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That's true. The whole artificial value creation (either via self-induced scarceness or through 'unique' collaborations, etc) is too transparent and tiresome. When I got interested, things already moved towards over-production and free/name-your-price politics. It has the disadvantage of being...

Thank you for this. I didn't know these older Lopatin releases and they're indeed good. The Skyramps album is a really nice one. (In case others would be curious: someone released a free fan-compilation on Bandcamp, containing many tracks from the tapes you mention.)

I suspect that for most music that is highly replayable a sort of personal re-appropriation needs to succeed, as to extend the music beyond its original intent (whatever that might be). I highly doubt Dozzy had me working late nights in mind when he composed his K tape. Or Omar S and his Ask The...

I do this a lot, listening to the same album or mix over and over again. It helps me to maintain concentration, blocking out other stimuli, whilst setting a certain mood during work. The recently published compilation on environmental music and new age (curated by Visible Cloaks) is one that...

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but is there still the necessary time left for such a second referendum? And if not, as I suspect, what then makes Labour think they will get a delay for organising a new referendum with very doubtful outcomes? It seems all quite too little and much too late.

Knekelhuis is good. A lot of intriguing stuff.

What would such continuum be made of? Is there really a line running from new wave to cold wave, to pop synth (late eighties, early nineties) straight into vaporwave (early 2010)? What happened in between?

Isn't there also a changed attitude, though? Now just the world spirituality makes me cringe already, but as a teen I obviously thought this Indian-inspired, often semi-contemplative stuff was deep and very much worthwile. The fact that these acts were rather popular and would even get well...

This stuff was very cool when I was adolescent, or at least I thought so. There was heaps of it: Talvin Singh, Transglobal Underground, Fun-Da-Mental, ... Listening back now, most (if not all) of it is completely unbearable. Time is not kind, wow.

That was probably me. I have been listening to that mix for weeks. I liked the section by Soda plains a lot too. As far context, I don't know much, if not what is generally known about PC music: classically trained musicians, reshuffling high and low culture, high-definition sound and imagery...

Thing is: novelty is ontologically nonsense. Its necessary condition being that what it claims as new, is different from all what is and hence that it is, what is not. Problem is that if that would be really the case, no novelty could ever be understood or recognised. The new can never be new...

I never bought into PC Music's discourse and the gimmickry, but liked and still like some stuff they put out on musical terms. Lil Data will release an album soon and I am genuinely curious about it. Some of his/her/its previous releases were really great.

It's a wonderfully snide complaint, though. Next time somebody accuses me of some quirk, I should attempt such typology as well. His whole bit on whining in the abcédaire is among the most hilarious stuff I have ever seen.

Found this on the (fascinating) subject

That's quite true: take out its weird/eerie drug-related character and you have music merely suitable for fitness clubs, supermarkets, and preteens. High- and lowbrow redefined.

Spectrum Spools put out a lot of good stuff. I quite like the contemporary output of Berceuse Heroique too. And Pinkman, LIES or Knekelhuis, although sometimes their releases can get very bleak.

This sums up pretty much my experience as well. Never been very fond of Mo Wax. Utimately, not even of Endtroducing, although I really tried to like that album. Too much so, actually. I once convinced my mates to go see dj shadow (instead of Wu Tang....). We did not even notice when his show...