Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Reading the comments below (a million thanks) you’d think Plain Or Pan? was about to disappear into hyperspace forever. NOT SO! Just to clear things up – the only thing that’ll disappear are the links to the various mp3s I’ve uploaded over the past couple of years. It’s my file hosting account that’s been cancelled, not my web account. I’ll still be blogging as usual. But any new files* I share will not be via box.net (which was an excellent host, even if they buckled under pressure from the interweb police). I just need to find a new file host from where you can download to your hearts’ content.
As The Isley Brothers and Public Enemy both said, ‘Fight The Power Brothers and Sisters, Fight The Power!”
Let me know what you think of file den. Easy to use? Too many adverts? Pop-up hell? I won’t use it if it’s crap.
*For the benefit of any shady looking men in grey suits who are spying on me, the term ‘New Files’ generally means deleted/hard-to-find tracks, mainly from my own music collection. Often, these have been painstakingly converted from old cassettes and vinyl by myself into mp3 format. ‘New Files’ does not mean the latest Guns ‘n Roses album or anything that you can buy easily enough from a supermarket, a specialist record shop (remember them) or an online retailer. With peace and love etc etc.
Plain Or Pan 
Take a look at http://www.drop.io
http://www.mediafire.com/
Seems much faster for downloading than most sites. The people on the MBV forum used it recently and I managed to get a ton of stuff very quickly.