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Thursday, August 02, 2012

EDM in the USA -- Guardian piece by me on rave's better-late-than-never conquest of America, covering Electric Daisy Carnival, the irresistible rise of brostep, rocktronica god Skrillex etc

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

It starts with a birthstone...

New York in 100 Songs - # Mobb Deep -
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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 – […]
6 hours ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

Cabinet of Horrors - Have decided Donald Trump’s crazy clown-car cabinet appointments are basically a human equivalent of what Steve Bannon calls “flooding the zone with shit” ...
11 hours ago
Tribune

The Politically Sensible Road to Armageddon - Yesterday, in an interview with Sky’s Beth Rigby, Keir Starmer refused to answer questions about the decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territor...
13 hours ago
In Sheeps Clothing

Steely Dan Interviewed in Musician Magazine (1981) - Steely Dan talk about their seventh album Gaucho in an extended interview with Musician Magazine in 1981. Those consummate troublemakers Donald Fagen and W...
14 hours ago
Datacide

SPUR MANIFESTO - Document: Manifesto of the Gruppe Spur in the translation published in Break/Flow 1, 1996. The Spur Group went on to become the German section of the Sit...
20 hours ago
Wormwoodiana

Griffin Passant by Eric Ravilious -
22 hours ago
streams of expression

Always, already there: an incubator for Afrodiasporic New Music - *[Extended cut of two pieces for *The Wire*: a longer online piece (available *here*) and a shorter piece for the print edition (issue 491/492).]* *Alwa...
1 day ago
Feuilleton (John Coulthart)

The Mona Lisa Curse - How I miss Robert Hughes. In print or on the television screen he was one of those rare people whose appearances you didn’t want to miss. On television esp...
1 day ago
Electronic Sound

Robin Guthrie: Round Robin - Ex-Cocteaus man Robin Guthrie gives the scoop on his unique approach to music, and how these days he’s just as likely to make an album in the back of a cam...
1 day ago
Phil Gyford’s website: Everything

Photos from 20 November 2024 - 1 photo.
1 day ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

Don’t Know Why - I needed a song with lots of secondary dominants in it for aural skills class, and I realized that Norah Jones’ adult-contemporary smash “Don’t Know Why” h...
2 days ago
Wyrd Britain

Bureau Of Lost Culture: Alan Moore (17/07/2022) - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews 'Bureau Of Lost Culture: Alan Moore (17/07/2022)'] Here's the grand magus of Northampton being interviewed by The Bureau Of Lo...
2 days ago
Hate Meditations

Beats and yelling shorts, 19th November 24 - Auriferous Flame: The Insurrectionists and the CaretakersOut 8th November on True Cult Records/Stellar Auditorium Productions “The album explores the theme...
2 days ago
torpedo the ark

Memories of Manderley 2: On Pyrexia and Obsessive Love Disorder - Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson) displays the see-through nature of Rebecca's nightdress to the new Mrs de Winter (Joan Fontaine) in *Rebecca *(dir. Alfred H...
2 days ago
The Haunted Generation

The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space - “I first came across Desmond Briscoe on the moon!” laughs Dick Mills. “Plot On The Moon was a radio serial about two mad scientists who went to the moon an...
2 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Laura Branigan - Self Control - 80s, 80s, 80s! "I'm living in the forest of a dream" When hair in your eyes was the sexiest thing you could do as well as wearing an off the shoulder o...
3 days ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Short Fiction Reviews: Leigh Kennedy’s “Salamander” (1977), “Whale Song” (1978), “Detailed Silence” (1980), and “Speaking10 to Others2; Speaking3 to Others20” (1981) - In the past few years, I’ve put together a series on the first three published short fictions by female authors who are completely new to me or whose most ...
4 days ago
thebluemoment.com

‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’état’ - Sixty years ago Archie Shepp wrote a provocative column for Down Beat magazine in which, if memory serves, he compared his tenor saxophone to a machine gun...
4 days ago
History is made at night

