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incapable of making aesthetic mistakes. totally unique vision. every tune is killer (almost). and ruffage, fucking hell! i thought i liked this one enough. but now i've heard the intro and it makes complete sense, this might be his peak. and mud isn't half-bad. dmz on the way. poverty looms..

it's clear there are writers on this forum, and presumably a good part publish in electronic form. i wondered if you care about the fact that much of what you write and backup isn't going to survive the next decade or two? this occurred to me on finishing a book, amazed at the proximity of voice...

enough of this mixtape nonsense, let's have a proper album. they should have released it ages ago. i feel like things are being put on hold indefinitely, it's depressing. by the time they release an album all the hunger, subtlety, experimentation of their music may have disappeared. groups...

went to buy something for breakfast this morning (too early, all shops were closed), and was met with the perfect dark form of the mountains, stretching from north to south in full panoramic glory. it's not often one has such a clear view as smog is getting worse by the year (the same mountains...

i have the 1981 phew album, and the closed/circuit track has that subtle disco touch. very awkward, even a bit cold. and a few days ago i found an akiko yano track posted somewhere, ai suru hito yo. again, very slick, cosmopolitan disco, i think sylvian was involved in this. is this a whole...

on the suicide of three guantánamo inmates, from the guardian: "It does sound like this is part of a strategy - in that they don't value their own lives, and they certainly don't value ours; and they use suicide bombings as a tactic," Colleen Graffy, the deputy assistant secretary of state for...

i've been listening to the current 'cbs top 100' as spiritually guided by i-f - pineapples come on closer, s.c.o.r.t.a pertini dance and a slew of obscure and fantastically ridiculous italo disco tracks, and this isn't hypnotic tango, take a chance, etc but full-on cheesiness. it seems to me the...

a fucking amazing film overall. i saw it with my mum as a kid, we were both devastated. los angeles as a living hell, incredibly depressing. that hazy red heat on the cover is a perfect image of this. but the film is one thing, what does the music do? it takes you on a ride through the slick...

i once lived for a year in an apartment complex, a brutalist social housing thing built in the 1960s. for all its desolation it was cheap and i was treated to a spectacular view of airplanes leaving the airport in the distance, very large windows that bled into the city. i was engulfed by the...

has anyone read this? i'm intrigued: The story deals with just that -- an obsessive accountant who, in order to get some kind of grip on reality, assembles an archive of worldwide newspapers from a single date in history. The project overwhelms him: he learns several new languages in order to...

books that you are supposed to like, that you want to like, that went wrong halfway through, etc. my blatant 'unfinished' is elias canetti's auto-da-fé, which is staring back at me now. i've had it for a good eight years, have tried on and off to read it but have been unable to beyond the part...

one of the nicest things about soulseek is running into handmade compilations. there are a billion dedicated to obscure synth-pop, for example, most of which is next to impossible to find in the real world. of all these labours of love one stands out for me as the greatest, most obsessive...

sagawa issei, it was really nothing whatever happened to this charming man? how soon is now to know if he ever paid for what he did? this is the one that ate a nice dutch girl in paris, 1981. i don't know, i just read the story in a fashion magazine, of all places, truly the gutter of popular...

i suppose it's difficult to separate the images from the music in the case of soundtracks, more so when the images burn into your retina. that is the case with cat people, and here sound and image are inseparable. which isn't to say the sound is lacking. it's giorgio moroder at his finest, and...

i would like to praise three six mafia's first incarnation as triple six mafia, right up to the time they became three six. i have never heard more hypnotic, slow-moving, evil, violent, obscene, hiss-laden, speaker-destroying, 'car test'-ready, avant-garde music! this was 1999-1994 and they...

herbert w. franke i discovered this man's work in 2000 and forgot his name. today i ran into him again, thankfully. behold! from the oscillogram series, 1956 from the electronic graphics series, 1961-62 his later work is equally beautiful, more preoccupied with self-generating...

sorry, not a very exciting thread title. anyway, after the original blueprints came a more introspective, darker version of the sound that could be almost new-ageish at times (not a good thing). but there are a couple of gems. i'm thinking of tournesol's kokotsu, the apollo II compilation, a...

for those who like first period popol vuh, a little treat here. i'm still levitating. on a side note.. they have put a ten minute limit on videos. apparently someone screamed copyright infringement. i don't see how they could be afraid with video as chopped up and nasty-looking as this? really...

just an excuse to relate an incident from a long time ago, when i knew nothing of this. i put on a cd of the goldberg variations while staying alone at my father's apartment. after a while i began to notice that someone was humming along with the music and so, intrigued, i began to search for...

just reflecting on my search for porn between 1998 and 2002, and the weirder aspects of the way this machine runs. what caught my attention initially was a web page with a listing of every possible xxx term, hundreds of words one after the other. i know that it was used to rank higher on search...