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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Category: Dance
It’s got a beat and you can do architecture to it.
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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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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