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A Year In The Country

The Debatable Lands, Undulating Waters, In The Sunshine We Rode The Horses and Ufology – Audio Undercurrents Part 1: Wanderings 8/52 - Something of a round-up of some of the flipside and undercurrents of music released in the last year or so that has caught my ear and eye… First up is The ...
12 hours ago
xenogothic

Under the Pier -
15 hours ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

‘Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi’ by Bob Woodward (12/84) - Bob Woodward, Wired: The Short Life And Fast Times Of John Belushi (New York: Simon & Schuster), 461 pp., 50 black and white photographs. Judy Jacklin, Joh...
19 hours ago
Sounding Out!

Instrumental: Power, Voice, and Labor at the Airport - Welcome to Voices Carry. . . a forum meditating on the material production of human voices the social, historical, and political material freighting our vo...
22 hours ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Noir Diary #1: Witness to Murder (Roy Rowland, 1954) - It’s funny how these things happen in Hollywood sometimes, isn’t it? ‘Witness to Murder’, in which Barbara Stanwyck looks out of her window one night and...
1 day 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 day ago
History is made at night

Youth Strike 4 Climate in London - I jogged along to cheer on the Youth Strike 4 Climate in central London yesterday. Great to see thousands of school students seemingly wandering in groups...
1 day ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- Also, I reviewed James Buhler’s Theories of the Soundtrack in the new issue of the Wire. Advertisements
2 days ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KLAUS SCHULZE - HISTORIC EDITION (Manikin ‎– KS 11-20, 10XCD ALBUM, 1995) (FLAC) - *En 1995, mr. SCHULZE edita, a través de MANIKIN RECORDS su HISTORIC EDITION, una caja de 10 cd's con la misma estructura de las anteriores: material iné...
2 days ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

SHYBOI- #CURRENTMOOD (2016) -
2 days ago
Lost Turntable

Synthwave(maker) - Wavemaker – Where Are We Captain?…. Complete Album Download Wavemaker is the third synth-focused project associated with BBC Radiophonic alum Brian Hodgson...
2 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

So There's These Records - Summer Edition - On Twitter I often mention records I'm currently listening to and enjoying but I almost never follow that up on my blog. So here's some LPs I've been dig...
3 days ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #15): Blocks & Escher – Broken - “All our music is there to capture the imagination and we were writing tunes so they could be listened to as whole pieces or stories, rather than dj tools....
4 days ago
East of Borneo

In Memory of John Mason - Image: John Mason preparing his work White Cross (1964) for a photo shoot, 1964. Left to right: Corwin Clairmont, Jerry Avesian, Gordon Thorpe, John Mason...
4 days ago
Ace Linguist

Got the World on a Shtring - S-retraction - Been a while since I've done a quick little article like this! This one is inspired by an interesting trends I'd noticed in speech. I've had it pointed o...
4 days ago
We Are the Mutants

Athena’s J.R.R. Tolkien and Occult Posters, 1976 – 1980 - Released respectively in 1976 and 1980, these *The Lord of the Rings* and *The Hobbit* posters were sold in Athena, the British chain of art retail shops w...
4 days ago
Datacide

next_now: Strategies to resample the future #4 15-02-2019 @Vétomat Berlin - next_now Strategies to resample the future #4 “As the future is not prescribed, and the succession of now and tomorrow is not monolithic or determined, ou...
5 days ago
thebluemoment.com

Bob & Lily revisited - It took me several weeks to overcome a disinclination to buy the Bootleg Series version of Blood on the Tracks. I’d been invited to a playback session last...
6 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Cut Off - A simple how to video. How to patch a filter so that it has extra resonance. In this case its a vintage Buchla 100 series Model 191 which has zero resonan...
1 week ago
blog to the oldskool

Radio Show Archive 03.02.19 - Sunday, 3rd February we had another edition of the BTTO Radio Show, blessings to everyone who tuned in and participated in chat. Now I have caught up with ...
1 week ago
Found Objects

Lures -
1 week ago
The Pirate Archive

Eruption FM – London - Eruption FM first took the air on the 17th February 1993. They could be heard on 101.3 with a mixture of hardcore and jungle. They were soon part of the ...
1 week ago
The Vigilant Citizen

