The talk of Autechre's rant reminds me of something else I've been meaning to ask about:
I used to be a regular on the "Dub Terrorist" message board - also a Hyperreal resource and it was there that the feud between Mick Harris and Broadrick/Martin reached it's ...ahem... flowering! (Round two was Harris vs Martyn Atkins - a much briefer exchange, IIRC!) Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to Aitor Ascensor - the Italian chap who ran that site? I remember how people were dissing him for ages, for not updating the site, then one day he popped up, saying that it hadn't been updated because he'd spent the last year in jail for refusing to do national service! I could feel the heat of the collective blushes through my PC screen!
Aitor seemed to be a nice chap, but I think that maybe his time in jail for his moral stance gave him a new outlook on life and he closed the site soon after returning. I wonder what he's up to now?
Cheers,
Clive