T H E
M A N U A L
(HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY)
THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USED
IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN.
KLF 009B
1988 (YOU KNOW WHAT’S GONE)
TEXT BY:
LORD ROCK AND TIME BOY
A.K.A. THE TIMELORDS
A.K.A. ROCKMAN ROCK AND KINGBOY D.
A.K.A. THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
A.K.A. THE JAMS
A.K.A. THE [...]
Monday, November 28, 2005
Vinyl 1.7 is a plug-in developed by iZotope that transforms the music data input deteriorating them trough a series of algorithms that reproduce the listening faults of vinyl, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player.
Software free to download.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
DJ Shadow’s “Endtroducing” is one of my all time favourite records. It is an undisputed masterpiece. Now the excellent 33 1/3 series have covered it. .
From OpenBallistics
Another quality installment of the 33 1/3 series of books, this one focusing on DJ Shadow’s landmark LP Endtroducing. Unlike the edition on Meat Is Murder (which is [...]
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Thursday, September 1, 2005
Here is a variation on the “Silent Raves” phenomenon I reported on recently: Headphone Concerts
From Wired News
Fest Rocks With BYO Headphones
In an old warehouse-turned-art-music-commune in the city’s gritty Mission district, a small post-hippie tech-punk crowd is taking in the Plug music festival. They’re sprawled out on couches and chairs, surrounded by a phalanx of consoles, [...]
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This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads [Lyrics source]
Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb - burn with a weak heart
(so I) guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground
Head in the [...]
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In the early nineties I wrote a dreadful science fiction story set in early 21st century London. In one of the scenes the protagonists find themselves in a flashmob esqe “silent rave” . Not forseeing wi-fi, the mob were tuned into a shared radio frequency and they danced silently whilst puzzelled police looked on.
Well [...]
The History of Sampling - a superb infographic resource.
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From Boing Boing:
Here is NWA’s classic gangsta rap album Straight Outta Compton edited down so only the profanities remain. The result is a stupidly funny machine gun of dirty words. I like how the creator lists the EPR (explicit content ratio) for each track. For example, Fuck Tha Police is the most explicit track on [...]
Apparently the Channel 4 documentary “The Gospel Truth” which aired on 21 March 2005 at 8pm was deeply facinating. Here is an accompanying article from the C4 website (reproduced in full because they tend not to have archives):
The Gospel Truth by Mike Gerber
Unless you’re a vinyl junky, the discs you spin on your hi-fi these days [...]
MusicPlasma is a lovely looking new music recommendation and mapping service similar to TouchGraphs visual taste mapping services and Gnooks book, movie and music recommendation helper (all must see sites).
Here is a detail from a search of Psychedelic Furs