Friday, February 29, 2008

DJ Qbert


HOLY CRAP, i didn't know I could DO that, YAAAAAAAY, now I just put the embedded MP3 player up:) Fucking AWESOME. Well, below you can scroll easily through ALL the shows that are up, isn't THAT cool?
So, tonight is the AWESOME QBERT at the Lister building.
QBERT's official website
IT SHOULD BE AWESOME!!!!! They ASKED him not to enter the world DJ competition one year because they said he would win and he needed to give other people a chance!!!! HAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHAA it's going to be INSANE, and the Lister building is one of the BEST venues in Jozi:)
Cool article on Mr Un-beatable

2nd Hour of this weeks show

2nd Hour of this weeks Show

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus, Dig

Cool Nick Cave Interview
Check this cool interview with Nick Cave, it's about his new album, himself, now and then, his hair, high maintenance and THAT 'tache (please shave. The album is out next week, YAAAAAY

Monday, February 25, 2008

Tonight's Show


Tonight's Show: You NEED some Smiley Culture in YOUR life (Oh, and it was David Sylvian's 50th Birthday on Saterday - Happy Birthday David):-
1st Hour
Smiley Culture - Police Officer
Smiley Culture
Sabres of Paradise - Bubble and Slide II

Sabres
Madvillain - Money Folder (Four Tet Remix)
Goldfrapp - Slide In
Japan - Transmission
David Sylvian

The Cure - Catch (for Shane)
The Cure - Where the birds Always Sing (FOR WANDA)
Timeblind - De-Televised (Part 1)
The Knife - We share our mothers health (Trentmoller Remix)
Brodinski - Bad Runner
Timeblind - De- Televised (Part 4)
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow
1st Hour of Show
2nd Hour
Ladytron - Seventeen (Soulwax Remix)
Datarock - Ugly Primadonna

Datarock
Sons & Daughters - Gilt Complex
Simple Minds - League of Nations
Portishead - Cowboys
The Flaming Lips - My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (for Carmen)
No Friends of Harry - On the Beach
MtKidU - Walk Through Joburg (Load Sheddin)
Cutout Collective - Fossils
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (For Leeney and Leza)
The Orb
Love and Rockets - Haunted When The Minutes Drag
The Shins - A Comet Appears
The Shins

Joy Division - Decades


Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio (loadshedding permitting of course)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

18th February 2008 Part 1


Sex Gang Children
1st Hour of Last Nights Show, 18th Feb 2008
This is the First Hour of last nights show. It is dedicated to Lilly for her 2nd Birthday:)

Death From Above 1979

Monday, February 18, 2008

There's a Simian Cutout Glo-stick in my Pocket Show


Tonight's Show is the There's a Simian Cutout Glo-stick in my Pocket Show:
Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)
Black Devil Disco Club - Another Skin (Days of Blackula Version with Unit 4)
Lindstrom - I Feel Space
The Rapture - First Gear
Depeche Mode - My Joy (Slow Slide mix)
Sex Gang Children - Dieche (12" Mix) for Evereard
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (For SAM NOKKA)
David Bowie - Where have all the good times gone? (FOR WANDA)
The Cramps - Garbageman
Ladytron - CMYK

Love and Rockets - Saudade (HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY LILLY)
Malajube - Fille a Plumes
DFA 79 - Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Metric - Love Is A Place
Garbage - Milk (Siren Mix)
Hot Chip - Shake a Fist
Simian Mobile Disco - Wooden

Audion - Noiser
The Go! Team - Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Tom Vek - If I Had Changed My Mind
Softlightes - GirlKillsBear (Lo-Fi-Fnk Remix)
Four Tet - Hillarious Movie of the 90's (Manitoba Remix) Pour le Leenie
Brian Eno - Wire Shock
Simian Mobile Disco - System - Das Glow - Wiess Gaf
Cutout Collective - Digital Heart
Justice - Genesis

