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

  • Blissblog
    where you once belonged
    1 day ago
  • Dreams, Built By Hand
    Lillian Schwartz (with Ken Knowlton) - UFOs (1971)
    1 day ago
  • Energy Flash Discography & Bibliography
    1 year ago
  • Energy Flash Info and Hype
    ENERGY FLASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH RAVE MUSIC AND DANCE CULTURE - info, reviews, publication history (expanded updates, foreign editions, different covers)
    7 years ago
  • Hardly Baked
    c'était demain
    2 days ago
  • My Late 90s website A White Brit Raver Thinks Aloud archived at the Wayback Machine
  • PANTHEON
    David Stubbs - Holger Czukay - Melody Maker - 1987
    54 minutes ago
  • Retromania
    retrotweetige2022 - terminal condition?
    1 day ago
  • Retromania - The Footnotes
    10 years ago
  • Rip It Up and Start Again: the Footnotes
    the hype on Rip it Up and Start Again
    4 years ago
  • Shock and Awe
    psychedelic protoglam #2
    2 days ago
  • SR Archive
    Kate Bush - running up those charts
    6 days ago
  • Thinkige Kru
    54 minutes ago
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KINDRED BLOGS AND SITES

  • The Hi-Fi Junglist
    µ-Ziq - PHI*1700 (u/v) (R&S Records RS 94048 A1) 1994 -
    1 hour ago
  • Disquiet
    This Week in Sound: A Sharp, Short “Cheep” - These sound-studies highlights of the week are lightly adapted from the July 4, 2022, issue of the free Disquiet.com weekly email newsletter This Week in S...
    4 hours ago
  • FACT magazine: music and art
    more eaze wakes up to the aftermath of a night of extreme hedonism in a romance - Husband-and-wife director duo Leo Gack and Zoé Martin reimagine the somnambulant intimacy of experimental musician Mari Maurice’s album for OOH-sounds as...
    7 hours ago
  • The Quietus | All Articles
    Zola Jesus - ARKHON - Aided by players from Sun O))), Cloud Nothings and Perfume Genius, Nika Roza Danilova's latest Zola Jesus reaches out to the world with gnarled intensity
    9 hours ago
  • History is made at night
    London Makhnovist Centre squat in Fleet Street - A group of Ukrainian anarchist squatters have occupied their second building in London. The London Makhnovists Centre at 187 Fleet Street opened on 18th ...
    11 hours ago
  • Dissensus
    third goes popular but not poptimist - with a couple of weirdo bits sprinkled throughout. Bashed this together as I have to fly to Turkey cos my nan died earlier last month. For all the Tom Ewi...
    13 hours ago
  • cardrossmaniac2
    Wimple Winch - Rumble on Mersey Square South - One of the best tunes of the 60s. It's got the lot: Drama so much drama and that crackling electricity in each drum hit and the exhilarating quiet loud d...
    6 days ago
  • Hardscore.com
    Unknown DJ – Euronet Radio [14th April 1993] - Download Original DJ Vibes – Set Me Free (Jungalistic Mix) – Parallel Universe Dimension X – Out Of My Mind – Dimension Original DJ Vibes – Smoking Dope (D...
    1 week ago
  • The NuSkool Hardcore And Jungle Blog
    The Pulse celebrates his debut Kniteforce Vinyl EP - UK based producer, *The Pulse* (a.k.a Stuart Brown) is one of those producers that's an avid lover of dance music specifically of the golden 90s rave ...
    3 weeks ago
  • lunarlodge
    Those Pants You Like Are Going To Come Back In Style - On this auspicious anniversary of Letterman’s 33 years of service to the light side, I am excited to announce that we are going away for the summer to make...
    1 month ago
  • Datacide
    Sei troppo giovane per ricordare gli anni ottanta – Ballando in un’altra epoca - È facile dimenticare in quest’epoca di feste che durano tutta la notte, di after-hours e bar notturni che c’è stato The post Sei troppo giovane per ricord...
    1 month ago
  • God Is No Longer A Dj
    Tracks I Wish I’d Written (issue #24): J Majik – Repertoire - “It was a really exciting time for Jungle/DnB. The landscape was so open to experimentation and the mainstream press suddenly seemed more interested in the...
    2 months ago
  • Rinse FM » Podcasts
    JossyMitsu270422 - The post JossyMitsu270422 appeared first on Rinse FM.
    2 months ago
  • The Astral Plane
    ‘Astraltopia’ Out Now + Label Shutting Down - As both an amateurish blog launched as a teenager and a slightly more professional record label, The Astral Plane has been the vessel through which I have ...
    2 months ago
  • blog to the oldskool
    AV-8 – Pyrogen (Mad Monk Mix) - Been ages, hope everyone is doing OK! Here’s an absolutely mad 1992 tune that showed up in the mail for me recently. Honestly I’m not too phased by weird 9...
    2 months ago
  • Modernism Unbound
    Modernism Unbound, Part 2: Transmodernism and Post-Capitalism - Looking to expand modernism/modernity beyond their Eurocentrisms, and popular culture beyond American postmodernism/postmodernity, Jon Lindblom turns to th...
