arsenal youth players that have made it would be Bentley (shipped out as soon as he could) & Gibbs, who has potential but when Clichy comes back will he actually play? Off topic I know but a good rant never hurt anyone

I hope Man Utd win (purely as an English fan) but I think Barcelona will triumph 2-0

Perry O'Neil 'Kubik' is one I always remember finding really boring back when it came out, a good mate of mine was really getting into his prog but I was still something of a bosh-monkey. After hearing Schulz play it at Gods one night I was instantly converted & from there I pretty much loved everything else Perry produced.

Happy birthday to us, has been a great place to interact over the past four years

The weirdest scenario I used to face in a 'The Birds' kind of way was coming back from Godskitchen in the car very early on a saturday morning. One of my friends lives in a relatively quiet village so there is zero traffic on the road at that time but there are absolutely masses of pidgeons. Coming home at such an hour the pidgeons seemed to be out on their feet & would literally cluster so that the road was un-drivable, they wouldn't move at all & being a considerate kind of guy it's unthinkable to use the horn to shift em. Once we had to resort to one of our number getting out & running at them to get em to shift, either that or run them over

First gigs are hyped up to be harder than they are all the time anyway. My attire for my first gig was a blue t-shirt with jeans & trainers, nothing special.

Ottaviani played at the same PaSSion event as me back in October last year, started off amazing but I got a little bored after a while. Still nice to hear him play some of his classics live

It's just Gods with their rubbish marketting again, obviously all of these DJs (bar Jordan Suckley who is going to be huge very soon) are major players in the here & now, otherwise they wouldn't be playing Godskitchen. Gods been awful at booking fresh talent for the last few years so I doubt they even know any 'future' stars. It's like when they had a Future Gods night & put John Askew as headliner

Nice one mate, all the best. Horrendously short slot but I guess it is an assembly after all

I'd probably spend all my time in the Nitrogen room, maybe popping out to see Patterson

CD 1 - On The Beach 01. John O'Callaghan feat. Lo-Fi Sugar - Never Fade Away (Andy Duguid Mix - On the Beach Intro Edit) 02. Sunlounger feat. Kyler England - Change Your Mind (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) 03. M6 - Paradise Lost 04. Ron Hagen & Pascal M - Riddles In The Sand 05. Mat Zo - The Fractal Universe 06. The Blizzard with Gåte - Iselilja (Sunn Jellie & The Blizzard Dub Remix) 07. Monogato - Miami Vibe (Omnia Remix) 08. Josh Gabriel presents Winter Kills - Deep Down 09. Myon & Shane 54 feat. Aruna - Helpless (Monster Mix) 10. tyDi feat. Audrey Gallagher - You Walk Away 11. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge feat. Meighan Nealon - Faces 12. Rex Mundi feat. Susana - Nothing At All 13. Jerome Isma-Ae - Shaguar 14. Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Man On The Run (Nic Chagall Remix) CD 2 - In The Club 01. John O'Callaghan feat. Sarah Howells - Find Yourself (Cosmic Gate Remix) 02. Fabio XB & Ronnie Play feat. Gabriel Cage - Inside Of You (Cosmic Gate Remix) 03. Gaia - Tuvan 04. Michael Tsukerman - Sivan 05. Cressida - Onyric (Stoneface & Terminal Remix) 06. Claudia Cazacu feat. Audrey Gallagher - Freefalling 07. Aly & Fila - Rosaires 08. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Ana Criado - Sunset Boulevard 09. Signum - Addicted 10. Robert Nickson - Circles (Andy Blueman Remix) 11. Thomas Bronzwaer - Look Ahead 12. Neptune Project - Aztec 13. Phuture Sound feat. Angie - Come To Me (ASOT 2009 Reconstruction) 14. Dreastic - Blade Runner 15. 3rd Moon - Monsun Doesn't look the most appealing, seems to be a lot of already released material. That said there are a few on CD1 which I look forward to hearing

Great to see Jules really supportiung David's (Murtagh) tune, also amazed to see him playlist a track from Harem, such an underrated label

I hate to say it but I feel there are a few tracks there that, while they were ok at the time, have aged terribly. On the other hand some absolute belters in there aswell

That set looks magnificent