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Listening to the expanded/remastered edition of Stereolab’s Sound-Dust; is it just me, or has Gus The Mynah Bird changed drastically from the 2001 version?

1980 Demos from Composition Of Sound, the post-punk band which became Depeche Mode:

http://www.openculture.com/2019/11/depeche-mode-before-they-were-actually-depeche-mode.html

A piece about the Melbourne post-punk “little band” scene of the late 70s/early 80s:

http://www.punkjourney.com/little-bands.php

A walk through the musical landscape of Glasgow:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/nov/17/why-glasgow-is-britain-best-city-for-music-lovers

A comprehensive study by independent researchers at SceneStats confirmed that posers are the sole reason DIY music scenes across the country are able to stay afloat:

https://thehardtimes.net/culture/study-posers-only-reason-scene-economically-feasible/

Ever wonder what Life Without Buildings would have sounded like as glitchy Berlin laptop electronica? Well, wonder no more:

http://farmersmanual.bandcamp.com/album/recur

The Sarah Records influence on Swedish indiepop; I’d add Club 8 and Sambassadeur to that list, buy otherwise, 👍

Currently listening to: Dominic Pierce — “Hoop Loop$”

http://pierce.bandcamp.com/album/dominic-pierce-hoop-loop

I found it via the recent Bandcamp blog post on neo-New-Jack-Swing, though it’s more a chopped-up, vaporwave-adjacent instrumental hip-hop, all low-key beats and R&B harmonies on digital synths, the smoothness sublimated into a hazy sense of dèja vu. Somewhere between Vektroid/Macintosh Plus and Japanese instrumental hip-hop like Kuromoji,

Listening to (the recent rerelease of) Stereolab’s “Dots And Loops” a lot recently; seriously, how good is that album?

Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) in conversation with Victoria Legrand (of Beach House):

https://believermag.com/laetitia-sadier-in-conversation-with-victoria-legrand/

Tonight’s mundane yet oddly detailed dream: reconstructing My Favorite’s “John Dark vs. Leisure Enthusiast” in Ableton Live

How Echo & the Bunnymen Changed the Way We Pretend to Be Into Obscure ’80s Bands:

https://thehardtimes.net/blog/how-echo-the-bunnymen-changed-the-way-we-pretend-to-be-into-obscure-80s-bands/

Interesting interview with Jenny Hval about her (excellent) new album, The Practice Of Love: “How Dried Figs, Norwegian Coffee, and Rotting Porn Magazines Inspired The Practice of Love”:

https://pitchfork.com/features/moodboard/jenny-hval-the-practice-of-love-interview/

RIP visionary antifolk songwriter Daniel Johnston:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2019-09-11/austin-songwriting-genius-daniel-johnston-dead-at-58/

It looks like Apparat Organ Quartet (the Icelandic krautrock/electropop combo the late Jóhann Jóhannsson was in) have not disbanded, and have a new track. This one has a bit of a roller-disco vibe.

https://crunchyfrog.bandcamp.com/track/alfa-part-2

Icelandic industrial EBM gimps/Eurovision contenders Hatarí interviewed by The Line Of Best Fit:

https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/hatari-digging-deep-eurovision-post-capitalist-controversy-iceland-trio

A playlist of (Stuart Memo, formerly of Bis's selection of) top tracks featuring the Roland TR-808:
https://raygum.com/stuartmemo/lists/OgIUfen5tZcBKZK4lFFo/roland-tr-808-the-playlist

includes, among others, Marvin Gaye, Charanjit Singh, S.O.S. Band, A Guy Called Gerald.

Tim and Laetitia of Stereolab talk to the Guardian about their history, some of their songs: 'There was craziness in getting lost and dizzy':

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/04/stereolab-songbook-tim-gane-laetitia-sadier

Glen Johnson of Piano Magic talks about their recordings and influences and the impending 20th-anniversary (!) rerelease of “Low Birth Weight”

https://concreteislands.com/larval-stage-piano-magics-low-birth-weight-revisited/

It’s slightly disappointing that nothing similar is planned for the follow-up, “Artists’ Rifles”, which carried the post-This Mortal Coil, post-shoegaze poetic melancholia even further IMHO