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Global travelling explorer and flaneur electronique. Creative catalyst, magician and reasonably amusing raconteur. Oh, and I make musical things happen too.
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Few people know that JFK was one of the earliest and most innovative experimental noise artists in the USA.
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Farewell to the extraordinary composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), who wrote the soundtracks to so much of our lives on the screen. He once apologised he couldn't come to a concert of mine in Rome, but his son attended instead. What a gent and inspiration!
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Ear buds? Huh, give me this listening device any day then!
Architecture students built giant megaphones in Austria to listen to the sounds of nature
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A sad farewell to the Japanese composer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952 - 2023). His most recent album “12” is a stunning work, sombre and elegiac in tone. It resonates with a sense of his own mortality, conscious that he about to plunge into the unknown, drawn away from life.
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Farewell to the extraordinary Florian Schneider (1947-2020) of
@kraftwerk
- the man machine lives on through an astonishingly original back catalogue of inspirational music.
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Looks like it's back to his roots, on the forthcoming
@AphexTwin
album "Kick out the Jams, Mother Folkers’" on
@WarpRecords
- this will truly blow listeners minds!
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Farewell to Hal Willner (1956-2020), whose Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill (1985) was a constant on my record deck, and produced the work of Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, Bill Frisell, William S. Burroughs, Gavin Friday, Lucinda Williams, Laurie Anderson and many more
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Inspiring and positive words from
@Tony_Surgeon
regarding his recent show with Ms
@ladygaga
Genuine enthusiasm!
http://t.co/d2CqWT03ux
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Word coming through that Tom Verlaine (1949-2023) of Television has slipped away. Marquee Moon (1977) remains an utter gem, with Verlaine's dry, crisp reductionist guitar lines painting an unforgettable sonic canvas.
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Farewell to Richard H Kirk (1956-2021) of legendary Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire. Connecting the experimental side of Roxy Music with William S Burrough's cut up techniques, their The Voice of America (1980) and Red Mecca (1981) remain utter gems of exploratory sound today.
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Seems that the recent promotional photo for popular electronic music artist
@AphexTwin
might have confused and unsettled some people. Just to reassure you, Richard still has the kids very much in mind! And he's loving every minute of it!
@WarpRecords
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Just in time for Christmas
@Ircam
- still waiting on the Ferrari and Parmegiani studios though, when can we expect those please? :-)
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A sad farewell to Teresa Taylor (1962-2023), Butthole Surfers drummer and star of Richard Linklater’s 1990 Slacker movie. I'll never forget their wild shows in the 1980s in London, absolutely phenomenal!
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A sad farewell to Damo Suzuki (1950-2024), who between 1970 and 1973 led pioneering German band Can through its unquestionable peak, and pretty much lived on a never-ending world tour since then.
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If you missed that 5 hour Autechre Warp mix last night, then someone has kindly shared it for download...
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How to destroy business, bank accounts and an exchange of culture in one fell swoop - an LP from the USA to the UK sent with
@USPS
- $42.25. It's sickening...
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This is a Panasonic autochange and auto-reverse cassette deck, which could play music for up to 2 days with the right length of tape in it. Time for someone to bring this back perhaps? 😀
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Some serious time-travelling nostalgia taking place here finding out some old gig tickets. It does feel sad that contemporary shows offer nothing little more than a screen grab in terms of memory triggers.
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Farewell to the magnificent Manuel Göttsching (1952-2022), whose E2-E4 connected Krautrock with minimalism and electronica, and has continued to inspire generations of musicians. Here we are in London in 2007 trying to look cool together
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And for everyone who asked about this the other day your dreams have been answered!!
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The darkness continues. So sad to read about the passing of my old friend Chantal, otherwise known as Mira Calix on
@WarpRecords
- we met when she was producing music nights back in the early 1990s electronica scene and were friends ever since. Utterly heartbreaking 😌
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Farewell to Monte Cazazza, who is credited with coining the phrase "Industrial Music for Industrial People." With connections to Throbbing Gristle, he produced projects described as "insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events," and released some truly classic music.
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Farewell to American filmmaker Nick Zedd (1958-2022), who spearheaded the 'Cinema of Transgression' movement in the 1980s, edited the Underground Film Bulletin and joined the dots between Kembra Pfahler, Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes Freeland, Lung Leg and Lydia Lunch.
