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I agree with most of the things Mark K-Punk says on his blog and elsewhere, eg. the recent stuff about youth anhedonia etc esp. seeing as it's based on direct experience from teaching young adults and so on. And yes, sure, for many people drug use releases their inner fascist - but usually...

Anybody else think the new Killing Joke album, Hosannas from the Basement of Hell, is great? My mate reckons it sounds like a recording of a really good jam which is fine by me and that's what it seems to say in the liner notes. It's pretty much a back to basics production, basic...

I've got the i0 "ADSR" 2CD and the Robert Hood "Nighttime World" CD on Cheap, both rather good imho. I also got the Patrick Pulsinger "Porno" CD quite cheap locally years ago ($5) and that's also excellent. I also got that Dean & Deluca" EP they did on M-Plant. That's cool too but I think some...

well, what he says is true but saying that the Grey Album release is evidence for it may be missing the point perhaps. What happens is that the artist signs a guarantee to the label, independent or otherwise, that all samples etc on the master are authorised and legit and if they're not the...

Holy crap! I'm reading this post about the recent sentencing of Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith for refusing to serve in Iraq because of the invasion's illegality where I just noticed this quote from the Independent : New Labour are out of control... It sounds as though they're...

No I haven't to be honest. I just googled that correspondence which looks interesting. I'll read it properly at some later date. Fair enough re moving on though but still getting help (or someone offering it) and taking action is probably better than feeling helpless etc. - assuming it is at...

He sounds so forlorn... Surely there must be a decent lawyer out there who could possibly help him out? From what little I know if he can show he was misled or signed under false representations, as he says in the interview, the contract isn't worth squat.

OK I downloaded the breezeblock mp3 and it sounds nice. Not sure if it's sunk in enough yet to be really enthused but I'll give it another go... I can definitely hear the Luomo / Delay vibe as well as the sound editing stuff. Yeah, I agree - the "sweet" touches got me into dub in the first...

My mate dragged me along to see this at an Asian film festival which he was involved in years ago when it came out. I had never heard of the director or cinematographer then (we also saw Away With Words) but was really impressed - everything Padrig said. I really wanted to see 2046 at the...

I haven't read a novel in ages - or at least one that I really enjoyed and felt that I had to share it with people - and yesterday I finished in a second sitting Ursula le Guin's The Dispossessed What can I say? This is possibly one of the most elegantly written, patiently developed novels I've...

Yeah me too! :) I started out in punk/hc (Ramones, Cramps, Dead Kennedys, etc) and got into metal also via my mates at school: eg. Winter, Godflesh, Ministry, Bolt Thrower, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death (pretty much all that early Earache stuff), Metallica, etc. Killing Joke, Swans, Pink Floyd...

Glad I just noticed this thread after a bit of a Dissensus hiatus on my part (new job) while looking for Deadwood reviews (I'll get it). I think this is true. I recently watched Mystic River and I have to say it's probably one of the most pretentious films I've ever seen. The music is a bit...

Ok just saw this thread (been away from the computer for a bit). My favourite Scorn albums at the moment: Gyral Logghi Barogghi [zander] each of these three have some fantastic dub style work on them. I don't know how he gets some of those sounds mixed - maybe because I'm not an engineer :)...

Well anything on the Ash International label has to qualify as hauntological imo. Especially that Ghost Orchid CD from a few years ago with the recordings of what appear to be actual ghost voices. They describe it thus: More info etc. at the PARC site. (btw I met the guy who did this CD...

Here's a great comment on this topic which was linked on this blog as The Best Comment In The History Of The World. It's pretty good. Here's a couple of choice quotes out of many: It opens with: some meat: read on

Well, a lot of my favourite musos and comedians are could be described as somewhat arrogant deluded people but that doesn't stop me from enjoying their work or them from recognising and expressing the truth, being effective communicators and craftsmen/craftswomen etc. I probably wouldn't want...

Good blog-post here.

I recently picked up "Cupid & Psyche" and the recent one "Anomie & Bonhomie" at a 2nd hand CD shop - my curiosity was piqued with all the discussion here and on the blogs. So far I prefer Cupid but it's rather sickly sweet at some points - some excellent rhythms too. I'm not sure about the more...

I liked his work on the recent High On Fire "Blessed Black Wings" album. Here's his Big Black Final Tour Diary if you haven't read it before.

I listened to Only Heaven again last night after reading your comments here: it's definitely one of the sleepers in my collection. This is a really cool album. I can see where Nick G's coming from re the english lyrics - French/German lyrics are fine by me. The early stuff is great. I got into...