Reissued Soviet synthesizers and a triumphant return for old-school industrials.
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Category: Esoterica
It sounded a better term than “weird shit, daddyo.”
Riffusion: we’ve replaced these musicians with an AI model.
Can’t wait for Spotify to offer streams of generated nonsense music. And see if the record companies can spot the source tracks it was trained on.
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Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.
What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.
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Owen Kentauros brings you the 1980s on ukulele, in Japanese.
1980s New Wave on ukulele and occasional kazoo, on a grainy old webcam in 4:3. Bow to the viewer, play.
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Records: The Rolling Stones, Deerful, Benjamin Shaw (2016, 2018).
A party that everyone’s been looking forward to for weeks. They seem to be having a wonderful time.
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Richard Syrett on Theodor Adorno, the Beatles, conspiracy theorists and … me.
Did you know that Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote all the Beatles songs? I sure didn’t! In fact, I still don’t.
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Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.
And headphones up your nose.
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Richard M. Stallman: The Free Software Song (1991, 2011).
Music nerds mostly won’t have suffered the sort of thing software nerds hear as part of their culture. Includes the techno remix and a version of the actually really good original.
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Links: The KLF at the Shard, the fake grunge lexicon, how to swear on radio.
23 November.
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Links: Sex Pistols, Peter Hook, Martin Hannett, Lee Ranaldo, how music feels, Taylor Swift.
The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.
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Links: Devo “Satisfaction”, failed electronic instruments, subgenres of electronic music.
It’s all about the bleep, even with guitar, bass and drums.
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Links: Constance Demby, UK copyright trolls’ multiple extortions, The Return of the Giant Slits.
Seriously, check out the space bass.
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The Residents, Croxton Hotel, March 2016
Certain bands make an initial mark on the world with icons.
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Links: Pat Mills/2000AD, fund The Quietus, shoegaze in Asia, MRI rockin’ beats.
And me on BBC Newsnight! (Not about music.)
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Karlheinz Stockhausen as synthesizer music for ten year old children.
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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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 Ithaca Psychogeographic Liberation Front succeeds, as well as seceding.
Rocknerd is not a reliable path to artistic effect, but when it works, it’s not bad.
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Lester Bangs on Brian Eno.
“It’s not a hard instrument, actually. People think synthesizers are difficult and mysterious, but in about a day you can understand how to use it. In about five years you can understand how not to as well.”
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Alixandrea Corvyn, Amongst Animals, Near Death Experience, Tangerinecat — Dublin Castle, Camden, Thu 4 May 2017.
I automatically staked out my life-long spot at stage right, leaning on the PA. I grabbed this spot in 1985 and shall not relinquish it.
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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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Reviews: Venus + Mars, Carla dal Forno, The Black Veils (2016, 2017).
Vaporwave, ethereal post-punk pop and jangly punk-pop.
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Links: Marquee Moon, CD rot, how to be a better producer, rockin’ nuns.
Not every nun needs a Synthi.
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Reviews: Quimper, Chrysta Bell and David Lynch, Black Tape for a Blue Girl (2016, 2017).
Yes, that David Lynch. He does music too.
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Links: Robin and Zappa, streaming piracy and the musical taste of dogs.
How the Boy Wonder’s singing coach fired him.
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The political event of the day: the Ithaca Psychogeographic Liberation Front issues Articles of Secession.
We secede from irony. Sincerity will pervade even our lies, and especially our lies.
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The Voices: Oneiric Anthem (2016).
Today’s “what the hell even is that”: a capella experimental prog.
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Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.
Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music (1975).
“It’s all folk music, anyway.” — Lester Bangs
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30 gigabytes of lost cassettes from the ’80s underground.
The Internet Archive has thirty gigabytes of cassettes from the ’80s for your delight and horror, from the collection of CKLN-FM host Myke Dyer. The collection was first put on line in 2009 and was made available on archive.org late last year.
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Industry links: Consumers may only rip CDs to properly copyright-levied 80 minute MP3s of silence.
It was 35 years ago today, Sergeant Adorno taught the band that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC.
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