Ladytron - Sugar (Jagz Kooner remix)
Hot Chip - Boy From School (Erol Alkan's Extended Re-Work

Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio (loadshedding permitting of course)
I have started a new Blog on Blogspot: www.radiodeconstruction.blogspot.com where i will be posting my shows periodically. This gives you a direct link to listen to them on the Divshare site where they are loaded under Radio Deconstruction. This also means that anyone outside the country can listen to them online!
I will post the show tomorrow, Internet SLOW!!!!!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Photography and Travel

Site
One of my favourite things on this EARTH is to travel and also Photography. My wife and I travel as much as we possibly can. We try and go to somewhere exotic at least once a year.
To date we have been to Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Peru, Chile, Madagascar, Australia, The Netherlands, Belgium and Tunisia. Wanda has been to Zanzibar and I have been to the UK. All of this in the space of 10 years. Wanda (my wife) is an awesome Photographer and her speciality is travel photography, especially Black and White photography. Check out her profile on Trekearth, a cool site that specialises in photography from all around the world.


This one was taken at the St Jan Cathedral in s'Hertogenbosch (an awesome town 1 hour outside of Amsterdam). This is the birthplace of Hieronymous Bosch (for all you art boffs). If memory serves me it was built in the 1500's and what I found quite cool was all the Freemasonry iconography all over the Cathedral, including a massive All Seeing Eye on the ceiling.

This is from the unbelievable Avenue of the Baobabs in Madagascar, truly one of the most amazing a pre-historic scenes on Earth. REALLY beautiful.

This photo was taken in Sapa in the north of Vietnam, very close to the Chinese border. We were trekking through the countryside where the Hill Tribe people live accompanied by the H'Mong people and Wanda spotted this kid and a water Buffalo.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

2nd Hour of my show this week. 12th Feb 2008

12th Feb 2008 Part 2
The Second hour of last nights Show!!!
The Cure

The Cure - The Holy Hour (for WANDA)
Bauhaus - Endless Summer of the Damned
The Horrors - She is the new thing
The Cramps - New Kind of Kick
The AWESOME CRAMPS

Metric - Soft Rock Star
White Rose Movement - Idiot Drugs
The Features - I Will Wander
So So Modern - The Love Code
Cool Kids - I Rock
Boys Noize featuring I-Robot - Frau
Van She - Sex City
Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders (JD Twitch & Truffle Clubs Optimo Refreak)
Ladytron - Tender Talons

Monday, February 11, 2008

Tonights Show



Tonight's show I play a NEW track from MtKidU, loadshedding genius!! heh, there's also more new tracks from Bauhaus's new album plus a surprise track!!!!
Hour 1:
MtKidU - Walking through Joburg (Load Sheddin)
Cutout Collective - 8-bit Logic
The Faint - Agenda Suicide

Dave Gahan - Endless
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Shy FX featuring Gunsmoke - Gangsta Kid
Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me

TPower vs MK Ultra - Mutant Jazz
Garbage - Milk (The Completely Trashed Remix by Goldie)
Barry Adamson & Anita Lane - These Boots Are Made For Walking
Dave Gahan - Deeper + Deeper
Muse - Time is Running Out
Hour 2:
The Cure - The Holy Hour (for WANDA)
Bauhaus - Endless Summer of the Damned
The Horrors - She is the new thing
The Cramps - New Kind of Kick
Metric - Soft Rock Star
White Rose Movement - Idiot Drugs
The Features - I Will Wander
So So Modern - The Love Code
Cool Kids - I Rock
Boys Noize featuring I-Robot - Frau
Van She - Sex City
Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders (JD Twitch & Truffle Clubs Optimo Refreak)
Ladytron - Tender Talons

Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio (loadshedding permitting of course)
I have started a new Blog on Blogspot: www.radiodeconstruction.blogspot.com where i will be posting my shows periodically. This gives you a direct link to listen to them on the Divshare site where they are loaded under Radio Deconstruction. This also means that anyone outside the country can listen to them online!
Monday Night 11 Feb 2008
the first hour of the show

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Munich 1958 Remembered.

