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thebluemoment.com

The Island story, pt 3 - Every year or so there’s a little reunion of people who worked at Island Records in its early and earlyish days, held in a pub near the offices in St Peter...
4 hours ago
Tribune

AI is Too Important to Leave to Billionaires - There are three fundamental questions about this world-shaping technology: Who owns it? Who controls it? And who benefits?
7 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Song(s) of the Day # 4,539 Tallest Man On Earth - A tall rugged Swedish man. *Just Beyond Endless Mountain *a ragged, desolate, pained record. If you're looking to howl into the Scandinavian void wit...
7 hours ago
Municipal Dreams

Special Residential Neighbourhoods – Dutch Woonschoolen in the Interwar and Post-War Era - In last week’s post, we looked at how public housing authorities in both Britain and the Netherlands dealt with tenants … Continue reading →
12 hours ago
joy of speed

October 2026 - He woke up, the room was bare He didn't see her anywhere He told himself, he didn't care Pushed the window open wide Felt that emptiness inside To whi...
14 hours ago
Beat Connection (Michaelangelo Matos)

WA035 - Funny ha-ha, 1978-2026 - Forty-nine comedy bits for Nate Patrin’s birthday
1 day ago
Feuilleton (John Coulthart)

Los mitos de Cthulhu - Appearing on Spanish bookshelves this month is Los mitos de Cthulhu, a 576-page story collection which I spent the first six half of this year illustrating...
1 day ago
torpedo the ark

The Clash: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 'Clash City Rockers' - single release (1978) 'This Is Radio Clash' - single release (1981) 'We Are The Clash' - album track on *Cut the Crap* (19...
1 day ago
Hate Meditations

I like the beats and I like the yelling, 12th October 26 - Hænesy: EsentiaOut 25th September on Purity Through Fire Five years ago this Hungarian outfit presented an interesting proposition with ‘Garabontzia’, a bl...
1 day ago
The Haunted Generation

Electronic Sound – Reviews (Issue 126) - This wasn’t always the future. For every wide-eyed teenager in thrall to the electric dreams of a synthesized space age, there was a hairy, flare-wearing t...
1 day ago
Wyrd Britain

NEWS: The Lost Occult Books of Victor Neuburg - *'We will leave the silver moon-flowers of old thought for the gold sun-flowers of our true Apollonian theme ... It is before Dionysus, the maddening one,...
1 day ago
Sick Veg (Matthew Ingram)

Farewell old garden! - Because I separated from my wife in June, and left the family home at that point early in the summer, the roof garden I had tended for the past four years ...
1 day ago
Phil Gyford’s website: Everything

w/e 2026-10-11 - Scanning diaries in Essex, ‘Goodbye to Berlin’, lots of long YouTube videos, ‘Hacks’ season five.
2 days ago
Wormwoodiana

The Centenary of 'Crewe Train' by Rose Macaulay: A Guest Post by John Howard -
2 days ago
WOEBOT

James Last "Barcarolle" - A friend told me that when he was growing up in Zimbabwe his father had a copy of this James Last record record "Barcarolle" and that he would listen...
3 days ago
The Nerd Reich

Antichrist, Hitler and JD Vance’s 2028 problem - With friends like these...
4 days ago
Nick Coleman

Something vast out of nothing - John Coltrane at one hundred years of age — and a bit
4 days ago
Susanne In The Morning Light

Vladimir på min Balkan-læseliste - Min liste er kort og konsis, det er de fire bøger på billedet.
4 days ago
The Ethan Hein Blog

I joined the dark side and vibe coded a music theory app - Many years ago, I worked with the NYU Music Experience Design Lab to create a browser-based music theory tool called the aQWERTYon. It has two purposes: to...
4 days ago
Electronic Sound

Hard Corps - Hard Corps’ Clive Pierce and Rob Doran take on this month’s quick-fire questions
5 days ago
Blue Labyrinths

Futurity Matrix: Four Visions of the Future - In writing a contemporary critique of Sadie Plant and Nick Land’s text ‘Cyberpositive’, Frédéric Neyrat’s recent article for Blue Labyrinths Continue readi...
6 days ago
streams of expression

