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Thursday, February 17, 2011

analog synth epic mix from stella om source
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  • Dreams, Built By Hand - experimental animation and weird short films
    Michel Gondry - Snowbound (1993) - Peak pop video? Probably not (some of the most expensive promos were made during the late '90s, the Hype Williams era - e.g. Busta and Janet's astoun...
    3 days ago
  • Hardly Baked 2 - my drivel blog
    The Shit Songs By _______ (a series: 1 of ?? - The Doors) - Every great band has shit songs. It's mystifying - you would think greatness would be like a tap, you could just turn it on and out it comes. You wou...
    4 days ago
  • Thinkige Kru 2 - thought shards from self and others
    - “You must be regular and natural in your habits, like a bourgeois, that you may be violent and original in your work.” - Flaubert
    4 days ago
  • Reynoldsretro - archive of my writing
    RIP Frank Beard - Would you believe, I have actually written about ZZ Top? I reviewed their *Greatest Hits* along with a Lynyrd Skynyrd box set. *ZZ TOP, Greatest HitsMe...
    1 week ago
  • Shock and Awe 2
    anti-theatricality in politics (the theatre kid trope) (the bling king) (the throne of illusion) - Sometimes you get a bonanza - and so it with this Atlantic piece about the the new right-wing insult-trope of "theatre kid" "The White House assistant pr...
    1 week ago
  • PANTHEON
    Magazines that died - So recently there was the passing of arts + culture magazines *The Face *and *4Columns* (both of which I had written for) And then came the announcement...
    1 week ago
  • Still In A Dream
    Still In A Dream - readers rave reactions + upcoming events including Walthamstow RocknRoll Book Club October 20. - More information below in Events * REACTIONS FROM READERS WHO DIDN'T GET SENT IT FOR FREE* "What a ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Thinkige Kru
    - *on the Queen's death and the supposed strangeness of mourning someone you didn't know and who didn't know you* "Yeah but that is fame isn’t it - “lovely...
    3 years ago
  • Shock and Awe - glam and artpop
    Glamour Mix - Siouxsie and the Banshees have at least two Glamanifesto Songs - two singles released within two years of each other. "Fireworks", a national anthem fo...
    3 years ago
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  • My late Nineties website Blissout aka A White Brit Raver Thinks Aloud, archived at the Wayback Machine
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  • Futuromania
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BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

  • History is made at night
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    5 hours ago
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    8 hours ago
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    11 hours ago
  • it's her factory
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    16 hours ago
  • Blue Labyrinths
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    20 hours ago
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    1 day ago
  • Wyrd Britain
    It's Too Late Now - This terrific little one(ish)-hander stars Rachel Kempson as 'Sarah', a neglected, long-suffering wife who, on a whim, locks her author husband (Kenneth ...
    1 day ago
  • Hate Meditations
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    2 days ago
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    Podcast episode about AI and musical creativity - It’s a companion piece to this post about AI in education. AI slop and musical creativity by Dr. Ethan Hein are not the same thing Read on Substack
    5 days ago
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    BC199 - Five Mixes: Sound Metaphors, May-July 2026 - A rising platform, a fun trove
    1 week ago
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    It’s All About Vinyl Episode 18 - In this episode Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push talk about issue 140 of Electronic Sound magazine, which is all about tape loops, p...
    1 week ago
  • streams of expression
    The Changing Same (Part 2) (Preview) - *Preview of a post on Substack: a second book chapter (on jazz poetics), and a survey of the critical field--**jazz/poetry, critical legacies, collective ...
    1 week ago
  • Datacide
    Class War Across the Channel: How German Radical Communists Saw Britain’s 1926 General Strike - 100 years ago, in May 1926 a general strike took place in Britain. 1.2 million mine workers were locked out The post Class War Across the Channel: How Ge...
    2 weeks ago
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    2 weeks ago
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    4 weeks ago
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    1 month ago
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    2 months ago
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    adadada -
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    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
  • Abundant Living
    Rock Music Gets Good Enough Again in The Tens (Thanks to Nuke York, etc. No Thanks to Mac DeMarco et al.) - *The* 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums of the 21st Century So Far. Part Three. 2011-2015 *For rock and folk music exclusively, the first half of the 20...
    3 months ago
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    4 months ago
  • BLDGBLOG
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    5 months ago
  • The Women's Liberation Music Archive
    February 2026: the Women’s Liberation Music Archive at the Queer Britain Museum - We’re very pleased that WLMA features in a new exhibition which opened this month at the Queer Britain Museum. Our display features some of the feminist mu...
