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september 28, 2005
boom
selection is dead. long live boom!
with a heavy heart, it's fina=
lly
time for boom selection to leave the stage. it's
been a long time coming, but frankly inevitable. fr=
om
now on, there will be no more proper posts on boom selection. boom will continue in its other guises, with more
parties and other projects. more on those la=
ter.
we started this in november 2001, initially as a general pop culture=
blog in which we sorted (the 'selection') the whe=
at
(the 'boom' - clever, innit?) from the chaf=
f. that continued, but as we entered 2002 events took=
over.
freelance hellraiser's<=
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stroke of genius gained much exposure on boom, and from the number of
emails we recieved it was clear that someth=
ing of
a craze had started. boom selection became f=
ocused
on bootlegs, later to be re-termed mashups =
upon
their transition across the atlantic, and b=
ecame inseperable from the emergent movement. osymyso's intro-inspec=
tion had
just recieved its first airing, and eddy an=
d james were caning home made efforts on their radio
show. without the remix, and xfm,
boom selection would certainly have never come about - we strived to be=
the
online equivalent of their show, with the same open-mindedness, passion=
and
good humour.
what is our legacy? maybe i'm not the one =
to say. i believe we were the first mp3 blog,
a genre now so densely over-populated its difficult to find any music t=
hat isn't being blogged
by someone, somewhere (matthew perpetua kindly maintains that we were one of the=
main
inspirations in his setting up fluxblog). <=
span
class=3DGramE>while other people were coyly hiding their copyrig=
ht
infringing ways on p2p networks we were openly, and regularly, posting
wholly unoriginal music directly on the web. in
some ways this direct connection - between the words about music and the
music itself - was quite revolutionary in music journalism. in other, more realistic ways we quickly realised =
that
what people wanted were not the badly spelt ramblings of a few idiots -
they wanted the money shot. mp3s. so we gave=
them,
in ever increasing quantities.
personally, i<=
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have tired of it. i've<=
/span>
been doing this 4 years now, and it's time for me to move on to somethi=
ng
fresh and original. i
never wanted to write about music. i'm
no good with wanky metaphors and
musically-literate descriptions. i
just loved the music i was hearing, and wan=
ted to
spread it to as wide an audience as possible. blogging mp3s seemed the best way to do tha=
t. i'm moving to <=
st1:City>lo=
ndon now - email me if you wa=
nt to
buy me lunch in exchange for some poor bootleg anc=
edotes.
while you are waiting for my autobiography t=
o be
published, if you are an overpaid music industry person you can come se=
e me
speak at the In The City=
music
industry conference in Manchester on October 3rd. I will b=
e on
the Mashupography panel with Go Home
Productions and some scary music lawyer types, so wish me luck. registration costs about £500, so i wouldn't register especially to hear me speak.<=
o:p>
being part of bo=
om has
been fun - i got sent a load of music, got =
nice
(and not so nice) things written about me, got to put on nights of love=
ly
music, made (and lost) a bit of money and met people who wouldn't norma=
lly
give me the time of day. it wasn't just me t=
hough.
andy (mky), steve mannion (el mannion) =
and laura (lorenzo) all t=
ook
their turns on the boom selection merry-go-round, and without them fuck=
all
would have happened. andy
especially, since he was the one who first introduced me to a stroke of
genius.
boom is now more than boom
selection - the blog - it has spanned illic=
it
record releases, club nights and a magazine that never actually got
published. i hop=
e that
some of these can continue/be revived in the future. for
now, here are two projects that have finally happened - a collaborative
remix album, enRAGED, and a new BOOM party.=
enRAGEd=
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its been done before, yes, b=
ut
this remix album shits on all the others. we've
picked the best rage against the machine tracks (no boring filler track=
s)
and got the hottest bootleggy/remix talent =
to do
their thing on them. the result is a
glitch/bass/splice-pop/breakcore/bleep affa=
ir
with some top notch production from the likes of c=
ry.on.my.console,
JoolsMF, dscio =
and FakeID. go to the mini=
site
for the download and artwork. sweet as.=
!!FAREWE=
LL
BOOM SELECTION PARTY!!
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to say goodbye, we are holding a farewell to=
boom
selection party with the AMAZING pirate soundsyste=
m
(aka josh and don) on the AMAZING sankeys sounsystem. <=
span
class=3DGramE>expect rave, pop, grime, synt=
hcore,
dirty breaks, uk bass - understand! you also get to go into the other room, where some
people called The X-Ecutioners (who?!?!) an=
d Skinnyman (eh?!?!?!) will be playing.... but you =
know
you want to stay upstairs for the night! this
isn't the last boom party though - stay locked to boomparty.net for all the upc=
oming
events, yeah?
@ Ape - Sankeys Soap, Manchester
Wednesday 5th October 9.30PM=
til=
late
£6 guestlist at boomparty.net / £7.50 a=
dvance
MOTD
Boom Roo=
m:
Pirate Soundsystem
(cry.on.my.console + don loves you)
G-Basic
Boom Selection DJs
Other Ro=
om:
The X-Ecutioners LIVE
Skinnyman with DJ Ment=
a
T
Mark Torkington (FUNK)
Andy Peek (C'mon Feet Crew)
thank yous
andy, steve, laura, gareth - for b=
eing
part of boom
eddy tm, james hyman -
our divorced parents
osymyso and freelance =
hellraiser
- our gay uncles
renton (bastardgraphic=
s)
and matt mcqueen - too talented by half
grant mcsleazy, tom co=
rdiner,
steve (again), modesty, mescon
and every other very very generous person w=
ho has
hosted us for free
cartel mike and johnny for being too fuckin=
g cool
poj, josh, jools, don, ian, timg - the new b=
reed
that breathed new life into bootlegs
stinkin' rich - number=
onesuperfan!
frenchbloke and soundh=
og
- always cynical, always right
strictly kev, tom midd=
leton,
tim utah, matt =
black,
eclectic method, v/vm, audio shrapnel for b=
eing
fans and contributors
superdan, ruth,=
jo et al for being nice people
stephan and david for
the belgian beer
erol - love you really. x
that ex-editor of mixmag who sent me the eminem acapella which
launched
gordon ramsay, =
boy george, shane richie, kirsty from l=
ocation location location, claudia winkleman, elliot from scrubs...
all the people who made music that we featured - far too many to recoun=
t
all the people who sent emails to me but i =
never
replied (sorry, i'm shit)
all the artists ripped off ever
god and my agent
peace in the middle east!
the_dr=
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