Energy Flash

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Friday, March 10, 2023

"Certified Tumpin Neuro"

 


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MY OTHER BLOGS

  • SR Archive
    Hardcore! - New York Times, January 1993 - For over a year, the most vibrant dance cult in Britain has been "hardcore". The term originally came from "hardcore techno", a style of electronic rav...
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  • Retromania
    The Rift of Retro - pinpointed! - Trying to pinpoint the Rift of Retro, the date kept shifting back. Initial thought was circa 1983-84, when postpunk's forward drive entropized and left-...
    1 day ago
  • PANTHEON
    Sounds writers predictions for 1977 -
    1 day ago
  • Shock and Awe 2
    "I know a thing or two about performing, m'boy" - fragment, from an essay about something else, on my favorite film *“I am a bullet”—Chas Devlin* The essence of mod is the connection between Englishne...
    1 day ago
  • Hardly Baked 2
    New Wave / New Wave - On Twitter, a designer who identifies himself only as *Mark *(Stuff_By_Mark @The_Ren1981) has been putting up these imaginary movie posters that take Ne...
    2 days ago
  • Thinkige Kru 2
    - *"Who can account for facial expressions made in a mirror of people?"* *- Iggy Pop* *(allegedly)*
    4 days ago
  • Dreams, Built By Hand
    Kenneth Anger - Eaux D'Artifice (1953) - "When they get around to unpicking the tangled threads that connect The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Psychic TV, somewhere at the web's centre will ...
    4 days ago
  • Blissblog
    glum + glam = - In celebration of World Goth Day, here's my Los Angeles Times piece on Cruel World, the festival of Goth and mope-rock that takes place just up the road fr...
    6 days ago
  • Hardly Baked
    angel delights - https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs *Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica! Another vintage release, with a vi...
    8 months ago
  • Thinkige Kru
    - *on the Queen's death and the supposed strangeness of mourning someone you didn't know and who didn't know you* "Yeah but that is fame isn’t it - “lovely...
    8 months ago
  • Shock and Awe
    Glamour Mix - Siouxsie and the Banshees have at least two Glamanifesto Songs - two singles released within two years of each other. "Fireworks", a national anthem fo...
    8 months ago
  • Energy Flash Discography & Bibliography
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    2 years ago
  • Rip It Up and Start Again: the Footnotes
    the hype on Rip it Up and Start Again - *From The Quietus Top 40 Best Music Books:* "Published at the tail end of the post-punk revival, *Rip It Up And Start Again* takes an encyclopaedic look at...
    4 years 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) - Faber & Faber second expanded / updated edition, 2013 *THE HYPE ON ENERGY FLASH* *Top 10 Books About Musical Subcultures / The ...
    8 years ago
  • Retromania - The Footnotes
    RECREATIVITY writings and talkings - *RECREATIVITY * *various writings on the subject of Recreativity, "everything is a remix", "everything new is old", unoriginal genius etc* *You Are Not...
    11 years ago
  • My Late 90s website A White Brit Raver Thinks Aloud archived at the Wayback Machine
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KINDRED BLOGS AND SITES

