RETROMANIA: October 2023

KINDRED BLOGS AND SITES

ThamesTv

Driving through the City of London | The City | London in the 80s | Another side of London | 1988 -
4 hours ago
It starts with a birthstone...

It Starts With a Birthstone - 200 Albums for 2024 # 30 Bats - Good Game Baby - Bats. Not The Bats, This distinction is important to establish right from the off. The Bats were one of the original *Flying Nun* records roster which...
4 hours ago
vintage everyday

30 Fascinating Photos Capture Street Scenes of Vienna in 1953 - Street scenes of Vienna in the 1950s reflected both the city’s post-war recovery and its vibrant cultural life. The streets were a mix of old-world charm a...
4 hours ago
{ feuilleton }

Weekend links 753 - Grow (1970) by Linda Brewer.Via. • The week in work-related reviews: Raymond Tyler reviewed the Bumper Book of Magic at Religious Socialism, while James Pa...
17 hours ago
Greyscape

Why were Zoos attracted to Modernist design? - Concrete Menageries: Why were Zoos drawn to Modernist design? We’ve featured the modernist architecture of two zoos in Britain, Regent’s Park and Dud...
23 hours ago
Wormwoodiana

A Victoria County History Ghost Story - The Victoria County History is a distinguished series of chronicles for the old shires of England, weighty volumes in venerable bindings. Professor Catheri...
1 day ago
Atlas Obscura

Addolorata Cemetery in Raħal Ġdid, Malta - [image: Addolorata Cemetery.] During the 19th century, many European nations pursued the construction of opulent cemeteries with elaborate architectural ...
1 day ago
History is made at night

This is the Beatnik Horror (1960) - From 'The People' July 24 1960 a report on Beatniks in Liverpool, London and elsewhere, with some choice quotes and turns of phrase: This is Beatnik Hell...
1 day ago
The Haunted Generation

Hare Today: The Folklore of Starve Acre - ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY’s 2019 novel Starve Acre was widely acclaimed for using elements of Folk Horror to explore the trauma of grief, and a new film adapta...
1 day ago
cardrossmaniac2

Laura Branigan - Self Control - 80s, 80s, 80s! "I'm living in the forest of a dream" When hair in your eyes was the sexiest thing you could do as well as wearing an off the shoulder o...
5 days ago
Dreams of Space - children's books and outer space

Undersea Base (1974) - So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with *Undersea Base*. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Spa...
1 week ago
DREAM WEAPONS

Antropocen & Distant Drums reuploads - I don't know for how long these have been unavailable, but at some point one of our older file transfer accounts... died. And these two 2016-mixtapes (DW...
1 week ago
Relative Nostalgia

My fascination with old videogames on modern systems - Accessing videogames from the past should not be taken for granted.
1 week ago
Internet Archive - Collection: prelinger

The Human Factor In Driving - Driving safety film made by Progressive Pictures in the eastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area and possibly elsewhere. "Shows how certain habits d...
1 week ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

Hammer House of Horror: Rankings & Wrap up. - If only to distract myself from the fact that the flaming jalopy which is the western world just failed to clear the chasm jump which might have kept the ...
1 week ago
Flow

Finance, Decadence, and Me You MadnessAndrew deWaard / University of California, San Diego - Andrew deWaard discusses how Louise Linton reflects the issues surrounding capitalism both on and off-screen.
1 week ago
Backlisted

226. Nicholas Fisk - Grinny & You Remember Me! - Sam Leith, author of *The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading*, returns to Backlisted to discuss two novels by Nicholas Fisk, *Grinny* (1973) a...
1 week ago
We Are the Mutants

“An Important Place in Their Lives”: Musicland Sales Brochure, 1978 - By *The Mutants* How do you describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it before exactly how it felt to walk into the record store before the internet? Whe...
1 week ago
Fuji Puzzle Box

Roger Hargreaves: It's Noisy in Here - I'D LIKE A PIECE OF...MEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT! I! SAID! I'D! LIKE! A!... And then he stopped. Mr. Noisy Mr. Messy Little Miss Naughty Little Miss Troub...
1 week ago
Mrs Tsk *

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1 week ago
The Pinocchio Theory

WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE, by C J Cherryh - I just finished reading C J Cherryh’s novella WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE (one of the three texts in the collection ALTERNATE REALITIES, available on the Kindle f...
3 weeks ago
it's her factory