The Disturbing Meaning of Billie Eilish’s “bury a friend” - Billie Eilish has been identified by mainstream media as the "future of pop". Her video "bury a friend" is a disturbing mix of mind control trauma and de...
1 week ago
streams of expression

A Black Arts Poetry Machine - My book, *A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets *is out today from Bloomsbury today -- with many thanks to series...
1 week ago
it's her factory

My Talk At Loomis Chaffee 2/5/19 - I’ll be speaking at Loomis Chaffee on Tuesday February 5th at 9:55am. Here’s the text of my talk. Intro posted below. Have you ever thought about why songs...
1 week ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

Two and a Thousand Tiny Races in Sonya Lindfors’s Dance Performance ‘Noble Savage’ - In Finland, professional dancers have been almost exclusively white. Because of this, Sonya Lindfors’s *Noble Savage *(2016), which is themed around blac...
2 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

➤ Topical issues enliven Leave to Remain, an innovative stage musical about gay romance - ➢ Andy Polaris, singer with Eighties band Animal Nightlife, reviews Leave to Remain, a startlingly original new musical at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith un...
2 weeks ago
Pop Theory

Geographies of Postsecularity - Another title in the Routledge Research Series in Place, Space and Politics has been published, Geographies of Postsecularity – written by Paul Cloke, Chri...
3 weeks ago
Disposable Everything

Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ is an accidental elegy for post-industrial Wales (Wales Arts Review) - Throughout his writing, the late Mark Fisher refers to the concept of ‘hauntology’ to describe the way in which traces of the past maintain a ghostly prese...
3 weeks ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

Trabant in Eszkimó asszony fázik (1983, Hungary) - Trabant in *Eszkimó asszony fázik* (1983, Hungary)
3 weeks ago
Rockets & Rayguns

Ramagon, 1979. - Ramagon, 1979.
3 weeks ago
Airport Through The Trees

The Problem With Suicide - The problem with suicide is that the only person who could possibly benefit ends up dead.
4 weeks ago
joy of speed

Thea Hunter RIP - May you rest in peace. I was very fortunate to know you and am so grateful for everything you did for me.
4 weeks ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Congratulations to Blow The Fuse! - Women’s Liberation Music Archive says happy thirtieth anniversary to Blow the Fuse, and a big thank you for all they have done to advance women in music, j...
4 weeks ago
Prole Sector

Strobe/Flutter (?) - I was pondering with a mate not so long ago about this ‘development’ that I increasingly heard in 2018 – possibly? or maybe not? of this ‘Strobe’ or ‘Flutt...
5 weeks ago
Portals of London

Drowned lair: The Deptford Creek Necker - Faraway creatures lurk in Deptford Creek. Take a guided tour along its bed at low tide and the volunteer custodians of this fragile ecosystem will uncove...
5 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

Black Moth Super Rainbow "Backwash" | Official Video | Rad Cult, 2018 -
5 weeks ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - Advertisements
1 month ago
森と記録の音楽

[234.1] Mori To Kiroku No Ongaku #9 - 1月4日に放送されたLYL Radio「Mori To Kiroku No Ongaku」の第9回。後半1時間は米ニューエイジ・ミュージックの草分け的レーベルWindham Hill Recordsの創始者でありギタリスト／作曲家／プロデューサー、William Ackerman（ウィリアム・アッカーマ...
1 month ago
Musical Urbanism |

a place where people like us go: how the New York Times reports the Hudson Valley - I’ve noticed that folks in the Hudson Valley can’t avoid taking the bait when the New York Times puts out a new article about the region. We griped loud an...
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Favorite Music Videos, 2018 - Here is a rough list of my favorite music videos for 2018. It was complied fairly casually, so I may well have forgotten something. As for the order, the t...
1 month ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra: “The Meaning Of Christmas Is No Boris Gardiner” - [image: Christmas In Hollis by Run DMC, as discussed by Tim Worthington and writer Stephen O'Brien in Looks Unfamiliar.] *Looks Unfamiliar Christmas Extra...
1 month ago
Rave Archive UK »

Dreamscape 6 – The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes – 28.05.93 - Dreamscape 6 – The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes – 28.05.93 G.E. Real – Dreamscape 6 – The Sanctuary, Milton Keynes – 28.05.93 Download/Play LTJ Bukum – Dream...
2 months ago
Cut and Run

