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september 28, 2005

boom
selection is dead. long live boom!

with a heavy heart, it's finally
time for boom selection to leave the stage. it's
been a long time coming, but frankly inevitable. from
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 later.

we started this in november 2001, initially as a general pop culture blog in which we sorted (the 'selection') the wheat
(the 'boom' - clever, innit?) from the chaff. that continued, but as we entered 2002 events took over.
freelance hellraiser's a
stroke of genius gained much exposure on boom, and from the number of
emails we recieved it was clear that something of
a craze had started. boom selection became focused
on bootlegs, later to be re-termed mashups upon
their transition across the atlantic, and became inseperable from the emergent movement. osymyso's intro-inspection had
just recieved its first airing, and eddy and 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 that isn't being blogged
by someone, somewhere (matthew perpetua kindly maintains that we were one of the main
inspirations in his setting up fluxblog). while other people were coyly hiding their copyright
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
have tired of it. i've
been doing this 4 years now, and it's time for me to move on to something
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 wanted to
spread it to as wide an audience as possible. blogging mp3s seemed the best way to do that. i'm moving to london now - email me if you want to
buy me lunch in exchange for some poor bootleg ancedotes.
while you are waiting for my autobiography to be
published, if you are an overpaid music industry person you can come see me
speak at the In The City music
industry conference in Manchester on October 3rd. I will be 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.

being part of boom 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 lovely
music, made (and lost) a bit of money and met people who wouldn't normally
give me the time of day. it wasn't just me though.
andy (mky), steve mannion (el mannion) and laura (lorenzo) all took
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 illicit
record releases, club nights and a magazine that never actually got
published. i hope 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

its been done before, yes, but
this remix album shits on all the others. we've
picked the best rage against the machine tracks (no boring filler tracks)
and got the hottest bootleggy/remix talent to do
their thing on them. the result is a
glitch/bass/splice-pop/breakcore/bleep affair
with some top notch production from the likes of cry.on.my.console,
JoolsMF, dscio and FakeID. go to the mini site
for the download and artwork. sweet as.

!!FAREWELL
BOOM SELECTION PARTY!!

to say goodbye, we are holding a farewell to boom
selection party with the AMAZING pirate soundsystem
(aka josh and don) on the AMAZING sankeys sounsystem. expect rave, pop, grime, synthcore,
dirty breaks, uk bass - understand! you also get to go into the other room, where some
people called The X-Ecutioners (who?!?!) and 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 upcoming
events, yeah?

@ Ape - Sankeys Soap, Manchester

Wednesday 5th October 9.30PM til
late

£6 guestlist at boomparty.net / £7.50 advance
MOTD

Boom Room:

Pirate Soundsystem
(cry.on.my.console + don loves you)

G-Basic

Boom Selection DJs

Other Room:

The X-Ecutioners LIVE

Skinnyman with DJ Menta
T

Mark Torkington (FUNK)

Andy Peek (C'mon Feet Crew)

thank yous

andy, steve, laura, gareth - for being
part of boom

eddy tm, james hyman -
our divorced parents

osymyso and freelance hellraiser
- our gay uncles

renton (bastardgraphics)
and matt mcqueen - too talented by half

grant mcsleazy, tom cordiner,
steve (again), modesty, mescon
and every other very very generous person who has
hosted us for free

cartel mike and johnny for being too fucking cool

poj, josh, jools, don, ian, timg - the new breed
that breathed new life into bootlegs

stinkin' rich - numberonesuperfan!

frenchbloke and soundhog
- always cynical, always right

strictly kev, tom middleton,
tim utah, matt black,
eclectic method, v/vm, audio shrapnel for being
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 location location location, claudia winkleman, elliot from scrubs...

all the people who made music that we featured - far too many to recount

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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