Two upcoming livestreamed talks by me - I’m giving a number of talks this November, and two of them are going to be streamed over the internet. The first one is this coming Friday November 8. It’...
3 weeks ago
Infinite Speeds

Sound Characters - A prolegomena to a concept (of sound as a living being)
3 weeks ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

KLAUSS - CIELOS MÓVILES (NOT ON LABEL, CD ALBUM, 1997) (FLAC) - *Klauss, grupo argentino fundado en 1988 por el músico y experimentador sonoro Ernesto Romeo (sintes, secuenciadores, samplers, mellotron, teclados, bat...
4 weeks ago
Ken Hollings

Ken Hollings, The Howling and Howloween at Margate Caves - I am very excited to announce a very special site-specific show taking place at Margate Caves on Thursday 31 October. Thanks to Seadog Books, I ...
4 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Grahame Park, Barnet, Part II: Back to the Future - We left Grahame Park last week, newly completed in the 1970s and very much – in good ways and bad … Continue reading →
4 weeks ago
Found Objects

P for Paladin - *Paladin* - second only to *Picador* as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter... Radi...
4 weeks ago
soundpoetry

Víctor Sosa / Los animales furiosos (2003) - DESCARGA / DOWNLOAD
5 weeks ago
Rough Type

Goodbye Rough Type, Hello New Cartographies - Rough Type has had a twenty-year run. That seems like long enough, particularly seeing as the blog has been pretty much dormant in recent years. So this wi...
1 month ago
BroadcastForSchools - Recent changes [en]

Look and Read/Geordie Racer - Notes on the production, casting and filming added, plus notable mentions on quiz shows and news programmes! Show changes
1 month ago
Nina Power

Autumn 2024: Teaching - I’m teaching again at Mary Ward Centre (Stratford, East London). Friday afternoons 2-4pm, starts Oct 4th. Email ninapower[at]gmail[dot]com with any questio...
1 month ago
robinthefog

TDK – The Tapeworm Celebrates 15 Years With A Howling Horrorshow - Hello You. Been a while since I wrote anything on these pages, but certainly not for lack of incident round these parts. I’ve been beavering away behind th...
2 months ago
Jonathan Griffin

Carl Cheng - Tourists and surfers strolling down the Santa Monica pier in 1979 would have passed a mysterious awning advertising “The Natural Museum of Modern Art”. A n...
2 months ago
A Year In The Country

The Vision, Videodrome, Nigel Kneale and Network – Prescient Cautionary Tales of Corrupted Television and Media - As I’ve written previously at A Year In The Country, the subtly dystopic 1980 science fiction film Death Watch, based on the novel The Continuous Katherine...
3 months ago
WOEBOT

Discogs Sales - I am selling two thirds of my music collection on Discogs. That's everything you see here, which is stored in dessicated packaging in my basement. The s...
3 months ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #74: Neil - Our mate Neil Kulkarni died in January. This episode is dedicated to him. Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter| The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Simon’s Quietus pi...
4 months ago
davidtoop

An air current striking the edge of a vessel - It’s not a thing for me to say I make flutes as part of my practice but make them I do, since c. 1971, in fact, when I began to search for new sounds, tuni...
6 months ago
Suspended Reason

An Ecosystem of Effects - Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the ...
9 months ago
Miraculous Agitations

'Electromania' in Strange Attractor Journal, 'Radio Obscurity' in Radio Art Zone, and other 2023 doings - Here's the obligatory end-of-year round-up / self-system-redundancy-check... Thrift, resourcefulness and low-budget solutions for soundmaking are a regul...
10 months ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My top 10ish songs of 2023 (plus 20 honorable mentions) - IT’S TIME!!!!! Here’s the whole list, plus 20 of the most unhinged honorable mentions I could think of, and 10 honorable-honorable mentions… I need to rest...
10 months ago
Portals of London

Artistic / Psychic exploration of a house in Stoke Newington - Rotherhithe Archive #0000 A quick note on an artistic addition to the archive. Intrigued by our account of the Stoke NewingtonContinue Reading
11 months ago
PONTONEPONTONE | PONTONE

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
1 year ago
fantastic journal

Jonathan - In the summer of 1996 I was living in Berlin, emerging from a long winter in every sense. Planning my return to London and studying for my diploma at the...
1 year ago
Archaic Inventions