November 14, 2018 – Brain Dance - Brain Dance Practitioners: RiDylan (left) Hitori Tori (Right), Photo: Brady Marks A deep dive into Brain Dance, a genre with various interpretations; IDM u...
3 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • November 11, 2018 - *IN THIS UPDATE:* Devo; Talking Heads; *No New York*; David Bowie; Jon Hassell; U2's The Edge; *Me And Earl And The Dying Girl*; Conny Plank; *In C Mali*...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Binary Heap

Roland “A Foundation For Electronic Music” Series (1979) - A Foundation For Electronic Music (PDF) Practical Synthesis For Electronic Music Vol 1 (PDF) Practical Synthesis For Electronic Music Volume 2 (PDF) Mult...
3 months ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
4 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Spaces of Conspiracy - Particular spaces generate particular events. Spaces gain significance from the happenings they harbour, but there are also set of invisible vectors that a...
4 months ago
The Pink Temple

- the door to the teenage bedroom is always closed as it is the first space we learn to expand into. within those limits we extend consciousness beyond the s...
4 months 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...
5 months 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.
5 months 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...
6 months ago
The Hum Blog

on dust-to-digital’s incredible collections, voices of mississippi: artists and musicians documented by william ferris, and listen all around: the golden age of central and east african music - The time has passed with the blink of an eye, but 15 years ago witnessed a quite rumbling within the musical landscape – the first sprouting of the broad a...
6 months 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 [...]
7 months ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
7 months 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
7 months 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...
8 months ago
davidtoop

FOLD - Nine people sitting on the basement floor folding paper into origami birds, four microphones hanging from the ceiling, a loudspeaker pair at each end of th...
10 months 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 →
10 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

‘Picasso 1932’ @ The Tate Modern – Audio Guide - The headphone audio guide at the Tate Modern’s new exhibition, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame & Tragedy plays host to a medley of new original musical pieces I c...
11 months ago
The Work Trials

Everything Everything release new EP - *Multi-genre indie pioneers Everything Everything have released a brand new EP to coincide with their coming UK tour. The A Deeper Sea EP consists of new s...
11 months ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
1 year 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...
1 year ago
WOEBOT

Reggae Playlists - *S90* Blue Boot : Eric Donaldson Ghost Dance : Prince Buster Jack Of My Trade : Sir Lord Comic Preacher Man : The Stingers Chi Chi Bud : Max Romeo Them A Fi...
1 year ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
(SF) 365

Afterwords - Afterwords from B4 films on Vimeo. The connection between science fiction and (eerie) landscape is one that my colleague Bruce Bennett and I were keen to i...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Sonic Truth

Cosmic scouse trip - A couple of pictures from my mate Tommy from Psychfest in Liverpool in late September, and a link to my review in the FT (about time I got more stuff done ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Blue Lines Revisited

allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love... - allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love #14, 1971. Probably the most bluntly sexual thing I’ve seen in a Marvel romance comic… anywa...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
1 year 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...
1 year ago
INTO THE SWAMP

Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017)Trel/Biggz is a... - Trel Itz A Hit 225 - Da Drip (internetz, 2017) Trel/Biggz is a producer from Baton Rouge, best known for last year’s ‘Cross Me’, a bouncy piece of steel ...
1 year 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...
2 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 ...
2 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 ...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
marathonpacks

pitchfork:From YouTube, to Pandora, to Spotify, streaming music is piloting our listening habits in... - pitchfork: From YouTube, to Pandora, to Spotify, streaming music is piloting our listening habits in fascinating new ways that both upend old hierarchie...
2 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 ...
2 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: ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
2 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
2 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
2 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...
2 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 smart-phone. However, you can find easy things you can do to m...
2 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
2 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...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
3 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...
3 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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 2...
3 years ago
Tower of Sleep

3 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Effectiveness - Knowing how to hire the right digital marketing agency will help turn your Internet marketing into a profit-producing tool. When your email is first open...
3 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. ...
3 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Louis Reith - Louis Reith
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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....
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
the hauntological society

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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DJ Food

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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slouching toward babylon

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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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Thursday, August 21, 2014

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