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Songs About People # 1,210 Paddy McAloon - It's clearly Paddy McAloon day on *It Starts *today.
3 hours ago
xenogothic

The Magic of Relics - Novelty does not necessarily belong to the new. Not anymore. Novus, as the word’s etymological root, means “new” quite explicitly, but it also means “origi...
5 hours ago
Portals of London

The Gentleman Ferret of Mayfair - The story of the Gentleman Ferret of Mayfair was a newspaper staple for the best part of half a century.Continue Reading
20 hours ago
8Sided Blog

Embrace the Genre - Like end-of-the-year best-of lists, new genre names are something that music fans love to hate. There’s a mixture of disdain for perceived pigeonholing a...
20 hours ago
Nina Power

On-going Writing/Talking - You can find my recent writing on art, culture, politics and philosophy at The Telegraph, The Spectator and ArtReview. I have recently given a four-part le...
22 hours ago
We Are the Mutants

Eaten Alive: James Herbert’s ‘Rats’ Trilogy - By *M.L. Schepps* When 30-year-old ad-man James Herbert set out to write a novel, he had a simple goal in mind: “to show you what it was really like to hav...
22 hours ago
Municipal Dreams

Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part II: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’ - I’m delighted to feature the second of two new posts by Steven Robb. Steven also contributed an earlier post providing … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Double Deathblog. - *Daria Nicolodi * *(1950-2020) * Like all euro-horror fans I’m assuming, I was very sad to hear last week that the great Daria Nicolodi has passed away at ...
1 day ago
Wyrd Britain

3 Wyrd Things: Rosalie Parker - For '3 Wyrd Things' I ask various creative people whose work I admire to tell us about three oddly, wonderfully, weirdly British things that have been an...
2 days ago
Real Life

Loyalty Tests - Subscription services aren’t an escape from shopping, they’re a surrender to brands
2 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Mo Movies 37 - *BUT TELLY, MUSIC & POLITICS THOUGH...* I'm not in my usual rhythm for watching movies for some reason. Since my last movie post I've watched a hell of a ...
2 days ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

vintern har kommit -
2 days ago
Lost Turntable

Even more Japanese synthesizers, now with anime - My move to my new apartment is really kicking into high gear now. Since my new place is in the same building as my old place, I’ve been slowly moving a few...
3 days ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Short Story Review: Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s “Death of a Spaceman” (variant title: “Memento Homo”) (1954) - This is the first post in a loose series on SF short stories I’ll be reviewing that are critical in some capacity of space agencies, astronauts, and the cu...
3 days ago
A Year In The Country

Further Wanderings Amongst a Garden of Earthly Delights: Revisiting 24/26 - In the first year of A Year In The Country I wrote the following about The Garden of Earthly Delights by United States of America, whose work I discovered ...
3 days ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

VARIOUS - EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC OF JAPAN (Victor ‎– SJV-1515, VINYL LP, 1968) (MP3 320) - *Excelsa recopilación de música electrónica experimental japonesa editada en 1968 por el célebre sello VICTOR. Siempre ávidos de sonidos desconocidos, ...
3 days ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

1980 - Less than three weeks ago, Rolling Stone‘s website ran an 80 Greatest Albums of 1980 listicle, making the case that the first year of the 20th Century’s pe...
3 days ago
History is made at night

Reclaim the Streets: Bristol and Oxford 1997 - A couple of reports from Mixmag magazine of Reclaim the Streets parties in 1997- *'Police Seize Desert Storm Truck After Reclaim the Streets Party' (Mix...
3 days ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Ranciere, Democracy and Insurrection - This post might read in a slightly jumbled way, but I needed to get some thoughts down and out there in order to try and make sense of them in my own head....
4 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Fingers -
5 days ago
thebluemoment.com

Re-reading Brian Eno’s diary - Many of these new words suggest the dissolution of a certain quality of public discourse that we have taken for granted since the Enlightenment, which hing...
5 days ago
Cut and Run

