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Thursday, July 26, 2012

(also via dissensus)

another jackin relick of 9ties house classic

yes it's

that nick hannam track got me thinking about owls in dance music

BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

A Year In The Country

Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart, the Haunted Region of Wild Wales and a Sidestep into Talking Pictures TV’s Broadcasts of the Overlooked, Shadowed Archives of Cinema and Television: Cathode Ray Library 2/52 - The 1950 film Gone to Earth, adapted from Mary Webb’s book originally published in 1917 and directed by Powell and Pressberger, has long been something of ...
8 hours ago
Datacide

Ghosts & Handbags - A Short Travel Report from the Japanese Underworld Her toenails perfectly match the colour of her smartphone. She wears a handbag with a huge Gucci print ...
15 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Julie Driscoll -
16 hours ago
WARREN ELLIS LTD

Ganymede Series 01 Watch Arrived - The face is a little smaller than I figured, and somewhat harder to effectively photograph, but here is that insane thing in the real world. It might be th...
18 hours ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Charles Soule, ANYONE - Charles Soule’s recent science fiction novel Anyone was published in 2019, but I only got around to reading it in early 2020. If I had read it in time, I w...
1 day ago
Cut and Run

Service Animals Through Sound - On Feb 8’s show, Helena Krobath hosted work and commentary from Olivia Dreisinger, creator of the video documentary Handler is Crazy. The documentary explo...
1 day ago
The Vigilant Citizen

We Need to Talk About That Ricky Gervais Monologue at the Golden Globes - Ricky Gervais delivered a scathing opening monologue at the Golden Globe Awards denouncing Hollywood's hypocrisy and its love for Jeffrey Epstein. Did he...
1 day ago
thebluemoment.com

Visions of the abstract - The news of the death of the photographer Jak Kilby has saddened all those who called him a friend. I met him in 1969, when he was a year or two into his w...
1 day ago
We Are the Mutants

“Unity, Precision, Thrust”: The NASA Graphics Standards Manual, 1975 - n the mid-1970s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was in a period of transition. The final manned Apollo mission to the Moon, Apollo 17, h...
1 day ago
Real Life

Guarded Looks - Sunglasses were the original anti-facial-recognition technology, allowing a sense of control and a feeling of privacy in public. But as reasonable as this ...
1 day ago
xenogothic

Humiliations - Yesterday’s post triggered the first hellthread of 2020. Did you miss it? Do you wish you had? It was a hellthread dripping with irony. Last year was domin...
1 day ago
森と記録の音楽

final entry - *森と記録の音楽* 2007-2019 当ブログの更新を休止することにいたしました。ここに引っ越してから8年、長い間チェックしてくださった皆さまに心から感謝いたします。またきっとどこかで。 I have decided to take a break from updating this blog. s...
2 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Reverbz Two - Here is another vintage reverb comparison. I did one a few years ago here in my previous studio, and thought it was time to do a new one with some more un...
2 days ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

➤ Second time unlucky as fire ravages former Camden Palace nightspot - ◼ TWICE IN 40 YEARS Camden Town’s most renowned theatre has been set ablaze. Last night the 119-year-old former Royal Camden Theatre, currently known as th...
3 days ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

GM ‘Fresh Air’ Archives - NPR’s Fresh Air archives are available online, including a handful of GM appearances, going back to a 1987 discussion about Lester Bangs and Psychotic Reac...
4 days ago
Sounding Out!

The Queerness of Wham’s “Last Christmas” - Christmas pop songs tend to revolve around just a few basic topics: 1) Jesus, 2) Santa, 3) Did you notice it’s winter?, and 4) Love. These aren’t mutually ...
4 days ago
blog to the oldskool

2019 Round Up - HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you lovely people who tune in and support us! First of all a special shout out to Steffi for requesting I do this multiple times. ...
6 days ago
Disposable Everything

Unserious ideas for serious times - It’s a familiar melancholy, seeing Jeremy Corbyn, like Leanne Wood before him, becoming a more radical yet more marginalised voice within his party, post-l...
1 week ago
Ace Linguist

Into the New Decade: Happy New Year! - Hello, Ace Linguist readers! Can you believe yet another year has gone by? It hasn't been as active as the last year, but still a lot of good content. A...
1 week ago
Pop Theory

Logical Geographies of Action: nonsite.org review forum on Ruth Leys’ The Ascent of Affect - The latest issue of nonsite.org includes a review forum on Ruth Leys’ The Ascent of Affect, with contributions from myself, Felicity Callard, Phil Hutchins...
1 week ago
Lost Turntable

