Search for dance mixes on YouTube and play them right there.
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Month: March 2017
Reviews: Hidden By Ivy, The Trapezoids, Miserable (2016, 2017).
Complicated acoustic progressive sounds, and a bit of cheap synth.
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Links: The history of records, copyright troll woes, Chuck Berry in space, the other Top 40 charts.
“My mum had a record of Winston Churchill speeches that played at 16⅔rpm. As we never owned a record player with that speed, I only ever heard the Pinky & Perky version played at 33.”
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Music journalism: still dead, thank goodness.
“Can music journalism exist at all?” “Do Music Journalists Matter Anymore?” I mean, if you have to ask …
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Links: SoundCloud $70m, Facebook the label, Discogs, Bitcoin and Boss Baby.
why does bitcoin keep coming up in my music links WHYYY
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Links: Cogent overblocking again; 3800 pirate sites blocked in UK; blockchain!
Pirates and blockchains. Arrr.
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All these streams will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
There is no “cloud”, there’s just someone else’s computer. Will we find a listener who cares?
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The Fall: Perverted By Language (1983).
“There was a time when I asked Mark if he’d heard that ‘Under Pressure’ song that Bowie did with Queen and he just said, ‘Yeah! They ripped that bass-line off “An Older Lover” on Slates. ‘” — Brix Smith
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Links: Spotify to reduce convenience, the Velvets’ banana, Cosey Fanni Tutti goes establishment.
Never interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.
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Reviews: Amyl and the Sniffers, Bestial Mouths (2016, 2017).
St Kilda cowpunk and electro goth rock.
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Followups: laser-burnt records, that Beatles live album, Depeche Mode vs the Nazis.
Further on previous stories. Reach out and punch face.
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Links: Spotify hackers, voiceover woes, Cabaret Voltaire in 2017.
“When nothing else works, just blast Darius Rucker.” Pictured: some micro-phonies.
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1986-87 Perth fanzine Vortex scanned and up on the Party Fears page.
From the bowels of time, we bring you Vortex magazine, Perth 1986-1987.
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Synthpop reviews: The Past Made Us One, Endanger, Pomigato (2017).
Minimal synth, EBM and Korean indie synth.
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Legal links: copyright trolls’ comeuppance, the iTunes Terms and Conditions Graphic Novel.
Copyright troll lawyers getting hung out to dry certainly counts as a happy ending.
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Reviews: 5TimesZero, Post War Glamour Girls, Vassals (2017).
Record reviews at last! Synthpop, shouty post-punk and grungy ’90s guitar pop. Some good stuff coming out over the next month.
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Ocean Mind: Underwater (2016).
Organic prog from Ocean Mind’s 2016 album Underwater.
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Links: VPN survey, a generated music startup, Metal Machine Music for Lou’s 75th.
“My week beats your year.” — Lou Reed
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Links: 100 years of recorded jazz, Spotify lossless streaming, Dark Side of the Moon desk.
And a picture that’s definitely a trap.
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Links: The public domain in comic form, Max Martin, Raspberry Pi tube sound.
And why you shouldn’t flush sodium metal down the toilet.
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