Energy Flash

"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

clattery and battery

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

wheel and come again

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SIMON REYNOLDS
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MY OTHER BLOGS

  • Shock and Awe
    Glam Explosion
    7 hours ago
  • PANTHEON
    Paul Oldfield - The Great Glam Rock Explosion - Melody Maker - March 19 1988
    7 hours ago
  • Blissblog
    soundtrackism - Acen + Eno
    2 days ago
  • Hardly Baked
    musique de bouche (electre-fying)
    3 days ago
  • Thinkige Kru
    2 weeks ago
  • Retromania
    fashion forward (death of a futurist)
    3 weeks ago
  • Dreams, Built By Hand
    Józef Robakowski - "Prostokąt dynamiczny" (1971)
    4 weeks ago
  • SR Archive
    15 Songs of Christmas
    4 weeks ago
  • Rip It Up and Start Again: the Footnotes
    the hype on Rip it Up and Start Again
    2 years ago
  • Energy Flash Info and Hype
    6 years ago
  • Retromania - The Footnotes
    8 years ago
  • Energy Flash Discography & Bibliography
    12 years ago
  • My Late 90s website A White Brit Raver Thinks Aloud archived at the Wayback Machine

KINDRED BLOGS AND SITES

  • The Quietus | All Articles
    Mute Reveals Series Of Telex Reissues - The Belgian synthpop trio's back catalogue will first be highlighted with compilation 'This Is Telex'
    4 hours ago
  • Dissensus
    Sensory Deprivation - I feel like i could use some right now someone told me today they caught the rona and their family shut them in the attic for 10 days over christmas, that ...
    4 hours ago
  • Disquiet
    Inside Man - Listen to the Michael Clayton score too often on your phone and it’s inevitable that you’ll look down to find this staring back at you.
    5 hours ago
  • Rinse FM » Podcasts
    IZCO210121 - The post IZCO210121 appeared first on Rinse FM.
    7 hours ago
  • Gone To A Rave series at The Ransom Note
    Premiere: MA'AM - Pretended Resistance - The lighthouse emitted its invasive beam across the dark waters, a warning sign to those who'd dare venture into these parts.
    13 hours ago
  • 88to98
    Geman Gabba in 1995 - What more could you want? PCP (Planet Core Productions) Kraftwerk Chemnitz 1995 Hard fucking core.
    1 day ago
  • Hardscore.com
    DJextreme – 1993 Hardcore Vol.16 - Download 01 R Solution – Main Source – Reinforced 02 Orca – Underwater Science – Lucky Spin 03 Hopa & Bay B Kane – Untitled – Pro-One 04 2 Bad Mice – Mass...
    3 days ago
  • cardrossmaniac2
    Planet Core Productions Live - 1995 - This one goes out to my brother in law. I played him *Marc Acardipane*'s *Holy Jungle Mess (1994 Mix)* during the festive season. Sure he's 15 years youn...
    5 days ago
  • The NuSkool Hardcore And Jungle Blog
    Super new Vinyl with remastered Ozone Recordings oldies - Swiss label, *Mental Groove Records* have just unleashed their brand new offering, which is a superb collection of some highlights from the early days ...
    5 days ago
  • God Is No Longer A Dj
    Liner notes on 2020 – Part II - “It was my own countryside and I loved it with an intimate feeling, though all its associations were crude and incoherent. I cannot think of it now without...
    1 week ago
  • Datacide
    Ugandan Election Special: Dancehall Democracy versus Anti-Social Autocrats - It’s that time of the decade, kids, and once again the Ugandan electoral spectacle shows how to put the “fun” back into dysfunctional!Here’s a rough guid...
    1 week ago
  • Airport Through The Trees
    Headlinez - CNN today:Democrats Unveil Impeachment ChargeMillions Left Without Paid Sick Leave After Congress Let Pandemic Benefit ExpirePriorities, huh?
    1 week ago
  • Modernism Unbound
    Top Ten Albums of 2020 - Somewhat belated, Jon Lindblom lists his top ten records of 2020. 10. Kamixlo – Cicatriz (PAN) Cicatriz by Kamixlo Another great addition to the still grow...
    1 week ago
  • Aloysius
    review of aphex twin - syro that i wrote in 2016 lol - Just about everything Richard made/released in the 2000s can be counted among his best work, and Syro is quite possibly the best of it all. Many reviews...
    2 weeks ago
  • Blackdown
    Keysound Rinse FM: Best of 2020 show - Rinse FM · Keysound (Best of 2020) - 24 December 2020 ** Keysound Rinse FM December 'Best of 2020' show **J-Shadow "Final Departure" [Unreleased]MP Produc...
    3 weeks ago
  • WOEBOT
    Twenty-four Psychic Pop Relics - Hi there, Woebles! This is going to be a low-key saunter through a handful of records from my collection which had a strong connection to the psychic mater...
    3 weeks ago
  • FACT magazine: music and art
    Shiva Feshareki & Yoshi Sodeoka share spirallic collaboration, Vapour - Experimental turntablism meets lysergic, looping visuals. Experimental composer and turntabalist Shiva Feshareki and multidisciplinary artist Yoshi Sodeo...
    4 weeks ago
  • blog to the oldskool
    JB Collective – Move Ya Body! - The past few years, it’s become harder and harder to find those last few 92-95 obscurities that don’t have any trace on sites like Discogs. I know there’s ...
    5 weeks ago
  • History is made at night
    Everybody is a Star! - Disconaut Association of Autonomous Astronauts (numbers one and two) - Once upon a time I was Neil Disconaut, with my partner Juleigh Disconaut we constituted the Disconaut node of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts (1...
