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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

"DIYstopia" -- that's me, interviewed in this piece for Isis magazine by James Manning on the past, present, and future of do it yourself

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1961 Volkswagen Single-Cab Pickup: Classic Utility with Character - The 1961 Volkswagen Single-Cab Pickup is a rare and practical variant of the iconic Type 2 Transporter. Based on the same rear-engined, air-cooled platform...
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Atlas Obscura

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{ feuilleton }

Paul Woodroffe’s Tempest - Paul Vincent Woodroffe (1875–1954) was a British illustrator and stained-glass artist, a kind of British equivalent of Harry Clarke in that he seems to hav...
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it's her factory

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A Year In The Country

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History is made at night

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We Are the Mutants

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ThamesTv

1980s Electric Car | World Record Attempt | E Vehicle | Electric Vehicle | M25 Record Attempt | 1988 -
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Infinite Speeds

Incense & Black Light - On the nocturnal music of Rod Modell (DeepChord)
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Wormwoodiana

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Dreams of Space - children's books and outer space

Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 1 - I like all the books I post but some are a cut above. This may be one of the best space art books I have found. It has a huge number of color paintin...
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DREAM WEAPONS

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Rolando Revagliatti / De mi mayor estigma (1995) - descargar / download
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WOEBOT

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Municipal Dreams

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The Pinocchio Theory

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Flow

Moholy-Nagy’s Dynamik der Gross-Stadt (1920-1921): An Illustration of the Limits of Reproducibility of the Historical Avant-Garde and the Epistemological Value of ExperimentationKelly Daniela Norris / University of Texas at Austin - Kelly Daniela Norris experiments with the limits of reproducibility of the historical avant-garde using Moholy-Nagy’s script, Dynamik der Gross-Stadt (1920)
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Internet Archive - Collection: prelinger

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Ken Hollings

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Modernism Unbound

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Completely Different (Matthew Miles Goodrich)

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The Haunted Generation

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robinthefog

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2 months ago
Fuji Puzzle Box

Mammyjammer Players - Etc. Etc. Etc. (MOTHER FUKERS In Concert) - A buddy spotted this on the Dusty Groove website. It's not on Discogs. I bought it. It's 35 minutes long: 105 different blackout comedy skits rangi...
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Some Private Diagonal

#43 The Enduring Fascination of Richard Nixon - *This is a longer version of an article that originally appeared in The Critic.
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Found Objects

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Absolutely *fascinating* current affairs programme from 1972 looking at advice columnists - Dr Stephen Black talks to Marjorie Proops of the *Daily Mi...
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Jonathan Griffin

Jacqueline Humphries - Aspen Museum of Art Writers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Lewis Hyde have contributed to the notion of art as a veiled gift, with strings attac...
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Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

The top 50 songs of 2025 - My brain got so blurbed to oblivion this year that I was about to skip doing a proper year end list, but this in-between week has given me a little moment ...
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Miraculous Agitations

New book: 'To Farse All Things' - Sample pamphlets for publishersIt's so baffling that there isn't more uptake for the groundbreaking projects I keep assaulting publishers and funding bod...
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Greyscape

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Backlisted

253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon - Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss *Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future* (1930), the astounding...
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ELECTRONIC ORGY

TANGERINE DREAM - ZEIT (OHR– OMM 2/56021, 2 X VINYL LP, 1972) (FLAC/WAV) - *En este 2025 que estamos concluyendo, se conmemoran 53 años de la grabación y edición del disco ZEIT de TANGERINE DREAM, un album que se convirtió, con ...
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davidtoop

Soundbody workshop - “Rice paper possesses a materiality of emptiness and absence. Its surface does not shine, and it is as soft as silk. When folded, it hardly makes a noise, ...
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Breakfast In The Ruins

NEW ZINES LAUNCH. - Dear friends, followers and anyone else who is still reading this blog after many months of inactivity - I am writing today to let you know that, after a...
11 months ago
Retro Synth Ads

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Rockets & Rayguns

A little slide that @rocketsandrayguns and I put together, after Dedra’s lessons in clean desk… - hangingfire: [image: A Powerpoint slide of "Password Best Practices and Guidelines", including tips like "Create a Strong Password", "Never Reuse a Passw...
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Relative Nostalgia

Unpopular Film/TV I Unironically Like - Media that I subjectively enjoy.
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The Zuckerberg Files

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Nina Power

Insensitivity Readers! - Alongside other experienced fiction/non-fiction writers and editors, I’m launching a new service, Insensitivity Readers, to provide honest feedback on your...
1 year ago
blog to the oldskool

Oral-X – Tribal Zone EP - I’ve got some spare time over the Holidays, so I figure it might be nice to post up a few releases that don’t have audio on the net anywhere. With this kin...
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Suspended Reason

