RETROMANIA

"Any kind of popular trend is infinitely more wholesome than listening to old records. It's more important that people know that some kind of pleasure can be derived from things that are around them - rather than to catalogue more stuff - you can do that forever"- HARRY SMITH ........................"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may / Old Time is still a-flying / And this same flower that smiles today/Tomorrow will be dying"-ROBERT HERRICK

Sunday, March 22, 2020

the future that never came




Prospective 21e Siecle display at A-Muzik, Koln

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MY OTHER BLOGS

  • Thinkige Kru
    - “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure” – E.M. Cioran
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  • Pantheon: Music Press Heroes
    Paul Oldfield - Cows + God Bullies - Melody Maker - May 12 1990 -
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  • Hardly Baked
    munmusik / det här var imorgon -
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  • Energy Flash
    rewind revival - *Michaelangelo Matos* reports on the resurgence of D+B for the* Rinsin' Stone* "*Some of this is due to TikTok, where artists like the young British vo...
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  • SR Archive
    Kate Bush - running up those charts - I hear Kate Bush is very popular at the moment! Here's something I prepared earlier... *KATE BUSH AND HER NEVER NEVER POP* *director's cut, The Guardia...
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  • Blissblog
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    2 days ago
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  • Dreams, Built By Hand
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    - *blogging pre-echoes and steps leading up to Retromania* all the below from Blissblog if not otherwise indicated: Thursday, October 27, 2005 *A past gone...
    10 years ago

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    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 ...
    5 years ago
  • Found Objects
    About The Author # 2. -
    5 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...
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  • 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
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  • 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 atmospher...
    5 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 ...
    5 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 ...
    5 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 ...
    5 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 few...
    5 years ago
  • Ghosts in the TV
    trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
    5 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...
    5 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...
    5 years ago
  • up close and personal
    The future then -
    6 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...
    6 years ago
  • Writing Through the Fog
    Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
    6 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...
    6 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...
    6 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...
    6 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
    6 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 li...
    6 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...
    6 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...
    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
  • Mounds and Circles
    Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
    6 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 ...
    6 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...
    7 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...
    7 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. ...
    7 years ago
  • Social Dead Zone
    Welcome to Hollingsville - Welcome to Hollingsville: Foreword to Ken Hollings’ Bright LabyrinthOut of nowhere, I began to...
    7 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: _____...
    7 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.
    7 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...
    7 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...
    7 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 ...
    7 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...
    8 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...
    8 years ago
  • Mid-Century Modern Freak
    Familiar Faces Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 - *Familiar Faces* *Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5*
    8 years ago
  • Rouge's Foam
    Photo -
    8 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 ...
    8 years ago
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    8 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...
    8 years ago
  • fantastic journal
    Fat. End of. - So, we've announced our end and, surprisingly, hearteningly and for all the right reasons, it feels good. Architectural practices don't normally just stop,...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    9 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....
    9 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...
    9 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...
    9 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...
    9 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...
    9 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...
    9 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...
    9 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...
    9 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...
    10 years ago
  • 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...
    11 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...
    11 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...
    13 years ago
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