Again, sorry about the non-AJ content....the only thing I can contribute on that front is that I finally bought my first CDs in about two months, the Bill Laswell 'Altered Beats' thing (dope but a little scratch heavy) and Up Bustle & Out, 'one colour....' which is excellent but a little less Bolivian Peruvian Turkish than I expected.
I missed half the posts on the illbient thing because my server went down unrecoverably but I just also wanted to say that I liked DJ Lo-ki's post on the matter, it made me smile.
Oh yeah, one more thing, I bumped into former list member Caron Banez at Giant Step on Thursday who asked me to tell all New Yorkers that she can get you on their reduced admission guest list, call 212-905-7706 and leave her a message. Giant Step's new home, the Soho Brewery (formerly a cheezy mexican place called, uh, Nacho Mama's) is great, by the way - much more elaborate than previous incarnations. They had 70s-looking porno on the large screen for a while though which I thought was a bit much.
Jay B