June 2011

June 22, 2011

Rare and wonderful footage of Brian Eno in the 1970s, soundtracked by “King’s Lead Hat” and interspersed with paintings by Russell Mills from the book More Dark than Shark. It’s a commercial, of sorts, that originally aired on British TV, for the 1986 compilation More Blank than Frank:

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June 17, 2011

I found this hilarious graph on the back of one of my Muzak LPs, titled Muzak: Music of the ’80s: Check it out! It’s linear!

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Matmos.

June 15, 2011

I just found this on an old hard drive–an article I wrote about Matmos, five years ago, for Res magazine. I haven’t looked at this piece since 2006; it made me chuckle when I read it. I wish I still had the photos that went with the story in the magazine, but for now this’ll [...]

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June 12, 2011

I’ve been digging up lots of old electronic music fanzines from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Five years ago, I wrote on this blog about Synapse. Here’s a beautiful cover of another zine I’ve been reading recently, from the Basque region of Spain in the mid-1980s. I’ve been slammed with finishing revisions on entries [...]

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Martin Rushent: A Tribute to the League Unlimited Orchestra

June 8, 2011

When I heard that Martin Rushent died a few days ago, I was crushed. I never met him. But I spent a happy year of my life, about eight years ago, working for my good friend Simon Reynolds as the research assistant on Rip it Up and Start Again. One of the less glamorous aspects [...]

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