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They were awesome. Had such a fantastic night, from the back during Soulwax to dancing my little socks off at the front throughout the 2manydjs set. Walking down the road this morning the birds were singing and the sun was just coming up I just had a massive grin on my face I can’t wait to see them again at Rockness in a couple of weeks.

You can see the rest of the photos are up on Facebook if you want to take a look.

You don’t often hear about The Chris Moyles Show on Radio 1 being an outlet for new music, however I was pleasantly surprised by the little gem he played on this morning’s show. Rhythms del Mundo (Cuba) is a concoction of various mainstream/alternative artists with a latin vibe. Their cover of Coldplay’s Clocks is excellent, as is Dancing Shoe’s by Artic Monkeys, which you can watch a pretty fun video of right here:

Whilst it’s not strictly ‘new’ as it was released a year-and-a-half ago, it is a very contagious album. All of the western covers are very well done and there are a couple of catchy Cuban numbers too. No doubt you’ll see them cropping up on my last.fm. You can buy it at play.com and amazon.co.uk.

After the fantastic time I had a Rockness last year, especially grooving to Mark Ronson and Daft Punk on the Sunday night. I’ve been eagerly awaiting the line up to help make my mind up if I’ll make the pilgrimage to Loch Ness again in 2008; finally they’ve updated the website with the current listings, highlights including: FatBoy Slim, Editors and 2manydjs. I suppose mention should also go to The Cuban Brothers, who are always a good laugh.

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As previously mentioned, Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions fame has been making his back catalog available for download via his website. His latest, and last, offering from the GHP coffers is all of his radio mixes; 12 sets spanning 5 years for the likes of XFM, Radio 1, 6 Music and a selection of stations across the seven seas.

 Anyways, all of the wares are direct links to MP3s over at gohomeproductions.co.uk

Last month Mark Vilder announced he had come to the end of ‘bastard pop’ road, to go on (and in typical mus-o type) and focus on other projects.

At the time he released “This Was Pop (2002-2007)”, which forms a retrospective (or ‘best of’ I supposed) on the whole she-bang. It’s definitely worth a listen, but only if you’re open enough to hear Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre over the top of Crowded House and/or The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” and The Monkeys’ “I’m a Believer” in perfect harmony

Anyway, you can get it in two parts (96 & 13MB respectively) and an alternative download can be found on the GHP website.

Mark has also put “GHP Complete” - the entire GHP back catalogue - available for download. The OMFG torrent is over 1GB, but has some rare tracks that have been (until now) difficult to get hold of. It’s available at thepiratebay: Go_Home_Productions_-_GHP_Complete.torrent.