M.A.B. - Words Never Told -1986- (Cassette, Anti-Musik Der Landsh, AML 5), Poland - Here's another relic from behind the iron curtain on the great Polish cassette label Anti-Musik Der Landsh that was founded by Mariusz Blachowicz in t...
1 year ago
Modernism Unbound

On The Historical Avant-Garde - The ambitons of the artists associated with the historical avant-garde remain relevant to this day. In this essay, Jon Lindblom looks closer at Peter Bürge...
1 year ago
It's Full of Stars

Formses - My FORMS series of albums (to be found over on my bandcamp page) takes an idea I first explored on my Twenty Systems album, but develops it into the idea o...
1 year ago
treffynnon19

Milltowners (1986) -
1 year ago
History's Dumpster

The Jupiter Ace Computer - The Jupiter ACE computer was a British-designed computer that was released in 1982 by Jupiter Cantab, a company founded by two ex-Sinclair Research ...
1 year ago
The Zuckerberg Files

Six4Three v. Facebook sealed exhibits - In 2019, a cache of leaked Facebook documents connected to litigation by Six4Three against the social media company were made publicly available by NBC New...
1 year ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

A Second Take on 2012's EEPEEs and ELPEEs - * Best Albums of 2012* 1. Jam City -Classical Curves 2. Death Grips -The Money Store 3. Le1f -Dark York 4. DJ Rashad -Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the...
1 year ago
lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
2 years ago
Real Life

Who Can It Be Now - On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
2 years ago
Cartographies of the Absolute

Mapping Racial Fascism - Poster by Michael Hoerger for the he Black Panther Black Community News Service, from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
2 years ago
DIAMOND VARIATIONS

CPU DIE SHOTS - https://higherinquietude.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/cpu-die-shots/
2 years ago
Scarfolk Council

Bad Kingdom (1972) - In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people - the en...
2 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Top Of The Box Vol. 2 - [image: Top Of The Box Vol. 2 by Tim Worthington - the story behind every album released by BBC Records And Tapes.] From *Play School Play On* to *Russ...
2 years ago
The Old Weird Albion

Obsolete Spells – Tour Dates – More for 2022 - A lot’s going on at the moment, so, here: Obsolete Spells – Poetry & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press is now available from Strange Attractor Pre...
2 years ago
blog to the oldskool

AV-8 – Pyrogen (Mad Monk Mix) - Been ages, hope everyone is doing OK! Here’s an absolutely mad 1992 tune that showed up in the mail for me recently. Honestly I’m not too phased by weird 9...
2 years ago
(SF) 365

Joker - I’ve been wanting to watch *Joker* since it came out, and the fact that I haven’t reveals to me that, deep down, I knew it would be a bit of a struggle. ...
2 years ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

Instagram - I continue here… http://www.Instagram.com/one1more2time3/
2 years ago
Retro Synth Ads

Kawai R-50 "The Right Stuff" advertisement, Keyboard 1987 - Kawai R-50 drum machine "The Right Stuff" full page colour advertisement from page 81 in the December 1987 issue of Keyboard Magazine. Although it wa...
2 years ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
2 years ago
Continuo's documents

New album, free download. Musique concrète suite for... - New album, free download. Musique concrète suite for bullroarer, church organ, cimbalom, vocoder, boat horns, Romanian Catholic choir, Indian ashram temp...
3 years ago
entschwindet und vergeht

Some thoughts on the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion - For a variety of reasons I have not written anything for quite a while, not for magazines, not for publications and certainly not for a book, so maybe wh...
3 years ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
3 years ago
The Vitalist

The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran - The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran
3 years ago
Richard Warren

Russell Quay, skiffle painter - [Excuse the oversized images in this post. WordPress have thoughtfully binned the old ‘classic’ editor, which worked perfectly, and have substituted a new,...
3 years ago
metopal.com

The Fractal Roguelike - Back in 2013, I wrote a post about Spelunky HD and its demonstration of “rule horizons,” a concept I described as “expanding layers of complexity that radi...
3 years ago
I cite

"Feudalism Lives on in the Delta" -- Ray Sprigle - all of this comes from here Chapter 14 Feudalism Lives on In the Delta By Ray Sprigle Black of the rich earth and green of the springing cotton plants stre...
4 years ago
Café Kaput

No wave is ever the same. New album, available now. - Available now at cafekaput.bandcamp.com Artist: Jon Brooks Title: No wave is ever the same. Released: 1st May 2020 Label: Café Kaput Cat. No: KAP011 For...
4 years ago
Néojaponisme

