The wrong side of capitalism

Rather self-aggrandising, really

I’m going to Spain for a couple of weeks, including spending some time in a farmhouse which is in the middle of a) Galicia and b) nowhere, so there probably won’t be many updates for a while. In the meantime. I’ll leave you with the track-list of a CD I put together for the occasion (at least half stuff I’ve recently downloaded from Fluxblog which I feel I can’t do without for two weeks):

1. Go Team – ‘The power is on’ At some point this will turn up soundtracking the pink bloc on an IndyMedia video
2. Girls Aloud – ‘The show’
3. Lolita Storm – ‘Dancing with the Ibiza dogs’
4. Whigfield – ‘Think of you’ I have 30 seconds of an incredible Spanish remix of this on a tape somewhere. Perhaps I’ll be able to track down a full version
5. Lambretta – ‘Bimbo’
6. Sugarlips – ‘Piece of me’
7. Estelle – ‘1980’
8. Rhianna – ‘Oh Baby’
9. Ghostface Killa – ‘The sun’
10. Skepta – ‘Serious Thug’
11. Bran Van 3000 – ‘Love Cliché’
12. Rachel Stevens – ‘Some Girls’
13. The Streets – ‘Fit but you know it (Poj remix)’ Even more stop/start than the original, even more Status Quo
14. Bran Van 3000 – ‘Go Shopping’
15. John Coltrane – ‘Summertime’
16. O-Zone – ‘Dragostea Din Te’ Apparently, this has been franchised out in most of Europe (like ‘Kiss Kiss’ was). I’ve yet to hear the Italian house version
17. Electrelane – ‘I’m on fire’
18. Leningrad Cowboys – ‘Happy together’ Not their best, as it doesn’t include snippets of the Soviet National Anthem, but still pretty good
19. Britney Spears – ‘Breathe on me’
20. The Streets – ‘It’s too late (High Contrast remix)’

And some Cornish opinions:

• McFly sound more like The Beatles than Oasis ever did
• Jamelia’s ‘See it in a boy’s eye’ is conceptually the best R&B song for ages, possibly since ‘Bills, Bills, Bills’. The woman vs machine conflict between the verse and the chorus continues throughout the song until it resolves itself into some kind of splendid cyborg recapitulation.

I plan to make a concerted effort to finish The Phenomenology of Spirit over the next two weeks. Wish me luck.

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