Opera's End Times (Preview) - On Substack, an essay on György Ligeti’s opera *Le Grand Macabre* and its (semi-)staging at this year’s Musikfest Berlin. The link is here. Also in the e...
6 days ago
Lost Turntable

A Video Game Soundtrack on Flexidisc? Sure, why not? - 720° The Ultimate Aerial Experience (Original Sound Track From The Hit Game) (Right-click to download FLAC) I spent too much money on this not to share ...
1 week ago
History is made at night

South Asian Resistance Book Launch in Luton (as racist lies about the town continue) - Last month I went to the launch of Taj Ali's excellent and timely new book 'Come what may, we're here to stay: the story of South Asian resistance in Bri...
1 week ago
it's her factory

Slop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide - “Slop” typically describes the kitschy, formulaic output of generative AI. It can also be a useful term to describe the form of abstraction tools like Chat...
1 week ago
A Year In The Country

Screen Two – The Blue Boy: A Phantom’s Revenge and Roads to Doom - The Blue Boy (1994) is a co-production between the BBC and the American public television station WGBH and was broadcast in the UK as part of the BBC’s Scr...
1 week ago
We Are the Mutants

Screen Time for Rent: Granada TV Commercial, 1977 - By *Richard McKenna* This 1977 TV commercial for Granada TV Rental opens a window onto an almost forgotten aspect of the relationship the British viewing p...
1 week ago
Jason Phereus,

Remote Islands. - My kids are now six-almost-seven and three-almost-four. We currently live in Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan. If you’d told me, twenty years ago when I start...
2 weeks ago
The Neglected Books Page

The Art of Eating in France, by Jean-Paul Aron (1973/1975) - If we are to believe Jean-Paul Aron, we owe the rise of French cuisine and the invention of the restaurant to the guillotine. For when the French Revolutio...
2 weeks ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXX - What pre-1985 science fiction adventures have you finished this summer? Any great reads? Disappointing ones? Intriguing discoveries? Here’s the June instal...
2 weeks ago
Datacide

Andy Wilson 1958-2026: Noise maker, writer, publisher, political activist - Andy Wilson 1958-2026: Noise maker, writer, publisher, political activist - A personal obituary full of mistakes and digressions by Simon Crab The post A...
2 weeks ago
Sounding Out!

SO! Amplifies: Nameless Sound - DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/k0be4-s6s31 SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and o...
3 weeks ago
Your Heart Out

Fortuitously #9 - Richie Havens’ recording of ‘I Can’t Make It Anymore’ is, I believe, one of the wonders of this mad old world. It is possible some know the song as a ...
3 weeks ago
:: ∴ ⋮ thought without finality ⋮ ❍ ∵ ⸻ ∴∞

Who Thinks on the Island? - “The Radio of the Future—the central tree of our consciousness—”
3 weeks ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Wole Talabi, THE FIST OF MEMORY - Wole Talabi is a Nigerian science fiction writer. He has previously published one novel and two short story collections, as well as having texts in various...
3 weeks ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2026 ➤ Johnny Marr is calling all guitarists with £100k to spare - ❚ MANY PEOPLE RECKON Manchester-born Johnny Marr to be one of the finest guitarists in the world. Not only did he spend 40 years buying the 73 guitars goin...
3 weeks ago
A Shiver in the Archives

R.B. Russell on Arthur Machen and the Angels of Mons - R.B. Russell has recently posted on his youtube channel a video of his excellent illustrated talk on Arthur Machen and the Angels of Mons, which he also ...
5 weeks ago
Found Objects

Vittles of Yore - Reminded me of this - from Richard Meltzer-penned 'gig guide'
5 weeks ago
Modernism Unbound

Formal Technological Experimentation - In a previously unpublished essay first written in 2022, Jon Lindblom elaborates on his thoughts on formalism and media technology. Aesthetic modernism did...
5 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

Link Haul - September 2026 - I come bearing more articles on language-related posts and news! We'll start by traveling back in time to medieval Britain. I enjoyed this curious video ...
5 weeks ago
Infinite Speeds

