Search results

is "flow" just a near-synonym for "be here now? so not thought is the enemy so much as either future-oriented thinking (planning, anxiety, anticipation) OR past-oriented thinking (memory, regret, retracing footsteps etc) - anything that detracts/distracts from the moment-to-moment thinking i...

i am a supremely mediocre tennis player, but playing tennis I have felt something like this flow, and it is a kind of animal-like ecstasy of action, you make a shot that outwits your opponent and you feel like a wily fox... you leap like a leopard to make a difficult return... football or a...

yeah i was thinking that sports is where this maxim of the world-famous drummer does apply is this what sports people mean when they talk about being "in the zone" - where it's all automatic and reflexive... perhaps sports is like a reversion to the state of grace of the animal - the...

"Thought is the enemy of flow" This quote could probably be a thread in the Music forum, because it's by a famous drummer, Vinnie Colaiuta (a famous drummer I'd never heard of until I saw someone post this quote - but apparently he is King Drummer, toast of the technical mags. I wondered if...

Now available in the world's #4 language.

perhaps IDM is more like a format, in the radio sense - it's a category determined by a mode of listening and an implicit demographic. A radio format can have a bunch of sounds (classic rock or modern rock - these categories cut across genres and eras) in it, but the demographic it targets is...

did she lose the will to do that after Vespertine I wonder? I certainly can't remember any tunes after that album. still not got around to listening to this new job, somehow doesn't seem enticing. if she'd decided to make a gabber album while on mushrooms...

A recent article in Spectator Life Why do bankers love techno? by Josiah Gogarty "Bankers and other assorted finance bros are an inescapable presence on the London nightlife scene. Industry, the British-made TV drama that follows a group of graduates on (and off) a City trading floor, begins...

a similar yet different story: I had got really into soul music and I'm listening one night, after everyone else has gone to bed, on my headphones to Aretha or Gwen Macrae or somebody like that. So swept up am I in their vocal throes of nonverbal passion that I start singing along. My mum...

oh yeah you got to do the faces as well

air guitar, air drumming, air bass, air keys - who here is irresistibly provoked to a mimetic physical response by music? confess it! and what are the kinds of music that provoke it? for me it's certain kinds of rock (not indie), certain kinds of jazz (fusion, jazz-rock). has this impulse...

The second season is really good too - grimmer. You see how and why the characters are damaged and how that pulled them into a damage-perpetuating system. It's Thatcherite - but it's also all of modern-era Western society maybe. But yeah there is something Eighties about it - an echo of...

Does anyone watch the TV show Industry? The characters are all addicted to sex, drugs, drink as well as to "performance highs" - trades, client breakthroughs (but also betrayals and backstabbing career moves). It's like a diagram of neurocapitalism. In one episode when some scheme involving a...

this talk reminding me a bit of K-punk's Spinoza-riffs about "sad passions" Sad for Spinoza (I assume, never read) meaning you are sad while in the throes of an unfulfilled passion and then sad when it's fulfilled because the filling only makes you empty, and you immediately start to wanting...

It's neurology and brain chemistry, rather than capitalism per se - if the endocrine system and limbic system worked differently, then capitalism would exploit those fault lines Mind you, in completely different but equally immiserating social arrangements, people resort to damaging highs...

wow that is bang on the concept - electro-blues Todd is totally singer-songwritery especially when he does those gloopy ballads but also does all the wacked out psychedelia-never-ended doing-it-ALL-myself maximalist ultra-layered sonic overload

Saw this new documentary on Sinead O'Connor and it occurred to me she might fit this category - not so much for any sonic weirdness (for the most part the backing is that sort of attractive AOR type music, in the mode of Margaret O'Hara or even Tasmin Archer) but for that whooping war cry thing...

Ah I completely missed that - by Dots and Loops I'd kind of tuned Stereolab out a bit. I rather like it - it's sort of miniaturized drum & bass. Very dainty.

Ah so my random selection of PFM was not random at all but a half-memory! When I did the tape, I had hoped they would get Foul Play or Omni in to a rmx to advance the Cause. Strange that it took them two or three years to embrace the idea. Once invited Stereolab down to Speed, thinking that...

Look a bit further down and the mystery resolves - it's a chap called Simon Reynell. One of my many near-namesakes e.g. Simon Raymonde in the Cocteau Twins. The discrepancy between how the name is rendered at the top and in the copy below is really sloppy. I did notice an Imdb mention recently...