RE:COMP Tension & Release - Ben W brings a two part show, sure to wind you up and let you go.
5 days ago
Pop Theory

Place, Space and Politics Book Series - If anyone out there has an idea for a book that might fit the remit of the Routledge Research in Place, Space, and Politics Series, then do have a look at ...
1 week ago
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War & Pieces: Thoughts on Star Trek Discovery - Star Trek: Discovery could quite easily be the most succinct example of every stylistic quirk and pre-packaged emotional telegraphy that most irritates me ...
1 week ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #21): Nuyorican Soul feat. Jocelyn Brown – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4hero Remix) - “The most important thing about any version of ‘I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun’ is the fact that it’s a great, incredible song at the heart. The energy of ...
1 week ago
Airport Through The Trees

What I Write Is Just Part Of All - If this pandemic is teaching me anything, it's just about how to do all the things I can do as opposed to the things I want to do. It's easy and it's not.....
1 week ago
For Your Pleasure

Just Like You – Part 2 - Just Like You, ‘Stranded’ (1973)Just Like You – Part 1 Time may change meBut I can’t trace time David Bowie, ‘Changes‘ Thought patterns hazyThis auto-style...
2 weeks ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Real Life Rock Top 10: November 2020, Special Election Edition (11/16/20) - “Special Election Edition! Written November 12, though when it appears, the country will most likely still be attempting to exhale, or debating what it mea...
2 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

Why Doesn't Greensleeves Rhyme? - Art thou in the mood for Traditional Englishe Ballades? Yesterday, a friend asked me why there are couplets in the traditional English song "Greensleeve...
3 weeks ago
streams of expression

100 Films - When the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant lockdown measures reached the UK back in March, I somehow got the idea into my head that I'd watch one hundred fi...
3 weeks ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Big John Little John - [image: Big John Little John (NBC, 1976)] *Big John Little John*, a 1976 American body-swap sitcom about a middle-aged man who stumbled across the Fount...
3 weeks ago
Found Objects

It’s Not What It Seems - Test Transmission all things Keith Seatman and more: It’s Not What It Seems: It’s Not What It Seems is a CD compilation of tracks inspired by the post-...
3 weeks ago
Trevor Barre

Dub and a Club - I’ve been relatively starved of out-of-the-house entertainments since the onset of lockdowns great and small, so it was lovely to experience two such in ...
4 weeks ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Marc Bolan Likes Chet Baker - [image: Real Bolan.jpg] A 1972 *Record Mirror Special* introduces the ‘real Marc Bolan’, and interviews his mum and dad to boot. Tracking through his bio...
4 weeks ago
__underscore

Carnivals and Covens, or, Halloween Mixtape 2020 - *the_underscore_halloween_mix_2020* *Spooky, Gothic vibes in all shapes and sizes* *theory-fictional pop-culture intersplicing* *post-punk, gothic rock...
4 weeks ago
Datacide

Datacide Seventeen reprinted and back in stock - Datacide Seventeen is now back in stock. After a few months out of print this issue has been reprinted. Main features of this 17th issue of the magazine ...
5 weeks ago
Suspended Reason

Economics thinking - Mistakes in business or in science are costly and deplorable, but mistakes in the conduct of life are usually dangerous to life itself. To the tack of illu...
5 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

Halloween shenanigans -
5 weeks ago
Modernism Unbound

Untold, by Sophia Loizou - Deconstructed Dance Music / Houndstooth / September 25, 2020 – Reviewed by Jon Lindblom Untold by Sophia Loizou Sophia Loizou is a great – and, it seems to...
5 weeks ago
Olympic Mess

Reducing the Input: Gaddis and Beckett - Recently read Beckett’s Molloy and, after reading something of Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric’s, on the role of art in human survival, can’t help but think o...
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Kim Stanley Robinson, THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE - I have just finished reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel, The Ministry for the Future. It is one of Robinson’s best books. It is a near-future novel, ...
1 month ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
1 month ago
it's her factory

