The one thing anyone wants from a new synth.
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Soundcloud saved for now! … keep downloading.
SoundCloud is saved! … for as yet unknown values of “saved.”
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High seas links: trolling the trolls who troll.
Not even copyright trolls like copyright trolls.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback is out!
And to celebrate, a picture of Mr. Bitcoin.
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It’s the Global Repertoire Database everyone loves! (5 sec later) We regret to inform you …
… that the new effort is falling to the same infighting the original did.
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Seeming: Sol (2017).
A song-oriented post-industrial album from three years’ close obsession.
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When did music journalism stop wielding the axe? Particularly against the industry?
Music journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.
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Links: Bandcamp Friday deal, Post-Punk.com, Soundcloud as dot-com disaster.
Some news that’s actually timely and urgent!
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Links: SoundCloud saved, ASCAP and BMI start on Global Repertoire Database, Daily Mail sued for piracy.
And my book is doing surprisingly well.
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Reviews: Desert M, Loewenhertz, Elektrostaub (2016, 2017).
Instead of books, let’s talk about industrial, in ambient prog and synthpop flavours.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is out!
IT IS OUT! PEOPLE QUITE LIKE IT!
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Links: The failed hi-res audio of the 1990s, the risks of piracy, Simon Reynolds’ glam faves.
And the Blockchain Robot!
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Followups: Spotify “fake artist” speaks, SoundCloud, more audiophile networking.
And I have two or three days to get the book absolutely finished OH GOD
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Links: Women in jazz, the power of arts funding, Chrome will kill torrent sites.
And some fake copyright VHS warnings.
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Well chaps, SoundCloud may be buggered. Save what you can.
Despite a possible last-second rap rescue, assume SoundCloud is probably still at risk and you should be downloading and preserving.
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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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Spotify’s extruded pop product substitute is worth it for the industry outrage.
Spotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.
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Severed Heads: Donut (2017). A single you can play as a CD or on a turntable.
Why? Tom Ellard, pretty much.
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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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Links: FACT publicity for Kodi; more bogus DMCAs; Pere Ubu.
More copyright bogosity and some esoteric new wave.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: out July 24, pre-orders open!
My book is scheduled! Sign up to give me your money!
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Links: Declining guitar sales, I Feel Love, tinnitus.
And The Damn Book.
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Links: Closed Circuits compilation, Devo vs William S. Burroughs, Go-Betweens documentary.
More artistic pursuits today.
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Links: Spotify payola, cheap Apple Music, bogus Disney takedowns, music journalism pt 2.
It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.
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Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.
Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?
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Links: Music journalism still buggered, Alan Vega final album, Denuvo LOL.
More news during the tinnitus hiatus.
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Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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Loewenhertz: Echtzeit; Unsichtbar; Irgendwann (2016, 2017).
’90s-style angsty German synthpop that fits right into industrial, of a genre with Wolfsheim, Beborn Beton and Silke Bischoff. Especially Wolfsheim.
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Links: FLAC on iOS, Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu, the cassette-compatible music player.
And a video from Marcelo Andrea (Expreso Maniquí).
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Reviews: Metal Disco, Barabbus (2017).
One that isn’t quite EBM and one that isn’t quite metal.
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