    6 months ago
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    Mystery Train 50th Anniversary Celebration (March 7, Oakland) - From Greil Marcus’s Letter in the Ether: On Saturday, March 7, I’ll be in conversation with Daveed Diggs for an event organized by the Bay Area Book Festiv...
    7 months ago
  • God Is No Longer A Dj
    Liner Notes on 2025 – Part I (All That Glitters) - It’s that time again for the blog’s traditional annual round-ups. Yet another year has been graced with an abundance of fantastic music. For the first part...
    7 months ago
  • Pushing Ahead of the Dame
    Blackstar (★) - But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finich...
    7 months ago
  • Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large
    The top 50 songs of 2025 - My brain got so blurbed to oblivion this year that I was about to skip doing a proper year end list, but this in-between week has given me a little moment ...
    7 months ago
  • In Sheeps Clothing
    Record Stores We Love: Philadelphia Music / Beautiful World Syndicate (Philadelphia) - Step into one of the largest and most beloved online record shops in the world… While the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles continue their playoff run...
    8 months ago
  • Sonic Truth
    Tunes for darkening times - Have a little listen to this: lots of favourite beatless/dark/ambient/instrumental/neoclassical/analogue synth from purchases over past five years or so. t...
    8 months ago
  • Ericland
    Climbing Over Cardboard - I have an online interview to do for a Swedish magazine. The first question is: *how has 2025 been for you?* I still haven’t done the interview. I wrote ...
    8 months ago
  • ➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣
    2025 ➤ I fan-mailed Tom Stoppard from his first play onward! - ❚ TRIBUTES HAVE POURED IN following the death of our greatest contemporary playwright Tom Stoppard, aged 88. I have been lucky enough to cross his path sev...
    9 months ago
  • Breakfast In The Ruins
    NEW ZINES LAUNCH. - Dear friends, followers and anyone else who is still reading this blog after many months of inactivity - I am writing today to let you know that, after a...
    11 months ago
  • Eliminated for Reasons of Space
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    11 months ago
  • Rockets & Rayguns
    A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra’s lessons in clean desk… - hangingfire: [image: A Powerpoint slide of "Password Best Practices and Guidelines", including tips like "Create a Strong Password", "Never Reuse a Passw...
    1 year ago
  • The Generalist
    - Dear Friends, I'm raising £1,800 to fund an exhibition for Greenpeace in Lewes! Your support will help bring this project to life and raise vital awar...
    1 year ago
  • 8Sided Blog
    Encounters with Dave Allen - First Encounter, Manhattan, 1991 CMJ Music Festival: My status as a college radio music director was an excuse for attending, but I was also looking for op...
    1 year ago
  • Slow Motion
    This is a preview of next year - On the Discogs entry for the After Shock label, it still lists a couple of phone numbers you might use to contact the label. Putting your mobile on the lab...
    1 year ago
  • Relative Nostalgia
    Unpopular Film/TV I Unironically Like - Media that I subjectively enjoy.
    1 year ago
  • New Critique
    [Review] The Year in Books 2024 – James McLoughlin - 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live. I was then made redundant ...
    1 year ago
  • blog to the oldskool
    Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
    1 year ago
  • / \
    Hidden Depths - One of the most powerful shifts in Silent Hill 2 occurs somewhere past the halfway point. It follows the Historical Society, a dilapidated old museum, to w...
    1 year ago
  • Rave Archive UK »
    World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 - World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 DJ Food Junkie – World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.94 Download DJ Slipmatt w/ MC GQ – World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.9...
    1 year ago
  • Suspended Reason
    Will Nature Always Win? - “Only a fool swallows myths,” reads a protester’s sign, near Westminster, morn. “Keep the story of England alive,” counters a Parliament plaque, mere paces...
    1 year ago
  • Oliver Craner
    Michael Powell and the National Myth - 1980: Exile Michael Powell began writing his autobiography A Life in Movies during a period of professional exile from England — in 1980, while teaching f...
    1 year ago
  • xenogothic
    Narcisisme subversiu - Diuen que el narcisisme és un dels grans mals del nostre temps, especialment alimentat per les xarxes socials. Però, i si el narcisisme fos una eina per ad...
    1 year ago
  • I Understand
    No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
    2 years ago
  • Dan Fox
    Issue 39: Partial Views of an Interior - Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 1946-2024
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