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1 year ago
Rough Type

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I Understand (Stonecirclesampler et al)

No more days // 2009 - 2013 - Part II: the beginning of the end + ambient grime noir, endless rainfall & the 2009 - 2013 after dark inspirations ov the new Stonecirclesampler album
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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
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PONTONEPONTONE | PONTONE

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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...
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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...
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treffynnon19

Milltowners (1986) -
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lunarlodge

Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
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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
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DIAMOND VARIATIONS

CPU DIE SHOTS - https://higherinquietude.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/cpu-die-shots/
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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...
4 years ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

Instagram - I continue here… http://www.Instagram.com/one1more2time3/
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 years ago
The Vitalist

The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran - The colorful mountains near Tabriz, Iran
5 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,...
5 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...
6 years ago
Café Kaput

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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...
6 years ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Cover version - For whatever reason at some point I started taking inventory of the cover versions of "classic rock" band songs that were actually worthwhile. Not sure wh...
6 years ago
Scarfolk Council

Welcome to Scarfolk... -
6 years ago
(SF) 365

Feel (is a word I can't explain) - So sang Paul Weller on The Style Council's fourth single, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, which had also been considered as The Jam's last single. It's partly ...
6 years ago
Tiny Mix Tapes

Macintosh Plus announces new album, shares 12-minute preview called "Sick & Panic (First Mix)" - That’s right. Vektroid just announced a new Macintosh Plus album. And, thankfully, the first preview of it sounds nothing like Floral Shoppe (which, by ...
6 years ago
History's Dumpster

The Last 78 RPM Records - "Gwendolyne" Julio Iglesias (1970, Colombia) Image: Discogs *What was the last 78 RPM record?* I've been asked this question now and then and to be perfe...
6 years ago
Parallel Lies

Photo -
6 years ago
The Hum Blog

outside the reed syndicate - A brain melting mashup of Tony Conrad and Faust’s Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) and Terry Riley’s Reed Streams (1967), from (and by) The Hum. (Headp...
7 years ago
metopal.com

Family BASIC in 2019 - In preparation for an article I’m writing on hobbyist Japanese Famicom programmers in the 80s, I’ve spent the past few days diving into a quirky bit of sof...
7 years ago
Cartographies of the Absolute

The threadbare cloth of realism (interview) - This is the transcript of an interview from the weekend edition of Efimerida ton Syntakton (The Editors’ Newspaper), on the relative fortunes of the far ri...
7 years ago
R/J/L-H

Ini keuntungan ehr yang perlu anda ketahui - Electronic health records dataset (EHR) merujuk pada rekam medis pasien secara individu dalam format digital. Sistem catatan kesehatan elektronik mengoo...
7 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 ...
7 years ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Box Set: Loungecore - *A collection of some of my recent features on mid to late nineties loungey indie dance music...* It looks as though some of you aren't aware that I no...
7 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...
7 years ago
Bat, Bean, Beam

Ten. - When I started blogging, ten whole years ago, people were already saying that blogging was dead. They were right. Certainly the blogs on which I formed my ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Dream Transmissions

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

Modern Practical Building Volume 1 - Caxton Publishing Company Limited. New and revised edition, 1950. Note: scans of photographs...
8 years ago
http://soundsorceryfiles.tumblr.com/

Video -
8 years ago
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space

DIENSTAG aus LICHT - (from JAHRESLAUF) (© www.karlheinzstockhausen.org) *Tuesday from Light (1977, 1987-1991)* *for tenor, bass and soprano vocal soloists, trumpets, trombones...
8 years ago
In Media Res

Summer Break - - [image: Theme Week]Thank you to all of our contributors and followers. - - -
8 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...
8 years ago
Include Me Out

Album: Stretchmarks - The Stretch m-ARKhives - 'Can you imagine Doobie in your funk?' - George Clinton 'You fake the funk / Your nose got to grow' - Bootsy Collins I like my Funk uncut, but who does...
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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...
8 years ago
The Night Mail

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8 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
8 years ago
Southern Discomfort

Samira Ahmed: Blade Runner meets The Good Life - Broadcasting House. You know the one, near the Church, back of Oxford Circus, Orwell did a stint there. Room … Continue reading →
8 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...
8 years ago
-ɴ●♰ξs ϝᴙ●ლ ♰Ӊξ ṿ◍♏ⅉ✞◍ℾⅉữ♏-

blissblog: Spectres of Mark: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning - blissblog: Spectres of Mark: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning Nice riff on the spookiness of vocals in Burial's work here by Reynolds... https:...
8 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters - When the last chord of ‘Twist and Shout’ came to an end, the Beatles grouped together at the front of the Prince of Wales Theatre stage. The blue curtain s...
8 years ago
Our God is Speed

