acb @acb@linernotes.club
I comment about music here, and other things elsewhere.
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Joined Apr 2018
Robin Sloan, “An Integration Loop”, or building on William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops with a sample-oriented generative neural network and a lot of judicious editing:
A technical argument for why vinyl sound quality is actually terrible:
An interesting essay examining Broadcast’s “The Noise Made By People” (now 20 years old) as a turning point in what “psychedelia” meant, from Britpop-adjacent 60s shagadelic kitsch to the present world of Ballardian/Scarfolkian hauntology:
Bandcamp has an interesting list of some of the more esoteric releases on Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/alternative-tentacles-guide
Though there’s one minor mistake: Wesley Willis didn’t use a Casiotone keyboard; he used a Solton Ketron.
Satan Not Hatin’: an new anti-bigotry campaign from the Global Order of Satan, one of the Nice Satanist groups to pop up recently:
Someone’s making a documentary on Melbourne musician/cartoonist/bohemian larrikin Fred Negro:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewleavold/pub-the-movie
Some vintage Australian 90s alternative music shitposting (found in a forum dedicated to that epoch):
Currently listening to the PC Music compilations that have just been released on Bandcamp. It’s a lushly euphoric, mephedrone-soaked neon candy-hued club-pop, a sort of Shibuya-kei of the Rich Kids Of Instagram-era London. What cool teens from Notting Hill were dancing to at Hackney warehouse parties while I was going to psych-rock gigs at the Shacklewell.
A genealogy of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood’s "Some Velvet Morning", and its curious afterlife:
Getting a bit of a Hummingbirds vibe from the debut single from Fortitude Valley, a new UK band headed by Laura K from Tigercats:
Excited to see that Newcastle-upon-Tyne krautrocky electropop combo Warm Digits have a new album coming out in a couple of months:
A short history of the punk rock scene in Wuhan, the capital of Chinese punk:
Listening to a Japanese shoegaze/dreampop band named Plant Cell; rather nice:
Saw a rather good Swedish krautrock/psych band named Kungens Män tonight. They’re apparently in the tradition of Swedish progg/psych bands like Träd, Gras Och Stenar, only with kraut/post-rock/free-jazz influences.
An Interview with Angelo Badalamenti, in Believer; in which it emerges that his work with Julee Cruise originated from David Lynch not having had the budget to license a Cocteau Twins song for Blue Velvet:
https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-angelo-badalamenti/
Still, “900 Hours” is a sublime synthpop song, almost in the same class as Bizarre Love Triangle. I’m sure there was once a whole suite of remixes (and think I once heard one in a mix Tom Ellard played).
Boxcar were to Technique-era New Order what The Wake were to Movement/Power, Corruption and Lies-era New Order.
Listening to Boxcar — Vertigo. A 1990 album by an Australian synthpop group who were signed to Canadian label Volition (also home to Severed Heads). Pretty good, with the proviso that these guys obviously wanted to be late-80s New Order really badly.
I comment about music here, and other things elsewhere.
STHLM ← LDN ← MEL
Joined Apr 2018