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A deconstruction and reconstruction of Brian Eno's classic Music for Airports album, where you can play with the files yourself. Beautifully done!
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A sad farewell to Julee Cruise (1956-2022) whose voice became integral to the mood and dreamy spirit of David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. Safe floating into the night, Julee.
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Exposure is not payment. My passionate response to recent events in my creative life that need to be shared. I hope you will enjoy this and remain positive!
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Time to praise the wonderful
@NHSuk
who took very good care of me today and removed an evil tumour in my head. I'll be modelling a sinister looking scar one day soon from the surgery. Here's to positive futures for you all x
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This video of Einstürzende Neubauten from February 1984 remains one of my favourite live performances ever. I used to watch it on a VHS tape at the time and it retains that warped character to this day.
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My favourite review of popular British electronic beat combo Autechre found online:
"My old man used to shout up to my room, “turn that shit off, it sounds like someone building a shed!”"
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Truly shocking. Bidding farewell to Steve Albini (1962-2024), the fiercely independent and inspirational music producer, provocateur and poker champion. What a loss!
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Farewell to performance artist Ulay who has died in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aged 76. His works with
@ArtistisPresent
were unforgettable, challenging, and frequently terrifying.
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How to lose invaluable hours in your day. Click and play, as this pulls sounds from YouTube into loops. And you can then download them if you wish. Sonic Garbage indeed :-D
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For me the legacy of Steve Albini is captured in this one single piece of music. This track from 1986 sounds like iron wool amplified, propelled by an explosively poisonous groove and guitars that viciously bite.
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Terribly sad to read of the death of my old pal musician and visual artist Steve Roden (1964-2023), from Alzheimer’s disease. A pioneer in lowercase music, his frequently fragile and tender music looked beyond traditional instrumentation into magical new worlds.
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Time for something beautiful - in 1913 Alfred Joseph Frueh sent this letter to Giuliette Fanciulli, which opens up into a little gallery of pictures. It was meant to educate Ms. Fanciulli before visiting a gallery. I miss letters.
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Farewell to a true icon of the punk era. Jordan (1955 - 2022, who everyone only knew by her singular chosen name, modelled for Vivienne Westwood and appeared in classic Derek Jarman movies. 'I wanted to be a living work of art' she said. And she was.
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Just too late for your Christmas stocking, but
@the_stylophone
launches The Stylophone Theremin looks like such fun! £90 worth of playfulness 😀
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Utterly shocked to hear of the death of singer Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023) who ascended the charts yet felt trapped, battling with inner demons for so long. Her iconic shaven-headed image remains startlingly powerful. Farewell to this truly inspirational figure.
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John Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Cornelius Cardew feature in a great documentary "Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier" (2005), focusing on experimental music in the 1960s
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Farewell to the great Dave Smith (1950-2022) of Sequential Circuits, the 'Father of MIDI,' who helped create a sonic world that can be heard through the work of everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna, Japan to Radiohead.
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Just remembered Basic Channel's dubbed out reworking of 'E2-E4,' which is a beautiful organic gem. Another tribute to Manuel Göttsching
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Dear people, this is now the harsh reality of trying to perform live music in the EU as a UK citizen (and, of course, the reverse is sadly true)
@theQuietus
@thewiremagazine
@FACTmag
@pitchfork
@attackmag1
@ClassicalMusic_
@MOJOmagazine
PLEASE SHARE
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He’s done it again! Amazing work from
@tarikoregan
We can only dream that such sets might become a reality! “Dear Santa…”
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And now farewell to Jon Hassell (1937-2021), on a relentlessly cruel weekend for the musical avant garde. His body of work joined the dots between Talking Heads,
@brianeno
and Terry Riley, offering us a mesmeric new way of hearing the trumpet. Just listen to his music!!
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Now, this is remarkable. A vinyl LP that I posted in April 2020 to South Africa has just been returned - where has this been for two years?!! I'd like to say this was some kind of record, but it actually is 😀
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Happy 40th birthday to the Compact Disc. This was the first CD I ever bought - Throbbing Gristle's CD1 on
@MuteUK
Now what was yours?
@ThrobbingGrstle
@chris_carter_
@coseyfannitutti
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Farewell to the legendary free-jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann (1941-2023). Though he's known for his fearsomely fierce improvisations, he was also a great visual artist. This publication is just amazing.
