Archive of posts filed under the misc music category.
big tings
2008, woah. I’m really glad January is over – I kicked off the year by smashing up my Dad’s car and that set the tone, really. But everything on the horizon suggests that BIG THINGS are going to happen this year: Woofah 2 is almost ready to go the printers. Woofah 3 is getting filled …
TEN RECORDS HIDING AT THE BACK OF YOUR COLLECTION THAT NO GROWN MAN SHOULD OWN
Man like Gutta nominated me for this… It’s a weird one because like Kek, I don’t really feel ashamed about music any more – I’ve almost always been into pop stuff and… other stuff. Anyone who checked the office party mix will know that, right? So this is more of a “ten records I have …
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Blog of the Day 1: Heterogenous theory for the invisible insurrection of a million minds.
ruptured continuum
Rave Futures
The over-analysis of Bassline / Funky / Niche is truly spectacular. What started 10 years ago as some theoretical musings by Simon Reynolds has developed into a full blown pseudo-academic discipline all of its own. It seems that every single minor variation/innovation in The ‘Ardkore ContinuumTM has to be scrutinised under a microscope by bloggers, …
Naphta – Long Time Burning
This is the business. Seriously – if the words “jungle” and “2008” fill you with bad thoughts, you owe it to yourself and to future generations to go and check this album. I would write a lot more about it but I have done a glowing review for issue 2 of Woofah. There is a …
linkage
“if ever I would stop thinking about music and politics”
History is made at night: The great disco debate On elitism vs utopianism in disco. Great stuff, though I can’t help siding with H.I.M.A.N. on this one. Quite clearly capitalism is glued together by stuff like elitism, hierarchies, celebrity status, etc so it’s hardly surprising that these appear in social movements as well. More interesting …
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deader by dawn
History is Made at Night with some more info on Dead by Dawn and some audio I grabbed off the “Dead by Dawn – The 24th Party” Double LP. This was released on the final, 23rd, night of the club by Praxis and featured many of the artists who had done sets there. The album …