The Second Manifesto of Néojaponisme - Maybe websites are not the answer. In the old age of our second decade (website years are like dog years), print may be a better match.
4 years ago
dispokino

Dispokino on Instagram - Dispokino has a channel on the Instagram bulletin board system: https://www.instagram.com/dispokino/ Connect your Commodore to the Internet with any curr...
4 years ago
The Hum Blog

A Power Stronger Than Itself: Sounds For Communal Isolation. Vol. Three - Bradford Bailey – Untitled Collage, 2007. I’m writing from a future, just ahead of most. It’s a present, already the past. More than a month into a life ...
4 years ago
Public Information

3 Times When You Will Need A Financial Advisor - Everyone wants to be financially stable as they need to plan on securing the future of their family as well as for themselves after retirement. There are...
4 years ago
Between Channels

Smokey Blue’s Away (and returned) - Hullo. I’ve been away for a little sleep and woken up covered in dust with leaves in my eyes. As my young family coughs and snorts abed all around me, what...
4 years ago
Tiny Mix Tapes

RIP: David Riley, bassist for Big Black - David Riley, the bassist for Big Black, has died at 59. From David Riley’s partner, Rachel Brown: Sad news my Chicago friends. My dearest friend and lon...
4 years ago
Rockets & Rayguns

407 Proxy Authentication Required - hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
5 years ago
Parallel Lies

Photo -
5 years ago
R/J/L-H

Mengenal sistem software manajemen klinik - Saat ini, di dunia yang paling kompetitif ini, telah menjadi penting untuk membuat perubahan mendasar tentang bagaimana Anda mengelola bisnis Anda. Teruta...
5 years ago
Retrospace

7 Reasons Why You Should Buy Vintage Clothing - Did you know that the average person spends over $160 a month on clothing? Depending on how you shop, and what you shop for, you can really stretch that ...
5 years ago
The Charnel-House

A hundred years since the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht - The failure of the “Spartakus” uprising was the first episode of the bitter lessons to be drawn from the inability of the old SPD left to break from that p...
5 years ago
Bat, Bean, Beam

Another year of Wellington - There is no overarching theme to this year’s collection of my favourite Wellington photos. Walking our still fairly new dog has taken me to some new places...
5 years ago
Bubblegum Cage III

Albums of the Year 2018 - Somehow, 2018 managed to be an even more execrable 12 months than 2017. It was also a slightly odd period for music, insofar as a few (though certainly not...
5 years ago
ecstatic apophenia

De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
6 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
6 years ago
Boring Old Books

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
6 years ago
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space

SONNTAG aus LICHT - *Sunday from Light (1998-2003)* *for 10 vocal soloists, boy’s voice, four instrumental soloists (bassett horn, flute, trumpet, synthesizer), two choirs, t...
6 years ago
Include Me Out

Art Zine: Out of Nowhere now available! - You can read more and buy it here
6 years ago
http://soundsorceryfiles.tumblr.com/

Video -
6 years ago
In Media Res

Summer Break - - [image: Theme Week]Thank you to all of our contributors and followers. - - -
6 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
6 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
6 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
6 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
6 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017 - Tracklist East – Lélegzet Barry Cleveland – Abrasax Renato Anselmi – Mercato Fenicio Ron Boots – Breath The Living Air Francis Moneyman – Getting Ready Jea...
6 years ago
The Night Mail

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
6 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals - “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics It’s been two years si...
7 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
7 years ago
Fuck Yeah Brutalism

Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970(Unknown... - Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970 (Unknown Architect) FYB is going on indefinite hiatus to rethink and retool. Back soon. In the meanti...
7 years ago
-ɴ●♰ξs ϝᴙ●ლ ♰Ӊξ ṿ◍♏ⅉ✞◍ℾⅉữ♏-

café in Shoreditch - In a café in Shoreditch the air is peppered with mid-atlantic accents and the croak of privilege. ‘Like, patriarchy yeah, and like, but what about like ...
7 years ago
Our God is Speed

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
7 years ago
The Social Life of Secondhand Clothes

Reviving Revivals - I was paging through the latest Elle magazine, looking at one of the Trends pages, when I spotted a blouse with puffed sleeves. Elaborate blouses with ruff...
7 years ago
io9