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That time electronic masters
@kraftwerk
released their very own pocket calculator, to accompany the song of the same name - the Casio fx-501P programmable calculator
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An interesting statistic today. To date UK airlines have taken £1.8bn in bailout money and contribute £8.8bn to the economy, whilst UK creative industries contribute £111bn & have received (checks calculator) ...pretty much nothing. Thanks
@BorisJohnson
@OliverDowden
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Farewell to Genesis P-Orridge, a controversial and troubling figure for some, an inspiration and icon for others. For me, s/he was part of my musical and cultural upbringing and will certainly miss his/her presence
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So sad to read of the death of legendary DJ and musician Andrew Weatherall in the early hours of this morning. He played out my music when no-one else even took notice in the 1990s. Such a fine man indeed. Farewell you Sabre of Paradise!
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Farewell to Marian Zazeela (1940-2024), who was a light artist, calligrapher, musician and know especially for her work with her husband, the legendary minimalist composter La Monte Young. Her own works were dizzying, delicate and detailed, almost as if imprints of her dreams.
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He choreographed & performed with David Bowie at the singer's Ziggy Stardust shows, acted in The Wicker Man, & danced in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane. Farewell to the brilliantly eccentric and inventive dancer Lindsay Kemp
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Farewell to the truly inspirational composer Phill Niblock (1933-2024) who has generously left us a vast body of work to explore. His microtonal sound works have inspired generations of musicians and will continue to do so.
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For anyone interested in sonic arts and experimental music, then these two books by the late Alvin Lucier remain absolutely essential - witty, personal, direct and educational in equal measure. Brilliant!
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Farewell to the maestro Vangelis (1943-2022), the Greek composer and musician, who coloured our lives with such synthetic gems as Albedo 0.39, Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire. I still remember seeing him play live in London, attending the show with my mum 😊
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Farewell to composer Alvin Lucier (1931 - 2021) whose work taught us so much about the very act of listening as much as the music itself. He offered us a sonic world between acoustic fact and acousmatic dreaming.
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Since I've been keeping a diary every day since I was 12 years old, writing on average 500 words a day, and having never ever missed a day since I began, I realise I've now written approximately 8554000 words which no-one will ever read. Hmm...
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Admittedly, I own lots of rather strange music. Having said that, these two 7" singles have to be quite arguably some of the quirkiest in my collection though. Tell me, what's the oddest music on your shelves then?
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Obsolete Sounds - apparently the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct. A fascinating rabbit hole to fall down into...
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Discovering this archive of over 700 mixes by the late and truly great Andrew Weatherall is an absolute joy. And you can download them all!! Wow!
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I do love it when popular artists plays low key shows such as Aphex Twin at Falmouth Art Gallery yesterday. Nice!
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In memory of Mika Vainio, who died six years ago today, here's a feature I wrote about the debut Pan Sonic show in London in 1994 at Quirky, Brixton
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I made it to a new day. Thanks to everyone for your good wishes. A “life-threatening” reaction to medicine was not exactly what I had expected for a relaxing weekend either. Here’s to the next day and the next one…
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You can now download the complete Sounds of Isolation
@chrisrwatson
series on
@BBCRadio3
, recalling his quests around the world to record in some of nature's most isolated places
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Favourite moment of the day - chatting to a new postman delivering a record, curious as to my purchase, when he said 'You know old industrial music and Cabaret Voltaire, mate? That's the best!'
@StephenMal
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Utterly shocked to bid farewell to singer Mark Stewart (1960-2023), whose work with The Pop Group remains some of the most potent and influential of the post punk period. A genuine giant of the independent music scene.
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An amazing resource for some archival materials, but thisTalking Heads live show from 1976 is an absolute winner. Just scroll down the page to find it
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Extremely dispiriting reports coming in that the new owners of the quite revolutionary
@Bandcamp
have dismissed half their staff already. Once again billionaires purchasing invaluable developments and destroying them in the blink of an eye 🫤
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So sad to read about the passing of Vaughan Oliver today too. His work illustrated much of the music I grew up listening to in the 1980s and captured a dreamy netherworld of magic.
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Wow!! Only
@ElectronicMagUK
would give away a free EMS synth on the cover of their latest issue!! Thanks guys!!
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Please support my GoFundMe so I can purchase the Doof Wagon, the custom car from Mad Max: Furry Road (2015) which is up for auction by Lloyds Auctions. I intend to be touring the EU in this in 2022😀
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2022 has been brutal in the arts. Farewell now to Eduard Artemyev (1937-2022), composer for three of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films, Solaris, The Mirror, And Stalker. Dreamy, surreal, Baroque worlds of mystical exploration.