I am a massive Man Utd fan and 50 years ago today the biggest tragedy befell our club and this is a reprint of an artivle on the tragedy I found. R.I.P.

The Busby Babes: Munich remembered
Phil Holland
Archive

It is the summer of 1968 and on Wembley's hallowed turf, underneath the famous twin towers and in front of 100,000 fans Manchester United have just beaten Benfica 4-1 to lift the European Cup.

On the pitch the celebrations soon engulf Matt Busby. One by one his players find him, shake him by the hand and embrace him. Each expressing in these brief emotional moments feelings of joy, of thanks, excitement and something more; empathy.

It can be seen best in the fleeting glimpses the archives show of Busby with George Best and with Manchester-born Nobby Stiles, who shares a particularly poignant exchange with his manager.

Ten years on from February 6th, 1958 and Busby and United had achieved greatness.

It was an achievement born out of the necessity to honour the memories of Busby's Babes who died in Munich.

The scale of the Munich air disaster, the sheer tragedy of the events and their subsequent impact is difficult to impart to a new a generation of football fans. This was a team that had achieved considerable success and while so-doing won the hearts of a nation, not just the red half of Manchester.

Two consecutive league championships, a runners-up place in the 1957 FA Cup final, five back-to-back FA Youth Cups between 1953-57, a place in the 1957 European Cup semi-finals and the same again in 1958.

The Busby Babes were on the brink of greatness, the future was theirs. There seemed to be no limit on what they could achieve.

That they had managed to accomplish so much is remarkable in itself, but it was the manner in which it was achieved that endeared so many to that Manchester United team. It was a side that not only played with style and panache, but they did so with players who broke the mould.

The commonly held belief at the time was that to compete at the highest level required experience in every position, blooding a youngster represented a considerable risk. While Busby recognised the importance of experience he believed that youth was an undervalued asset and could give him the edge.

So rather than buying seasoned professionals, as was the norm, Busby built a side around youth; it was a gamble, but one that paid off. The average age of his 1956 championship winning side was just 22. The average age of the side which flew back from Belgrade in February, 1958 after securing a place in the European Cup semi-finals was 23.

Busby is a close as you can get in football to being regarded as a pioneer, as a visionary; with his ground-breaking youth scheme he re-wrote the way football teams were constructed and by recognising the potential of the European Cup he embraced a new frontier.

Under pressure from the English football authorities champions Chelsea did not enter the European Cup in its inaugural season in 1955/56, but despite the same opposition Busby led his championship winners into Europe for the competition's second season and managed to reach the semi-finals where they lost to Real Madrid.

After securing the league title again in 1956/57 United qualified once more for the European Cup in the 1957/68 season, and after their success in the competition the previous season United were automatically amongst the favourites.

Those walking the corridors of power at the Football Association and the Football League were diametrically opposed to the European Cup fearing it would undermine the integrity of the game at home, and so strove to make United's decision to compete as difficult as possible by dismissing any pleas to alleviate fixture congestion.

Under new league rules any team competing in Europe had to be back in England a full 24 hours before their next domestic fixture. In fact United's decision to charter a plane from British European Airways for that ill-fated round trip to Belgrade in February 1958 for the European Cup quarter-final against Red Star owed itself to this ruling.



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The Busby Babes line up for the very last time ahead of their last game together.

In the previous round United had struggled to get home in time for their league fixture against Birmingham City when their flight home after a game against Dukla Prague was delayed.

This time Busby wanted no such delays, no such worries ahead of United's vital game on Saturday February 8th against league leaders Wolves, a game of great importance to Busby who was aiming to secure the league title for a third straight season.

So against this background of opposition from the powers that be and restrictive time constraints Busby and his young convention-defying team, which was already on the path to glory, began its last fateful journey together.

