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Posh people’s etiquette organisation Debretts have recently issued fresh guidelines for mobile phones and ring tones so Skrufff asked a bunch of producers about their personal preferences including London rock/ dance uber producer Jagz Kooner (of Sabres of Paradise, the Aloof, Primal Scream, repute…)

Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): What’s your main ring tone?

Jagz Kooner: “My ringtone is the theremin from Forbidden Planet.  The scary/eerie sound is perfect for someone like me who rarely answers his phone.

Skrufff: When was the first time you bought a custom one? What’s been the best and worst one you’ve had?

Jagz Kooner: “I’ve never bought a ringtone, it’s pretty easy to make one yourself. The best ringtone I’ve had was the classic vintage dial telephone sound. The worst was the Benny Hill theme. I thought it was a genius idea but unfortunately it wore a bit thin after about a day.”

Skrufff: Have you ever been embarrassed by a ring tone?

Jagz Kooner: “I’ve never been embarrassed by a ring tone, no, (I’m not spending any hours worrying about that!) However, the Crazy Frog ringtone did send me (and pretty much the rest of the world) up the wall. Also I remember Sony made a ringtone of Primal Scream’s ‘Miss Lucifer (before the days of mobiles having audio samples) made of bleeps. That was pretty amusing (for all the wrong reasons).”

Skrufff: How important are ring tones for business these days?

Jagz Kooner: “I think ‘the industry’ realises that records sales alone are going to mean very little in the future. I know a lot of people are using ringtones as a part substitute for falling sales.”

Skrufff: Debretts say ‘Don’t make calls to people from inappropriate venues; a call from a bathroom is deeply off-putting’: have you ever done that? or had it done to you?

Jagz Kooner: “A few rock star pals of mine enjoying calling me whilst they are sitting on the toilet. Not sure why, a tad off putting for me.”

Skrufff: Do you have any links where people can buy your ring tones?

Jagz Kooner: “No”

Skrufff: What’s your next key release?

Jagz Kooner: “’I have no releases out at the moment instead I’m just mixing an album for a band called the Souls. It’s a really amazing album merging electronics/ psychedelics with great songs. That will be out next year.”

Jonty Skrufff: http://listn.to/JontySkrufff

Alternet/ The Fix editor Walter Armstrong noted this week that virtually every mainstream obituary of Mac founder Steve Jobs ignored his well known enthusiasm for LSD, which he revealed in an interview in 2005.

Chatting to New York Times reporter John Markoff for his book ‘What the Doormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer’, he suggested Microsoft’s Bill Gates would ‘be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once’ and was open about his own youthful experimentation.

“Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life,” he declared.

" Markoff describes many of the people and organizations who helped develop the ideology and technology of the computer as we know it today, including Doug Engelbart, Xerox PARC, Apple Computer and Microsoft Windows. Markoff argues for a direct connection between the counterculture of the late 1950s and 1960s (using examples such as Kepler's Books in Menlo Park California) and the development of the computer industry"

His enthusiasm for alternative culture and outsiders was also revealed in one of his best known speeches ‘Think Different’ in which he eulogized ‘the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes’.

“You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things,” he suggested, “they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

His most widely circulated truism since his death from cancer last week has been a quote from his stunningly inspiring address to the Stanford University in 2005, in which he chatted candidly about dropping out of college, being sacked from Mac aged 30 and diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 49.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition,” he recommended.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc (Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life . . .”)

http://bit.ly/b5TnL5 (Steve Jobs’ speech; the text in full)

Jonty Skrufff: http://listn.to/JontySkrufff

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