Video: Go-Betweens, techno in six steps, a pop hit in four minutes.

 

• There’s a Go-Betweens movie coming out: the trailer for Right Here:

• How to make techno in six steps:

• And Brett Domino: How to Write a Hit Pop Song in Four Minutes. “Press any of the black and white buttons on a piano.” The result sounds like it’d fit right into the Spotify Viral Chart. You also need the rest of his channel and the worked examples on his Bandcamp. Now I want a Moog Theremini.

 

The rest of the day’s been the blockchain book. Here’s how come the Bitcoin price hit $1900: because you can’t get ActualMoney out of Bitfinex and several other exchanges, so there’s nothing to spend it on but more bitcoins. And of course seeing the 100% predictable and predicted effects of a proprietary software monoculture that people like me have only been warning about for a couple of decades. But with Bitcoin.