Having beaten Red Star 2-1 at Old Trafford a draw would be enough to see them into the semi-finals of the European Cup for the second successive season. On an icy pitch in Belgrade on the February 5th United raced into a 3-0 lead but, perhaps betraying United's youthful naivety, Red Star got back into the game. Nevertheless, despite a 3-3 draw on the day United won 5-4 on aggregate and secured a place in the semis.

The players and club officials enjoyed a cocktail reception at the British Embassy after the game before beginning their journey home the following day aboard BEA Flight 609. The Elizabethan class aircraft, the 'Lord Burleigh', landed in heavy snow for refuelling at the Munich-Riem airport in West Germany. It would never to fly again.

Twice the aircraft tried to take off, and twice it failed. After each attempt the passengers were all asked to return to the terminal building. The second time Duncan Edwards, like some of the other players, was convinced they would not be travelling home that afternoon, and so sent his landlady a telegram which read: 'All flights cancelled. Returning home tomorrow. Duncan.' The telegram was delivered at 5pm.

Despite their reading of the situation the passengers were called to the plane for a third time. In the cabin the laughing and joking of the previous attempts was replaced by a sense of apprehension.

At 3.04pm Captain James Thain attempted a third take off. As a result of the slush and snow on the runway the plane could not reach take off speed and so failed to gain height.

The plane crashed through the airport's perimeter fence and careered into an unoccupied house. The port wing and part of the tail was ripped off and the house caught fire. The port side of the cockpit slammed into a tree, the starboard side of the plane hit a wooden hut causing the fuel truck and tyres it housed to explode.

The grim wreckage of flight BEA 609.

Twenty-one of the 44 people aboard perished in the crash, while a further two were to succumb to their injuries in hospital. Seven of the players who had played in Belgrade a day earlier died instantly: Geoff Bent (25), Roger Byrne (28), Eddie Colman (21), Mark Jones (24), David Pegg (22), Tommy Taylor (26) and Liam 'Billy' Whelan (22).

Duncan Edwards lost his fight for life 15 days later on February 21, while the careers of Johnny Berry and Jackie Blachflower were ended as a result of the injuries they sustained.

The bodies of the dead were flown back to Manchester and lay overnight in the Old Trafford gymnasium before being collected by the families.

Over 100,000 people lined streets as the hearses delivered their coffins to the stadium and thousands more lined the streets for the subsequent funerals and memorial services, while two minutes of silence were observed at matches across the country.

Busby himself, the father of the team, suffered fractured ribs, a punctured lung and injuries to his legs. So grave was his condition that the last rites were administered in the hours following the crash. Two weeks on and entombed in an oxygen tent Busby was again read the last rites.


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Matt Busby fights for his life in an oxygen tent at Munich's Rechts der Isar Hospital.

Remarkably he recovered enough to continue his convalescence in Switzerland where he was accompanied by his wife, Jean. Busby did not return to Manchester until April 18. He made his journey by rail and sea.

In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, amid the grief, shock, sorrow and pain there was James Patrick Murphy, Busby's assistant and the man who did all in his power to keep the club functioning.

Manchester United owes a great debt of gratitude to Jimmy Murphy, it is thanks to his dogged determination and devotion that the shattered club and community were able to continue.

Bobby Charlton recalls that on a visit to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich Murphy was a tower of strength as he tended to the injured players and relayed to the infirm the scale of the tragedy and the grief being experienced in Manchester.

In Charlton's autobiography he remembers how Murphy's heartening displays of strength were revealed to have been a brave face worn to protect others: 'One day he was discovered in a back corridor of the hospital, sobbing his heart out in pain at the loss of so many young players.'

Murphy implored the survivors to fight through the suffering for the good of the club and the memory of their fallen team-mates. It was Murphy who took charge as Busby fought for life and Murphy who sought to find the players necessary to field a team for the first game after the disaster.

