Linkage: Banco De Gaia, Sasha, Chris Sterio, Steve Beckett & more

- Banco De Gaia will be making a very rare visit to Australia over new year, playing 2 exclusive shows: Peats Ridge Festival (near Sydney) on December 31 and Northcote Social Club in Melbourne on January 5, 2007. De Gaia's latest artist album Farewell Ferengistan was released in June.

- The location of Sasha's top secret warehouse gig has been finally revealed on his website. The event will take place in London on Saturday, December 16 at Hearn Street Car Park (Off Curtain Road), Shoreditch, London, EC2 3LS. Directions here.

- BeatFactor's columnist Chris Sterio has write down a new column. He speaks about the annual Source of Gravity trip to the USA and about his Source of Gravity record label, coming up with two new releases.

- Interview: Steve Beckett, founder and MD of Warp Records, talks exclusively about life at the top of the work food chain and Jimi Tenor: "Sometimes it [Warp] feels like we are riding as fast as we can on some computer spaceship game, holding on for as long as we can, but of course the music still drives us." [ElectronicBeats]

- The New York Times: "The Internet has opened the floodgates of self-expression. What happens next?" [NYT]