All bound for Mu-Mu Land.
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Category: Dance
It’s got a beat and you can do architecture to it.
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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Reviews: Cherry Heaven, Rainboy (2017).
A couple of atmospheric pop collections.
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Links: A dumped Steinway, Kim Dotcom’s terrible album, early TR-808 hits, the history of disco.
“There was lots and lots of good music that was actually made but it never saw the light of day because it wasn’t Kim’s taste. His taste is what you can hear on that fucking atrocious album that actually got released.”
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Discopedia: a dance music search engine.
Search for dance mixes on YouTube and play them right there.
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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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The SF Disco Preservation Society: taped San Francisco club mixes from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
This, this is awesomeness. Jim Hopkins is doing God’s work here.
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Electro pop: Cyborgdrive, Lebanon Hanover , Katja von Kassel (2016, 2017).
The sounds, the rhythm and the pop structure. Three good finds today.
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Reviews: Mehdi-T, Mlale (2017).
The accessible and the inaccessible.
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Reviews: Gnu Reunion, Treasureseason, Shijo X (2017).
A cheering selection, from old and new bands.
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Links: Spotify without SoundCloud, 808 classics, the Legendary Pink Dots, millennials.
Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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Links: Independent music earnings, Pakistan’s music industry, answering recruiters, Spray.
How much money one musician actually makes striking out as an independent, the Pakistani music industry, responding to recruiters and Ricardo Autobahn and Spray.
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Links: World industrial, the economics of EDM, the eyes have rhythm, fretless bass an octave up.
Have some more links, this time with a video.
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Attack of the 50 foot blockchain!
I have finished the raw first draft of the Bitcoin/blockchain book. Current word count 30,410 (or 35,546 if you include the footnotes). This was supposed to be a 15,000 word rant before lunchtime …
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Reviews: Diversant:13, La Vogue vol. 1, Ambrasive, DrawnSword (2016).
’90s style industrial, early ’70s style songwriting, two dance non-reviews.
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Recording links: a new vinyl process, Brexit and UK records, Pono no mo’.
Exploring new frontiers in obsolete technology, why Brexit will affect UK music precisely how you think it would, and the state of Neil Young’s Pono.
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Reviews: Nápoles, Damsel in the Dollhouse, Digital Logic (2016).
So I use the Bandcamp new arrivals as a radio, so what, so should you. Jangly guitar indie, goth-industrial dance and some straight-up vaporwave.
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Rosebud: Discoballs: A Tribute to Pink Floyd (1977).
Thanks to Paul Haesler for tipping me off to this inspiring work after he saw the Polka Floyd video yesterday.
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Reviews: Magana, Night Club, Cybercide, Brandenburg (2006, 2016).
Acoustic songwriter guitar rock, new wave disco, pounding futurepop EBM and Russian post-punk revival.
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Lost post-punk classics: That time A Certain Ratio were hanging out with Grace Jones.
Back in the day, A Certain Ratio were regarded by the outside world as post-punk no-hopers. So it was a surprise when Grace Jones, fresh off a hit with Warm Leatherette, took an interest in them …
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Links: September, Ziggy Stardust, Alan Turing, rap as social news system, even cheaper streaming.
Today at work I’ve been busy discussing the horror of Blockchain. So have some interesting webpages that are completely not about that in any manner.
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Witch house: I’d make myself a majickal sandwich.
Witch House is a made-up genre that became real. It was invented as an in-joke and now goth DJs claim they play “witch house”. Perhaps the secret ingredient is the gr▲†u‡†Øu§ Un‡cØd3.
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Reviews: Kromak, Arsenio Archer, Mirreya (2016).
Industrial-tangential trance, cinematic pop and vocal synthpop from Russian label SkyQode.
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Links: The lows and highs of the history of disco.
The Beach Boys’ worst record, the disco record that beats it, and when disco got good again with Jimmy Cauty and the KLF.
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“They’re explaining how a record sounds better when Tiesto plays it.”
Beware the dangers of trance and the cult of the DJ. Don’t fall for … the trance cracker. An informative tract that you can give your friends copies of!
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Electric Dreams: The Giorgio Moroder Story on BBC Radio 2, 2013.
A marvellous BBC radio documentary in two one-hour parts on disco king Giorgio Moroder, focusing on his work in the late ’70s and early to mid-’80s.
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