From last week, but worth the read (even if John seems to like two other pet hates of mine — The Stones and old Zimmerframe himself).
If you’re like me, and you hate U2 more than Satan, Hitler and Walt Disney combined, then the imminent arrival in cinemas of U2 3D offers another chance to […]
Some of the photographs can be seen at Selfridges in London until late April 2008. Telegraph article on the Exactitudes (exactidudes?) exhibition.
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This time around the SXSW music torrent has been created by Greg Hewgill (thanks). I have no idea why SXSW itself did not bother. Not all torrents are evil and I wonder how UK ISPs will deal with legal torrents like these in the future.
Listening to some old 12″s found in the basement.
The excellent NonPop podcasts presented by Scott Unrein are back in tune (and with a new design) after almost almost a year of hiatus. The music is mostly modern classical.
Time to dust of my own microphone and get Acecast running again.
Karlheinz Stockhausen obituary in The Times.
The Battles are namedropped in both a Sunday Times piece on underground dance music and are strangely called “post-punk revivalists” by Emma Warren in The Observer’s 50 top albums for 2007.
Mirrored rightly belongs in a year end list, but let’s call the music for what it is. Prog rock.
Mirrored is late King Crimson […]
Download Blogariddims 31, MP3@192Kbs, 60:00 minutes>
This is one hour of straightforward avant-garde electronic goodies, treated and non-treated voices, some phonography, computer code noise and the old pause signal from the Norwegian radio. There’s at least two tracks running at the same time throughout the one hour mix and if you don’t like it at first, […]
The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing […]
After a year’s break from podcasting at Acecast I have decided to revive the site and my half-hour shows of free and legal music. The tracklisting has been ready for months and it shows. One of the bands on the show, Headless, have split (ouch). Hopefully we’ll hear […]
Although I have never read Nobelist Naipul, I am with him on Jane Austen,
I thought halfway through the book, ‘Here am I, a grown man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love life.’
In a nice piece of symmetric marketing over the weekend Naipul is interviewed in The Sunday Times
“After nearly 170 years, […]
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Siouxsie is newly divorced, fifty and with her first solo-album Mantaray soon out. She does not think much of technology though,
“YouTube,” spits the high priestess of punk, “technology – I hate it.”
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People doing their own thing – that’s punk.
Quite a long interview with Gibson, whose latest novel Spook Country is set in the present. Cut-out quotes,
I have become convinced that it is silly to try to imagine futures these days.
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Well, as time has gone along, it has become more apparent to me that people don’t sit down in parliament and say, “What this […]
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Download Blogariddims 14 - A short history of Norwegian postpunk 1979-1985 (mp3).
A bit of personal journey back in time this time around. While the last mix was heavily layered, this is more of a sequence of tracks from the Norwegian punk/postpunk period. I started out with a list of around 50 tracks, but […]
Download Bloggariddims 9 - Absolute Norwegian (mp3).
Biosphere’s Poa Alpina from his 1997 ambient masterpiece Substrata album opens the mix.
Fiddler Knut Buen and singer Agnes Buen Garnås [2] are siblings and as authentic carriers of tradition that you can find. I’m a sucker for clear female voices (think Maddy Prior) and Agnes has […]