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- SIMON REYNOLDS
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"who are you, 2013?" - talking about retrodance, Martin Clark aka Blackdown takes Disclosure to task in an open letter which picks up on a quote Howard from the group said: *“I ...18 hours ago
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- *FOOTNOTES #5* ** *CHAPTER 4 CONTORT YOURSELF: No Wave New York * *[chapter 9 in the US edition]* ** *Page 50* >A British invention The Sex Pistols’s...4 years ago
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"It's either them or it's me: And it's them" - Something was once here, and now it’s gone. Mourn if you will, but please observe the requirements of the programme; and pay your respects to the decease...2 days ago
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Message sent, message received - *I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide* * *Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officia...2 days ago
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Siberian Gold - *"For help was coming from an unexpected dimension. In 1961, the first oilfield had been discovered in western Siberia, and by 1969 geologists - many worki...2 weeks ago
BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE
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Grammy.com (A Big Fuck-OFF) - I'm almost speechless at this, found via Blissblog (who's also almost speechless - unless he's saving his ire for a paid ranting). Almost. Actually, that'...8 minutes ago
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Legacy - The man credited with inventing Chicago's footwork style of music has his * Legacy* compiled by Planet Mu.22 minutes ago
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REVIEW: Dr Feelgood Exhibition/Lee Brilleaux Memorial Walk - Sophia Deboick heads to Canvey Island to embark on the annual walk in memory of the band's late frontman and take in the new exhibition of Dr Feelgood para...31 minutes ago
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“Petroglifs” by Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown: the video documentary - http://csi.asu.edu/csi/bruce-sterling-creates-21st-century-petroglifs-at-csi/ “During Emerge 2013: The Future of Truth this spring, CSI Visionary in Reside...1 hour ago
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The Vampire City - *The first undeniable element in this life is due to the city's nature as a parasite. She absolutely cannot live in and by herslf. And this, moreover, char...1 hour ago
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BBC Radio 4 - Creating Pitch-Perfect - BBC Radio 4 - Creating Pitch-Perfect: Catherine Bott on software that corrects out of tune singing but is also a creative tool. I am in this documentary ...2 hours ago
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Music Review: Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love is The Devil - Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love is The Devil [Zoo Music; 2013] by Ezra Elliott Rating: Dirty Beaches, or Alex Zhang Hungtai, is accustomed to pulling...8 hours ago
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Abraxas: The International Journal of Esoteric Studies - [image: abraxas.jpg]A welcome arrival in the post recently was two issues of Abraxas, the book-format journal of esoteric studies from Fulgur Esoterica. I’...10 hours ago
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1. I’m reading (via the Amazon “Look Inside” page) the letters of Italo Calvino.... - 1. I’m reading (via the Amazon “Look Inside” page) the letters of Italo Calvino. He’s discussing Jaspers, Chekhov, O’Neill, Pirandello, Fellini. With a h...11 hours ago
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Crystal Voyagers Pt 1/3 - Crystal Voyagers: A Journey Through The New Age: Part One from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo. Watch the first instalment of Crystal Voyagers: A Journey Throug...12 hours ago
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Watch Chief Keef's Amazingly Titled 'Macaroni Time' Video - This week has only spanned two days, but it's already been a roller coaster ride for Chicago teen rap star Chief Keef. On Monday afternoon, he was arreste...13 hours ago
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Festival Time - I don't really like summer festivals much. All that premeditated fun, mud and bad music. It's a young man's game. I prefer to stay home where I can be sure...13 hours ago
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Why does Plato hate the flute/aulos? And what does this have to do with women? - ** *These people, largely uneducated and unable to entertain themselves over their wine by using their own voices to generate conversation, pay premium pr...13 hours ago
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➤ Farewell Trevor the mutton-chopped Spider from Mars - ➢ Trevor Bolder dead at 62 – “ Long-time Uriah Heep bassist and Spiders From Mars icon Trevor Bolder has died of cancer at the age of 62, it’s been confirm...14 hours ago
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Jodorowsky’s Dune (trailer) Actually more excited about... - *Jodorowsky’s Dune (trailer)* Actually more excited about this documentary than about his new feature.15 hours ago
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Shimmy on Down - A new low in corporate clubbing at the Shimmy club in Glasgow, where women have complained about a two way mirror looking in to the women's toilets which g...15 hours ago
