blissblog: mouth music (alphabet soup)

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

ELECTRONIC ORGY

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 00/181 (CONTEMPORA CON-TINOUS SERIES 00/181, "FORMULA UNO", CD ALBUM, 2009) (WAV) - *DOWNLOAD*
5 hours ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

150 Best Albums of 1978 - A list of 1978’s best albums changed my life forever. I wrote about this for the Austin American-Statesman, four years ago: “The first issue of The Village...
10 hours ago
xenogothic

Bad Queer - CW: I want to talk about gender, specifically my gender and my feelings around it. I want to try and put into words a feeling that I’ve long denounced and ...
16 hours ago
Hate Meditations

On Spotify - “Loud and Clear” is the mission statement released by Spotify earlier this year. This was in response to mounting criticism of the payments that artists re...
16 hours ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Greil Casting Call - A reader of the site is seeking participants for a Greil Marcus-themed Zoomcast. All that’s required is to read a couple passages by Greil, the details of ...
17 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Songs About People # 1,277 Robert Oppenheimer - I wrote a slightly judgmental and not entirely fair review of the latest Loney Dear album below. On second play this morning I took to it more. Perhaps ...
23 hours ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Gothic Originals: The House of Usher (Alan Birkinshaw, 1989) - One oft-overlooked wrinkle in the history of gothic horror cinema is the inexplicable revival of the form which seemed to take place at the close of the...
1 day ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCLXX (Brian W. Aldiss, H. Beam Piper, Ann Maxwell, and Bo Carpelan) - As always, which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? 1. Empire, H. Beam Piper (1981) From the back cover: “”H. BEAM ...
1 day ago
Real Life

Seen By - When you can see who saw your post, each viewing is a loaded message
1 day ago
History is made at night

Love is the Message Podcast - I was pretty excited to hear that Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert have started a new podcast, Love is the Message. Tim is the great cultural historian o...
2 days ago
Cut and Run

aux-sends 2.2 - Étude, a state of contemplation, “a study without an end”* Track Listing: tsx x sue tompkins – green bow edge, 2019Mikrokosmos – Another time, this time, o...
2 days ago
We Are the Mutants

A Floating Black Feather: Ján Kadár’s ‘The Angel Levine’ - By *Noah Berlatsky* The Angel Levine was greeted with irritation, befuddlement, and a good amount of indifference upon its release in 1970. Organized and p...
2 days ago
thebluemoment.com

A Mike Taylor discovery - When the English jazz pianist and composer Mike Taylor walked into the sea and died in 1969, aged 30, he left behind two albums — Pendulum, by his quartet,...
2 days ago
WOEBOT

Forms -
3 days ago
Municipal Dreams

High-Rise in Bristol, Part II from 1960 - We left Bristol last week in 1958 as slum clearance was in full swing and just as the Council announced … Continue reading →
4 days ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Dark Matter - *Some notes on **Jake Fior’s new novel,* Through a Looking Glass Darkly* (2020)*. In 2011 rare book dealer Jake Fior made a startling discovery. He ca...
4 days ago
Ericland

A Right Royal Occasion - I imagine that my mother, wherever she is, will be very pleased. In the last year or so of her life, in the grip of dementia, she and Prince Philip became ...
4 days ago
Blue Labyrinths

Anti-Hauntology: Iglooghost, Mark Fisher, and the New Digital Modernism - In February this year I wrote a 4 part piece on the idea of anti-hauntology. Part 1 looked at the Continue reading →
4 days ago
Wyrd Britain

The Cormorant - [image: Wyrd Britain reviews The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory. Published by Parthian Books.] Stephen Gregory Parthian *'We had been in the cottage for a...
4 days ago
A Year In The Country

Belbury Poly’s “The Geography” from The Belbury Tales: Songs for A Year In The Country 8/26 - If Boards of Canada had recorded a female singer who was accompanying Archie Fisher on his epic cinematic folkloric track “Orfeo” it might sound a little l...
5 days ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Thoughts on transgression in the 21st century - This posting should probably be called Thoughts on “Transgression” — since it is difficult to think of transgression today without using air quotes or scar...
5 days ago
Trevor Barre

Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett, 1971. Part Two - Once Keith Jarrett had left, so had, essentially, all of the true ‘stars’ of Miles Davis’s great configurations of the’ jazz/rock’ era, those who went on...
5 days ago
lunarlodge

Diduck’s Index - I've always wanted to write the Harper's Index.
6 days ago
cardrossmaniac2

Burning Sky - Marc Acardipane Feat Miro/Metal Man - Marc Acardipane feat The Horrorist & Satronica - The remasters of THE MASTER keep coming! Two of the three* titans of Euro 'ardcore meet uptown on this unreleased tune that is only now seeing the light ...
1 week ago
8Sided Blog

Michael Bratt’s Tour of the Darkroom - Michael Bratt is a D.C.-based composer with an impressive CV, having studied music extensively, conducted orchestras, scored films, and co-founded ensemble...
1 week ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

The Rock'n'Roll Years - The Rock'n'Roll Years was one of the most curious television programmes of the mid-1980's. Each half-hour episode was a mix of news footage and pop music f...
1 week ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

06APR21 / accessions - All ordered back in January, shortly before I busted my foot; this is my first return to the office since then. Nice to have some goodies waiting for me… a...
1 week ago
__underscore

Common Folk - People wearing ornaments and fancy clothes, carrying weapons, drinking a lot and eating a lot, having a lot of things, a lot of money: shameless thieves. S...
1 week ago
It's Full of Stars

Sketchy - Heres a little sketch on the CS80 and Buchla 100. I managed to get them to almost play in tune!
1 week ago
Sounding Out!

A Day on the Dial in Cap Haïtien, Haiti - Learning from other scholars’ work on Haitian radio was, and still is, one of the greatest pleasures in the process of writing Isles of Noise: Sonic Media ...
1 week ago
Found Objects

Modernist Churches - the Resurrection -
1 week ago
Lost Turntable

Enka Synths - I hope you’re not sick of me talking about my podcast, Cinema Oblivia, because I’m about to talk about my podcast, Cinema Oblivia. Sorry (not sorry). The p...
1 week ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

In conversation with Emily Segal - In conversation with Emily Segal Emily Segal is an artist, writer and trend forecaster based in Los Angeles. Co-founder of K-Hole, the now-defunct, normc...
2 weeks ago
Portals of London

To light up worlds: The Greenwich Unveiling - Henrietta Godling, who came from a family of 19th Century timber importers, is sometimes called the first portologist. As aContinue Reading
2 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

"It's Covid Outside" - Mysterious Syntax of Weather Covid - I wanted to post about a novel construction I've noticed throughout all of last year, which is 'it's covid.' Perhaps you've seen it too? 'Covid' is beha...
2 weeks ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Pop Conversations – The Who Meet Nancy Sinatra - [image: Lightning.jpg] You’ll find few advocates for The Who’s ‘Call Me Lightning’. In fact, I’ve never read a word in its defence. Released it seems on ...
2 weeks ago
Pop Theory

The Right to have Rights after Brexit - Originally posted on Geography Directions: By Clive Barnett, Kuba Jablonowski and Sam Kinsley, University of Exeter The United Kingdom’s formal departure f...
3 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2011 ➤ Relive Duran’s 30th-anniversary comeback with All You Need Is Now - 10 YEARS ON ❚ THIS WEEK IN 2011 Duran Duran’s album All You Need Is Now was released as a 14-song CD in Europe and North America. Shapers of the 80s gave e...
3 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • March 21, 2020 -
3 weeks ago
64 Quartets

6. The Bangles - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAY LIST Late August 1989: Susanna Hoffs sits in a hotel room in Kansas City, doing a phone interview. Her band, which got a #1 hit ea...
4 weeks ago
For Your Pleasure

Serenade - Serenade (1973)Serenade lyric (November 1, 1973) I. Open Engagement ‘Serenade’ announces its arrival with a groundswell of energy, like a train speeding th...
4 weeks ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Cabell and the Rabble - I have written previously about the unknown source of the couplet that tells how to pronounce correctly Cabell's surname ("Tell the rabble / My name is C...
4 weeks ago
BLDGBLOG

