(This post is part of a series of posts on the Wire list. For the previous post please go here. To see the Wire’s original list, please go here. ) Oh you are going to be SO glad I stayed up tonight! All my Wire list posts have the best music you will ever hear, but in […]
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Film – Samuel Beckett takes to the flicks.
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I watched a wonderful short film tonight. A man is running through the streets. he is spotted by a couple and recoils at the sight of them, running on past. The couple are shocked to see him. he runs on, till finally he reaches the door of a room. At the door he takes his […]
Board’s of Canada – Geogaddi: Music as manipulation.
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The thing that must be said initially about Board’s of Canada’s uber album Geogaddi is a hearty congratulations on all the love its solicited. It is certainly an adored album. I read in the album’s Wiki that it has mixed reviews, but I have to confess on all the guru music sites I frequent, the album is […]
Creel Pone #6: Roots of Electronic Sounds
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Today’s collection of the Creel Pone series is as brilliant as it usually is. If you’re into the electronic music – especially the early days of its awakening, then this little series today will curl your lashes big time! The post war surge of electronic music was a craze that hit composers across the globe, a kind […]
Lard Free: I’m Around About Midnight – Freakout French prog-post-jazz
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This is a lovely little piece of 1973 French ahead-of-its-time-ism for your listening pleasure. This is a bit of a staple for me; one I return to time and time again, which in a world filled with music means a lot. ok – yes it’s true, I’m un unrepentant Francophile (well inner-city-left-wing-Praiseanphile to be more […]
The Complete Keynote recordings – Lennie Tristano: Start your Easter in style.
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What can I say? Tonight is the start of a four-day (not so) break for me and I have designated this delicious night, FREE! Which usually means Jazz for me and then some crap movies that I would never dare tell you about (I’m catching up on Harry Potters… shhhhh – don’t tell anyone) because […]
Happy Birthday Comte de Lautreamont!
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“Who may understand why two lovers who idolized one another the night before will quarrel over aq single misunderstood word and flee on the wings of hatred to opposite points of the compass, full of love and remorse yet refusing to see one another , each cloaked in lonely pride? This is a miracle that […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 3. From Che vuoi? To Fantasy: Lacan with eyes wide shut.
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This is a follow on post from a previous one that you can read here. It is important to note, that this is not my own work. This is merely a condensing and simplifying of How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek (Author), Simon Critchley (Series Editor) that can be purchased here. And why the Other with a capital O? For […]
La Monte Young: The Black Record – Layer upon layer of sound.
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The father of drone, the man himself. Someting very very special for my lucky readers today. La Monte Thornton Young is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist. Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer. His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary […]
Céline and Julie go boating – The quiet achiever of the French new wave goes epic.
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How does one describe a film that encompasses the entire world in its enormity? This is easily one of my all time favourite films. I love it for nostalgic reasons and I love it for itself. It is a holy epic, pure in its revelations, uncompromising in its commitment to its own depth. There is so much to say […]
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