In the early 90s I was introduced to the notion of “art damage”, appearing as an editorial rant in the glorious glossy cyberpunk magazine, Mondo 2000, now sadly forgotten by most.
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Choreography about architecture.
In the early 90s I was introduced to the notion of “art damage”, appearing as an editorial rant in the glorious glossy cyberpunk magazine, Mondo 2000, now sadly forgotten by most.
Read MoreThe punishment of luxury is in the air for all to see. And it’s ugly now, and it’s getting worse every day. Hey! Hey! Hey!
Read MoreAn excuse to get Perth bands into a published record chart, so they’d get some publicity and could use it in their marketing. And to propagandise Australian indie to the masses. Includes THE HITS OF 1989!
Read MoreHere’s to cdparanoia and EAC, to turn the music trapped in the silver abominations back into the pure data they were meant to be.
Read MoreDid you know that Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote all the Beatles songs? I sure didn’t! In fact, I still don’t.
Read MoreI actively try to use Spotify, because I like the idea that the artist will get at least a penny shaving. So why do I keep just using YouTube? Because it’s not a goddamn pain in the arse.
Read MoreIt looks like eMusic’s attempt at a comeback last year didn’t work out so well. Behold: the eMusic Blockchain Platform! … a Kodak moment indeed.
Read MoreSounds like MiG 20 crack, huh? Over! Over!
Read MoreMy restrained and professional assessment of the incompetence and stupidity all through the Björk cryptocurrency project was reasonably popular and widely read. This expanded version adds what I was actually thinking when writing up this collapse board cascade of slapstick coded-by-dildo incompetence.
Read MoreOn the most unexpected political alliance of the year: the Juggalo youth subculture and organised socialism.
Read MoreI feel like I’m giving away the game here by revealing the truth to the terminally incompetent, but good Lord this is ridiculous.
Read MoreDespite continuing attempts to keep the Virtual Reality hype going, the real reality has not improved since late last year.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreYou’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!
Read MoreMusic journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.
Read MoreSpotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.
Read MoreAn audacious innovation in the “high-resolution audio” field: hi-res audio that does lossy compression. And the record companies love it.
Read MoreWarner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the obvious deal with a fantastic and essential publicity outlet.
Read MoreEamonn Forde opines at The Quietus that the reports of the record industry’s rebirth are greatly exaggerated.
You’d almost think there’d been some sort of horrifying plummet in people’s financial circumstances.
Read MoreI am sceptical of the “data-driven approach” to cultural discovery. It reifies statistical artifacts, filter bubbles and faces seen in clouds.
Read MoreA detailed examination of why music industry Blockchain (capital B) dreams are not going to work out.
Read MoreApart from revitalising the torrent sites, but everyone seems to have noticed that bit now.
Read MoreWith cites that they know this money doesn’t actually exist yet.
Read More“Can music journalism exist at all?” “Do Music Journalists Matter Anymore?” I mean, if you have to ask …
Read MoreThere is no “cloud”, there’s just someone else’s computer. Will we find a listener who cares?
Read MoreFifteen to twenty years ago, Winamp was the MP3 player that everyone used. It was the first MP3 player not to suck: playlists, shuffle, convenience. And you can still download the last version.
Read More3D technology has been the next big thing for only the last sixty years. It offers amazing improvements over ordinary moving images: darkness, muddier colours, blurriness, headaches from watching for more than twenty minutes and slower action sequences so the viewer doesn’t bring up their last meal.
Read MoreThe sound with the Pearl becomes lighter and has less impact and detail compared to the Supra. Stereo image shrinks, but more obvious is a reduction in detail. Changing to Cinnamon with only one switch in my network produces a surprising result.
Read MoreThere’s a lot to be said in favour of massive copyright violation in the interests of cultural preservation, but “fixed targets are stable and sustainable in a world including the record companies” is not any of it.
Read Moreaestheticblogging basically taught me to have feelings, that werent anger.
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