Incense & Black Light - On the nocturnal music of Rod Modell (DeepChord)
1 month ago
Hollow Earth (Matthew Ingram)

Offices - Going forward I'm still going to be taking on animation contract work. However, on August 18th I had what I'm expecting will be my last day of animation ...
1 month ago
Mark Richardson

The Sound They Made Was Love: 20 Years of ‘The Soft Bulletin’ - This page has moved. Please visit the updated page instead.
1 month ago
The Decadence Project

Is James Bond a Repulsive Sociopath? - What Would Scott Galloway Say?
1 month ago
Musical Urbanism |

find Musical Urbanism on Substack - This Wordpress blog will be under construction for 2026-27. Meanwhile, I invite you to visit the Musical Urbanism Substack page (musicalurbanism.substack.c...
2 months ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #165 (July 19, 2026) - *Sugarloaf at Libby Lake* Photograph by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *The Race Western and Jo...
2 months ago
Completely Different (Matthew Miles Goodrich)

It’s...the path to breaking Trump’s congressional agenda - No more oligarchs: donate to my friend Will Lawrence to help bring regular people to Congress
3 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK - Updates: June 26, 2026 -
3 months ago
Pop Theory

Celebrating the work of Clive Barnett - This post is written by Sam Kinsley. As a group of colleagues who had the privilege of working with Clive Barnett during his time as a Professor of Geograp...
3 months ago
East of Borneo

adadada -
3 months ago
ooh! directory of blogs

The Unique Guitar Blog - “I love the guitar and want to share my knowledge with as many people as I can.” By Marc O'Hara. 🇺🇸 Started in 2009. Average 1,739 words.
3 months ago
Some Private Diagonal

#43 The Enduring Fascination of Richard Nixon - *This is a longer version of an article that originally appeared in The Critic.
4 months ago
For Your Pleasure

Luật Chơi Tiến Lên Miền Nam Giúp Nắm Chắc 99% Cơ Hội Thắng - Luật chơi Tiến lên miền Nam luôn thu hút cộng đồng nhờ yếu tố may mắn và chiến lược. Để nắm vững, bạn cần hiểu rõ quy tắc cơ bản từ giá trị tay bài cho đ...
4 months ago
Beauty Blew a Fuse

Breathing Smog: Thoughts on Early Bill Callahan - This past weekend Julie and I saw Bill Callahan in Kingston, NY.
4 months ago
L. S. Trackhead

T R U X I N B I T S - The first s/t is the narrow mezzanine where they first appear with a woody click, semi-conscioulsy farming the first milk stems of making. The second side’...
4 months ago
Abundant Living

Rock Music Gets Good Enough Again in The Tens (Thanks to Nuke York, etc. No Thanks to Mac DeMarco et al.) - *The* 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums of the 21st Century So Far. Part Three. 2011-2015 *For rock and folk music exclusively, the first half of the 20...
4 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Go Back to the House - *At work in the corridors* *Splatterhouse* is a horror-themed video game released by the Japanese developer Namco in 1988 and later ported to the home ...
6 months ago
The Pirate Archive

Fantasy FM – London - Fantasy FM started broadcasting from North London in August 1989 on 98.6 FM. They played Acid, Rave & Hardcore music, all of which was massive at the time,...
6 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Contextual Collapse - In an otherwise unpromisingly-titled article—“Could the US really release more of its strategic oil reserves?”—the Financial Times points out a surprising ...
6 months ago
The Work Trials

CULTURAL FORCES #1: OJ BORG INTERVIEW - *OJ Borg is a broadcasting genius, a wonderful friend to me, one of the nicest 'famouses' you're ever likely to encounter and addictive late-night Ra...
6 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

February 2026: the Women’s Liberation Music Archive at the Queer Britain Museum - We’re very pleased that WLMA features in a new exhibition which opened this month at the Queer Britain Museum. Our display features some of the feminist mu...
8 months ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Mystery Train 50th Anniversary Celebration (March 7, Oakland) - From Greil Marcus’s Letter in the Ether: On Saturday, March 7, I’ll be in conversation with Daveed Diggs for an event organized by the Bay Area Book Festiv...
8 months ago
64 Quartets