    1 month ago
  • The Astral Plane
    The Soul of the Creative: Free Labor and the Psychopolitics of Control - Fernand Léger, The Builders We are living in an era of smoothness. Smooth movies, smooth design and smooth digital infrastructure form an unblemished carap...
    4 months ago
  • The Pink Temple
    - Pastiche dawn swells to crescendo of startled bird cry in the quick embers of ulterior reward. Has it come to this? The breathless cadence twining anti-c...
    4 months ago
  • The Pirate Archive
    Radio Insomnia – Plymouth - Radio Insomnia broadcast pop music form Plymouth on 103 FM. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloa...
    4 months ago
  • lunarlodge
    Protected: In response to Dr. Ch@rmaine Nel$on - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
    5 months ago
  • Scuffed Deejays
    Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out' - Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out': Last week, @WileyCEO DM-ed [Dan Hancox] to tell [him] The Godfather Part 3 would b...
    7 months ago
  • DnB 365
    J-Raq - Digitize - J-Raq - Digitize (Full Cycle, 1997) Discogs link "Now more than ever all the family must be together, every brother every​ where feels the time is in the a...
    7 months ago
  • The Priapean Logs
    Daniel Was Traveling Tonight On A Plane - Danny L. Please can you pick a pre-92 rap album for us to do our listening club to tomorrow night. Thank you very much.
    11 months ago
  • Binary Heap
    A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
    1 year ago
  • Prole Sector
    Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
    1 year ago
  • Mind Bomb
    Heart of Darkness - *“Mistah Kurtz - he dead* * A penny for the Old Guy”* T. S Eliot – The Hollow Men *“We live as we dream – alone”* Joseph C...
    1 year ago
  • Electronic Explorations
    Alexis - “I was pretty ecstatic to be asked to contribute to this particular mix series as it’s one I’ve been following for a long time. I recorded this mix complet...
    1 year ago
  • Two Hungry Ghosts
    Exclusive Premiere: Necrotype “Surely” (MJAZZ) - “Surely” by Necrotype is taken from the mini-LP “Necrotape” released by MJAZZ. This release will available on limited edition cassette, digital download an...
    1 year ago
  • Secret Transmissions
    Kiss Sharing Breath -
    1 year ago
  • A Bass Chronicle
    History Sessions: Moving Shadow Special (1991-2000) - Ask most old skool Jungle/D&B enthusiasts to list their top 90s labels and you can almost guarantee that Moving Shadow will be amongst the top 3. The Ste...
    2 years ago
  • We Are Hardcore
    Where to find Old Skool Hardcore & Jungle Vinyl & Digital - “IT’S NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE..” …they often say, and it’s no different when trying finding the music you love […] The post Where to find Old Skool Hardco...
    2 years ago
  • ecstatic apophenia
    De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
    2 years ago
  • Here come the drums
    Updates for 2018 - It’s been a while. No new mixes yet but two of my old posts have been updated. There has been quite the resurgence in jungle music lately. A big part of th...
    2 years ago
  • leaving earth
    RAVE ALBUMS 1991-1992 - Ever since I almost entirely missed it (I only really got into techno and rave in 1992-1993), I've been fascinated by the short period of time – at most 19...
    2 years ago
  • Artbrain
    Neuroaesthetics: Art power in the age of Neural Capitalism - Symposium Curated by Warren Neidich *Saturday, September 1, 10 am-6 pm* ------------------------------ …
    2 years ago
  • Mutant Technology
    Dj Deadtrax “Gabber house” – an exploration of European hardcore rave - “The Mover is dark because it’s set in the phuture of mankind. I can’t possibly justify seeing a happy end to this stupid human drama. Darkness is not myst...
    3 years ago
  • Drumtrip
    Win tickets to LTJ Bukem + Fabio @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, April 2018 - Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I come with gifts (well for two of you at least). The guys at Soundcrash are putting on an event not to be missed: The le...
    3 years ago
  • -ɴ●♰ξs ϝᴙ●ლ ♰Ӊξ ṿ◍♏ⅉ✞◍ℾⅉữ♏-
    café in Shoreditch - In a café in Shoreditch the air is peppered with mid-atlantic accents and the croak of privilege. ‘Like, patriarchy yeah, and like, but what about like ...
    3 years ago
  • The Compleat Blogger
    University Challenge and Diversity - Another year, another rip-roaring University Challenge final, a fitting reward for those who endured the gruelling winter of repechages and qualification q...
    3 years ago
  • Neil Landstrumm
    Neil Landstrumm , Kick Clap 12″ -
    3 years ago
  • e-flux » Announcements
    "Occupy The Future" in Washington, DC - The Creative Time Summit—the world's largest international conference on art and social change—is headed to Washington, DC! Occurring in the nation's capit...
    4 years ago
  • ZONE OF THE FREE
    BULGARIA TEK 2016 - 26-?.08.16 BeAcH aReA (BG) * BuLgArIatEk 2016 * --- 0pEn t0 aLL aRtIstS aNd SoUnD SyStEmS --- iNfoLiNe: +359 877 280 696 PICTURES LAST YEAR: ...
    4 years ago
  • smash the records
    Reclaim the Beach -
    4 years ago
  • Friendsound
