It was never going to be easy to live up to that earthshattering series of singles, but I should not be thinking “yes, yes, get on with it.”
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Category: Dance
It’s got a beat and you can do architecture to it.
Capsule: Metro Pulse (2022).
Yasutaka Nakata‘s much-anticipated synthwave masterpiece.
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Missed Connections: Happy Mondays.
I had an epic musical missed connection when I confused the Happy Flowers with the Happy Mondays, and didn’t realize what had happened until thirty-odd years later.
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Shelf-reading at Bandcamp: Industrial — Leæther Strip, Metal Heart, Master Boot Record, Pertubator (2022, 2023).
Yeeeeeahhhh that’s the 2nd floor of Slimelight GOOD STUFF, y’all.
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Five slabs of listening from 2021.
Two are actually from this year!
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Records: Slow Down Molasses (2021), Shriekback (1989).
Also: the Terminator comedy dick puppet remix technique.
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Grum: Deep State (2019).
Experientially and holistically, this is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of work of which Grum can be pretty proud of.
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Underworld, June 1st, 2019 Sydney Opera House
Possibly one of the most iconic progressive house bands of the 1990s, Underworld’s appearance at Sydney’s Vivid light and sound festival was exceptionally appropriate.
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Links: Mark E. Smith, keeping Nazis out of punk, have you heard about Napster?
Suspended in gaffer.
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Cryptorave: Arpanet, M.E.S.H., Amnesia Scanner — Romantso, Athens, Saturday 16 February 2019
Excessive quantities of pseudish babble wrapped around a surprisingly good live techno gig.
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Lords of Acid: Pretty In Kink (2018).
Everyone’s familiar with Lords of Acid at a basic level, right? Dark electronic erotica? Techno songs about fucking? It’s all very nineties. Pretty in Kink was released in May 2018 but still puts out the oldschool LoA vibe.
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Links: EBM is trendy, managing the Rolling Stones, Swiss modernist post punk, egregious YouTube content filtering.
Post-punk albums in the style of 1960s Penguin nonfiction paperbacks.
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Links: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,” ’80s remixes of current pop, ABBA, Philip Glass and S-Express, YouTube Music.
The Rolling Stones piece certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?”
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Links: World In Motion, pirates, kids listen to Swans, Irmin Schmidt.
“If there’s one group who can capture the spirit of bitter infighting that typifies being in a World Cup squad …”
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Links: Dragon Ball Super mass piracy, origin of the gated reverb snare, the return of illegal raves.
Plus Salman Rushdie’s disco turn, and “Ace Of Spades” played on an actual spade.
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Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.
There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.
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Links: Rasa Didzpetris Davies genius of The Kinks, Milli Vanilli, Arthur Baker, Children of Satoshi.
Planet Rock. Nicht halt. Raza DIdzpetris is why the Kinks were that good.
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Reviews: Phase Fatale, Christian Fitness (2017).
Industrial and 2017 punk.
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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.
Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.
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Reviews: Boy Harsher, Vittorio Di Mango, David Carretta (2016, 2017).
From the grey area between techno and industrial.
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Reviews: Elektrostaub, The Frozen Autumn, Nervenbeisser (2017).
From the review pile, some forthcoming releases from Echozone.
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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.
And PlayMobil Joy Division.
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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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Reviews: Marsy, HYTS, Dreams Are Like Water (2017).
Time to go out looking for interesting new things.
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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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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content and Deathmøle.
Jeph Jacques, author of Questionable Content, has a fictional instrumental metal band. And they’re really good.
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Links: Declining guitar sales, I Feel Love, tinnitus.
And The Damn Book.
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Purple Fog Side: The Discord (2017).
A Russian band who call themselves goth and play trancy techno pop on an industrial label.
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Links: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.
And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.
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