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treasury of nuum stuff + stray oddities generously donated to the commonweal by yrstruly https://www.youtube.com/user/SCWReynolds/videos?view_as=subscriber not sure i've ever commented on a video though

there are ways you can turn the internet - youtube, discogs, etc - into a stay-at-home surrogate for the record shop. similar effects of randomness, stumbling across stuff you never knew existed. but without the tactile element of sifting. the smell of the record store. or the libidinal pay off...

When I used to frequent ILM a bit (ages ago, pre Dissensus i should think) I started a thread on Least Collectible Records and the results were interesting, there were different answers from UK and USA. E.g. the Brits would bring up No Parlez and Bros and things like that. Globally, I should...

If they just listened to the teacher, though, they'd end up producing jazz, surely? Like Wynton Marsalis or Courtney Pine. And clearly, something else has come out as the end-product - in Detroit's case. So they are listening to multiple teachers, or just playing truant. There's loads of 70s...

well it's a bit like jazz in jungle / drum & bass - it's about a certain kind of instrumental texture (electric Rhodes, double bass), and certain kinds of chords and key changes - rather than the actual jazz procedures like improvisation, or everyone taking a turn to solo. some of the Red...

I do find with that contingent that it's almost comical, the insistence that Detroit techno had no influence from Europe, that it was this self-sufficient black tradition. There are scores of quotes from Detroit people going about how much they loved Kwerk, Euro synthpop (also Yellow Magic...

Well, not just to get up their noses - I also thought it was true.

The only thing I would change about that passage now is that I think I was little unfair to Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page - who innovated on the electric guitar and definitely took the blues influence in new directions. They weren't blues purists (In that sense it's even better as an analogy, since...

i was thinking something similar, that politics is the remnant of the mainstream, all that's left of a monoculture in a weird sort of way except that it's two monocultures that are welded together - because following the same timeline of events, controversies, battles, etc - yet seeing them...

Trunk did a great comp of the Studio G label some years ago - some of it just impossibly luxuriant sounding - and then oddball psychedelic nonsense like this James Harpham tune

there's amazing library - weird sound contraptions, industrial mekanistik drones, pure poignant loveliness - and then stuff that is like air freshener, or sub-music, like not fully developed, splinters of an uncompleted movie score this is a really nice bit of oceanic stuff out of Italy...

Somebody in the Suburban Base Boogie Times milieu had a copy of the Woodstock album, or maybe it was someone's dad cos there's also this sample at the start is Grace Slick addressing the crowd as Jefferson Airplane come onstage as the sun's coming up "Alright fans ,you have seen the heavy...

love it the whole album is a favorite of mine - going against my anti-smoov turn particularly love "Harsh Realities"

i think Ian Macdonald's big problem with technorave music was what he saw as the deskilling of conventional musicianship caused by technology, computers - he wasn't a fan of sequenced rhythm and thought the melodic sense in most of the music (that he heard, which probably wasn't exploring deep...

I was probably a little too old for Smash Hits - although I do know a few people my age who loved it - and the generation just after mine, it seems to be a formative thing. People like Bob Stanley go on about it as the best music mag of the Eighties. One thing that rubbed me up the wrong way...

Probably the first nuum-essay, the one on ardkore. As much for how I was feeling at the time as the end result. The execution is a little clumsy here and there but the spirit was in me. Sometimes if you are lucky, History aligns and you can surf it. In recent years, my favorite thing is not...

I am an American citizen (joined enthusiastically, back during Obama's second term) but remain still (at least as far as the UK is concerned) a British citizen. America expects you to renounce all allegiance to foreign powers. But the UK's not bothered, which is handy, as we might have to flee...

this is my own attempt from several years ago to describe what the music press meant to me growing up, how it worked as a system https://pitchfork.com/features/tpr/reader/worth-their-wait/

on the subject of Melody Maker, the music press, etc - a while ago i started this very low-key blog to put up pieces by people that i grew up reading, things i would have cut out at the time and reread over and over... very unsystematic .... mostly NME stuff and then recently i started on this...

When I saw this I had to check I wasn't dead {blushing} cockles of heart warmed etc etc