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I have been collecting "prissy locutions" - itself a rather fussy way of describing writing or speech that is excessively fastidious and finely phrased. As I labor through the far-less-pleasing second volume of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, one thing that keeps me entertained is his...

1966, 1967 1972, 1973 1979, 1981, 1982 1987, 1988 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 (that's all for rock, but the adjacent genres were ablaze too so exciting times) the adjacent years on either side of those sequences were pretty hot really but there's a slight sense of either a/ building-up or b/...

love chucking shit out always amazed how much has amassed, how much can be dispensed with then once you've cleared all that space - you can go back to filling it up again

Well I've started and I'm up to Buzz the Bass and it's all going swimmingly, but then I think I am still in 1991

If one was to listen to the whole chronological selection thing, it would be an arc of rise, peak, decline (and other D-words like disintegration directionlessness decay) But it's possible that twilight-era gems would emerge and also overlooked tracks on B-sides or what-have-you from within...

Looks like it! Well that is one nerdy project I am saved from having to do. (Or does it - Tidal has better sound, so there is a temptation...) That still leaves the Auteur Focused Playlists.

Also available on Tidal. Nice to see Moving Shadow / Rob Playford make this swathe of history available again. It looks to be comprehensive - the very first release on the label is on there, Earth Leakage Trip's Psychotronic EP DJ Trax 1 Man 1 DJ EP! Some extremely nerdy playlist making...

Sudden tremendous feeling of deja vu - the possibility that I might have typed these words, or words very similar, at some earlier point in this thread. Like maybe on page 6!

I wonder if it ever will stop? I mean, all forms of music do eventually - they exhaust every direction available to them. Like, ragtime ran out of steam, didn't it? Bluegrass likewise. If these exist at all, it's as a musical craft that people adopt as a hobby, something to master. A social...

that's a great one the topic reminded me of this weed anthem that takes a soul song that already contains a love-as-drug metaphor and just strips away the metaphor element

They speak totally American - non-regional, not with a local NYC inflection (i think that heavy Brooklyn or Bronx accent is dying out really). They grew up in NYC but we have been in LA for 13 years now. There is actually a sort of Californian accent - hard to describe, in men it makes you...

is that actually a sample? or an interpolation through a dozen layers of vocoder?

That one is a bit like the Common / Bobby Caldwell one in that it's more like sample-as-affinity move - the original Minnie song already sounds blissed out and idyllic and the Orb just activate its cosmic / kooky aspects - her singing sounds like she's drifting off into the ether

Now this isn't really detournement, but it does shift the meaning from something straightforwardly romantic to something romantic but with a tinge of cosmic mysticism The end bit of "The Light" - from about 3.33 onwards - where Dilla stitches together different vocal bits and grace notes...

sez Wiki "A détournement meaning "rerouting, hijacking" in French, is a technique developed in the 1950s by the Letterist International,nd later adapted by the Situationist International that was defined in the SI's inaugural 1958 journal as "integration of present or past artistic productions...

the distraught "my mind" and the highly strung "feeling so special" are the detournements here I can't find it but there is another tune (one of many) that ransacks the Alex o' Neal / Cherelle song but instead of just "my mind", they use the whole "still on my mind" lick. It's so sped up and...

I don't think this was a big hit, so it's more of an R&B deep cut, but still, sublime and sly

Another ooh-gosh moment for me as fan of the original song "wait a minute baby, stay with me a while / said you'd give me light / but you never told me about the fire" i.e. the pills are too strong, sit with me a bit elemental intertextuality - light / fire, but elsewhere in the Stevie...

pretty much

This is one where the detournement (or whatever you want to call it )is not apparent right there on the surface (as it is with the Bev Craven and Tasmin Archer ones, or the George Michael one, or say, darkside tunes using things like Don Maclean's "this'll be the day that I died" or Simon &...