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The next Stadtklang music evening at the Arcola Theatre Bar in Dalston London on Sunday 7 May, 6.30-11, will feature artist, writer and psychogeographer Laura Oldfield Ford and musician, sound engineer and producer Jack Latham They will present and discuss new sound work using field recordings...

Plug for an interdisciplinary MSc in Urban Studies at University College London which I hope some Dissensians will be interested in – I know that several posters already have connections with the Bartlett. Full details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanstudies

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Why is it that the more money someone has, the more they seem to complain of being poor? The other day as I was sitting in someone’s garden with swimming pool, they were bemoaning that they couldn’t afford that second holiday of the year. An acquaintance recently described her new boyfriend as a...

An interest kickstarted by hearing Eden and Meme’s fantastic fast chat special: http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3690&highlight=fast+chat I’d heard Smiley Culture before but never realised quite how much similar good influential stuff there was out there from mid80s Britain. It seems reggae...

Something that’s been getting on my goat this year is the often uncritical defining of musical forms by colour. Take Blissblogger recentlyon this board equating nu-Britrock and grime as ‘white and black versions of the same landscape’ or Woebot on his blog today praising ‘bohemians not cleaving...

My minidisc recently broke. Unable to afford a new one let alone a fancy ipod gizmo, I've dug out my battered but much-loved Walkman. Rediscovered loads of great tapes and two sides of an album. Seeing a much trendier friend he tells me Walkmans are the new cool. What with every tom dick and...