been of almost mythical status in the US. My old Maker / Metal Hammer mucker Jon Selzer recalls wearing a rare orange DI shirt to Washington DC and being stopped every five minutes by someone insistent on telling him how much DI meant to them. In recent years bands like Deerhunter, Animal Collective and MGMT have acknowledged DI as a big influence, MGMT's Ben Goldwasser rhapsodizing that they "still sound like the future". But what's galling is how unrepeatable DI's music still sounds, how the precise mix of people, environment and technology that created it will never come together again. As a fan I can only thank DI for ever existing, particularly at the time they did, because they offered a faint hope of a party I'd be proud to attend, an art I'd be proud to follow, a community, no matter how displaced and splayed out, that provided a genuinely and specifically English dissident pop alternative to the Cool Britannia bullshit patriot-games being played everywhere else. C'mon lads. Why not ride that reunion train to the land of gravy? Ian C: I have no desire to do it again. Who can speak for the future but I think not everything has to be recycled to extract every single drop of life and mystery out of it. It's done. I'm more interested in the music I've spent the last few years working towards which still taxes me every bit as much as all the Disco stuff ever did - and