9(a). Buzzcocks 1 (/) - The Ohs “Well, for a start, they’re oh-ohs, not whoa-whoas,” Pete Shelley once said. Touring the US, he’d hear the audience botch the singalong parts. A fe...
8 months ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2025 – Part I (All That Glitters) - It’s that time again for the blog’s traditional annual round-ups. Yet another year has been graced with an abundance of fantastic music. For the first part...
8 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

The top 50 songs of 2025 - My brain got so blurbed to oblivion this year that I was about to skip doing a proper year end list, but this in-between week has given me a little moment ...
9 months ago
In Sheeps Clothing

Record Stores We Love: Philadelphia Music / Beautiful World Syndicate (Philadelphia) - Step into one of the largest and most beloved online record shops in the world… While the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles continue their playoff run...
9 months ago
Sonic Truth

Tunes for darkening times - Have a little listen to this: lots of favourite beatless/dark/ambient/instrumental/neoclassical/analogue synth from purchases over past five years or so. t...
10 months ago
Ericland

Climbing Over Cardboard - I have an online interview to do for a Swedish magazine. The first question is: *how has 2025 been for you?* I still haven’t done the interview. I wrote ...
10 months ago
Backlisted

253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon - Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss *Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future* (1930), the astounding...
10 months ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

TANGERINE DREAM - ZEIT (OHR– OMM 2/56021, 2 X VINYL LP, 1972) (FLAC/WAV) - *En este 2025 que estamos concluyendo, se conmemoran 53 años de la grabación y edición del disco ZEIT de TANGERINE DREAM, un album que se convirtió, con ...
10 months ago
davidtoop

Soundbody workshop - “Rice paper possesses a materiality of emptiness and absence. Its surface does not shine, and it is as soft as silk. When folded, it hardly makes a noise, ...
11 months ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

New book: To Farse All Things by William English & Sandra Cross - A new book by William English and Sandra Cross will be published this month: ‘To Farse All Things’. Its title means “to mix together”. The book ‘farses’ to...
1 year ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

NEW ZINES LAUNCH. - Dear friends, followers and anyone else who is still reading this blog after many months of inactivity - I am writing today to let you know that, after a...
1 year ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

Shrooms With a View (From the Stump) - Kind of got carried away wordcountwise in the previous post, so I’ll try to be more concise this time. That one dealt with what I’m pretty sure were fungi ...
1 year ago
Aloysius

burrowing (slight return) - a common way of framing creative pursuits in our culture goes like this: whether or not anyone else likes what you’re doing is ultimately irrelevant. the...
1 year ago
Rockets & Rayguns

A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra’s lessons in clean desk… - hangingfire: [image: A Powerpoint slide of "Password Best Practices and Guidelines", including tips like "Create a Strong Password", "Never Reuse a Passw...
1 year ago
The Generalist

- Dear Friends, I'm raising £1,800 to fund an exhibition for Greenpeace in Lewes! Your support will help bring this project to life and raise vital awar...
1 year ago
8Sided Blog

Encounters with Dave Allen - First Encounter, Manhattan, 1991 CMJ Music Festival: My status as a college radio music director was an excuse for attending, but I was also looking for op...
1 year ago
Slow Motion

This is a preview of next year - On the Discogs entry for the After Shock label, it still lists a couple of phone numbers you might use to contact the label. Putting your mobile on the lab...
1 year ago
Relative Nostalgia

Unpopular Film/TV I Unironically Like - Media that I subjectively enjoy.
1 year ago
New Critique

[Review] The Year in Books 2024 – James McLoughlin - 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to live. I was then made redundant ...
1 year ago
blog to the oldskool

Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
1 year ago
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Hidden Depths - One of the most powerful shifts in Silent Hill 2 occurs somewhere past the halfway point. It follows the Historical Society, a dilapidated old museum, to w...
1 year ago
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 – World Dance – Lydd Airport – 5.2.9...
1 year ago
Suspended Reason

