“Usually an “infrared filter” is used; this lets infrared (IR) light pass through to the camera, but blocks all or most of the visible light spectrum (the filter thus looks black or deep red).
When these filters are used together with infrared-sensitive film or sensors, very interesting “in-camera effects” can be obtained; false-color or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the “Wood Effect,” an effect mainly caused by foliage (such as tree leaves and grass) strongly reflecting in the same way visible light is reflected from snow.”
obakejaa are osaka’s oorutaichi & kyoto’s shabushabu. sounds like festival percussion upper body only ear screenburn recreation of columbus ship at double size in osaka bay with exquisite dining twice a day and the possibility of octopus. forwards!
Bruno Natal’s documentary covers dub’s rise in popularity Europe and fall in Jamaica, as well as the importance of reduction as an aesthetic (and the influence that had on just about all electronic music), and has nice interviews with congo natty, kode9, bunny lee, kruder (minus dorfmeister) and so on and on.
tom lea brings a ruff sqwad primer. rapid’s production is ridiculous whether you used to like the smiths or not. (disclaimer: I can do ‘this charming man’ at karaoke).
tom pulls out roachee’s ‘all day long’ for rapid reverberating horns, here’s another take. “last week I came across three brers frontin / I will clap em and i aint from junction”
i’ve been silent on the recent hardcore continuum handbags (despite being a certain gentleman’s chosen straw_man), but there was a debate that i wasn’t at. i’m reliably informed kode9 and kodo eshun were very good though. a couple of things springboarded from it: socaerobics write up. and words against words which are wise.
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elsewhere zhao got his hands on a fine seamus ennis album. here’s a track from it.
i used to have a few ennis records, but my hard drive died. i posted them a while ago but they’re not on the server now either. does anyone out there in the mirrorland still have a copy? (the fox chase is the track - if you ever find it in one of those pub mp3 juxeboxes, it’s interesting to see how a room responds over the ensuing 15 minutes)
the city just tripped into a cloud of paranoia. work is cancelled. all the masks have been sold. my brain is dragging and pushing a wheelbarrow of tinned food over a hill and into the woods, here is some countryside music to make the flu dance…
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from 40 years ago vashti bunyan imagines moving out from the city tending sheep in the countryside and curling up by a log fire. 30 years later the music from the same album was eaten by a more urban setting.
martyn remixing efdemin on a stripped back piano remix. bird songs in the background and aphex deep in front. stones clatter gently underneath. keep it calm, not airborne.
finally field-recordings from the tanzawa mountains in kanagawa prefecture. from Kiyoshi Mizutani who formerly operated as Merzbrow alongside Masami Akita. rain, hail and electricity.