We May Eventually Find Out How the Battle of New York Changed Peter Parker - The Battle of New York at the end of *The Avengers* is a crucial moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the moment the whole world changed. And wh...
7 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Leigh on Sea Folk Festival 2017 - Teleplasmiste will be performing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival, and also participating in Justin Hopper’s audio-visual feast of music and folklore, I ...
7 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
7 years ago
Speaker to Animals

Do “Aspies” Dream of Electric Sheep? Part 3: The Autistic Mode - This final part of my essay on Blade Runner moves into more speculative areas and draws on linguistics and literary theory to discuss and examine how Blade...
7 years ago
peur bleue

Benoit B - Weekend Girl - Video by Quentin Brachet Label: Peur Bleue Records Catalogue: PBR007 Release date: November 2016 More info Buy UK Buy FR Buy DE
7 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmosphe...
7 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
7 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
7 years ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
7 years ago
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy

- I met Mark for the first time in a pub, in north London, where there was a panel discussion launching Simon Reynolds's Rip it Up and Start Again. For a fe...
7 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

danismm: Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast, (Königsberg) 1926 Neue... - danismm: *Tilsit, Kaliningrad Oblast,* (Königsberg) 1926 Neue Loge. Fabrikstrasse, *arch. Erich Mendelsohn *
7 years ago
e-flux » Announcements

"Occupy The Future" in Washington, DC - The Creative Time Summit—the world's largest international conference on art and social change—is headed to Washington, DC! Occurring in the nation's capit...
8 years ago
Phil Zone

- This is advance notice that I'm going to be killing off this blog in the next month or so, mainly because I'm trying to wean myself off being continually p...
8 years ago
up close and personal

The future then -
8 years ago
The Bomb Party

Graham Dunning reviews in the new Wire - I have one or two other things in the new issue of The Wire but somebody else scanned this and put it on Facebook so it was easy enough for me to copy it...
8 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
8 years ago
WAVE EDGE

Jean Schwarz - Don Quichotte - Jean Schwarz - Don Quichotte Another great Jean Schwarz LP, this time on his own Celia imprint, featuring material composed between 1975-76. This is p...
8 years ago
Acousmata

My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely... - My book “Instruments for New Music”– the project largely responsible for the death of Acousmata– came out in November 2015. A history of experimental sou...
8 years ago
Tendenzroman

Where Are We Now? - So how do us millenials relate to Bowie, and what does he mean to us? Anything more than a two-second gif, a frame for every one of his looks? Born in 19...
8 years ago
I Love 1982

mabellonghetti: Harrison Ford photographed by Jadran Lazic at... - mabellonghetti: Harrison Ford photographed by Jadran Lazic at the Cannes Film Festival, 1982
8 years ago
English Heretic

Houses On The Borderland - Last Broadcast At Boleskine - In the conclusion for "Anti-Heroes", I noted, with respect to one of the celebrants, actor George Sanders, "… the archetypes continue to conflate, to l...
8 years ago
The Inkbottle

The End of 2015, the End of The Inkbottle - As this year comes to a close, I am also going to bring this blog to a close. It’s basically been closed for a while, since I’ve not posted much here over...
8 years ago
The Meccano Grape

"The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don’t like to stop anything they feel..." - ““The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don’t like to stop anything they feel is making their lives easier, or is to their benefit...
9 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
9 years ago
Ruins of the 20th Century

Mother Stands For Comfort - I wrote this piece for the epiphanies column of Wire magazine in 2010; it’s included in the Epiphanies anthology, edited by Tony Herrington. In the summer ...
9 years ago
Rouge's Foam

I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it... - I don’t say a lot on social media. I don’t know who my audience is. Recently, much of it has been people from the online networks of underground music I ...
9 years ago
la musique de son

Michael Giles / Jamie Muir / David Cunningham ‎– Ghost Dance ‎– Piano 502 - *"One morning in 1983 I was sent a Japanese music magazine which contained an interview I'd done (I was looking at the pictures) and over the page from...
9 years ago
toys and techniques

RE RE RE UP UP UPS - Fresh reups of old mixtapes. MIXY TRISH'S TOYS & TECHNIQUES BIRTHDAY MIX I LOOFA 2 ATELIER DE MOLECULES THE XYLOPHONE JETTY SINJIN SETS SAIL AD HOC ICE CRE...
9 years ago
the spectral dimension

