Archive of posts filed under the misc music category.
< Drumz of The South >: Sonic Life Cycles
< Drumz of The South >: Sonic Life Cycles. Georgina has posted the film she created for our contribution to the UCL’s Creative Edge workshop on (sub)urbanism. It’s essentially a broad brush look at the development of musical genres and the interplay between the urban and suburban. It is also, as she points out, slightly …
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Dubversion’s pre-xmas CD clearout
the thirteenth gig I can remember going to
Click here for a complete list of entries in the series “the first 23 gigs I can remember going to”. 13. Butthole Surfers, Shamen, AR Kane. Clarendon, 6th August 1987. Me and Wal were spending our hard earned at Record and Tape Exchange in Camden one sunny day when they started playing this insane freaky noise …
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she was a ruff rider
First vinyl release on Ruff Revival, following on from the tremendous debut of Naphta’s “Long Time Burning” album on CD. (See my gushing review in Woofah issue 3). And yes, some heavy involvement from Droid, so I am biased – but only because his programming ensures he always comes correct with this stuff. El-B‘s remix …
exotic pylon session
A marvelous chaotic time in the studio as Mr Johnny Mugwump played host on Saturday. Giant Paw were in fine form and it was great to see them expanded into a five piece, with some new material to boot. I’d brought enough tunes for a short post-punk dub mix but ended up alternating with the …
The melancholy of hope: interview with King Midas Sound
FACT magazine: Interview: King Midas Sound I recently spoke to Kevin Martin, Roger Robinson and Hitomi about the superb new King Midas Sound album “Waiting For You” which is about to come out on Hyperdub. The interview is now up at FACT and is a great read, even if I say so myself. Topics covered …
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STEAL IT – on the pop theft epidemic
NME 1987 STEAL IT issue: now available at uncarved.org I’ve kept this part of the NME for 22 years because of the excitement I experienced when reading it at the time. The articles here show music journalism at its best – people who care about music getting swept away in the moment when they realise …
shop local
Of course one thing that us music nerds can do during the postal strike is to support local independent record shops – while there still are any. I’m quite lucky in that respect – weeks after me moaning on here about the increasing uselessness of Stoke Newington Church Street, a new record shop opens up …