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Farewell to the great Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch (1938 -2022), the cult provocateur of Viennese Actionism, who invented an art form that existed in real, corporeal, and violent terms. I had the great honour of spending a day with him at his castle in 2007
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In the days before email and mobile phones, faxes were the ideal way to stay in touch and express yourself. Here Mr Richard D James aka Aphex Twin creatively requests my phone number. Ah, the good old days 😀(note his user name at the bottom of the page)
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Farewell today to the American artist Frank Stella (1936-2024), whose colourful geometric work became ever more complex through the years, heavily inspired by jazz music
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Here's hoping that one day this Eno (1973) documentary can be officially released, focusing on the recording of the debut album Here Come the Warm Jets from
@brianeno
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Nothing better when you are recovering from an operation, than over 15 hours or so of
@AphexTwin
mixes of his free uploads over recent years, to keep you entertained. Amazing
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Just a few hours ago I released a new album on
@bandcamp
and already high quality rips are on free download sites. This is so demoralising guys. I can see everyone who bought the album too, so this is even more dispiriting 🥺
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The joy of performing electronic music as
@AphexTwin
demonstrates his use of the essential chair request on his technical rider. And to be honest, much better for his back!
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This was the book that introduced me to so much new experimental music when I was a teenager. Funny to hold this in my (much older) hands now and step back in time. And it’s still inspiring today
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The early works of Laurie Anderson are proof of her genius and restless creative spirit. Listen to her Early Recordings 1974-1981, in full here
@ubuweb
@OnlyAnExpert
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For those who have been following this rather appalling story regarding Behringer and their distasteful video online, I find it ironic that the 'fake' synth they have produced is also, in fact, once again a copy from another company.
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A free download of the book that inspired Cabaret Voltaire and so many other creatives, as
@ubuweb
delivers the goods again, with William S Burroughs: The Electronic Revolution (1970)
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A massive feature on Tangerine Dream in the latest
@thewiremagazine
with a simple equipment diagram to show all you need to duplicate their sound 🤣
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I love these photos, courtesy of Jean-Yves Leloup, given to him from the late Peter Zinovieff, capturing the EMS factory where their legendary synths were built
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I love books! Nine years ago this was a third of my collection and now it's probably doubled in size. This is the art section, from Marina Abramović to Unica Zürn
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We've all heard of people having huge record collections, but this is truly a HUGE record collection. The artist Eric Burke created this for a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing!
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Happy Birthday to this rather wonderful album, released 48 years ago today. Still a personal favourite of mine too
@brianeno
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In response to some very public bullying in the creative industries of recent I was drawn to sharing some very personal experiences on such behaviour.
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Before the internet arrived, this is how many of us discovered new music. Inner sleeves for a vinyl LP were once a map to an entirely fresh sonic world
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For anyone interested in electronic music, this documentary on Canadian composer and microcomputer pioneer Martin Bartlett by Luke Fowler is essential viewing, over at the ever dependable
@ubuweb
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Farewell to singer Terry Hall (1959-2022) of The Specials. His voice was one of longing, a drawn out melancholy, delivered with an often mournful expression. His lyrics were sonic portraits of the time, with 'Ghost Town' remaining a dark image of urban decay and discontentment
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Sending all of you in Twitterworld positive thoughts for 2022, and even though at times few of us seem to agree on much at all, let's try and be friends please. Differences make us who we are. Stay positive and inspired! ❤️
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Farewell to Alan Rankine (1958-2023), keyboardist and guitarist for the legendary Associates. Amazingly, he also helped to set up the record label Electric Honey, which launched the careers of Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro.
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The future of technology circa 1992, with the Sony Minidisc. I would use 4-6 of these machines in a live concert, mixing up unlabelled discs, playing on random, all running at 128bpm to create endless circulating hypnotic patterns.
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Farewell to the truly inspiring British artist Tom Phillips (1937-2022) whose work resisted classification, moving between painting, music, graphics and words. I hosted a talk between him and
@brianeno
at the
@royalacademy
some years ago and so much laughter was had ❤️
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Ever wondered what Brian Eno sounded like live with Holger Czukay of Can? Well now you can, recorded in 1988 in Germany. Wow!
@dark_shark
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