Through death and injury the United squad was decimated, such was the shortage of players facing Murphy that players were brought in from outside the club and, 17-year-olds were called up from the second reserves.

In stark a illustration of the problems facing the club, United winger Kenny Morgan recalls: 'I was back playing about a month after the crash. I shouldn't have played until the following year. But there were no players at United. All the wingers were killed.'

Morgan, who was only rescued hours after the crash when two German reporters were scouring the wreckage for the film of the Red Star game, never reclaimed the form he showed before the disaster.

On February 19th 60,000 fans crammed into Old Trafford for the postponed FA Cup 5th round tie against Sheffield Wednesday; it was United's first game after the disaster. In the programme for that game 11 blank spaces appeared where the United players should have been.

Amazingly, two of the survivors took the pitch for what was to be a 2-0 win; Bill Foulkes, who Murphy made skipper that day, and Harry Gregg who just two weeks earlier had helped pull survivors from the wreckage, including Charlton and Busby.

United went on to reach the FA Cup final, but lost at Wembley to Bolton Wanderers, they were also defeated in semi-final of the European Cup by AC Milan. As a mark of respect UEFA invited United to compete in the competition the following season, but the invitation was declined.

While tragedy and football are no strangers, from the relatively recent disasters at Heysel and Hillsbrough to the 66-fans who died at Ibrox in 1971 and 1949's Superga air disaster, which claimed the lives of 18 Torino players, the events and aftermath of Munich still resonate.

Perhaps the sense of loss was so acute and is still remembered today because it stemmed from the loss of young, talented people not yet close to fulfilling their potential.

The Babes may not be young by today's standards when 21-year-old footballs are far from a rarity. The same was not true in 1958. The youngest to perish was Eddie Colman just 21 years and 3 months old; the eldest, the captain of the side, Roger Byrne, who died aged 28.

While the city of Manchester and United as a club felt the loss most acutely, Munich was also a tragedy for English football, European football and the game as a whole and perhaps this is why their memories remain so cherished.

Of those that died Tommy Taylor was already an established part of the England national team with 16 goals in 19 appearances, as was Byrne with 33 caps to his name, while David Pegg had just broken into the national side and Duncan Edwards had broken the post-war record as the youngest player to represent England aged just 18, he went on to win 18 caps.

Charlton still says Edwards is the best player he ever saw play the game. That Charlton played with and against players of the calibre of Puskas, Beckenbauer, Pele and Best makes such a statement all the more remarkable and further echoes the tragedy of talent lost.

Another reason the Babes are still important today is that their legacy has always been at the forefront of everything Manchester United stands for and strives to attain, and it is as important today as it was 50 years ago.

From the 'Flowers of Manchester' banner inside Old Trafford to the ethos of fast flowing football, complete with an emphasis on youth, employed by Alex Ferguson today, the memory and achievements of Busby and his Babes informs and moulds the club.
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Thirty-one years on from the European Cup triumph of 1968 Manchester United are training at the Camp Nou ahead of their appearance in the final of Champions League.


May 26 1999 is set to be another momentous day in the club's history. By coincidence it will mark the 90th birthday of Busby, who died in 1994 having seen Ferguson end the club's 26-year wait for a league title last won in the season prior to the triumph at Wembley.

On the pitch Alex Ferguson wears a replica shirt from the 1968 triumph. It is at once a gesture which pays homage to those who went before, a show of pride, of honour and of heritage. It is also, in no small part, a canny device designed to inspire his players.

The challenge for Ferguson and his players was to emulate and honour Busby and his players, those who triumphed in 1968 and those who perished in 1958.


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In memorium:

Players: Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Liam Whelan.

Journalists: Alf Clarke, Don Davies, George Follows, Tom Jackson, Archie Ledbrooke, Henry Rose, Eric Thompson, Frank Swift.

