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Low vs High - Round 1

A great new fuzzpedal game inspired by a conversation I had today with the ever inspiring Mr John White. The rules are simple.. whose music wins the fight to make you feel the most alienated?
Round 1 - Iannis Xenakis vs Scooter

..but wait!! Scooter have teamed up with ‘play guitar in a day chord’ dinosaurs Status […]

New Tempo featuring John Cage and Raashan Roland Kirk

Some of you may have watched Art of Arts TV: The Single Arts Film recently. ITV’s weekly arts show from 1966, New Tempo stood out for me. Amazingly the entire episode they mention featuring Raashan Roland Kirk and John Cage is on UbuWeb.
New Tempo on Ubu

Highly Recommended Events, this Saturday and Next

This Saturday the twentieth of September two thousand and eight, The Placard Headphone Festival (not to be mistaken with that other thing which happens at Glastonbury and Liverpool St station). I’ve attended this event twice and it’s very good for several reasons. Firstly, you get to experience a gig where the context has little bearing […]

Excerpt From a Fourthcoming Documentary about Chicago’s Ron Cooper


Dexter Wansel - Life on Mars

Thanks to Bill for alerting me to this masterpiece. Isn’t it just lovely?

A break in the clouds

I’ve never been sure to believe that things happen for a reason or not but for once I’d like to definitely think this did. This isn’t something most people will care about but I’m mainly saying this for the benefit of telling my friends… It’s just one of those very unexpected moments which made me […]

An interesting point - Martyn Ware

“There aren’t so many people sitting there, listening and concentrating and paying attention to sound anymore…. We have to regard sound as a way of enhancing an overall experience now and acknowledge that, and take it as a positive thing and actually try and build on that as an idea.”
YouTube link to the original […]

I cannot stop listening to this song..

it’s perfect!

The Deer Cast

Guest mix from myself..
Tracks
Folkstone Hovercraft - Space Art
Tanzen - Pole
Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - Radiohead
Savage Skulls - Padded Cell
Falling Stars - Smith N Hack
One More Red Nightmare - King Crimson
Rest - Isolee
Woodface - Funckarma
Technopolis - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Love Without Sound - White Noise
Polkamatic (live) - Vitalic
Last Rushup 10 F - The Tuss
Cybernaut - Tonto’s Expanding Head […]

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