Will Nature Always Win? - “Only a fool swallows myths,” reads a protester’s sign, near Westminster, morn. “Keep the story of England alive,” counters a Parliament plaque, mere paces...
1 year ago
Oliver Craner

Michael Powell and the National Myth - 1980: Exile Michael Powell began writing his autobiography A Life in Movies during a period of professional exile from England — in 1980, while teaching f...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
I Understand

No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
2 years ago
Dan Fox

Issue 39: Partial Views of an Interior - Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 1946-2024
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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
2 years 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...
3 years ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
3 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
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
4 years ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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5 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...
5 years ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
5 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’...
6 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
6 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...
6 years ago
Airport Through The Trees

More Nada - I really want to write again, but I don't know how. I had, for no particular reason, a really, really, dark day today. I mean, bad bad. I was trying to con...
6 years ago
The Astral Plane

Reassembling the Pulp Doppelgänger - Views of the Baths of Titus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi In part one of this essay, I laid out the disappointing reality of the walking dead or pop modernis...
6 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...
6 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.
6 years ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Cover version - For whatever reason at some point I started taking inventory of the cover versions of "classic rock" band songs that were actually worthwhile. Not sure wh...
6 years ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNcpxZh71l2jCbTs7-nYBJmgvJTJrPf4wq2oyZ_7AbYvqESjZ94wqaJOKAPexY3gBRlHz2aFVqubZU16pxnLZA5...
6 years ago
on the ones

Scattered Impressions of Zagreb Film’s Early Years: Dušan Vukotić, Vatroslav Mimica, Vlado Kristl - Last year marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of Zagreb Film, which for a few decades was home to one of the premiere animation studios on the inte...
6 years ago
(SF) 365

Feel (is a word I can't explain) - So sang Paul Weller on The Style Council's fourth single, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, which had also been considered as The Jam's last single. It's partly ...
6 years 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 perfe...
6 years ago
Prole Sector

AN-I + Unhuman (L.I.E.S. Records) - More tasty double time pummelling lashed up with some cat o’ nine tails screamo and freestyle noise – not quite speedcore, thankfully.
6 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...
6 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
7 years ago
The Hum Blog

outside the reed syndicate - A brain melting mashup of Tony Conrad and Faust’s Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) and Terry Riley’s Reed Streams (1967), from (and by) The Hum. (Headp...
7 years ago
INTO THE SWAMP

The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective - The Singles Jukebox » Britney Spears: A Mid-Career Retrospective: *“Sllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaave….!” she sings, purrs, drawls — all at the one time — making sure...
7 years ago
The Pink Temple

- I don’t want to tell you how to write a poem, there are an infinite number of ways to write a poem, I want to teach you how to be poets, to initiate you i...
7 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Box Set: Loungecore - *A collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...* It looks as though some of you aren't aware that I no...
7 years ago
Velvet Coalmine

Good-bye to All That. - As you may have assumed already, I’m formally retiring this blog. It’s been good, helpful and cathartic to write, and my thanks to you if you’ve ever read,...
7 years ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - [image: Morrissey1]
7 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...
7 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
7 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.
8 years ago
Boring Old Books

Modern Practical Building Volume 1 - Caxton Publishing Company Limited. New and revised edition, 1950. Note: scans of photographs...
8 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus - *Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus * Tasly Phytosoy Margarita Plus Menambahkan unsur yin, supaya bisa lebih cantik dan sehat Wanita memiliki silkus biologi...
8 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 [...]
8 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
8 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...
8 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- pearlescent sky and the tiny lights punching holes in the mist. pigeon feathers purple and silver-grey. poised between moments. time stock still. perception ...
8 years ago
Binary Heap

Interactive Musical Hexagons - A two-dimensional spatial arrangement of the chromatic musical notes Web Site
8 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...
8 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November, 2017 - Books by Negri, Adorno and more.
8 years ago
The Night Mail

no.7// The Blue Rose: TV as Performance Art - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks* Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* If there’s a true precursor to ...
8 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 […] The post Win tickets to LTJ Bukem + Fabio @ O2 Forum Ke...
8 years ago
The Empty Page

