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"Outdoors, minor!" - "Sometimes my contribution [as a record producer] might have been as minimal as just saying, 'Shall we stop for a few minutes?... And then of course, ot...1 week ago
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Russell Mael's uncooked chicken legs - He should at least have put on some make-up for the studio lights Russell wore hotpants in the promo video too - it was a unified look for this pa...1 week ago
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The Toppermost of the Poppermost - How much do I love these *Top of the Pops* opening sequences from the late Sixties and early Seventies? Quite often they are the high point of the show ...1 week ago
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Apropos of nothing - Poptimism - the debate that refuses to go away, yet never goes anywhere. Deadlocked, yet churning. The recent rechurn stirred up memories of the fierce arg...1 week ago
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Those Horny "Horns" - If I was to make an inventory of My Favorite Sounds in Dance Music.... high up would be the horn sounds in UK garage. "Horns" - because they are nearly...2 weeks ago
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Oneohtrix Point Never - *Oneohtrix Point Never* *Village Voice, July 6, 2010* *by Simon Reynolds* Daniel Lopatin, the young man behind the spacey and spacious mindscapes of O...4 weeks ago
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questionnaire pour Libération (2020) - *What is the first record you bought in your youth with your own money ?* Ian Dury and the Blockheads, *Do It Yourself*, 1979 *Your favorite way for li...4 weeks ago
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Anti-Retro (Foucault else to do) - Historians of retro concur that the first time "retro" was used in its current way was in France in the early '70s, with the phrase *mode rétro* - the re...4 weeks ago
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Art and the Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art - I do like this kind of book that attempts to sum up a moment in cultural time, especially when the author is also rash enough to predict ...1 month ago
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angel delights - https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs *Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica! Another vintage release, with a vi...3 years ago
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Lovely piece, and spot-on about Slint’s lasting reputation and influence. It’s let down only by the rote in-group signaling about “dance music” and rap. The contradictory facets of Albini’s public persona are perplexing: he is capable of both tremendous intelligence and sensitivity, and the crassest adolescent posturing. Chuck Eddy has a great paragraph on ‘Songs About F***ing’, where he says that on ‘Tiny, King of the Jews’ Albini seems to break through into real insight about the bleak corner he has painted himself into. And then he breaks up Big Black and starts a new band called Rapeman.
ReplyDeleteHe is now one of the best follows on Twitter: consistently thoughtful and genuinely witty. Who would have thought it?
yes he has matured nicely.
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