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artists working within the intimate, confessional, soul-baring tradition, who veer off into unexpectedly inventive, non-acoustic or expressively weird directions it does my head in that Cat Stevens - Cat Stevens of "Peace Train", "Morning Has Broken" etc etc - released this track in early...

most artists carry on long after they should have stopped, so the Q might equally be "who hasn't shat on their own legend?" but who are the ones who have most soiled their own discographies? it might not even be a question of bad records, just the sheer quantity of 'pretty good / decent'...

is how I described 2step but what about examples of jungle that is romantic or sexy? NOT including songs where a diva sample is very clearly being used to refer to Ecstasy e.g. "Finest Illusion" rather songs construably about being in love rather than being luv'dup here's one to start with

you know where I'm going with this

I saw that Kevin Martin aka The Bug has rescored Solaris, which is a ballsy thing to do given the immensity of both the Tarkovsky film and the soundtrack by Artemiev I feel like this is a thing that others have done but I can't think of any other examples Did the dude from Portishead do one...

have these been deposited here before? somehow, despite the absurd treatment, the glory of the former survives while the shiteness of the second cannot be disguised there's a bunch more but they're all D&B after its enshitenment

when the scene pays respect to itself or an artist doffs the cap to inspirational elders

c.f the Gabber Eleganza thing

here's an interesting piece by Chal Ravens, following her proclamation of "this is the Future" about that Afrocentric techno mix by Shannen S-P https://djmag.com/longreads/uk-club-music-evolving-how it's about a sound that has emerged in recent years on the UK scene that people just call...

this is a ragingly beautiful piece of music except for one element that lets the side down which is the winded and thin-sounding horn section, whose paltry and clumsy parping resembles the brass section in Dexys if each player had one collapsed lung what other songs or pieces of music are...

"the sensation of muck" is a phrase that popped into my head a long time ago when flicking through a huge swathe of house 12 inches in a store... a cumulative awareness of the lack of care taken about titling tracks or even artist names and label names, the drab typography, the generic black or...

songs about London (within a certain tradition nudge nudge wink wink say no more - keep it focused, like)

this is a world completely foreign to me the definition of getting the wrong end of the stick - and waving it frantically around

pirates on way out cos internet and cos licenses sez New York Times i'm surprised that there are still fifty left tbh "Now that Rinse is a licensed station, the contrast with Kool, a former competitor, is stark. Kool operates out of a grim warehouse with flickering bulbs and patchy black...

Proof if needed that the nuum was never only a Just-4-U-London thing

some clever sod has noticed and is documenting a Wire magazine stylistic trait which is for the artist's to conceal wholly or partly their face from the camera https://twitter.com/WireFacesHidden one of the examples is from my Rob Haigh piece from a few months ago where sure enough Mr Haigh...

does it still exist anymore? dissensus is probably not the place to ask admittedly! i never unsubscribed from the IDM newsletter (not sure why i ever subscribed in the first place--researching some piece probably). So every six weeks or so it comes into my inbox. But it used to come twice a...

viz "British Sea Power are also playing a special one-off concert with the legendary Germans of Faust. Faust feat. British Sea Power Friday 4 November Hove Old Market Upper Market St Hove BN3 1AS PLEASE NOTE: British Sea Power will NOT be playing their own material at this show. Instead, BSP...

****warnining****this one could get a little abstract****warning***** Noticed a bit of musico-philosophical mini-meme in circulation Matos had this blogriff on my "where you're at/where you're from" blogriff, in the course of which he declared: “For a lot of us in the [pro-camp], it went...