Osamu Shoji’s Star Wars – May the synths be with you - I got to see Rise of the Skywalker this past Monday and thought it was just absolutely wonderful. It had some pacing and structure issues (so does Empire S...
1 week ago
History is made at night

2019: a political year on the London streets - On this last day of the decade I am not going to attempt any kind of political balance sheet. Yes it's been a fairly depressing time in the UK, with the re...
1 week ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Best First Time Viewings: 2019 (part # 2 of 3) - *11. Don * (Chandra Barot, 1978) Nearly five years after I first cracked the spine of Todd Stadtman’s essential Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s I...
1 week ago
Modernism Unbound

Top Ten Albums of 2019 - In this article, Jon Lindblom lists his favourite albums of 2019. Another year where deconstructed dance music has been the most central sonic theme for me...
1 week ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

The Best films In Every Year Since I've Been Alive - This originally started as a series of Facebook posts that grew increasingly more wordy as I went along. appropos of absolutely nothing, think I'll start p...
1 week ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Noise, drama, Jeremy Beadle’s noise research, the Darlington Quiet Town Experiment, and the earliest published story by Mark Gatiss - As a freelancer, many pitches and proposals become little more than yelps into an abyss. At the end of 2019 I’ve decided to relinquish a continually reject...
1 week ago
Musical Urbanism |

favorite music of 2019 - This year marks the first time that some end-of-year favorite albums were enjoyed on streaming platforms only. That probably tells you all you need to know...
2 weeks ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I’ve held off writing anything about the election for fear of falling into fatalism, phraseology or the original sin, which many on Twitter seem to be comm...
2 weeks ago
Trevor Barre

A Prayer Answered - Thank Mike Barnes for a Hopefully Decent Book about Early Seventies Rock Music - A few months back, I blogged about a book on the band Henry Cow, a quintessential seventies band. Towards the beginning of this particular communication,...
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks ago
Nina Power

Election 2019 Eve - [This text was written the night of 11th December 2019] Mood in advance of tomorrow – judgement in Alfie’s case expected, general election, forecast rain –...
2 weeks ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner notes on 2019 - “Forget the times ahead” As another exceptional year for important things, like new wonderful music, draws to an end, I would like to take the opportunity ...
3 weeks ago
cardrossmaniac2

Moon Wiring Club - Cavity Slabs - It's Christmas time. So there's this LP which arrived in the mail this week. MWC emerge further from their dank torpor of the last couple of years (The g...
3 weeks ago
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Into the Breach - As it turned out, this election was just a continuation of the trend, a link in the chain of right wing nationalism that’s been enjoying a resurgence, albe...
3 weeks ago
it's her factory

On the “Blue Monday” WONDER WOMAN 84 trailer - The new trailer for Wonder Woman 84 is soundtracked to New Order’s “Blue Monday.” Originally released in 1983, the song sonically sets the film in its epon...
4 weeks ago
The Pirate Archive

Kaos FM – Paisley - Kaos FM were first heard in the late 1980s. They broadcast rock and pop on 103.5 across Glasgow, Paisley and Renfrewshire. They could be heard from 6 PM ...
4 weeks ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
4 weeks ago
Jason Phereus,

Surprising - Now who'd've thought Green on Red would be ripping off late Amon Dull 2?
5 weeks ago
Airport Through The Trees

Misdeployed - Is there any word more misused than nihilism? Or maybe it's me who doesn't get it. I had already been thinking about this a few weeks ago and had forgotten...
5 weeks 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 month 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 month ago
Found Objects

homebuilt instruments -
1 month ago
streams of expression

Sean Bonney, 1969-2019 - *Photo by Sophie Robinson* I can't believe I'm writing this in the past tense. Sean was one of those people to whom almost anyone you could name had a pe...
1 month 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 month ago
64 Quartets

3. The Jamies - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAYLIST When I was eleven or so, I would fall asleep with the radio on. This was a gun...
1 month ago
davidtoop

emanation, as if by a charm: Ami Yamasaki - Surprise is a dubious pleasure, cultivated in the search for musical forms that take the listener into realms of impossible/imaginary. Then suddenly, after...
1 month ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Mick Farren – The Feelies - [image: farren 1.jpg] *Mick Farren *with illustrations by Chris Welch, *The Feelies* (Michael Dempsey – Big O Publishing, London 1978) 1978, 34 years old...
1 month ago
WOEBOT

The Bumper Book of Woe - Hello Woebles! I've only gone and done it again! Here is the sequel to 2013's "The Big Book of Woe," my latest collection of writing on music, "The Bumpe...
1 month ago
East of Borneo

The Digger Archives - The Digger Archives is an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group that challenged the emerg...
1 month ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

