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Of Instagrammatology (slight return) (the eternal returns of....) (unOriginal Mix) - My Instagram keep throwing up reels of *Charlotte de Witte*, who apparently is one of the biggest deejays in the world. I thought I'd check out her stu...2 days ago
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Mixmag - 15 Recent Dance Music Books You Should Read This Summer - Thanks to Gemma Ross for including *Futuromania* in the *Mixmag *list of summer reading for dance music fiends - the full list is h...5 days ago
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CRIzy about those Space Guitars and Synthesised Voices! - *Luke Owen* from *Death Is Not The End* has launched into a run of releases reissuing electronic music put out by *CRI * - Composers Recordings, Inc., o...6 days ago
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RIP Raoul Vaneigem - *Raoul Vaneigem *is one of those thinkers whose thinkige had a *massive* effect on me for a while - and then dropped away almost completely as other in...6 days ago
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Still In A Dream - readers reactions, upcoming events (plus reviews, interviews, translation news etc) - Nearly two months since publication date, Still is still going strongBut please buy it from anywhere else but the Evil Empire - ideally from a booksho...1 week ago
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The Trap Internationale - *The Face *is no more - *again*. Which is sad. But they've also taken down their website, leaving no trace of pieces written in its second incarnation. ...1 week ago
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The Fame Monsters - Strangely no mention of the Blondely Ambitious one in this piece about ambition in pop and "a certain monstrousness" of the popstar personality. Publishe...1 week ago
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Epigoners (Honorable and Less Honorable) (not-so-slight return) - In the comments to the previous post about *Robyn Hitchcock* and his epigonic attempt to perpetuate 1967... *Phil Knight* mentioned that there was quite...2 weeks ago
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faves of the 2010s - (Tracks not full lengths) Ke$ha – “We R Who We R” Ke$ha - “Backstabber” Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...3 months ago
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Visual Music - a lecture, by me - *Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018* *Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series* There is a subset of experimental ani...3 months 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
After a certain amount of ribbing for Peel around these parts over his Damascene conversion to the new orthodoxy of 1977, it’s good to see he had pretty good ears even before Punk. One of these albums is in my all-time Top Five, five are more or less excellent, and the Be Bop Deluxe, while not really my thing, is still an interesting historical artifact. Only three are real duds: Rod, BJH and Supertramp. Crime of the Century really is dismal, isn’t it? The Pickwick Dark Side of the Moon. But not quite as good as that makes it sound.
ReplyDeleteI think the point wasn't that he had bad taste pre-punk - but that he really good taste for the most part that he then junked for the New Wave.
ReplyDeleteThe stuff in this 1974 selection is all erased from the later 40 faves of all time list from 1979. Rock Bottom, Phaedra, I Want to See the Bright Lights, Tiger Mountain, Kimono My House, Veedon Fleece - not one of them makes into the 40 of all Time. Nor is there anything much like these albums either. He makes like he wasn't ever the great champion of the Underground.