Adrian Sherwood & Horace Andy - Making Midnight Rocker

Fergus Kelly - Ever Circling (2020)

This stereo soundscape is a tribute to the 70s work of David Bowie, centring principally on the five years between 1973 and 1977, though also bracketed with elements from earlier work and final work. It excludes Pin-Ups, but includes Iggy Pop's album The Idiot, as the music was mainly composed by Bowie (using it as a trial run for ideas fleshed out on Low), and is a fascinating bridge between Station To Station and Low. 

The piece functions like a radio play or speculative documentary; it is an affectionate portrait where edits from songs form building blocks for new combinations, associations and references, along with music he was influenced by/took from, film, current affairs, comedy, field recordings and interviews. It is cinema for the ear, and should be listened to via a decent amp and speaker set up or good headphones - *not* computer speakers or smartphone, as much detail and subtlety will be lost. The piece is freely downloadable to transfer to suitable listening media. 

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T.A.Z.

I admired Peter Lamborn Wilson's writings when I first came across him in the early Semiotext(e) issues of Schizo - Culture & Polysexuality and then his Temporary Autonomous Zone idea

However (and it is a very BIG however) his NAMBLA support to my mind negates the importance of a lot of his work. 

When you are aware of this side of him it does add a different dimension to the meanings of 'secret societies' and 'amour fou' for example 

 

The Temporary Autonomous Zone 

'Tong' from the Bill Laswell produced album T.A.Z.

T.A.Z. (1983) with Hakim Bey, Robert Anton Wilson, Nick Herbert, Rob Brezsny and Joseph Matheny

Semiotext(e) SF

Reusable Reality Mix (A Short Introduction To The Solo Recordings of Richard H Kirk)

Tracklist: Datacrime - The Number of Magic - Mapou (as Sandoz) - Human Spirit - Freezone - Celestial Dawn Imagined - This Pill (as The Third Man) - Chant To Jah (as Sandoz) 

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RePost

Horace Andy - Midnight Scorcher

The Consumer

Gira

J.G. Ballard: Zodiac 2000

I asked my friend Susannah to read Ballard's updated signs of the Zodiac short story. Transmitted thru the wires from Box Hill To Exile Towers back in the days of the Covid lockdown(s)

First came across this wonderful short story in a copy of Ambit (#75) which I bought in the Muswell Hill newsagents in London in the summer of 1978
As Martin Bax the publisher lived just up the road in Highgate he no doubt made sure that Ambit was available at least locally

Fractals Mix

Here's some recent music that has hit my buttons

Now Form A Band Mix

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...and this mix from last week follows the above nicely I think

That's How We Like It Mix

84 minutes including Scritti Politti, King Tubby, Aswad, Defunkt, Float Up CP, Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Rachid Taha, The Black Dog, Dot Allison, One Dove, Bjork and UNKLE

The Bug - Absent Riddim

Out now, the LP includes Moor Mother, Justin K Broadrick, Dis Fig, HTRK's Jonnine Standish and more 

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The Story Of Skeng

Pink Confusion (Educate Agitate Organise)Mix

Wish You Were Here Shining/Prayer/No Sympathy/Drawing Rings/Fat White Feet/I'll Make You See God/Black Man/Victory Horns/To Be Rich/More Is Insane/Safe

This one's for Merri Mark who recently has played Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here a couple of times so that's where I started

(as you do)

Spring Mix

Tracklist: 

1 High Ideals & Crazy Dreams (The Dokter RMX) - New Age Steppers 

2 Watersynth - Four Tet 

3 Amorpha - Bitchin Bajas 

4 I Paint What I See - William Orbit ft Beth Orton 

5 Brain Wash - JK Flesh 

6 Common Foot Soldiers (Reprise) - The Tivoli VS Cabaret Voltairte 

7 Swallow Baby (Maximum Sausage Mix) - Ruby 

8 Boops - Super Cat 

9 Boops - Sly & Robbie 

10 Reality - Material 

One for the morning to get you up and moving as the weather starts warming up down here

Steve Bell

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