Partisan Books: a 1970s radical community bookshop in Luton - Continuing the series on the radical history of Luton, here's a bit about a 1970s radical bookshop, Partisan Books which was based at 34 Dallow Road from...
4 days ago
Relative Nostalgia

My fascination with old videogames on modern systems - Accessing videogames from the past should not be taken for granted.
6 days ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Hammer House of Horror: Rankings & Wrap up. - If only to distract myself from the fact that the flaming jalopy which is the western world just failed to clear the chasm jump which might have kept the ...
1 week ago
Backlisted

226. Nicholas Fisk - Grinny & You Remember Me! - Sam Leith, author of *The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading*, returns to Backlisted to discuss two novels by Nicholas Fisk, *Grinny* (1973) a...
1 week ago
We Are the Mutants

“An Important Place in Their Lives”: Musicland Sales Brochure, 1978 - By *The Mutants* How do you describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it before exactly how it felt to walk into the record store before the internet? Whe...
1 week ago
Sounding Out!

The Braids, The Bars, and the Blackness: Ruminations on Hip Hop’s World War III – Drake versus Kendrick (Part Two) - A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith Happy Hip Hop History Month! Last week writer, educator and DJ Todd Craig and cultural curator and social ...
1 week ago
Abundant Living

Punk Gets Good Again, Again. Plus reviews of newish albums by Elucid + Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - *Who knew that punk would be good again so soon? I mean, besides everybody who was screaming at the top of their lungs, “if you don’t promise to keep Lil...
1 week ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Dunsany in California - Lord Dunsany visited the United States five times, the final three times in the 1950s when he went to California. There he stayed with friends, including...
2 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2024 ➤ Andy Polaris reminds us of Quincy Jones’s legacy as a titan of 20th-century showbiz - ❚ The cross-cultural pioneer Quincy Jones died this week aged 91 in Los Angeles. In tribute, we republish Andy Polaris’s appreciation of his genius when he...
2 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE, by C J Cherryh - I just finished reading C J Cherryh’s novella WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE (one of the three texts in the collection ALTERNATE REALITIES, available on the Kindle f...
2 weeks ago
it's her factory

Two upcoming livestreamed talks by me - I’m giving a number of talks this November, and two of them are going to be streamed over the internet. The first one is this coming Friday November 8. It’...
2 weeks ago
Beauty Blew a Fuse

Shivers Down My Spine - the genius of Cat Power and an old song’s winding journey
2 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

Podcast Appearance: "In a Manner of Speaking" - Hello, happy to report that I have made another appearance on Paul Meier's fantastic podcast, "In a Manner Of Speaking"! Paul, Cameron and I discussed Br...
2 weeks ago
joy of speed

The White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit (live in Tokyo, 2003) - Don't know why but am enjoying this. Distinctly remember walking somewhere in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004 or so listening to this blasting on my hea...
3 weeks ago
Infinite Speeds

Sound Characters - A prolegomena to a concept (of sound as a living being)
3 weeks ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus - British film critic David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus on the occasion of his recent book, Why I Write. Courtesy of Yale University Press.
3 weeks ago
New Critique

[Fiction] Under Control — Kyle Wagner - "She'd been flying the Bush before she could drive, and her father's caution had become her own. 'Your problems aren't out there,' he'd say, and then point...
3 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KLAUSS - CIELOS MÓVILES (NOT ON LABEL, CD ALBUM, 1997) (FLAC) - *Klauss, grupo argentino fundado en 1988 por el músico y experimentador sonoro Ernesto Romeo (sintes, secuenciadores, samplers, mellotron, teclados, bat...
4 weeks ago
Blue Labyrinths

Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data - ‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’ This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire Continue reading →
4 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Grahame Park, Barnet, Part II: Back to the Future - We left Grahame Park last week, newly completed in the 1970s and very much – in good ways and bad … Continue reading →
4 weeks ago
Slow Motion

All you need is a stopwatch - It was a thrill to get the chance to write some sleevenotes for the new Soul Jazz compilation, Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack On ...
4 weeks ago
Found Objects