Cetacean Surroundsound - I was thinking about this whale song bunker idea the other week after reading about the potential for whale song to be used as a form of deep-sea seismic s...
5 weeks ago
Musical Urbanism |

a Hudson Valley tourist town faces the pandemic: the second Rhinebeck small business survey - For a second time, I was asked to analyze the data from an online questionnaire distributed to small businesses in Rhinebeck, New York. Created by the loca...
1 month ago
Jason Phereus,

Delighted to see this back in print (soon) - One of the best novels of the 90s and just look at that cover. You can pre-order it here
1 month ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Portals: Atmospheric Drum & Bass Vistas - Following the recent release of Illuvia’s d&b album ‘Iridescence of Clouds’ on A Strangely Isolated Place, I’m proud to present my contribution to the ASIP...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
The Generalist

TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI - Just heard that Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. One of the greatest of the Beat poets, creator and custodian of the City Lights boo...
1 month ago
Suspended Reason

Year In Review - Bla bla bla, 2020 was a big year for me. I started off doing philosophy of language and ended up at “strategic interaction.” For the uninitiated, think gam...
1 month ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

TRIO A / Yvonne RainerYvonne Rainer performs TRIO A. Students... - *TRIO A* / Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer performs *TRIO A*. Students follow her lead in the latter part of the tape. From *DANCE FRACTIONS FOR THE WEST COA...
1 month ago
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I Can’t Unsee That – The Aesthetics of Horror - An episode of the x-files, titled “Irresistible”, presents a conflict between the show’s fundamental preoccupation with the paranormal and real, actually e...
1 month ago
streams of expression

February Papers - *[Tazartès / Corea / Graves / Oxley / Hemphill / Moor Mother & Billy Woods / The Locals Play Braxton]* Once more the new year sees the passing of some of...
1 month ago
joy of speed

Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday (Live on KEXP) - Song of the Day: This is the live-in-the-studio version of a song now a decade old, but which soundtracked bits and pieces of the year 2011.
2 months ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Lines of Flight: Possibilities and Organisation - "There are two ways of rejecting the revolution. The first is to refuse to see it where it exists; the second is to see it where it manifestly will not occ...
2 months ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

'Moments of visionary enthusiasm' -- Eight questions for Znore - [image: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VtEi_fRC0Kw/UlbGD2jf5YI/AAAAAAAAAJE/-kUSaxt6XPU/s1600/portinari_shepards.jpg] [*The following was first published on ...
2 months ago
East of Borneo

Portraying Political Ideology and Hippiedom in 1968 Los Angeles: I love you, Alice B. Toklas - By 1968, the movie I love you, Alice B. Toklas (ILYABT), co-written by the ingenious Paul Mazursky, would singularly aim to define the hippie movement alon...
2 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Energy FM – Kent - Energy FM broadcast dance music to Kent in the mid 2000’s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Download...
2 months ago
Datacide

Ugandan Election Special: Dancehall Democracy versus Anti-Social Autocrats - It’s that time of the decade, kids, and once again the Ugandan electoral spectacle shows how to put the “fun” back into dysfunctional!Here’s a rough guid...
3 months ago
Airport Through The Trees

Headlinez - CNN today:Democrats Unveil Impeachment ChargeMillions Left Without Paid Sick Leave After Congress Let Pandemic Benefit ExpirePriorities, huh?
3 months ago
Modernism Unbound

Top Ten Albums of 2020 - Somewhat belated, Jon Lindblom lists his top ten records of 2020. 10. Kamixlo – Cicatriz (PAN) Cicatriz by Kamixlo Another great addition to the still grow...
3 months ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

I Can’t Give Everything Away - I Can’t Give Everything Away.I Can’t Give Everything Away (Nine Inch Nails, 2017). Five years is what they’re going to write, and one can’t blame them. It’...
3 months ago
Aloysius

review of aphex twin - syro that i wrote in 2016 lol - Just about everything Richard made/released in the 2000s can be counted among his best work, and Syro is quite possibly the best of it all. Many reviews...
3 months 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 months ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

No One Man Should Do All These Lists: 10 Year Vintage best of 2010 - * 40 Long-Form Streams, Music Blog RARs, or Album-format Releases* *1. Various - Bang and Works Volume 1* *2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Tod...
3 months ago
Nina Power