Because - Honestly, back in the days when Julian Cope's *Krautrocksampler* doc became the Young Person's Guide to Same, I took issue with the author's assertion t...
8 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Everything in Its Place - To live your best life in the moment, replace things with carefully staged images
9 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...
9 years ago
io9

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9 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Summer Shuffle – 16 June 2017 -
9 years ago
Between Channels

Lost Objects - Hullo. What with the pram in the hall being the enemy of buying secondhand magazines, books and records and all that, I don't really do this anymore. Item...
9 years ago
DIS Magazine

Dining with Reba Maybury - Dining with Reba Maybury Deconstructing power through the lens of a political dominatrix In a time when many of us have unwittingly become brand ambassad...
9 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
9 years ago
dispokino

Mix: Surreal Synthesizers - If you happen to have 213 minutes to spare please listen to some synthedelic bits, blips and swooshes I carried to Bern and played in a row one night in...
9 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
9 years ago
Speaker to Animals

Do “Aspies” Dream of Electric Sheep? Part 2: The Neurodivergent Worlds of Philip K Dick - This is the second part of of my essay on Blade Runner (1982) and Asperger’s Syndrome. In ”Part 1: Autistic Noir” I looked at the parallels between Ridley ...
9 years ago
Néojaponisme

Mix: The Best of Shibuya-kei, Volume One - The time has been right for a new mix that showcases, celebrates, and reintroduces the best tracks from Shibuya-kei’s peak years: dj david, mon amour - “Th...
9 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...
9 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Negativity, Not Pessimism! (RIP Mark Fisher) - I was so shocked and upset to learn of Mark Fisher's death yesterday. For me, Mark was both an idol and, as time passed, someone I was always pleased and...
9 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

Photo -
9 years ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #1: July 14th 1977 – Like Punk Hadn’t Really Happened Just Yet - The debut of the podcast that takes a random episode of Top Of The Pops and breaks it down to its very last compound. It’s the Summer of ’77, and the Sex P...
9 years ago
e-flux » Announcements

Kelley Walker - Direct Drive is the first solo American museum exhibition by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Kelley Walker. Since the early 2000s, the Georgia-born, New...
9 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...
10 years ago
Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
10 years ago
The Bomb Party

Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka - In May, I will be speaking at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound festival in Zagreb. For more details check out the event page here.
10 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

Stoopid bass - and this and this of course
10 years ago
up close and personal

Somethin' Here -
10 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

Crank - bass = discipline two very different tracks, but the bass has the same kind of propulsive quality in each
10 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...
10 years ago
the hauntological society

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - *There is nothing to see.* Please go here: http://thehauntologicalsociety.tumblr.com/
10 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...
10 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
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

The Seventh Cyrkle - My best wishes of the season, from deep within the sheer terror of Pendle Witch Country. As I sit by the fire this evening and celebrate *Hallowe'en*, I wi...
10 years ago
Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
10 years ago
Island of Terror

What We Call The Most - 'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that *Cliff Richard *has made a lot of good records, but very few of them have the immediate dance ...
11 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 ...
11 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 ...
11 years ago
toys and techniques

Music & Poetry of the Kesh - This cassette is included in Ursula Le Guin's novel *Always Coming Home*, which is about a valley people called the Kesh "who might be going to have lived...
11 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...
11 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. ...
11 years ago
Social Dead Zone

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

UC02 Summer 1972 - Open link to Issuu in a new window ______________________________________________________________________ Undercurrents 02 Summer 1972: Contents 1 Front co...
11 years ago
WAVE EDGE

Michel Redolfi - Immersion/Pacific Tubular Waves - Michel Redolfi - Immersion/Pacific Tubular Waves One of my all time favourite pieces of digital music. All the electronic sounds on this record were g...
11 years ago
404PageFound

Pray Before the Head of ‘Bob’ - “The Ultimate Oracle: Over 1625038 Questions Answered.” A great old site that is quirky to boot. Features early HTML, a button map, and ubiquitous tiled ba...
11 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...
11 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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...
12 years ago
Mid-Century Modern Freak

Happy Memorial Day Weekend…Stay Safe! -... - *Happy Memorial Day Weekend…Stay Safe!* *- midcenturymodernfreak* *Via*
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The Hatchet - The following is a review of 'Experimental Architecture' by Peter Cook, written by a 'Kit Pedler' and appearing in the April 1971 issue of Architectural De...
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Pere Lebrun

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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...
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Cathode Haze

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The New Ennui

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UNDER TOMORROWS SKY

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It's Complicated Project

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Retro Culture

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c60 Radio

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You Can't Do That On TV Anymore

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