And some notes on The Book.
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Author: David Gerard
Discopedia: a dance music search engine.
Search for dance mixes on YouTube and play them right there.
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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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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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Musician links: The bass master race, the history of guitar distortion, the Funky Drummer dies.
Loo-oks like it’s all over now.
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Links: Bono and Pence, Richard Spencer and Depeche Mode. And dealing with musicians.
♪ So we’re different colours
And we’re different creeds
And Nazi Dick Spencer
Obviously can’t read ♫
Reviews: Traitrs, Vanguard (2016, 2017).
Angsty guitar post-punk and angsty EBM half way to Hi-NRG.
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Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.
“First he put the bomb under the ramp instead of the truck, and the other truck was the one with most of the stuff inside.”
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Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.
Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.
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Synths out: Marcelo Andrea Expreso Maniquí, Maine, Syntheads (2016, 2017).
Bleep your life brighter.
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Industry links: Facebook, video, Cogent Pirate Bay block, CMJ charts dead, DistroKid retrospective.
The usual cavalcade of brilliance and competence.
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Reviews: Artefact, Ritual Howls, La Orden (2016, 2017).
Guitar post-punk in black and grey.
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Quando Quango: Pigs and Battleships (1985).
A vastly underappreciated post-punk album of the female and funky variety, by a band substantially responsible for what became acid house as we know it.
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Internet backbone Cogent blocks Pirate Bay; network admins concerned by fallout.
Cogent has blocked the Pirate Bay, in a particularly hamfisted manner prone to collateral damage.
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