Solfeggio Frequencies: hey music theorists, I did the math (and whooo is it weird) - I have a piece coming out in Real Life about pseudoscientific wellness trends like solfeggio frequencies. In researching that piece I did the math to figur...
1 month ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

B(oo)k! : Death Sweat of the Cluster - *Demeter, nurse and mother of my art, Let me be worthy of thy Mysteries. * --Aeschylus from *Frogs*, Aristophanes [...
1 month ago
(SF) 365

Responding to the Crisis - Last night I posted up on Twitter a photograph of me wearing a plague mask. I captioned it 'Doctor Ubu'. It's an extension of a previous painting I ma...
1 month ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
1 month ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Scary Monsters at 40 - Scary Monsters was released on Friday, 12 September 1980 in the UK, where it was a smash: hitting #1 and having four Top 40 singles, Bowie’s best chart sho...
1 month ago
Rave Archive UK »

Yaman Studio Mixes ‘Bailey & Bukem’ - ‘LTJ Bukem – Techno 01 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1991’ Download/Play ‘DJ Bailey – Techno 02 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1992’ Download/Play LTJ Bukem – Hardcore Vol 1 ...
2 months ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

Happy Birthday, dear BruceThere’s still a week left to check out... - Happy Birthday, dear Bruce There’s still a week left to check out the CROSSROADS 2020 tribute to Bruce Baillie online for free. Also highly recommend *Ri...
2 months ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Man vs. Nature, as of 1932 - Every time one re-reads a worthy book, one finds new resonances within it. I believe this is my fifth time with this volume, and its ecological view woul...
2 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Pre-Electronic & Post-Electronic Music in Electronic Sound #68, and Prehistoric Microtonal Scales in The Silo - This month’s Electronic Sound magazine contains my feature titled ‘Parallel Worlds’ examining worlds beyond electronic sound, into pre-electronic and post-...
2 months ago
The Astral Plane

The Soul of the Creative: Free Labor and the Psychopolitics of Control - Fernand Léger, The Builders We are living in an era of smoothness. Smooth movies, smooth design and smooth digital infrastructure form an unblemished carap...
2 months ago
The Pink Temple

- Pastiche dawn swells to crescendo of startled bird cry in the quick embers of ulterior reward. Has it come to this? The breathless cadence twining anti-c...
2 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Radio Insomnia – Plymouth - Radio Insomnia broadcast pop music form Plymouth on 103 FM. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloa...
2 months ago
Aloysius

Burrowing in for the Long Winter IV (Can the Ripple Be More Important Than the Splash?) - In the last installment of this series of posts, I’ll address two lingering questions. First, what does everything discussed in parts 1-3 have to do with...
3 months ago
lunarlodge

Protected: In response to Dr. Ch@rmaine Nel$on - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
3 months ago
BLDGBLOG

The Gosling Effect - [Image: Curtains mistaken for Ryan Gosling; original image supplied by Jomppe Vaarakallio, courtesy PetaPixel; click through to PetaPixel to see the Goslin...
3 months ago
64 Quartets

5. The Benny Goodman Quartet - DISCOGRAPHY (+) SOURCES (-) PLAYLIST (+) Stomping at the Paramount, New York, 1937 In the 19 February 1938...
3 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • August 12, 2020 -
3 months ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

In conversation with Che Gossett - In conversation with Che Gossett How do we envision and enact a world in which justice is realised not through punishment, but the cultivation of freedom...
3 months ago
East of Borneo

Millard Sheets, Albert Stewart: Monument to Freemason, Albert Pike, Scottish Rite Temple, 1961 - On July 22 The New York Times reported that the Marciano Art Foundation settled a lawsuit charging that the foundation broke the law by laying off 70 part-...
4 months ago
on the ones