    Spot a broken link? - Tell us via the Comments function. Is good.
    5 years ago
  • Dirtnap
    Reasons to be Drakeful: Wizkid – Ojuelegba - Wizkid – Ojuelegba (2014) In an ironically very Drake-like way, I’ve tussled with my feelings towards the Canadian child actor turned childish rapper for t...
    5 years ago
  • _* _+ // /// ///////// Picnoleptics
    Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave at Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015 - Chronopoetics of the Wendelstein cave / Chronopoetik der Wendelsteinhöhle" "Zeit - Moment – Ewigkeit" - Wendelstein Höhlenmediale 2015, Bayrischzell, DE 2...
    5 years ago
  • BLOG « SMOG
    Smog + Topshelf SXSW 2015 Recap - Here’s our recap video that captured all the madness from our ‪#‎SXSW‬ showcase with Topshelf Management!! ‪#‎SMOG‬ ‪#‎TOPSHELF‬ ‪#‎ATX‬
    5 years ago
  • TIM BURROWS
    Real Ale (Samuel Beckett) vs. Craft Beer (Malcom Gladwell) - *Originally published on Munchies.* Is anyone else unsettled by the amount of tasty, drinkable beers there are these days? Once, a voluptuous glass brand...
    6 years ago
  • Musings of a socialist Japanologist
    2013 in Music - Pt. 2 - *Pt. 2 We Going Tech* Right at the tail end of 2012, a thread was started on the music forum I frequent, dissensus, calling for a discussion on "Shuffling ...
    7 years ago
  • Hardcore Phonography
    kadrey: There’s a secret library in the New York City subway... - kadrey: *There’s a secret library in the New York City subway * “…The underground branch lives outside the turnstiles at the 51st Street 6 stop, and it...
    7 years ago
  • The Tape
    Good Kid, m.A.A.d City: Chance the Rapper and the Partitioning of Black Genius | Emanuel Vinson - "But I'd fight if a nigga said that I talk white." The title alone of Kendrick Lamar's 2012 album *Good Kid, m.A.A.d City* vividly illustrates a crucial...
    7 years ago
  • mnml ssgs (RIP) - the archive
    so long, and thanks for all the ssgs - MNML SSGS began on 11 December 2007. While we definitely had plans when we commenced the blog, we certainly had no expectation that it would ever develop...
    8 years ago
  • The Next Groove
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  • Benny Brassic | Mixcloud
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  • Hardcore Jungle Pirate | Mixcloud
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  • DipDabParties's Spotlight page on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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  • The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
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  • Creel Pone on YouTube
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  • 555-5555
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  • DJ Food
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  • Hardcore Jungle Pirate | Mixcloud
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  • silver dollar circle | pirate radio tapes on SoundCloud
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  • Who cork the dance home
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  • Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
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  • Arts Meet Science jungle + rave tapes archive
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  • One In The Jungle Archive
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  • Postwutchyalike | We can name it later
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  • www.hardcorewillneverdie.com
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  • All Uncle Dugs #RCFF Rinse FM Radio Shows by uncledugs on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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  • Jungle and hardcore tapes via Stamina
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  • Pirate Radio Archive - YouTube
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  • Welcome to the Sublogic Recordings webstore...
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  • Muzik magazine Archive
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  • Audio Archives - GetDarker : GetDarker
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  • Drumtrip's Spotlight page on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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  • Yorkshire Junkies - Showcasing music and graffiti from in and around Yorkshire
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  • The Pirate Archive RSS Feed
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  • Radionecks.com Pirate Radio | Mixcloud
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  • Electronic Beats
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  • Dan Warburton Rave Pirate Tapes | Mixcloud
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  • Daily Note | red bull music academy
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  • Docklands Light Musicway - Home
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  • Telling the Truth About Drugs | Linnell Publications Archive
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  • The Tone Generation - Ian Helliwell's electronic music history series at Mixcloud
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  • futureproofing
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