Terry Wogan, Tom Petty and What Middle Aged Men Are Really Talking About When They Talk About The Beatles - Classic rock should be a retrospective classification. Something bestowed on rock that has through whatever process attained classic status. Yet some art...
8 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
8 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
9 years ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
9 years ago
leaving earth

hidden reflections of a dysfunctional world - If a golden age of musical originality and innovation happens and no one builds a movement and narrative around it, did it actually create anything new? D...
9 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
9 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
9 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
9 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...
9 years ago
Blackadelic Pop

Smile - Yesterday (3/17/2017) was the birthday of one of my favorite singers Nat King Cole. Recently, while writing a long short story about an aspiring model c...
9 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Negativity, Not Pessimism! (RIP Mark Fisher) - I was so shocked and upset to learn of Mark Fisher's death yesterday. For me, Mark was both an idol and, as time passed, someone I was always pleased and...
9 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Photo -
9 years ago
Mutant Technology

Elektronik – Soundtracks & other oddities by Marc Dauncey - I’m pleased to present my latest mix, Elektronik. A project to compile some of the most powerful synthesised music ever made – from the ultra minimal elect...
9 years ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #1: July 14th 1977 – Like Punk Hadn’t Really Happened Just Yet - The debut of the podcast that takes a random episode of Top Of The Pops and breaks it down to its very last compound. It’s the Summer of ’77, and the Sex P...
10 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Valerie - Not that one. Here's Thighpaulsandra, whose Golden Communion record is starting to worm its way into my life. This one, goes all over the place and through...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
10 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
10 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

Bunker mix - I’ve posted this on social media, but just realised I forgot to share it here too… I recently recorded a mix for The Bunker podcast out of New York. This i...
10 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.

Anti-Semitism: a mea culpa - I must, I fear, express and explain my guilt over all this. I wish I were not guilty, but I know I am. And that guilt is over the fact that, by about 2002 ...
10 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...
10 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

Free Romanian Teknival 2016 - THE ROOTS - Free Romanian Teknival - 12.08 - 23.08.2016 Open invitation for all sound systems, arts and public! Sound systems and performers, who w...
10 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
10 years ago
up close and personal

Somethin' Here -
10 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
10 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
10 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 concret...
10 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...
10 years ago
the hauntological society

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
10 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...
10 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
10 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
10 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...
11 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
11 years ago
Island of Terror

What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
11 years ago
Joy Press

The Exquisite Corpses of "Six Feet Under" - Feature on the visual poetry of "Six Feet Under" by Joy PressVillage Voice If you'd asked me what I thought of *Six Feet Under* last year, I would have ...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 years ago
Vocalities

Book Launch: Eleni Ikoniadou's The Rhythmic Event — Showroom - ELENI IKONIADOU's THE RHYTHMIC EVENT BOOK LAUNCH at THE SHOWROOM on THURSDAY 25 JUNE '15 18h30-21h30 • An event & discussion to celebrate th...
11 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

BARGAIN-BIN NAIRN: MY LONDON TOP 10 - I'll be leaving London in a few weeks to return to the Motherland (Newcastle), so thought I'd compile a LONDON TOP 10 based on my nearly four years in the...
11 years ago
A Window on the World

Top of the Pops (BBC-1, 01/05/1980) - (TX: BBC-4, 22/05/2015) Imagine a universe where scantily-clad, objectified and anonymised women strut about mechanistically to daintily piano-led jazz-f...
11 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. ...
11 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
11 years ago
_* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics

FEMEA 06.02.15 @UdK Berlin - FEMEA Festival - Feminism, Experimental Media and Electronic Arts A one-day event exploring gender (in)equality...
11 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
11 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
11 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...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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....
13 years ago
K-punk at Abstract Dynamics

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....
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Isolation - Isolation. Isolation (single edit, video). “Isolation” was an Iggy Pop-dominated composition, as Pop pointedly told an interviewer at the time that its mel...
14 years ago
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