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It's really nice stuff - my son put me onto it

I'm having a break after the first one. With all the intricate visual description, it's quite a rich read, so it's bit like eating a whole Christmas pudding. You have to take a breather. But I am determined to return in the New Year and finish the complete set. If I manage it, that'll be the...

blimey, way to make me feel ancient!

nuum / 2 Tone intersection (of which there's quite a few) i had never before noticed there's a "Tired Eyes" remix of this!

Herts is really not far from the action, especially St Albans - even if you don't have a car. I seem to remember Photek saying he used to go down the Labyrnth in Dalston.

it's really wonderful. it doesn't really read like fantasy - it's got a gritty, shabby, concrete-specific feeling. nothing fantastical or supernatural happens.

This tune "Wall of Sound" from 1979 is like a prototype for E2:E4 - jump to 39.51 mins in

I did buy an electric kettle recently - thinking you wouldn't have the screeching steam whistle annoyance and you could save energy because there's a clear panel on one side so you can put in the exact amount of water you need. So you can find them here, it's just I've only very rarely been in a...

Neither of those exactly "strange", but commonplace differences that are subtly disorienting and which I've never got used to, in 30-plus years of living here on and off - and increasingly on

Can't remember if I contributed these before, can't be arsed to look, 2 of 2 Butter comes in quarters, each wrapped in greaseproof paper. It'll be a normal size and shape packet, but when you open it , out slip these four rectangular portions of butter. Each one will have markings along the...

Can't remember if I contributed these before, can't be arsed to look, 1 of 2 No electric kettles. Almost unheard of. You have to cook your kettle on the hob, like you were some cowboy makin coffee on an open fire.

Inventing Threads Ahead of Historical Schedule Should imagine the phenomenon of thread-retread is going to become more common as the forum's years stack up I already find that I blog something and then discover that I blogged about the exact same stumbled-upon videoclip several years earlier...

Yes this is almost Neu! hypno-beat like the moan-droney backing vocals

This is a bit different I think - United States of America seem ahead of their time, but that's because some groups quite a long way into the future decided to be behind of their time by going back and revisiting .... In the case of Broadcast, their whole sound is pretty much based on a few...

The "invents jungle" / "invents drum & bass" could be a thread in itself This is a classic instance - from about 1.38 in - especially because it's not just the sped-up breaks, it's the effects on them that gives them that scrunchy metallic-fatigued quality just like darkside In fact I...

Spinning off of phil.'s Reggae Roots in Techno? thread, and hopefully helping to keep it uncluttered with irrelevancies, how about a free-for-all dumpthread for examples of freakily premature and precocious occurrences that uncannily preview much later developments in music.... especially when...

A scholarly(-ish) article on music in prisons https://daily.jstor.org/far-from-folsom-prison-more-to-music-inside/

I knew I had heard something that was totally "dub producer X invents acid house" and I think this must be it. Couldn't dredge it from memory and then did remember the Joe Gibbs tune There are lots of kinda techno-in-advance or sort-of acieeed-in-advance bits scattered through jazz-fusion...

There's a good example of this with dub actually Did The Chamber Brothers, or their producer David Rubinson, invent dub in August 1967, with the echoey hallucinatory bit that starts about 2.46 in "Time Has Come Today"? Of course not. It's a group who have grasped - as did other psychedelic...

Not to pooh-pooh the premise of the thread - and loving all the audio evidence getting thrown up - but part of this thing of the strange parallel echoes that occur in otherwise seemingly remote genres is just down to the same technology and bits of equipment becoming available more or less...