The 11 Cats (11ぴきのねこ) and Other Tales (1976, 1980) - At long last, a certain dream of mine for almost four years now has come true—namely, for Group TAC’s long-forgotten classic film The 11 Cats, which was or...
4 months ago
INTO THE SWAMP

COSIMA - Interview, March 2020. - *Back in March, I interviewed Cosima for a fashion website’s summer campaign. Then, y’know, a pandemic kicked off. Then, y’know, I got fired from said fa...
5 months ago
WOEBOT

Eastern Philosophy and the Cosmic Sound in the Counterculture - *“I don’t reside in the hearts of yogis but with those who sing their devotion to me.” Lord Krishna in the words of Pandit Pran Nath.* Music critics look a...
5 months ago
davidtoop

on&on&on&on: Daniel Blumberg - “And now he was playing, alas, the piano,” the first sentence of Robert Walser’s short prose text written in 1925, “making it sound like a deep and intimat...
5 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic: the Rhinebeck small business survey - I was recently asked to analyze the results of an online questionnaire that was distributed to small businesses in Rhinebeck, New York, over the second hal...
5 months ago
Sounding Out!

“It’s Time to End the Publishing Gatekeeping!”: SO! stands with RaceB4Race - Sounding Out! stands with the RaceB4Race Executive Board and their recent public statement published via the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance St...
5 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Peter Whitehead’s The Fall (1969): 50th Anniversary Restoration Screening - Poster at the ICA screening. *07/11/2019. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. I was asked to introduce a newly restored version of Peter Whitehead’s ...
6 months ago
music, etc

Ranking Jandek albums - Yesterday I posted a Jandek* playlist*; here are my favorite albums. Only strict favorites allowed–only those I would recommend to a skeptic–or else it ...
6 months ago
森と記録の音楽

Theory Therapy 08: Tomoyuki Fujii - シドニーのオンラインジャーナル「Low End Theorists」のために作ったミックスが公開になりました。Low End Theoristsは、スコットランド出身のGary Hunterとシドニー出身のDaniel Patrinにより今年新たに立ち上げられたプロジェクトで、主にオーストラリアのインディ...
6 months ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #157 (April 20, 2020) - *Carillon along the DuPage River, Naperville, Ill.* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...
7 months ago
The Work Trials

THINKPIECE #2: A Room Without A Roof? The Ten Most-Played Songs of the Past Decade - On Bank Holiday Monday which was strangely like every other day off of recent times, my favourite disc jockey Scott Mills popped up on Radio 2 to reveal ...
7 months ago
Tower of Sleep

CVS Learnnet Login Guide - As login over the smartphone makes your work easier and sturdy on the similar time. 5. Hit the login button to get effectively logged in. 5. In case you’...
7 months ago
The Hum Blog

A Power Stronger Than Itself: Sounds For Communal Isolation. Vol. Three - Bradford Bailey – Untitled Collage, 2007. I’m writing from a future, just ahead of most. It’s a present, already the past. More than a month into a life ...
7 months ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
8 months ago
joy of speed

Satellite Anthem Icarus -
8 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Death Panels- Temerity - Temerity by Death Panels
8 months ago
Disposable Everything

The reification of Welsh rugby - (Also available to read on Medium) A shiver down the collective spine of the Welsh nation: international rugby (or, one presumes, that which is presented i...
8 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

The clamour of nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan - The successful upsurge of nationalism across Europe is unnerving, to say the least. The Clamour of Nationalism’s achievement is not in its desire to explai...
9 months ago
The Priapean Logs

Daniel Was Traveling Tonight On A Plane - Danny L. Please can you pick a pre-92 rap album for us to do our listening club to tomorrow night. Thank you very much.
9 months ago
blog to the oldskool

2019 Round Up - HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you lovely people who tune in and support us! First of all a special shout out to Steffi for requesting I do this multiple times. ...
10 months ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
11 months ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs*What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfect...
1 year ago
Prole Sector