    2 months ago
  • 88to98
    VR Raving – The Eclipse Coventry is back. Sort of. - https://coventry2021.co.uk/what-s-on/in-pursuit-of-repetitive-beats/ VR Raving is here! We have talked about The Eclipse before You can now experience it...
    2 months ago
  • Blackdown
    Kellen303 interview 2022: "Life's Different Now" - "Life's Different Now" EP [Keysound] is out now on Bandcamp and Spotify.Hey Joe! So what inspired the feel of this EP? My work is usually based around the ...
    3 months ago
  • Aloysius
    night log #9272 (2:16 to 2:49 am) - now that the snow’s melted i’ve resumed going on late night walks around my neighborhood. for a few days it got really warm (by march in minnesota standar...
    3 months ago
  • WOEBOT
    Hip Priest - *Seeking Approval* *Mark E Smith gatekeeper.* The Fall are catnip for people like me who write about music. That’s paradoxical because Mark E. Smith ten...
    3 months ago
  • The Pirate Archive
    Rapid Radio – Leeds - In May of 1988, there were rumours of new reggae, soul station starting in Leeds, but it wasn’t until June that the first tests took place for Rapid Radi...
    4 months ago
  • Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large
    My Top 20ish Songs of 2021 (Plus 15 HMs) - Here's my top 20ish songs of 2021, plus 15 newly added honorable mentions. Honorable mentions (alphabetical) *67 – “not me mix” I was deep in a SoundCloud ...
    6 months ago
  • The Pink Temple
    - Maximum Joy Surn orver crest kill the curdled abortion that one was a mistake. Brighter now and happier cabbie waves cap outside the window wound-down Alri...
    7 months ago
  • Gone To A Rave series at The Ransom Note
    Johannes Albert celebrates 10 years of Frank Music - The Berlin-based producer marks the occasion with an EP of old and new friends. The post Johannes Albert celebrates 10 years of Frank Music appeared firs...
    7 months ago
  • Airport Through The Trees
    In lieu of Twitter part ghzd/fkjw - A doctor refusing to treat a patient who is unvaccinated and a police office shooting someone who is unarmed are doing the same thing.
    8 months ago
  • We Are Hardcore
    Label Spotlight | Parallax Recordings - INTRO Parallax Recordings has been around for a few years and initially started out with reissues but quickly moved on […] The post Label Spotlight | Par...
    11 months ago
  • Artbrain
    Glossary of Cognitive Activism (for a not so distant future) - Warren Neidich Archive Books, 2019 ISBN: 978-3-943620-51-1 This glossary is meant to accompany the three-volume publication The Psychopathologies of Cogn...
    1 year 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...
    2 years 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...
    2 years 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.
    2 years ago
  • Binary Heap
    A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
    2 years ago
  • Prole Sector
    Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
    2 years 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...
    2 years 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...
    2 years 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...
    3 years ago
  • Secret Transmissions
    Kiss Sharing Breath -
    3 years 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...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    4 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...
    4 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 ...
    4 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...
    5 years ago
  • Neil Landstrumm
    Neil Landstrumm , Kick Clap 12″ -
    5 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...
    5 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: ...
    5 years ago
  • smash the records
    Reclaim the Beach -
    6 years ago
  • Friendsound
    Spot a broken link? - Tell us via the Comments function. Is good.
    6 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...
    6 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...
    7 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
    7 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...
    7 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 ...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    8 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...
    9 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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  • Energy Flash CD compilation
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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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Some More of My Blogs

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  • The Sex Revolts
  • Totally Wired
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