Friday 30 Jul 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

(Yes, that’s how they spell it. NI have a bit of a thing for giving their products slightly strange spellings. I think maybe it’s because they’re German?)

So last year I bought Komplete 5. As the name somewhat suggests, Komplete is a bundle of existing NI packages. Buy Komplete 5 and you get Absynth, FM8, Massive, Reaktor, Elektric Piano, Akoustik Piano, Kontact, B4 II and Guitar Rig (software edition). Now, if you bought all that lot seperately, you’re talking about several thousand pounds. (Reaktor on its own is £500 or so.) But Komplete &ldqou;only” costs £900. (The actual price is always quoted in USD or Euros.)

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Friday 30 Jul 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.

OK, so no actual dancing in this post. But last night I drove to Wellingborough to scope out Friday’s dance venue.

The “contact us” page for the Railway Club lists the address simply as “Broad Green”, and the postcode points to a block of residential houses next to a large triangle of green parkland. But there are no large buildings anywhere near this location. (!)

(Obviously, they couldn’t include a map or any directions on their website. If they did that, people might be able to find this club and they might actually get some customers — and we wouldn’t want that now, would we? I mean, it’s not as if the club’s in danger of closing due to lack of attendance… much.)

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