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. He is now one of the best follows on Twitter: consistently thoughtful and genuinely witty. Who would have thought it?
Reese piece
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"Rumblizm: In Praise of the Reese Bass" - an ode to one of the classic
rave sounds, originally unleashed by *Kevin Saunderson* for the *Reese*
track "J...
Their Way
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Never fully understood the term "chewing the scenery" until I saw this.
*Dorothy Squires* certainly "did it her way" - more on that at the bottom.
B...
Futuromania!
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My ninth book is out in a couple of weeks time! Futuromania: Electronic
Dreams, Desiring Machines & Tomorrow's Music Today is a themed collection
about mus...
The Future
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*THE FUTURE & THE HUMAN LEAGUE*
*The Golden Hour of the Future*
*(Black Melody)*
*Uncut, 2002*
*by Simon Reynolds*
It began with musical vomit in the m...
the future behind us now
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Xenogothic exhumes a panel discussion from 2014 involving Mark Fisher, Lee
Gamble, Kode9 aka Steve Goodman, Alex Williams, Lisa Blanning - and bearing
th...
future thinkige
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"Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches"
- Italo Calvino
"He, still unvanquished, eternally directed toward the future, who...
The Original Pitman
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Well, it doesn't actually specify that *Barnsley Bill* works down the pit,
but Barnsley was a big town for coal mining, along with other industries.
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Jules Evens - Cut Happy (2024)
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An animation created by *Jules Evens*, one of my students at California
Institute of the Arts (with sounds contributed by another student, Zhu
Dongch...
four favorite riffs
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Not actually my four absolute favorite riffs (Lord alone knows where I'd
start with that) but four *of* my favorite riffs, commented on for The
Wire's *G...
angel delights
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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...
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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