At age ten I’d heard synthesizers were cool, so found some Karlheinz Stockhausen to start me off. I, ah, didn’t quite know what to make of it.
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Author: David Gerard
Reviews: Gaddafi Gals, It’s The Lipstick On Your Teeth, Ankathie Koi (2017).
In which I trip over Seayou from Vienna, a good label I hadn’t heard of before.
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Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a textbook.
You can guess which of these I’m particularly excited by.
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Links: Students are broke, old 78s, bad VR hype.
And the Haçienda is still in popular culture. And Makoto Kino.
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How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.
You’d think people running a business would do things that would make money and have them still be around next year. But, welcome to music!
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Links: Warner copyright fraud, RightsCorp bleeding red ink, BBC audio woo.
And a rousing topical singalong.
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Reviews: Marsy, HYTS, Dreams Are Like Water (2017).
Time to go out looking for interesting new things.
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Pop links: The missing V chord, why pop comes from Los Angeles, how earworms work.
Pop music is a virus, and I still get the shingles outbreaks.
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Hante: Between Hope & Danger (2017).
The icy ocean at night, calling you to the sea.
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Links: Musical blockchains again.
Not all about me, for once!
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Punk rock links: Dennis and Lois documentary, Nazi Punks, old Native American bands.
More punk rock ‘cos Dennis and Lois have a Kickstarter for a documentary.
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Punk rock links: Lester Bangs, Dennis and Lois, Montréal, Russia.
This is your future if you live your life right.
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Producers: Max Martin literally farts a top ten hit; Butch Vig; Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
“Always give yourself credit for having more than personality.” parp parp parp
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The return of the KLF.
All bound for Mu-Mu Land.
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Synth links: Detroit techno, old gadgets, TR-08, Alan Vega, making your synthesizer fart.
The one thing anyone wants from a new synth.
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Soundcloud saved for now! … keep downloading.
SoundCloud is saved! … for as yet unknown values of “saved.”
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High seas links: trolling the trolls who troll.
Not even copyright trolls like copyright trolls.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback is out!
And to celebrate, a picture of Mr. Bitcoin.
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It’s the Global Repertoire Database everyone loves! (5 sec later) We regret to inform you …
… that the new effort is falling to the same infighting the original did.
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Seeming: Sol (2017).
A song-oriented post-industrial album from three years’ close obsession.
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When did music journalism stop wielding the axe? Particularly against the industry?
Music journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.
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Links: Bandcamp Friday deal, Post-Punk.com, Soundcloud as dot-com disaster.
Some news that’s actually timely and urgent!
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Links: SoundCloud saved, ASCAP and BMI start on Global Repertoire Database, Daily Mail sued for piracy.
And my book is doing surprisingly well.
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Reviews: Desert M, Loewenhertz, Elektrostaub (2016, 2017).
Instead of books, let’s talk about industrial, in ambient prog and synthpop flavours.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is out!
IT IS OUT! PEOPLE QUITE LIKE IT!
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Links: The failed hi-res audio of the 1990s, the risks of piracy, Simon Reynolds’ glam faves.
And the Blockchain Robot!
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Followups: Spotify “fake artist” speaks, SoundCloud, more audiophile networking.
And I have two or three days to get the book absolutely finished OH GOD
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Links: Women in jazz, the power of arts funding, Chrome will kill torrent sites.
And some fake copyright VHS warnings.
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Well chaps, SoundCloud may be buggered. Save what you can.
Despite a possible last-second rap rescue, assume SoundCloud is probably still at risk and you should be downloading and preserving.
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Spotify’s extruded pop product substitute is worth it for the industry outrage.
Spotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.
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