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Faves / Unfaves

Top 10 of the Nineties, Artforum 1999 - *Critics Top 10 of the Nineties selections + commentary* *Artforum, December 1999* *by Simon Reynolds*
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Jason Phereus,

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Sounding Out!

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Quick Thought About Robots - Tonight I watched *Lo and Behold*, the new Werner Herzog movie. It’s about the internet, and robots, and artificial intelligence, and where technology mi...
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imathers: This is beautiful. - imathers: This is beautiful.
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The Women's Liberation Music Archive

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God Is No Longer A Dj

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Binary Heap

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The Pirate Archive

Fantasy FM – Sheffield - Fantasy FM broadcast from Sheffield on 101.9 FM. If anyone has any more information on Fantasy FM, please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To downlo...
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Phil Zone

- This is advance notice that I'm going to be killing off this blog in the next month or so, mainly because I'm trying to wean myself off being continually p...
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INTO THE SWAMP

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darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

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streams of expression

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Ghosts in the TV

nemfrog: Magazine cover. “Japanese computers.” Byte. May... - nemfrog: Magazine cover. “Japanese computers.” *Byte.* May 1982.
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Sonic Truth

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Internal exile

Photo -
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up close and personal

The future then -
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....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- Hello again, have you missed me? I’ve been meaning to get in touch, but somehow, I haven’t quite felt able. I hope you understand. I’ve had so little goo...
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Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
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RESIDUAL NOISE

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Musical Urbanism |

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Prole Sector

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IX Tab

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leaving earth

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Drumtrip

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highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

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vexations

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A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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History is made at night

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...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
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faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
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Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
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Vocalities

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Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

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The Night Mail

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Acousmata

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7 months ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC - Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC: I would love a track by track treatment in this vein. Wouldn’t we all? Really amazi...
8 months ago
Soundboy

New Year, new roles - As we start the New Year, I want to share some personal and professional news. I will be moving to a Chairman role and Matt Jones will be CEO. We’ve alwa...
8 months ago
The Inkbottle

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9 months ago
The Fantastic Hope

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10 months ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

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Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
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Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
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noir realism

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SIGNS FICTION

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Joy Press

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Spectres of Mark

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k-punk

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Dirtnap

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1 year ago
Rouge's Foam

I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it... - I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it has been people from the online networks of underground music I ...
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_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave at Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015 - Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave / Chronopoetik der Wendelsteinhöhle" "Zeit - Moment – Ewigkeit" - Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015, Bayrischzell, DE 2...
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Rave Archive UK »

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Tower of Sleep

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Boring Old Books

Factory Installation Work - A Practical Work for Electrical Installation Engineers and Contractors, Plant Engineers and Works Electricians. By A. J. Coker Gener...
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the spectral dimension

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1 year ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
1 year ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

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davidtoop

Skin and Bone Listening - How to be, where to be, in a space, with sound, with other bodies? For me, in relation to what performance is becoming, this has been the biggest question ...
1 year ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

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The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Weekend Otherworld - [image: WOW-web]
1 year ago
marathonpacks

CFP: "Technologies and Recording Industries" (Creative Industries Journal, Fall 2015) - CFP: "Technologies and Recording Industries" (Creative Industries Journal, Fall 2015): At this link is a CFP for a special issue of the *Creative Industri...
1 year ago
Zone Styx Travelcard

- Thinking about that line in Simon Reynolds' Kate Bush piece about her not quite being cool... That's how I remember it, although I'm roughly a year younger...
2 years ago
pretty fantasmagorical

Century Falls - Do you hear that? That faint chiming sound in the distance, just detectable over the howl of the wind? Kind of melancholy… ethereal… vaguely threatening? Y...
2 years ago
croydon municipal

The making of How We Used To Live - Like most good stories, this one starts in a pub. For over a decade my band, Saint Etienne, has worked with director Paul Kelly on various short films and ...
2 years ago
From a High Horse

Can we get a Janelle Monáe/St. Vincent collaboration already? - I think it’s high time for these two like-minded performers to make the ultimate funky fembot album I saw Annie Clark live in concert for the first time th...
2 years ago
Mutant Technology

Bass Nation show on Purple Radio, 14th May 2014 - Bass Nation show on Purple Radio, 14th May 2014 First show for Purple Radio, somewhat rough round the edges as it’s the first time I’ve done anything quite...
2 years ago
Beyond The Wychelm

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by ...
2 years ago
Urban Trawl

Poundbury's Hidden Reverse - (the below is a review spiked by a prominent architecture monthly, apparently because they'd already published a lot of criticism of the author in question...
2 years ago
Musings of a socialist Japanologist

2013 in Music - Pt. 2 - *Pt. 2 We Going Tech* Right at the tail end of 2012, a thread was started on the music forum I frequent, dissensus, calling for a discussion on "Shuffling ...
2 years ago
bourgeoiseaux

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2013 - It's been ages since I've posted anything, mainly because of an increasingly busy life, but, as Ian Malcolm said, life finds a way. I don't have time for s...
2 years ago
Hardcore Phonography

kadrey: There’s a secret library in the New York City subway... - kadrey: *There’s a secret library in the New York City subway * “…The underground branch lives outside the turnstiles at the 51st Street 6 stop, and it...
2 years ago
Cathode Haze

Rewind - Over at AUFS, Adam Kotsko names the problem with the “recap” as a form of TV criticism. (Incidentally Adam, if you’re ever looking for somewhere to blog ab...
2 years ago
The Tory Imagination

In The Money - 'He then spent two years as a banker at Robert Fleming before following the family tradition by entering Panmure Gordon; he became a partner before the age...
2 years ago
NewNewMusicalExpress

New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...
3 years ago
k-punk

Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....
3 years ago
Sea Songs

On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...
3 years ago
Mark Fisher ReBlog

“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...
3 years ago
The painted wrd

Till the World Ends - If the world is in fact ending at some point today, then now is as good a time as any to talk about guilty pleasures. Thus, in the spirit of pre-apocalypti...
3 years ago
the hauntological society

The films of Stanley Kubrick - *"I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner...
5 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Dream Transmissions

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DJ Food

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slouching toward babylon

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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The Mire

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holding out for a hero

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its her factory / its her duty

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heroasides

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The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

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Benny Brassic | Mixcloud

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the answers to the questions of the future lie in the past, or vice-versa

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ecstatic apophenia

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Wounds of Class

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Woebot's Spotlight page on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

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futureproofing

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