  • Disquiet
    Holly Haworth Listens to/for Oysters - Holly Haworth wrote an excellent essay recently for Nautilus, “What an Oyster Hears,” that might, in an earlier draft, have been titled “What an Oyster Mig...
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  • The NuSkool Hardcore And Jungle Blog
    NJOI team up with Saffron for a special P.A. - The ultimate Rezerection returns on 12th August at Braehead Arena in Glasgow for a serious rave with a huge line-up, specifically: Bass Generator /...
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    Punk, Art & Anti-Art: How The Late 70s SF Scene Hit Different - In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age*, Will York explores art school backdro...
    2 days ago
  • The Hi-Fi Junglist
    The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte / Kunta Kinte Version Two (Pressure Sounds PSS 015) 2021 -
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  • History is made at night
    Bedroll Bella: Geordie raver - Bedroll Bella by Sid Waddell (Sphere, 1973) is the story of a feisty, foul mouthed, hard drinking, 'right raver' and proud Geordie 'lass' who runs away ...
    3 days ago
  • FACT magazine: music and art
    Interview: Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst - In this interview, originally published in the A/W 2022 issue of Fact’s print edition, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst discuss AI art and digital sovereig...
    3 days ago
  • cardrossmaniac2
    Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody - *Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody (1983)* Since the 80s ended I've thought this is the greatest R&B number of that decade. Thirty something years later, ...
    4 days ago
  • Electronic Sound
    Festival Review: MENT 2023 - Electronic Sound visited Slovenian festival MENT and returned with some fruit-related musical encounters
    4 days ago
  • Hardscore.com
    Majistrate & MC Evil B – Rude FM 104.3 [15th June 1997] - Download 01 Blue – Control (Ruffneck) (Remix by Markie) Dubplate Version? 02 Dylan & Facs – Untitled (B) [Not On Label – TEN43 001] 03 Undercover Agent – H...
    1 week ago
  • 88to98
    1990s techno mixes - We love 90s techno here at 88to98. We spoken about The Orbit in Leeds many times. Plus we love gabba. So it’s nice to see Mixmag doing something positive...
    1 week ago
  • The Ad Files (Gabriel Szatan)
    More Alive In Death Than In Life - Tell you what, that nostalgia is really moreish.
    1 week ago
  • Datacide
    Interview With Nihil Fist – Full Transcript - Nihil Fist first appeared on the scene with a number of self-released cassette tapes and CDs in the late 1990s The post Interview With Nihil Fist – Full T...
    1 week ago
  • Lost Tempo
    Behind You - "If the crowd is behind you, you're facing the wrong way." - Simon Munnery I find being right very tempting. I am right and you are wrong. I am rational an...
    4 weeks ago
  • Aloysius
    putting a lid on intermmitence, growing the garden / listening II - I finally have some furniture in my new apartment. Well, a chair, at least. Do you really need more furniture than that? Anyways, the plan is to start sp...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Pirate Archive
    Boomerang 100 FM – Edinburgh - Boomerang FM broadcast from Edinburgh in the early 1990s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads...
    5 weeks ago
  • WOEBOT
    Sick Veg - I can hear the grass grow...
    1 month ago
  • Dissensus
    The R.I.P. Thread - Sadly, seems like hardly a day goes by without a notable or legendary musician passing away.
    2 months ago
  • Blackdown
    François K inspiration but wrong - Went to see François K talk about his musical journey at the British Library last night at Classic Album Sundays. And I’m reminded: here’s how he accidenta...
    2 months ago
  • God Is No Longer A Dj
    Liner Notes on 2022 – Part IV (Alliterations) - This is fourth part of the extended ‘Liner Notes on 2022’ blog series. As hinted in Part II, this edition is dedicated to three record labels that project ...
    3 months ago
  • Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large
    My top 25ish songs of 2022 (plus 20 honorable mentions) - Here are my top 25 songs of 2022 with 20 bonus honorable mentions. I’ve also made Spotify and YouTube playlists. Thanks for reading, hope you find somethin...
    4 months ago
  • lunarlodge
    Autumn Serenade - Notes on Janet Werner, Backxwash, This is not a Scarf, a loving tribute to Boris Brott, &+
    6 months ago
  • Modernism Unbound
    New Website on Progressive Politics - Progressive Politics Platform is a new website by Jon Lindblom, which was initiated due to the need for more progressive voices given the currently deplora...
    8 months ago
  • Rinse FM » Podcasts
    JossyMitsu270422 - The post JossyMitsu270422 appeared first on Rinse FM.
    1 year 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 ...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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.
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    2 years 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.
    3 years ago
  • Binary Heap
    A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
    3 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…
    3 years ago
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    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...
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  • 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...
    3 years ago
  • A Bass Chronicle
    Influences: Hip Hop - There’s no doubt that Hip Hop had a huge influence on Hardcore and Jungle music throughout the 90s. Many of the scene’s leading lights including DJ Hype,...
    4 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...
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  • Secret Transmissions
    Kiss Sharing Breath -
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
    4 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...
    4 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...
    5 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...
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  • -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 ...
    5 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...
    6 years ago
  • Neil Landstrumm
    Neil Landstrumm , Kick Clap 12″ -
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  • 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...
    6 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: ...
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  • smash the records
    Reclaim the Beach -
    6 years ago
  • Friendsound
    Spot a broken link? - Tell us via the Comments function. Is good.
    7 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...
    7 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...
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  • 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
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  • 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...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • DipDabParties's Spotlight page on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
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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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  • 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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  • Pirate Radio Archive - YouTube
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  • Audio Archives - GetDarker : GetDarker
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  • Yorkshire Junkies - Showcasing music and graffiti from in and around Yorkshire
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