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In the music scene, there's a rumor that packages of aspirin and crates of Coca-Cola were circulating at Woodstock, but all of this has been covered up by Paolo Limiti and Luzzato Fegiz. The truth is locked away in the archives of Area 51.

<<<Yeah, but I don't agree with the idea that he was that shaken up either; he didn't prepare for the concert and that makes him nervous, he nervously chuckles and apologizes to the audience. Then that he smoked a joint, well...>>> Jimi Hendrix, I mean, Jimi Hendrix... at Woodstock, I mean, at Woodstock, he smoked a joint. In my opinion, he smoked at least two joints and he also drank a beer. If he was really too out of it, he must have smoked two joints and had a Cuba libre (crazy), and then he kissed a chick on the cheek. Truly sex drugs & Rock N Roll.

I don't follow you, you're using too many terms for a single meaning.

Anonymous: Maradona started to shoot in Barcelona. Carillon: go ahead and then let me know.

There is ruining oneself and ruining oneself. Maradona, as a "ruined" man, won a World Cup.

Watch the Woodstock movie, and you'll find out.

And I think you might be a bit young, huh.

Alright, I’m sending you James La Brie’s solo CD and the complete discography of Satriani & Ciccio Malmsteen. Back to Tommaso's live performances: officially there’s only the second CD of "Do You Know Squarepusher?", and even that one is less "progressive-ambient" than many of his works but still hovers around the brick/intellectual vibe, while online you can find his "DJ nights" (if they can be called that), where the goal is really to focus on the groove, very different from the CDs. Look for it while you still can, even though with the bureaucratic slowness of the islands, I don't think your exile motion will pass in the regional council before 2030. How lucky, and I'm the cursed one... yeah, right...

Let it be known that he's a DJ with guts at Turntablez and the brain of a needle, I can vouch for that, one of the best in the scene without a doubt. But one thing is a super cool DJ, another thing is a composer. Beyond "better or worse," they are two different things. That's what I was contesting, because here a DJ is being compared to a composer (Riccardo Twin), and they are two distinct things. Then, regarding your heresy - punishable by exile on Mount Spada until the age of 70 - that you just launched against Tommaso, I remind you that Tommaso, in his records, makes music that more or less (much more or less, so much more or less) always revolves around the "ambient" axis, while Tobin makes DJ records and revolves more around a "groovie-beat" axis; they are not easily comparable. I like both of them to listen to, both Tobin and Tommaso, but when it comes to assessing their actual artistic value, Tommaso/Riccardo/Autechre are light years ahead. By the way, if you feel like rummaging through various peer-to-peer networks, you should find quite a few live performances by Tommaso where he DJs and plays stuff along the lines of Tobin, which you might enjoy a lot, and you’d also find new fuel to feed your mental gymnastics for any future comparisons between the two. It’s a pity that I’m about to email Soru to arrange your exile on Mount Spada, and there you won’t have a computer to bother yourself looking for the live performances. Maybe I’ll send you some tapes from "Camaleonti" and "I Dik Dik," they’ll keep you good company. If you behave, maybe I’ll throw in a bar of 70% dark chocolate. But without any women (otherwise, what kind of exile is that?).

Everything's right, but in the end, I don't care much about the hassle. I don't just calculate the technical-instrumental value of the individual but the music they can come up with in their brain (should we call it "compositional value"? Yeah, let's go with that) + the technical-instrumental value. Tobin might have great ideas, but those ideas come to him while listening to various things. Just like you’ve probably heard a certain band and thought, "Cool, but damn if Giangiulio Moroboshi sang over it, it would have been such a cult". But that's just good addition, not exactly compositional value. He might also have great technical-instrumental value, but only up to a point: one thing is knowing how to cut, a whole other, much more complex matter in this field is producing certain sounds. As for creating the sounds of Tommaso, since he cuts and pastes, I deduce that he’s not capable of it. I might be wrong, but the reasoning seems to hold.