A fab new lens for my camera - thanks to my wife. She’s got amazing knowledge when it comes to my photographic needs!!

Best of all, it allows me to take great shots like the one above. Love that bokeh!

Matthew Dear at Glitch - October 2005

The Herd – Black & Blue
The Herd – Freedom Samba
Matthew Dear – Elementary Lover
Moodymann – Shine
Robag Wruhme – Gnomon Lukks
Tim Harper – 747
Carl Craig – At Les
UR – Analog Assassin
Herbert – See You on Monday
Broker Dealer – After Hours

It’s all about not very much.

Herbert (in Big Band mode) at Big Chill 2008 - Photograph by Steve Razzetti

Matthew Herbert gets on a plane for a first time in three years to help the Racket crew celebrate their 10th birthday. One show only.

October 18th 2008
Marrickville Bowling & Recreation Club.
More details on the Mad Racket website.

The AFL Footy Show gave us a very clever ‘year in review’ as the opened the show on Thursday night. If you missed it - i.e. if you live in Sydney and had to wait for the pathetic NRL Footy Show to finish at 11.30pm, here’s the top 5 “songs” for 2008.

Christian Prommer at Ten Days Off - Ghent, Belgium 2008

The charts are back. Making a long awaited return. This week, the big favourites have been Luciano’s Fabric Mix and Christian Prommer’s DrumLesson. I had the fortune of seeing Prommer in Belgium earlier this year - highly recommended. Yes, they’re a cover band, and they do jazz/salsa/cuban-beat interpretations of some of electronic music’s finest moments over the years. Before you cringe, have a listen, as you’ll probably be quite surprised. The intrepretations are thoughtful, clever and bum-wiggling as well. “Strings of Life” is one of the tracks they cover, and whilst you may have heard that horrid version that was dished out on 23 different Ministry of Sound CDs over the last two summers, at least give this one a chance as it’s good, no very good.

And on to the top listening chart:

Galluzzi Schneider – Albertino
Kenny Larkin – You Are… (Original Mix)
Chymera – Arabesque
Christian Prommer’s DrumLesson – Claire
Christian Prommer’s DrumLesson – Can You Feel It
Kevin Saunderson feat. Inner City – Good Love (Luciano Remix)
The Herd – Time To Face The Truth
Christian Prommer’s DrumLesson – Plastic Dreams
Christian Prommer’s DrumLesson – Rej
The Herd – 2020

Cheesy and corny but timely.

We all know what helium can do - that’s boring. So, Adam Savage inhales sulphur hexafluoride. Penn Jillette perhaps?

Mad Racket made its welcome return to the Marrickville Bowling Club on Saturday. A locals only affair, the Funktion One system was heard rumbling away in Tempe, and punters walked away from the night well and truly sated thanks to the tasty offerings of Caldwell, Cloud, James and Zootie.

Full photo set on Flickr.

Another TV commercial. Not sure what I make of this one…