P for Paladin - *Paladin* - second only to *Picador* as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radi...
4 weeks ago
ooh! directory of blogs

Classic Movie Hub Blog - “Watching Classic Movies and Lovin’ Every Minute of It!” By Annmarie Gatti, Minoo Allen, et al. Started in 2012. Average 51 words.
1 month ago
The Neglected Books Page

The Young Immigrunts, by Ring Lardner (1920) - This is a guest post by David Quantick. “My parents are both married and ½ of them are very good looking.” This is the story of two very different writers,...
1 month ago
Oliver Craner

Michael Powell and the National Myth - 1980: England In 1980, at the age of 75, Michael Powell sat down to write his memoirs in Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in exile from England and the Br...
1 month 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 month ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Seven Bewlay Brothers - I was never quite sure of what real position Terry had in my life, whether Terry was a real person or whether I was actually referring to another part of m...
2 months ago
Musical Urbanism |

Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City [book review] - In the small riverfront city of Newburgh, NY, gentrification draws upon newcomers’ reflections on their geographical journeys. In an earlier era, they were...
2 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: September 8, 2024 -
2 months ago
East of Borneo

Jerome Caja, Drag Queen and Visual Artist - Marc Geller, Portrait of Jerome Caja, 1991. Courtesy of the artist. Jerome Caja was an American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist in S...
2 months ago
8Sided Blog

suspicions of provenance - Hakobune‘s guitar is processed like one hundred Guthries, ringing with reverb abandon as chords stretch into warm, elongated vibrations. The 2019 album Rai...
2 months ago
The Generalist

'DEAR ORSON WELLES & OTHER ESSAYS' BY MARK COUSINS - It was very unexpected to receive an elegant card headlined FOR FAVOUR OF REVIEW from The Irish Pages Press who say they are delighted to enclose a r...
2 months ago
A Year In The Country

The Vision, Videodrome, Nigel Kneale and Network – Prescient Cautionary Tales of Corrupted Television and Media - As I’ve written previously at A Year In The Country, the subtly dystopic 1980 science fiction film Death Watch, based on the novel The Continuous Katherine...
3 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Viewing Notes: Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts - *Vienna Vertigo: Peter Whitehead / Michael Schlieman waiting for Lenoir* In 2010, while working with Peter Whitehead, I was dispatched to that year’s B...
3 months ago
WOEBOT

Discogs Sales - I am selling two thirds of my music collection on Discogs. That's everything you see here, which is stored in dessicated packaging in my basement. The s...
3 months ago
Jason Phereus,

Finally found a Van Morrison album I like. - Could this be the way in to the great man's work?
3 months ago
64 Quartets

8. Four Tops (Part Two) - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLISTS PART ONE Prologue: Paris, February 1967 The Four Tops are on Tilt Magazine, a music show filmed in Paris and aired on ORTF. W...
3 months ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #74: Neil - Our mate Neil Kulkarni died in January. This episode is dedicated to him. Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter| The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Simon’s Quietus pi...
4 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Radio Sheila – London - One of the earliest operators in South East London was Radio Atlantic South. They could be heard regularly in the late 1960s. Many of their staff later bro...
4 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis - Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fict...
4 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #26) – Bim Sherman – Can I Be Free From Crying (Underwolves Mix) - “All great singers and vocalists have one thing in common: their voice stands out like a uniquely tuned instrument that only one person can play. Bim Sherm...
4 months ago
Ericland

RIP Scott Cornish - I was driving to Birmingham - that’s Birmingham in the middle of England, not in Alabama. I stopped for a rest, got some bad coffee, clicked up Facebook...
5 months ago
Dan Fox

Issue 39: Partial Views of an Interior - Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 1946-2024
5 months ago
davidtoop

An air current striking the edge of a vessel - It’s not a thing for me to say I make flutes as part of my practice but make them I do, since c. 1971, in fact, when I began to search for new sounds, tuni...
6 months ago
tis.so