Also killed: Walter Crickmer (club secretary), Bert Whalley (chief coach), Tom Curry (trainer), Capt Kenneth Rayment (co-pilot), Bela Miklos (travel agent), Willie Satinoff (supporter), Tom Cable (steward).

Second Hour of Mondays Show

VAN SHE

Tuesday 6th Feb 2008
Cutout Collective - Fossils
Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
Death From Above 1979 - Going Steady
Cocteau Twins - My Truth (FOR WANDA)
Banco de Gaia - Soufie (Higher Intelligence Agency Remix)
Placebo - Infra-Red (For Lex and Yolantha)
Van She - Mission
Metric - Dead Disco (For Lex and Adrian)
The Helio Sequence - Blood Bleeds
Hot Chip - Look After Me
Dave Gahan - Kingdom
The Faint - Total Job
The Presets - My People (Kris Menace Remix)
Boys Noize - The Battery

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

TOKYO STAR

Interview with me, CHECK IT
People, check out this fantastic blog from this awesome venue in Jo'burg, one of my favourite chill come party spots. Full of cool people, and cool staff and awesome tunes almost every night of the week. Situated in Melville it has been going for quite a while now, I used to DJ there regularly but now alas, only periodically, but that doesn't make me love the place any less:)
Anyhoo, they have an interview with me etc.
The drinks are cheap, the people awesome, just go there dammit!!

Monday, February 4, 2008

First Hour of my Show Tonight

COLDER

Monday 4th Feb 2008
First Hour of my show tonight!

Dave Gahan - Saw Something
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Timo Maas Extended Remix)
Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Blind Remix) Both for Attiyah
Siouxsie - Loveless (For Shane)
Editors - Blood
Colder - Losing Myself
Bauhaus - Adrenalin
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocking_Pinks)
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (w/ Trent Reznor)
NIN - The Great Destroyer (Modwheelmood Remix)
Japan - Life in Tokyo - Part 1 (Special Remix)

Deconstruction - Tonight 4th Feb 2008


Tonight's show I play MORE tracks from the NEW (YES NEW) BAUHAUS ALBUM called Go Away White!!! AS WELL AS a cool new remix of the new Presets single AND another EXCELLENT track from the Cutout Collective!!!! There's also tracks from the new Dave Gahan album as well as the usual mish mash of stuff from my twisted brain!
The Show:
Dave Gahan - Saw Something
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Timo Maas Extended Remix)
Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Blind Remix) Both for Attiyah
Siouxsie - Loveless (For Shane)
Editors - Blood
Colder - Losing Myself
Bauhaus - Adrenalin
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (w/ Trent Reznor)
NIN - The Great Destroyer (Modwheelmood Remix)
Japan - Life in Tokyo - Part 1 (Special Remix)
Cutout Collective - Fossils
Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
Death From Above 1979 - Going Steady
Cocteau Twins - My Truth (FOR WANDA)
Banco de Gaia - Soufie (Higher Intelligence Agency Remix)
Placebo - Infra-Red (For Lex and Yolantha)
Van She - Mission
Metric - Dead Disco (For Lex and Adrian)
The Helio Sequence - Blood Bleeds
Hot Chip - Look After Me
Dave Gahan - Kingdom
The Faint - Total Job
The Presets - My People (Kris Menace Remix)
Boys Noize - The Battery


Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio (loadshedding permitting of course)
P.S.: NEWS JUST IN: LOVE AND ROCKETS ARE REFORMING FOR THE COACHELLA FESTIVAL IN THE STATES!!!!!!!! FREAKING AWESOME

Friday, February 1, 2008

Show from 3rd December 2007



Another show, from the 3rd December last year, it was the "I've just lost my company money" show.

3rd December 2007 1st hour

I will post the second hour shortly. Been rediscovering my love for Mudhoney, CLASSIC band, check em out MUDHONEY Their track "Touch Me I'm Sick" is CLASSIC, I think they were the best of all the grunge bands from the 1989/1990 era. Methinks I will play some more of them this coming week!