JEAN SCHWARZ ‎– GAMMA PLUS / SUITE N (INA-GRM ‎– 9110 SZ, SÈRIE GRAMME) (VINYL LP, 1983) (MP3 320) - *Repongo este material del que se habían perdido los links de descarga y, de paso, iniciamos un paseo por el mundo sonoro de Schwarz.* *DEDICADO A SONIC...
2 months ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • November 2, 2019 -
2 months ago
Portals of London

To Hell: A chamber in the disused railway tunnel under Sydenham Hill - *The following story was posted on a Lewisham borough forum, under a discussion about Sydenham Hill in the 1980s and ’90s:* Yes, I remember stories about...
2 months ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

Plastic Moonrise - Papier Mâché (ERR REC, 2019)A short film... - Plastic Moonrise - Papier Mâché (ERR REC, 2019) A short film edited by Tom Gagnaire with footage shot by Catherine Norris (flmed in Malvern UK 2019) & To...
3 months ago
The Hum Blog

five video documents from the archives of rip hayman, and on recital’s dreams of india & china - RIP Hayman, photographed by Robert Masotti (1980) The history of avant-garde and experimental music is tangled mess. Names, places, and actions rise to sur...
3 months ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
3 months ago
BLDGBLOG

Imperial Hyperreality - [Image: PDF]. Before it was taken down yesterday, apparently following a burst of social media attention, the U.S. General Services Administration posted a...
3 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

The Bad Trip - *‘A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is **falling down.’ – **The Sunday Times* Very happy to announce here the publication of *The Bad Tr...
4 months ago
The Work Trials

INTERVIEW: Caroline Sullivan - *Caroline Sullivan is a pop critic of several decades standing who has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Melody Maker to name but a few. Having...
5 months ago
joy of speed

Love Scene (Version 7) - A previously unreleased take from the soundtrack to *Zabriskie Point* (1970).
5 months ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
6 months ago
Velvet Coalmine

Review: Education, Education, Education - As I’m always interested in changing retrospectives on the 90s, I was interested to see Bristol-based theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble’s play Educatio...
6 months ago
The Pink Temple

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8 months ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

The Larks Ascending - *The Larks Ascending* is a complete guide to comedy, humour and downright oddness on BBC Radio 3, from Kenneth Williams’ archival documentaries about str...
9 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

‘Freedom of movement is essential for musicians’ – opera singer told to change pro-EU dress! - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/26/opera-singer-asked-to-change-pro-eu-dress-for-london-concert “It’s a difficult time for the musical communi...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
Rave Archive UK »

Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97’ - Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97’ – Western aerodrome, Northampton – 9.8.97 Kenny Ken – Helter Skelter ‘Energy 97 Download/Play Mickey Finn – Helter Skelter ‘Ener...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

Two and a Thousand Tiny Races in Sonya Lindfors’s Dance Performance ‘Noble Savage’ - In Finland, professional dancers have been almost exclusively white. Because of this, Sonya Lindfors’s *Noble Savage *(2016), which is themed around blac...
11 months ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Songs Morrissey should cover#14 - Advertisements
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Dream Transmissions

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

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 [...]
1 year ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

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

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Blue Lines Revisited

allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love... - allofthemarvels: From “It Happened at Woodstock!” in My Love #14, 1971. Probably the most bluntly sexual thing I’ve seen in a Marvel romance comic… anywa...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
2 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
2 years ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
2 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
3 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 ...
3 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: ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Internal exile

Photo -
3 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
3 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
3 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...
3 years ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

Fast methods to improve battery life in your mobile - Battery life gets worse as cellphones get better. It is a basic fact of possession that is top 10 phones under 10000. However, you can find easy things y...
3 years ago
Vexed at the Earth

And hoy them doon the pit of hell - Seething with cold hate, Louisa Jo Killen.
3 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...
3 years ago
Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain: Barrow - Barrow is seated at his desk gazing out across the city, the day dissolving, night settling in soft, sooty layers, blunting the edges of the vast concrete...
3 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
3 years ago
The Inkbottle

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
4 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
4 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...
4 years ago
SIGNS FICTION

- Signs Fiction has moved! Thanks for the ongoing support!
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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. ...
4 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
4 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
4 years ago
Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Photo -
5 years ago
Beyond The Wychelm

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by ...
5 years ago
Urban Trawl

Poundbury's Hidden Reverse - (the below is a review spiked by a prominent architecture monthly, apparently because they'd already published a lot of criticism of the author in question...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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....
6 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...
6 years ago
Sea Songs

On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...
6 years ago
Mark Fisher ReBlog

“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 years ago
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CIRCULATION ZERO

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slouching toward babylon

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The Mire

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Wounds of Class

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