Recent content by shaun L

doctor! My main memory of the Radiophonic workshop is the soundtrack to 70s Dr Who... strange metallic drones and clangs that occupied an indiscernable zone between musical accompaniment and special effect. Fights were particularly exciting.... The music was obviously from the future- but it...

I really rate the Joint 2. its a moving shadow/suburban base collaboration--- http://www.discogs.com/release/157302 If you see it-buy immediately Its got a similar mix of hyper edited breaks and vocals to a lot of squarepusher/snares material- but IMO has more vitality. A lot of the moving...

Yeah, Red Hot Car is a cut above. I think if I was to abandon my unreasoning aversion to the 'pusher, I could probably get into the unbreaks material- I remember hearing some ominous semi rock on Ultravisitor. Its the misuse of breaks and edits that gets me - additionally, he's the Steve Vai of...

Hmm, its possible that Squarepusher is fabulous, but regretably I can't listen to more than 10 seconds of his music without thinking- 'ARRRG, self-conciously intelligent imitation of breakbeat science' and then a fuse blows in my head. :).

Viva hate I have to use this thread to spew venom too... I hate Squarepusher/Venetian Snares and that whole genre of music made by DNB inspired noodlers. Its all micro edited, muso, hairmetal jungle innit. A randomly selected drum and bass release from 1994-6 will almost certainly contain more...

New Mind Whilst we're on Swans, here's a link to the new mind video. It sort of reminds me of a Sisters video... camera tracking singer, lots of pacing about, hats, dunno what Gira's doing with an axe tho'. IMO the Sisters of Mercy are an early example of record collector rock- a bit of...

Throughsilver is totally spot-on regarding the Swans. The live album Omniscience (from 1992) pretty much renders Goth Rock completely redundant. I regret not getting into them sooner, a friend of mine at school mocked my modish enthusiasm for SOM and the fields of the nephilim by comparing them...

I haven't tried them so I dunno what they're like but there's a Korg 16 pad thing for around £140 (Korg padKontrol) and a similar set up on the M-Audio Trigger Finger for around £130.

Alcachofa has more lively programming, alarming bass and spannered vocoding- which makes Harem seem a bit of a plodder... and the middle trax are pretty forgettable., but the dosed harp on Hireklon is pretty unique-its a shame Harem hasn't got more trax with singing on... the closing 2 (on the...

Camera Lucida contains some incredibly beautiful praise of black and white photography... .... the light reflected from the face of his dead mother bleaching the crystals on the film.... he was holding the afterimage of the light that touched his mother's face. ... deep thinking on shallow...

I'm right into winter migrants... fieldfares, redwings, y'know perching birds --- none of that wader arkana... its like- in comes Winter, S.A.D starts kicking in and then BOSCH -- nice to see ya guys, at last something thinks that wet cold miserable days are worth flying across the North sea...

this is doesn't justify the negative designation of humanity, most of humanity's control systems use misanthropy as a justification for the creation of misery.... eg Police States treating us all as criminals, Heirophants labelling us abject, godless scum and so on... Misanthropy and its...

this is an unrealistic representation of primate behaviour and completely ignores the biological origins of empathy and socialisation. isn't this a symptom of over identification with the subjective self... why should I care what my opinions are? The opinion forming 'I' is only one part of...

naah mate, I'm no dyslexo troll... Counterblaste is as in 'counterblaste to tobacco' the King James anti smoking pamphlet... I haven't got enough life to squander it on weak parodies of talented writers :rolleyes:

Gulag Monkey Neuropunk I wish I had read this.... http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004552.html ....first. Totally agree with the rejection of dualist thinking.... -- I still disagree with the utility of the more 'bodyhorror' parts of the CR program tho.