'Ear Dis- "Hey Girl" (2003)
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Always thought this one was sort of proto-funky house in that when Funky
House first came out, I thought much of it sounded like this song. I guess
what ...
Toni Basil- "Mickey"
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Toni Basil- “Mickey”
Album Year: 1982
Age: 0
Track Number: 7
And speaking of timelines written out of continuity, we come to Toni Basil,
who is stil...
Edna O'Brien
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I've been reading Edna O'Brien's first novel, *The Country Girls*, which is
great if you're looking for a new book. It's fun and smart and slightly
tawdry...
In a World of His Own [on RUSHMORE]
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This appeared in the February 12, 1999 issue of the Chicago Reader. –J.R.
Rushmore Rating *** A must see Directed by Wes Anderson Written by Anderson
and O...
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RIP Village Voice
Commemorating what the paper represented in its several heydays, here's links to some of the material in the 50th Anniversary issue that t...
Download Kingdom’s edit of Cassie’s ‘All My Love’
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[image: Download Kingdom's edit of Cassie's 'All My Love']
*The Fade to Mind boss remixes one of the club world’s favorite singers.*
After a few years of...
katherine st asaph: The Music Writer's Code
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katherine st asaph: The Music Writer's Code:
markrichardson:
If, when casually speaking with someone, you state an idea about a new
record that your conv...
All That is Solid Melts Into Air
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*Black Smoke and Spliff Dubs*
*The Grim Reefer*
*and all of their friends, Belzebong, Stoned Jesus, Weedeater, Cannabis
Corpse, and Dogshit Orgasm.*
...
Market Corrections
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"We were no longer the It-boys and -girls, we were no longer hot. ...A
painting valued at $2,000 in 1980 might have sold for $500,000 five years
later at...
retrodance
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*Random Access Memories *hovers at the perfect convergence point between *
Retromania* and *Energy Flash*. Here's my *New York Times* piece on how
Daft Punk...
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Hovering at the perfect convergence point of *Energy Flash* and *Retromania*- Daft Punk's
*Random Access Memories* - here's my *New York Times* piece on how...
Collision-Detection Box Set (remix)
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The inevitable remix of the article at Freq
There’s buckets of finely congealed empathy here, beautifully presented. Front
And Follow is an unusual, old-f...
Nation Equals Rate Times Time
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It is not money that renders the commodities commensurable. Quite the
contrary. Because all commodities, as values, are objectified human labour,
and the...
Anachronism as Responsible Pedagogy
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I am finally back from a lovely and stimulating Kalamazoo. It was great to
meet so many people, and to hear some excellent papers.
I've posted here my c...
Interview on Unhitched
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The guy from C-Span gets me in to talk about Unhitched, and in the end we
get talking about imperialism, communism and, briefly, the crisis in the
SWP. (...
Tears in rain (refix)
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Catherine Lupton notes, in her monograph on Chris Marker, that *Sans Soleil
*(1982) is replete with instances of the last moments of things. The one
the f...
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Boxset Review
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Nick Drake
Bryter Layter Boxset
(Commercial Marketing)
*"I think that's one of the problems with Nick's legacy, if there is a
problem. I get sent tapes...
Siberian Gold
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*"For help was coming from an unexpected dimension. In 1961, the first
oilfield had been discovered in western Siberia, and by 1969 geologists -
many worki...
Separating the gems from the “gems”
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“Recently discovered long-lost gem! First released on an obscure label in
the 70s/80s, now remastered by Dubplates and Mastering (who else does
mastering?!...
Upcoming Speaking Events in London and Galway
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Transformative Geographies: Critical Reflections on Environment,
Sustainability and Governmentality 45th Conference of Irish Geographers
16th-18th May 2013...
Beyond the Black Rainbow - A film by Panos Cosmatos
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*"Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983,
Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream
inspired by ...
Great Turtlenecks in Culture
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The last time I saw Papa was in Key West. He was having a tea party with
several cats he'd tied down to the table, dressed up in human clothes.
"This is G...
MRS THATCHER - THE GHOST IN THE HOUSE OF WONKS
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How Mrs Thatcher constructed a fake ghostly version of Britain's past, and
then used it to maintain her power. But also how she became possessed and
haun...
A PRELUDE TO DEMATERIALISATION
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Already whinged n whined about it on the 19f3 site, so I am pretty much
over the fucking fact that Posterous (or Twitter - for it was they absorbed
them ...
RBMA interview: the directors cut
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So in the last few weeks I've written two pieces. One is why mixing is getting easy and EZ is the best for Sonic Router and the other was an interview wit...
Three events this week ...
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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....
Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women
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This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most
widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope has
been core...
A falling fourth or fifth
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Bitterly cold this morning in Queens Wood but not too cold to hear the
woman calling her dogs with a fluting falling call – ooh oooh – that
reminded me of ...
Yacht Rock
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Yacht.
Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”),
from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) (“hunt”) (modern jacht), short for jaghts...
Elsewhere: Sean Ford’s ‘Only Skin’ comics
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The woods in Sean Ford’s comic Only Skin border a simple, recognizable
American town. There’s a post office and a diner. Members of the community
amble abo...
Top 25 Favorite Pieces of 2012
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Posted in Articles
I wrote a lot of words this year, for a lot of different publications. I
haven’t actually counted up the number of pieces I wrote, but ...
Family affair (Disco re-edit)
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Flying Lotus stares moodily from the cover of The Wire‘s October issue, his
third eye caught in a blur as it materialises in the region of his right
temple...
so long, and thanks for all the ssgs
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MNML SSGS began on 11 December 2007. While we definitely had plans when we
commenced the blog, we certainly had no expectation that it would ever
dev...
S a/o B Rides Again
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After a hiatus and declaration of having done with itself, S a/o B has
restarted as an online project, picking up the threads it dropped for a few
months...
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London folk. One of my best mates, the HNW surgeon himself A View From
Nihil makes his live debut tomorrow alongside Vomir and a host of other big
guns fro...