Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
RIP Andrew Weatherall
My feeds are convulsed with mourning the like of which has not been seen since Bowie.
56 is way too young. (In fact, he was only a month or two older than me).
Some tunes from that long Moment of convergence with the zeitgeist Weatherall had at the start of the 90s.
The most famous coordinates for that Moment are these obviously
More tunes from the long moment of indie-dance and baggydelica
After the Moment, Weatherall had a long, productive, varied career, increasingly not remixing or re-producing other people's music, but making his own, with various partners. \
A bit later came another significant intervention - one that was not so much in tune with the zeitgeist (or retro-zeitgeist) as slightly premature and therefore clairvoyant:
That came out in 2000 and was thus very early in terms of the postpunk revival. I seem to recall the contents and the title were inspired by memories of the Hacienda in the 1980s - a reference to what time you would drop the acid, i.e. 9 pm, for it to kick with peak effectiveness timed to the peak hour of dancing (that peak occurring quite a bit earlier in those days because most clubs would only be open until 2-AM - this is well before the big loosening up of club hours in the early 90s which allowed for all-night rave-style clubbing.).
1999 was when I first thinking back to postpunk, actually digging out the early Scritti records and things like that - so it's interesting that at our remote distance we were going through the same "back to my roots" reckoning with earlier self syndrome. Well, as I said, we were almost exactly the same age.
56 is way too young. (In fact, he was only a month or two older than me).
Some tunes from that long Moment of convergence with the zeitgeist Weatherall had at the start of the 90s.
The most famous coordinates for that Moment are these obviously
More tunes from the long moment of indie-dance and baggydelica
After the Moment, Weatherall had a long, productive, varied career, increasingly not remixing or re-producing other people's music, but making his own, with various partners. \
A bit later came another significant intervention - one that was not so much in tune with the zeitgeist (or retro-zeitgeist) as slightly premature and therefore clairvoyant:
That came out in 2000 and was thus very early in terms of the postpunk revival. I seem to recall the contents and the title were inspired by memories of the Hacienda in the 1980s - a reference to what time you would drop the acid, i.e. 9 pm, for it to kick with peak effectiveness timed to the peak hour of dancing (that peak occurring quite a bit earlier in those days because most clubs would only be open until 2-AM - this is well before the big loosening up of club hours in the early 90s which allowed for all-night rave-style clubbing.).
1999 was when I first thinking back to postpunk, actually digging out the early Scritti records and things like that - so it's interesting that at our remote distance we were going through the same "back to my roots" reckoning with earlier self syndrome. Well, as I said, we were almost exactly the same age.
Monday, February 17, 2020
mystery tune # 13 - Mad Tune Hard Core Exclamation Mark
Don FM - Xmas 92?
"send another pager London come on"
Saturday, February 15, 2020
mystery tune # 12 - Wicked Riff
Don FM - Ed Rush + Ryme Tyme - early 93?
"that's from the hardcore brothers - switch yer mobile on"
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
new blogs with a focus on electronic music and dance culture
New blog of note #1 - The Priapean Logs. Started by Dissensus contributor Sadmanbarty, a young fellow with a bulging sackload of ideas about 21st Century music. (And earlier music too - he's a drummer by trade, knows the intricacies of rhythm). Check out these posts on the Haze as an analogue-era production aesthetic now replaced by something sharper and frostier, and on Wu Tang Clan's Forever.
New(-ish) blog of note #2 - Aloysius. Started by Dissensus contributor Mvuent, from Minneapolis. Check out this post on "reaching the far lands as an aesthetic goal" for experimental music. Never having played Minecraft and only barely glimpsed it, the concept of "the far lands" goes over my head. But my son - who practically lived inside the game for a few years in his mid-teens - says it's spot on.
New(-ish) blog of note #2 - Aloysius. Started by Dissensus contributor Mvuent, from Minneapolis. Check out this post on "reaching the far lands as an aesthetic goal" for experimental music. Never having played Minecraft and only barely glimpsed it, the concept of "the far lands" goes over my head. But my son - who practically lived inside the game for a few years in his mid-teens - says it's spot on.