Been a while since I posted a playlist so here's the one from last week:

Hayseed Dixie - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
The Fall - Pacifying Joint
Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk
Per Ubu - Non Alignment Pact
The Damned - New Rose
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours
Dead Kennedys - A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
Stereolab - Vonal Declosion
Manitoba - Crayon
Four Tet - Smile Around The Face
Beck - Girl
Dirty Beatnicks - Suicide Mission
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Go! Team
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television the Drug of a Nation
Roots Manuva - Witness (1Hope)
Silo - Those Adopted By People
Mogwai - Sine Wave
Muse - New Born
Lush - Undertow
Doves - Firesuite
Amorphous Androgynous - The Galaxial Pharmaceutical
Boards of Canada - Into The Rainbow Vein + Chromakey Dreamcoat
FC Kahuna - Hayling
Engineers - New Horizons

Also ordered these CD's this week and hopefully they'll arrive on time for the show this Friday -

Thunder, Lightning, Strike - Go! Team
There Goes Concorde Again - Native Hipsters

And in my post christmas spree on Amazon I ordered myself a replacement copy of Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine which I read 20 years ago. It's the story about the team who built Data General's first 32 bit minicomputer to hit the market (the Eclipse MV/8000) and as I remember it was a damn fine read. I used to have a DG CS-200 in my parents dining room when I was at college until they managed to persuade me to give it back to the DG shop I worked part time at. It consisted of 2 19" racks, one rack had an Eclipse S/130 (see pic below) and the other had 2 x 10MB+10MB Gemini disk drives and a 1600bpi reel to reel tape unit. This was back when real computers had switches, dials and keys on the front:

As I remember it was big noisy and sent my folks electricity bill through the roof. The one I had even had a user programmable microcode board so you could write your own custom machine code instructions. I wrote one to clear one of the accumulators but it took weeks to get it working. Hooray for .NET and C#.

Anyway here's another gratuitous shot of a DG box:

Geeky isn't it :)