The Japanese beat wizard sits down with MP3.com to talk about his decision to dig into his entire catalog to remix it all for a greatest hits double CD.
By Jim Welte

Q: Let's start off by talking about the concept of digging back into your own catalog and remixing almost all of it. Seems like quite an undertaking. What spawned the idea of doing this?

DJ Krush: It's simply because it's boring to release just a "best of" album, so I wanted it to reflect who I am right now, not who I was when these songs came out the first time.

The documentary "Dark Days" gives an unromanticized and fascinating glimpse of the lives of a community of homeless people surviving in a train tunnel in Manhattan.

The most interesting people we see in "Dark Days" are those — like Ralph, especially — who understand the mistakes of their younger years and appear ready to rebuild their lives above ground. Yet, they seem powerless to make that new start, trapped in a hole they can't climb out of. "At first, I gave it like a cap — two weeks. And then it became like home," says Tito, a five-year resident.

Born in 1976 in Boston and based in neighboring Cambridge, Caleb is an artist, writer, and educator. He is co-author of the Thames and Hudson book Graffiti Brasil, author/illustrator of the children's book, Lilman Makes a Name for Himself, and an editor at Swindle magazine.His artwork has been featured in Arkitip, Bant, Boston Magazine, the Boston Sunday Globe, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Art New England, Alarm, Vogue Girl, Contemporary, and several books, including Supreme Quality, Graffiti World, Enamelized and Street Logos.

We knew there was something afoot and Numark, the new owners of the Akai brand, unveiled the latest in the MPC range at London's PLASA show this week. The MPC2500 is the successor to the MPC200XL, featuring the formers classic user interface and building from there. It features velocity and pressure sensitive pads, twin onboard effects processors and an additional send for outboard effects, Q-Link controllers, plus 10 outputs and an S/PDIF digital output.

The highly anticipated new album by Portishead is finally due to be released. The exact date will be announced on their myspace page shortly.

Portishead's album Dummy is a timeless record that reserved a spot for Portishead in my heart forever. In 1997 they followed up with their next release called Portishead and a special live album came after that, but they've been quiet ever since.