Magic rites in the lore of economics - by SQCU In the folklore of the men who call themselves economists there is a story of a magic ritual. In this ritual, when two men meet in body, they mee...
6 months ago
Aloysius

EEAH Series Retrospective (ft. Heronbone) - *The following** correspondence about my blog series *Esoteric Experiences at Home* (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14) was conducted with Luke Davis, poe...
6 months ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

We read de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex” so you don't have to - “Love is impossible as long as it is attached to physical, emotional and economic safety...” In this week's TANK Podcast, Caroline Issa decodes Simone de...
6 months ago
L. S. Trackhead

Re-Hearing The 90s #1 - Les Savy Fav – The Cat and the Cobra (Frenchkiss, 1999) A band of unbound victims of the everyday, crawling from under slack with grimy bags of surplus ene...
6 months ago
The New Vulgate

162 BACKUP w/POEM > LOOKS GOOD - *Quarry Pond, Naperville* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Cincinnati* Violet Mon...
8 months ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Its Inmates Absurd: The Velvet Underground at the University of Kent 1971 - “After about the first two years we got talking. . .” – Maureen Tucker on rehearsing with the Velvet Underground As a live proposition, The Velvet Under...
9 months ago
Suspended Reason

An Ecosystem of Effects - Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the ...
9 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

New books: Strange Attractor Journal V + Radio Art Zone - It’d be remiss to end 2023 without mentioning two extraordinary new books: Radio Art Zone and Strange Attractor Journal Five (more details on the main blog...
10 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My top 10ish songs of 2023 (plus 20 honorable mentions) - IT’S TIME!!!!! Here’s the whole list, plus 20 of the most unhinged honorable mentions I could think of, and 10 honorable-honorable mentions… I need to rest...
10 months ago
Sonic Truth

Yes sir, I can [still] bloggee - Just a proof of function post really, after years of hiatus, but here's a few vids and pics of the cracking second night of the Another Subculture 10th cel...
11 months ago
Portals of London

Artistic / Psychic exploration of a house in Stoke Newington - Rotherhithe Archive #0000 A quick note on an artistic addition to the archive. Intrigued by our account of the Stoke NewingtonContinue Reading
11 months ago
Lost Turntable

Non-music from Japan, music from a Japanese band, and horror disco - Oy. Yeah so I hoped to write more in 2023 but that sure as shit didn’t work out huh? So what had happened was my health got worse, my podcast work got more...
11 months ago
/ \

Cut to Black - “Death is both a limit – and, simultaneously, on the level of design, not an end but a way for the text to be” Eugenie Brinkema – Life-Destroying Diagrams ...
1 year ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar’s Centennial: “With Head In the Clouds and Feet on the Ground” + Observations on “The Garden” (1974-77), “Dášeňka” (1977-79), the end of Čiklovka, and “Nightangel” (1986) featuring Jan Klos - Today, 7 October 2023, marks exactly 100 years since Czech animation legend Břetislav Pojar was born. Such a momentous occasion deserves to be commemorated...
1 year ago
Modernism Unbound

On The Historical Avant-Garde - The ambitons of the artists associated with the historical avant-garde remain relevant to this day. In this essay, Jon Lindblom looks closer at Peter Bürge...
1 year ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Strange and Blessed Fire 5: Mothernaked - *While Pico and Patrizzi might differ on Aristotle, their philosophies incurred the common fate of condemnation by the Church. Yet neither was intention...
1 year ago
It's Full of Stars

Formses - My FORMS series of albums (to be found over on my bandcamp page) takes an idea I first explored on my Twenty Systems album, but develops it into the idea o...
1 year ago
History's Dumpster

The Jupiter Ace Computer - The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair Research ...
1 year ago
The Fantastic Hope

“ABSOLUTELY PLEASANT” - Sublimely spot-on close readings of contemporary music journalism by Neil Kulkarni. In fact, I can see a lot of potential in dissections of this kind: they...
1 year ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

