monday notes

-The UK's Guardian newspaper anticipates the 20th anniversary of the U.K.'s rave-crazed "summer of love," circa 1988, with a round-table look back in the day featuring Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, The Prodigy's Liam Howlett, Danny Rampling, Orbital's Phil Hartnoll, Terry Farley, Pete Tong, Nicky Holloway, 808 State's Graham Massey and more. (Above, 808 State's "Pacific," circa 1989).

-Early '90s Mixmag editor Dom Phillips pipes in on the magazine's 25th anniversary.

-L.A. e-music promoters Red announced that they are no longer holding Saturday night events at Circus Disco in Hollywood, but that the will continue to do events elsewhere. The club compound at 6655 Hollywood Blvd., which also includes Arena, has been the on again off again home of Red for several years.

-In this week's New Yorker magazine, Sasha Frere-Jones dissects and likes Portishead's Third, due next week. The magazine titles it "perfection."

"What kids in 2008 will make of these spooky perfectionists is beyond me," Frere-Jones writes. "This is not a time for lovingly made, high-fidelity sound art, but I’m guessing that a Portishead tour could attract not only a variety of young Radiohead fans who missed Dummy but other outliers who like some heft in their gloom."

-As part of a summer travel series exploring select European cities after midnight, the New York Times goes clubbing in Prague.