Reflections on 2020 - Photograph taken in Burgess Park, Summer 2020 Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate r...
3 months ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar and Miroslav Štěpánek #1: Pojar’s “Hey Mister, Let’s Play!” entries (1965) - Watch the films discussed in this article with English subtitles on YouTube! …or, download files of them for personal viewing here! In the years since I in...
3 months ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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3 months ago
blog to the oldskool

JB Collective – Move Ya Body! - The past few years, it’s become harder and harder to find those last few 92-95 obscurities that don’t have any trace on sites like Discogs. I know there’s ...
4 months ago
(SF) 365

Chess Dreams - 'Let's play'Beth Harmon is a chess player, one of the greatest ever to have lived. She is doubly orphaned', losing two mothers; she is addicted to tranqu...
4 months ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Big John Little John - [image: Big John Little John (NBC, 1976)] *Big John Little John*, a 1976 American body-swap sitcom about a middle-aged man who stumbled across the Fount...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
6 months ago
it's her factory

Solfeggio Frequencies: hey music theorists, I did the math (and whooo is it weird) - I have a piece coming out in Real Life about pseudoscientific wellness trends like solfeggio frequencies. In researching that piece I did the math to figur...
6 months ago
Blackadelic Pop

Pittsburgh On My Mind (Top 5) - Recently I wrote an essay titled "Summer Mother" for Longreads about the last summer I spent with my Aunt Ricky in Pittsburgh in 1977. https://longreads....
6 months ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
6 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Yaman Studio Mixes ‘Bailey & Bukem’ - ‘LTJ Bukem – Techno 01 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1991’ Download/Play ‘DJ Bailey – Techno 02 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1992’ Download/Play LTJ Bukem – Hardcore Vol 1 ...
6 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Pre-Electronic & Post-Electronic Music in Electronic Sound #68, and Prehistoric Microtonal Scales in The Silo - This month’s Electronic Sound magazine contains my feature titled ‘Parallel Worlds’ examining worlds beyond electronic sound, into pre-electronic and post-...
7 months ago
The Astral Plane

The Soul of the Creative: Free Labor and the Psychopolitics of Control - Fernand Léger, The Builders We are living in an era of smoothness. Smooth movies, smooth design and smooth digital infrastructure form an unblemished carap...
7 months ago
The Pink Temple

- Pastiche dawn swells to crescendo of startled bird cry in the quick embers of ulterior reward. Has it come to this? The breathless cadence twining anti-c...
7 months 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...
9 months ago
davidtoop

on&on&on&on: Daniel Blumberg - “And now he was playing, alas, the piano,” the first sentence of Robert Walser’s short prose text written in 1925, “making it sound like a deep and intimat...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #157 (April 20, 2020) - *Carillon along the DuPage River, Naperville, Ill.* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...
11 months ago
The Work Trials

THINKPIECE #2: A Room Without A Roof? The Ten Most-Played Songs of the Past Decade - On Bank Holiday Monday which was strangely like every other day off of recent times, my favourite disc jockey Scott Mills popped up on Radio 2 to reveal ...
11 months 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’...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
1 year ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs*What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfect...
1 year ago
Prole Sector

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

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
1 year ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
1 year ago
Sonic Truth

Stop playing the reality management game - A pleasure to have been able to add my voice to the appraisals of the K-Punk collected works, in the FT, and here belatedly is the link. Non-subscribers sh...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
2 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...
2 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.
2 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 ese...
2 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 [...]
2 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
2 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
2 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...
2 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 →
3 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
3 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...
4 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 atmospher...
4 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
4 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 ...
4 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: ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Internal exile

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4 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
4 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
4 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...
5 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
5 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...
5 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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. ...
6 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 years ago
Rouge's Foam

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6 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 ...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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....
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 years ago
Sound & Society - A music criticism blog

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etc home | The History Project

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DJ Food

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slouching toward babylon

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its her factory / its her duty

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Creel Pone on YouTube

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Wounds of Class

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Noughties blog

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CIRCULATION ZERO

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Epsilonia/Radio Libertaire - Home | Facebook

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Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics

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The Mire

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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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Content warning

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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, March 24, 2016

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