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Watch Pulse Emitter on Experimental Half-Hour - For the 37th and latest episode of Experimental Half-Hour-- Portland's aptly titled experimental music and performance show-- one of the city's foremost...16 hours ago
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Matthew and Pamela - Ages ago Matthew came round to the studio to meet my synths. He's the mad genius behind ALM / Busy Circuits synth modules, in particular *Pamela's Workout...17 hours ago
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THE FEUDALISM OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE - In this season's Premier League the margin between 7th and 8th (12 points) was almost the same as the gap between 8th and the relegation zone (13 points)...1 day ago
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Denise Gallant / Synopsis Video (ca. 1981–1983) - Denise Gallant / Synopsis Video (ca. 1981–1983)1 day ago
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OBlog: Wheelwright Prize 2013 Winner - Gia Wolff, Brooklyn-based architect, wins $100,000 travel grant for her proposal *Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats*.1 day ago
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"For decades relegated to lone VHS copies buried in college libraries, Dan Graham’s dense DIY..." - “For decades relegated to lone VHS copies buried in college libraries, Dan Graham’s dense DIY documentary traces a history of rock‘n’roll in which Patti Sm...1 day ago
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pitchfork: Read Mark Richardson’s Best New Music review of Daft... - pitchfork: Read Mark Richardson’s Best New Music review of Daft Punk’s fourth album, *Random Access Memories*. I reviewed the new Daft Punk record.1 day ago
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The Rotters' Club - Angus Fairhurst, *Gallery Connections*, sketch for presentation, c 1995 Some straggling thoughts on the New/Young British Art topic of earlier... The arti...2 days ago
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"Pick off your litter" & Mobile Termination Units (1977) - After the case of James Sprout (go here for more detail) the government realised that parents desired more control over their offspring, so, in 1977, laws ...4 days ago
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Composer Portraits: The Darmstadt Boys - Luciano Berio Pierre Boulez John Cage Hans Werner Henze Mauricio Kagel Gottfried Michael...4 days ago
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The National Automated Highway System That Almost Was - In 1991, Congress authorized $650 million to develop the technology that would make driverless cars a reality5 days ago
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Back soon - The painted wrd is down for maintenance and will return in June. All the best!1 week ago
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recent publications - Some writings that first appeared on this blog have been published recently. First, the latest print issue of Burning Ambulance comes out today with my ess...1 week ago
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MUTANT DANCE - A HTV Documentary that aired on 02/06/1997 documenting the UK based Mutant Dance Party Collective and Bristol Free Party Crew gearing up for a free party t...1 week ago
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John Maus-flavoured Introduction to Robocop, Explanatory Music Video, Maus Book Reprint - So here's something a bit different. Last week I did a couple lectures in Brussels and Amsterdam in which I talked about John Maus and similar underground...1 week ago
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Fragments on Time: Found Poetry in My Dashboard - I have nearly 50 drafts in my blog’s dashboard — waiting, forgotten, abandoned. This week, I encouraged readers at the Daily Post, one of our blogs at Word...1 week ago
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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Boxset Review - Nick Drake Bryter Layter Boxset (Commercial Marketing) *"I think that's one of the problems with Nick's legacy, if there is a problem. I get sent tapes...1 week ago
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I Feel Like A Wog: Part 5 - For Yukio - The Stranglers’ relationships with both the Finchley Boys and the Hell’s Angels would attenuate from 1978 onwards, as the band’s success saw them playing ...1 week ago
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Brian Eno updates • May 4, 2013 - IN THIS UPDATE: Eno/Bryan Ferry by Lester Bangs; Brian Eno's Lux; Music For Hospitals; Steve Reich; Edinburgh Festival; James Blake; Emmylou Harris; Seun K...2 weeks ago
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The Past is a Regional Dialect - Another dead blog post. This blog refuses to die. Should I just cut off life support? Should I let it all go? Who the fuck is even listening at this point?...2 weeks ago
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Top 10/Bottom 3: May 2013 - Top 10 What else? Boards of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest Make Noise Echophon Game of Thrones Parks and Recreation New Venture Bros! Portland Timbers A real ...2 weeks ago
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RIP Jeff Hanneman - fuck. fuck. fuck. kicking myself for never getting around to seeing Slayer live would almo...2 weeks ago
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Hyper-On Experience official facebook page / soundcloud - I was really excited to see today that Alex Banks of E-Z Rollers has set up an official HYPER-ON EXPERIENCE facebook page, which already has some great sto...2 weeks ago
