It is snowing outside, and it’s still October. I’ll be in London from November 2-10, and Berlin from November 10-16. Get in touch if you’re there too. And here’s another guest post I wrote on the global reach of disco, for Wired‘s Beyond the Beyond.

I’m guest-blogging at Wired this month, at the invitation of the wonderful Bruce Sterling. Here’s a little introductory post. And here’s a big post by me on Bollywood and disco’s international appeal. Writing the next post now. . . stay tuned.

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:

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 [...]