The Isle is full of Noises - Easy Sunday morning viewing. Lots of rippling nature scenes between people talking about pagan gods, skulls, shape-shifting animals, Halloween fires. ...
9 years ago
Social Dead Zone

Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
9 years ago
| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

UC44 – UC63 Contents on one page - There is no index for these issues. Instead, here are all the contents pages assembled into a single page, which may be searched by Cntrl/Command-F: _____...
9 years ago
404PageFound

You’ve Got Mail - A gem of a site that utilized Flash and HTML 3.2. Get $5 back when you buy on VHS.
10 years ago
Zone Styx Travelcard

- Thinking about that line in Simon Reynolds' Kate Bush piece about her not quite being cool... That's how I remember it, although I'm roughly a year younger...
10 years ago
pretty fantasmagorical

Century Falls - Do you hear that? That faint chiming sound in the distance, just detectable over the howl of the wind? Kind of melancholy… ethereal… vaguely threatening? Y...
10 years ago
croydon municipal

The making of How We Used To Live - Like most good stories, this one starts in a pub. For over a decade my band, Saint Etienne, has worked with director Paul Kelly on various short films and ...
10 years ago
Clay Shirky

Pulling Punches While Covering Print: A Reply to Ryan Chittum - Background: Yesterday, I wrote something about how nostalgia blunted skeptical coverage of Aaron Kushner’s dumb — and now failing — plans to build a newspa...
10 years ago
Ministry Of Kindred Information

Cats, Death and Creativity - Last month, I was asked to take part in a symposium Art after Death, organised on behalf of the Royal Academy by artist and pal John Lawrence. Held in High...
10 years ago
Mid-Century Modern Freak

Familiar Faces Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 - *Familiar Faces* *Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5*
10 years ago
Beyond The Wychelm

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - In September 2013, my husband and I were lucky enough to attend Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip in rural Somerset, where we enjoyed live performances by ...
10 years ago
Pere Lebrun

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10 years ago
Babylon Wales

The End - Here endeth the blog. Thanks for your interest - particularly to those of you who have taken the trouble to contact me over the past few years. What bett...
10 years ago
Cathode Haze

Rewind - Over at AUFS, Adam Kotsko names the problem with the “recap” as a form of TV criticism. (Incidentally Adam, if you’re ever looking for somewhere to blog ab...
11 years ago
Modern Mechanix

I WANT MEN! (Nov, 1936) - I WANT MEN! Tea and Coffee Routes Paying up to $60.00 in a Week! ROUTES Going Fast! Hurry before someone else snaps up your locality. Look what others have...
11 years ago
NewNewMusicalExpress

New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...
11 years ago
k-punk

Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....
11 years ago
The New Ennui

Some Music - Here are some records that have been close to me the past 13 months or so. Some of them are old, some were released in 2012. They are in no particular orde...
11 years ago
heroasides

How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...
11 years ago
Sea Songs

On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...
11 years ago
The painted wrd

Till the World Ends - If the world is in fact ending at some point today, then now is as good a time as any to talk about guilty pleasures. Thus, in the spirit of pre-apocalypti...
11 years ago
holding out for a hero

Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...
11 years ago
UNDER TOMORROWS SKY

UNDER TOMORROWS SKY PROJECT VIDEO BY ODDONE - Production house Oddone have edited together a project video for Under Tomorrows Sky and the MU Foundation. Oddone are also developing a short narrative vi...
12 years ago
It's Complicated Project

Open Letter To Laura Mulvey - lindsayzoladz: *We’ve talked about it in letters* * And we’ve talked about it on the phone* * But how you really feel about it* * I don’t really know* *W...
12 years ago
Retro Culture

Online Ostalgie - The everyday culture of the “Second World”, the countries behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet dominated sphere forms in its “other modernity” in the rece...
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c60 Radio

c60 609: 06/11/11 - This week’s c60 is bringing you some new tapes for deep summer listening. Here’s the playlist: Pedro Magina – “Miyagi” Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five [No...
13 years ago
the hauntological society

The films of Stanley Kubrick - *"I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner...
13 years ago
You Can't Do That On TV Anymore

"We're supposed to be intelligent people, not the London School of Economics!" - The first episode of a TV series is incredibly difficult to get right, because it has to do everything. You’ve got to introduce your characters, their env...
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Electro Acoustic Composers Oral History Project

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What The Future Sounded Like - Home

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