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Affective privacy and surveillance - When experience has become data, privacy can only ever be a feeling3 weeks ago
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How the internet influences what we wear - I’m always fascinated with how the internet is impacting other creative industries beyond music. On Saturday I took my little sister to The Vogue Festiva...3 weeks ago
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'Spring Breakers' is Not as Ironic as You Think - Film.com - 'Spring Breakers' is Not as Ironic as You Think - Film.com: rogueish: Ridiculous that I wrote a post about *Spring Breakers* without mentioning Britney; ...4 weeks ago
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GendyTrouble - Contrary to popular belief, programming sound in environments/languages such as Supercollider is not just for boys and recent evidence shows how it can d...4 weeks ago
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New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...1 month ago
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ODDS AND SODS AND STILL ALIVE - I figure it might be a good idea at this point to say that I'm not shutting down this blog. I'm hoping to become a little more active again come May, but w...2 months ago
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blackfashion: Tina Turner photographed by Knoepfel &... - blackfashion: Tina Turner photographed by Knoepfel & Indlekofer for Vogue Germany April 2013 Hair: Jennifer Wagner Makeup: Luca Mannuc...2 months ago
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The Landscape of Power - Sylvia Crowe, P.I.L.A. The Architectural Press: London 1958 Printed and bound in Great Britain by STAPLES PRINTERS LIMITED at their Roches...2 months ago
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tweeting on a #sorry day - #staring at a beige wall without a window at dusk; #seeing your lover’s back as an expanse of desertous skin, without curves or ripples; #duneless woman...2 months ago
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Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....2 months ago
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A falling fourth or fifth - Bitterly cold this morning in Queens Wood but not too cold to hear the woman calling her dogs with a fluting falling call – ooh oooh – that reminded me of ...2 months ago
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How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...2 months ago
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Issue #144 (Feb. 6, 2013) - *Centennial Beach, Naperville IL* Photo by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *United States of Nigger...3 months ago
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On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...3 months ago
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scissor lock - churn (self released) - Let’s begin with that cover. Because it’s not so much a cover as a framing device. A freeze frame actually. Taken from the exuberant video to JB’s “Beauty...3 months ago
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Yacht Rock - Yacht. Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) (“hunt”) (modern jacht), short for jaghts...4 months ago
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EP MANIA - Perhaps the main problem for poststep, the main reason it isn't recognised as the uncontrolled eruption of revolutionary musical modernism that it is, is ...4 months ago
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“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...4 months ago
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2012 in Music - *2K12 IN MUSIC* Yo, this blog post will be in two sections, Part I dealing with my own personal year-in-music, and the second a more critical look at some ...4 months ago
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Photography and Document, Film and Narrative - Allan Sekula and Noël Burch podcasts care of the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid.4 months ago
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Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...5 months ago
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Get Free stuff and Free perfume sampels - Spending some time regarding free gifts on website is always pretty pleasurable. It’s just like browsing increasingly more to acquire maximum variety of ...5 months ago
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Babylon Reggae mix by me - Babylon Reggae Mix by Marc Dauncey on Mixcloud Here’s a new mix I did – a selection of Jamaican roots reggae juxtaposed against UK fast chat, dub and mor...6 months ago
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Tattoos - When people with ‘quality’ tattoos are asked to justify them they’ll say it’s their body and they mean something to them and they’re not obliged to expla...7 months ago
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Freeparty Photobooks - NO SYSTEM Vinca Petersen (Steidl) Vinca travelled around with various teknotypes in the mid-1990s. A lot of these snaps feel like holiday fotos and she...7 months ago
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Decadence and Dying Earth, Part 1.5 - I'm reading Clark Ashton Smith for the first time, and I'm doing so with no knowledge of the writer's personal life or work outside of *Zothique *and the t...1 year ago
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