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
1 year ago
Rockets & Rayguns

407 Proxy Authentication Required - hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
1 year ago
Amodern

Construction of Selena Leo Vegas Casino Download World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone - Construction of Selena World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone Russian casino developer Diamond Fortune Holdings Ltd. announced that co...
1 year ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
1 year ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
1 year ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

‘Freedom of movement is essential for musicians’ – opera singer told to change pro-EU dress! - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/26/opera-singer-asked-to-change-pro-eu-dress-for-london-concert “It’s a difficult time for the musical communi...
1 year ago
Sonic Truth

Stop playing the reality management game - A pleasure to have been able to add my voice to the appraisals of the K-Punk collected works, in the FT, and here belatedly is the link. Non-subscribers sh...
1 year ago
Mark Richardson

- Hello—my name is Mark Richardson and I’m a writer and editor. You may remember me from when I was the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of the online mu...
1 year ago
ecstatic apophenia

De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
2 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
2 years ago
Boring Old Books

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
2 years ago
leaving earth

RAVE ALBUMS 1991-1992 - Ever since I almost entirely missed it (I only really got into techno and rave in 1992-1993), I've been fascinated by the short period of time – at most 19...
2 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani... - https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani Extinctions released today on Ketu and Bandcamp.
2 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Agen Tasly Calsium Plus di Jakarta - *TASLY CALSIUM PLUS**Agar tulang anda lebih sehat* Tasly Calcium Plus isi 100 kapsul Kalsium berperan vital dalam kehidupan kita dan merupakan elemen ese...
2 years ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

//ENDS HERE - Something new, I think. No idea what. Or when.Time to rest those old bones. Be well, be safe, all.//ENDS HERE [...]
2 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
2 years ago
IX Tab

Disco Medusae - The new IX Tab album Disco Medusae is available for pre-order now at the bandcamp page for a measly virtue payment of £4.23
2 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
2 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
2 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
2 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017 - Tracklist East – Lélegzet Barry Cleveland – Abrasax Renato Anselmi – Mercato Fenicio Ron Boots – Breath The Living Air Francis Moneyman – Getting Ready Jea...
2 years ago
The Empty Page

Critical Perspectives on Critical Perspectives on Waluigi - The Empty Page Radical Publishing House is not so much an organisation or a company but an idea. Whilst having only published three analyses to date, the l...
2 years ago
Mutant Technology

Dj Deadtrax “Gabber house” – an exploration of European hardcore rave - “The Mover is dark because it’s set in the phuture of mankind. I can’t possibly justify seeing a happy end to this stupid human drama. Darkness is not myst...
2 years ago
The Night Mail

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
2 years ago
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.

How to hate the working classes - In 2001, the year Luke Haines recorded the song after which this post is titled and to which I listened obsessively (“a party of our own”, indeed), I did s...
3 years ago
Drumtrip

Win tickets to LTJ Bukem + Fabio @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, April 2018 - Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I come with gifts (well for two of you at least). The guys at Soundcrash are putting on an event not to be missed: The le...
3 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals - “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics It’s been two years si...
3 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

A BRIEF GUIDE TO BASIL BUNTING'S BRIGGFLATTS FOR FIRST-TIME READERS - *Briggflatts* by Basil Bunting is one of the great poems of the twentieth century, though it has not always occupied a central place in discussions of...
3 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
3 years ago
Our God is Speed

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
3 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Leigh on Sea Folk Festival 2017 - Teleplasmiste will be performing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival, and also participating in Justin Hopper’s audio-visual feast of music and folklore, I ...
3 years ago
A Window on the World

Have-a-go zeroes, Brexit dreamers and a tribune emerges: the 2017 General Election - ‘He would probably have to move to Downing Street. He says: “I am very happy where I live. Others may wish me to move. I did not become leader of the Lab...
3 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
3 years ago
The Compleat Blogger

