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Monday, December 01, 2014

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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...
2 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...
2 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC - Breaking down David Bowie's 'Heroes' - Track-by-track, BBC Arts - BBC: I would love a track by track treatment in this vein. Wouldn’t we all? Really amazi...
2 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...
2 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
2 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...
2 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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: _____...
3 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
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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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Dream Transmissions

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DJ Food

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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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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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ecstatic apophenia

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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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