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Monday, May 30, 2016

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FuturePerfect Productions:  Between Music / AquaSonic Tour Begins May 27-29 2016 at Operadagen, Festival of New Music, Rotterdam from FuturePerfect on Vimeo.


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  • SR Archive
    Takagi Masakatsu + Boards Of Canada - BOARDS OF CANADA*Geogaddi*TAKAGI MASAKATU*Pia* * Spin, May 2002* *by Simon Reynolds* Genrephobes have had it easy lately. It's been a while since electroni...
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  • Hardly Baked
    mouth music (voice snow, voice wind) - "The text consists of inuit words for various kinds of snow : apingaut , first snowfall; mauyk, soft snow; akelrorak , drifting snow ; pokaktok , snow li...
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  • Energy Flash
    GABBERS GATHER - Crossbones + Drop The Bomb = Ravers Graveyard (New Cross, London, May 26) - On Saturday 26th May, veteran free party crew *Crossbones* join forces with rave promoter *Drop The Bomb *to bring you a night of the darkest hardcore tech...
    6 hours ago
  • Shock and Awe
    "cos he was trying to deglamorize himself" - from a film by the British Pop Artist *Derek Boshier*, the still features Alice Cooper, The Sweet, and, I think, Bowie Boshier would later do the cover...
    2 days ago
  • Retromania
    Hauntology Parish Newsletter April-May 2018: A Year in the Country book; Ghost Box new releases; Emotion Wave / Lo-Five; mediadropping; Starblood - The big news in the parish is the publication this week of *A Year in The Country: Wandering Through Spectral Fields *by *Stephen Prince* of *A Year In T...
    5 days ago
  • Faves / Unfaves
    FAVE SINGLES and ALBUMS OF 2002 - *FAVE SINGLES OF 2002* *1/ DIZZY RASCAL – “I Love You” (white label)* And this year the criteria are… surprise, surprise, *surprise*. When the bass-blasts...
    1 year ago
  • Retromania - The Footnotes
    - I've now added a bunch of bonus material to the footnotes -- FAQ, unFAQ, RetroQuotes, articles pegged to or related to the book, interviews with the author...
    5 years ago
  • Rip It Up and Start Again: the Footnotes
    - *FOOTNOTES # 11Chapter 10JUST STEP SIDEWAYSThe Fall, Joy Division and the Manchester Scene* *(CHAPTER 7 in the American edition)* page 173 Tr...
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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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