University Challenge and Diversity - Another year, another rip-roaring University Challenge final, a fitting reward for those who endured the gruelling winter of repechages and qualification q...
3 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmospher...
3 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
3 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
3 years ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
3 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
3 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Chicklette - I think it really gripped me when it went black. Then just legs and... I like this. Feels like a tape some kids find and decide to play in the old VCR ...
4 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

BULGARIA TEK 2016 - 26-?.08.16 BeAcH aReA (BG) * BuLgArIatEk 2016 * --- 0pEn t0 aLL aRtIstS aNd SoUnD SyStEmS --- iNfoLiNe: +359 877 280 696 PICTURES LAST YEAR: ...
4 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

MNML SSGS party – Saturday 30 July - On Saturday night we have our next MNML SSGS party at Contact. This time we have invited two internationals who will both be playing in Japan for the first...
4 years ago
Speculative past

bottaslicious: motorsportsisterhood: Emma Kimiläinen... - bottaslicious: motorsportsisterhood: Emma Kimiläinen appreciation post (because the only result for her on Tumblr was a single shot of her car) f...
4 years ago
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...
4 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
4 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
4 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
4 years ago
vexations

A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be... - A radical alien would not belong to the set of beings whose agency can – in Davidsons metaphor – be triangulated by reference to a common world. Its agen...
4 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

Fast methods to improve battery life in your mobile - Battery life gets worse as cellphones get better. It is a basic fact of possession that is top 10 phones under 10000. However, you can find easy things y...
4 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

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

PIN (1988) - One of the best ventriloquism films I've seen. The wonderful thing about it is how PIN's voice is only validated as being a ventriloquised voice of ano...
4 years ago
Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain: Barrow - Barrow is seated at his desk gazing out across the city, the day dissolving, night settling in soft, sooty layers, blunting the edges of the vast concrete...
4 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
4 years ago
The Inkbottle

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
4 years ago
Mounds and Circles

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

H.P. Lovecraft: Quote of the Day! - “Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests are emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmo...
5 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

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Joy Press

"Game of Thrones": An epic with a different ring - *Game of Thrones* premiere feature, Sunday Calendar cover of Los Angeles Times by Joy Press Gargantuan dire wolves, frozen tundras, corrupt royals, brutal ...
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Spectres of Mark

Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s MoWest Story1971-1973(Originally published in The... - [image: image] *Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s MoWest Story1971-1973* (Originally published in The Wire) Light In The Attic CD/2XLP In t...
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k-punk

Track listing for “Look what fear’s done to my body” - Track listing for “Look what fear’s done to my body”: “King of Sorrow (Cottonbelly Remix” – Sade “Too Much On My Mind” – The Kinks “Sittin’ Here” – Dizzee ...
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Dirtnap

Reasons to be Drakeful: Wizkid – Ojuelegba - Wizkid – Ojuelegba (2014) In an ironically very Drake-like way, I’ve tussled with my feelings towards the Canadian child actor turned childish rapper for t...
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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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the spectral dimension

The Isle is full of Noises - Easy Sunday morning viewing. Lots of rippling nature scenes between people talking about pagan gods, skulls, shape-shifting animals, Halloween fires. ...
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Social Dead Zone

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

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
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Experimental Music on Children's TV

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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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From a High Horse

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Rouge's Foam

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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Cathode Haze

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The Tory Imagination

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k-punk

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heroasides

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Sea Songs

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Mark Fisher ReBlog

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holding out for a hero

Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...
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On liking American Psycho, slight return. - Written for Bad Reputation. The last time I wrote that yes, I did like American Psycho, and no, that wasn’t because I’d only seen the film, I was pleasantl...
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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...
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Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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Noughties blog

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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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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its her factory / its her duty

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Docklands Light Musicway - Home

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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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Creel Pone on YouTube

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Content warning

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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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