A Second Take on 2012's EEPEEs and ELPEEs - * Best Albums of 2012* 1. Jam City -Classical Curves 2. Death Grips -The Money Store 3. Le1f -Dark York 4. DJ Rashad -Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the...
1 year ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
2 years ago
Real Life

Who Can It Be Now - On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
2 years ago
Trevor Barre

Lightning Bolt at The Scala - So, to The Scala last Thursday to see Lightning Bolt, supported by the archly-named Sly & The Family Drone. The latter were neither especially droney or ...
2 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - [image: Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes.] From *Play School Play On* to *Russ...
2 years ago
The Astral Plane

‘Astraltopia’ Out Now + Label Shutting Down - As both an amateurish blog launched as a teenager and a slightly more professional record label, The Astral Plane has been the vessel through which I have ...
2 years ago
blog to the oldskool

AV-8 – Pyrogen (Mad Monk Mix) - Been ages, hope everyone is doing OK! Here’s an absolutely mad 1992 tune that showed up in the mail for me recently. Honestly I’m not too phased by weird 9...
2 years ago
(SF) 365

Joker - I’ve been wanting to watch *Joker* since it came out, and the fact that I haven’t reveals to me that, deep down, I knew it would be a bit of a struggle. ...
2 years ago
underscore__

The underscore__ 2021 Reading Roundup - *The reader became the book; and summer night* *Was like the conscious being of the book.* —Wallace Stevens I hold my hands up: in last year’s roundup, r...
2 years ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
2 years ago
Blackadelic Pop

- Acclaimed writer Jeffery Renard Allen (Rails Under My Back, Song of the Shank) has launched a new online literary magazine called TaintTaintTaint https://...
3 years ago
The Pink Temple

- Maximum Joy Surn orver crest kill the curdled abortion that one was a mistake. Brighter now and happier cabbie waves cap outside the window wound-down Alri...
3 years ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
3 years ago
Pop Theory

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
3 years ago
Airport Through The Trees

In lieu of Twitter part ghzd/fkjw - A doctor refusing to treat a patient who is unvaccinated and a police office shooting someone who is unarmed are doing the same thing.
3 years ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
3 years ago
The Work Trials

The Podcast! - Okay, so I haven't logged in for ages but just noticed we seem to have been quietly amassing a fair few views over the past few months. I'm not doing the...
3 years ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
3 years ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

A magical substance flows into me / Jumana Manna (2015)from the... - *A magical substance flows into me* / Jumana Manna (2015) from the latest Another Screen free streaming programme by Another Gaze journ...
3 years ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Some news at the beginning of 2021 - We hope you’re all well and managing the current situation with the help of good music! Apologies if you receive any advertisements in this post – they are...
3 years ago
music, etc

Books I read in 2020 - [image: image] More than usual, especially between March and September. So there! Isabel Allende, *The House of the Spirits* Nicholson Baker, *The Mezza...
3 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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3 years 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...
4 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
4 years ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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’...
4 years 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 ...
4 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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.
4 years ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
4 years ago
Prole Sector

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
4 years 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. ...
5 years 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...
5 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
5 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
5 years 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...
5 years 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...
6 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
6 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...
6 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.
6 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...
6 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 [...]
6 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
6 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
6 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...
6 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 →
6 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
7 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...
7 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 atmosphe...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

danismm: Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast, (Königsberg) 1926 Neue... - danismm: *Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast,* (Königsberg) 1926 Neue Loge. Fabrikstrasse, *arch. Erich Mendelsohn *
7 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 ...
8 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: ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
For Your Pleasure

2HB - Words Don’t Express My Meaning … 2HB (Ferry), Roxy Music, 1972 I told Mark [Lancaster] I was writing some songs, and he said, “what are they called?” So I ...
8 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...
8 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
8 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
8 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
8 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...
8 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
9 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...
9 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
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...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
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...
9 years 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 ...
9 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// 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 ...
9 years ago
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. ...
9 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
9 years ago
| 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: _____...
9 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
10 years 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...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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 questio...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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....
11 years ago
heroasides

How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 years ago
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...
11 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

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...
12 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...
13 years ago
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