09/30/2007
APOLLON-juxtaposition
Just finished a new APOLLON album...
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09/26/2007
mixmag-20 years of acid house...
...or around 20 months, as it happens.
As with most of these "old school" features, it all gets a little blured around the edges...mainly put together by people who missed it, or who were doing other things at the time..{Norman Cook somehow managing to connect himself with the scene is fecking laughable!}but, all in all, the best mixmag issue i've read for ages{mainly, er, because I haven't read it for ages}.
Good cd too..although the inclusion of post acid tracks like the brilliant ACPERIENCE 2 confuses the issue still further...either have all the old classics {what a superb track VOODOO RAY was} or a real acid influenced compilation, in my opinion...I think Josh etc had difficulty getting clearance with a few tracks but would have loved to hear NYMPHOMANIAC on the disc...
BIOLOGY...40 000 original ravers in the middle of nowhere, you really had to be there...
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09/24/2007
Songsurfer chart September 24th 2007
1 Antony and the johnsons
2 Robyn
3 Lisa Germano
4 Pixies
5 Terry Riley
6 The Books
7 Spooncurve
8 Resonant Cities
9 Martha Wainwright
10 Apollon
generated fortnightly
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09/08/2007
Bat for lashes
Just bought the Bat for lashes album, excellent stuff, the band should have won the Mercury music award in my opinion, but then the whole event is run by a bunch of muppets....
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09/07/2007
Drift:Resonant Cities
Robert has just sent me down the long awaited Drift:resonant cities double cd, a sound journey through 17 tracks from different artists at different points of the globe, with imaginative and creative use of field recordings.
It was certainly worth the wait...as usual with anything Robert is involved with, the art package is beautiful, and the sound classy, innovative and lacks the pretentiousness often guilty of many "sound art" projects.
Personal favourites are works from Pippa Murphy, Robert Mills, Viv Corringham and Marie Mota Marinez, but all are excellent.
Drift is an exploration of sound art and experimental music featuring radio broadcasts, moving image, publications and live events. It is a New Media Scotland project in partnership with co-curator Robert H. King.
Thanks for the "thanks" as well, Robert!
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Pavarotti
Pavarotti.
R.I.P
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