Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 06:48AM 
Just a quick shout here to lend your support and make sure all the right people are aware that the police and Hackney Council are trying to shut down legendary sub heavy club Plastic People.
It would be a crying shame if they succeded and the grounds for this are totally unfounded. I'll be posting information on how people can take action against this soon, in the mean time:
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 06:11AM 
The new online community birthed to fill the whole and give a new home to failthful Planet Mu users and intelligent dance music fans alike Braindance.co.uk has been running now for a month. Might I add Planet Mu has just relaunched their website selling all their merchandise and releases in multiple formats. It's looking pretty slick and hopefully this means the label will be able to get a higher proportion of money raised by sales by selling direct. Plus it's a comprehensive one stop shop representing their roster so despite a bit of tension with the old board users it looks like this move has been worth it to push forward into Web 3.0.
The new community has got off to a great start with a friendly crowd and most from the Mu board have moved over. They have a fortnightly podcast/mixtape series where they nominate a member of the board to produce one each fortnight.
You can get involved via this thread here.
Episodes so far:
01 - 22 January 2010 - Curated by jʌmɐs ʌndɐrsʌn
02 - 29 January 2010 - Curated by Mattrock
03 - 05 February 2010 - Curated by Japes
04 - 12 February 2010 - Curated by pidgin
05 - 19 February 2010 - Curated by Bit-Phalanx
The image above was found via this article, which I think you null+void readers will enjoy:
http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/07/24/brain-dance-and-culture/
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 08:01AM 
Luke's Anger's gone and got himself a nice website set up with its' own store selling vinyl and also MP3's for just 59p a pop. And there's a new hardware only live set there to download for free plus an archive of live recordings and up to date news. It's nicely done. Check it out here.