music as lack of detail
greek pistachios
optimism
super 8 camera with broken focus
rhubarb crumble
guitars with chorus pedals
fairytale as spectacle
pointed boots
broadcast and the focus group – i see so i see so // detail
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I have. been on a bit of a blog purge recently. i have 8 feeds left in the thing that reads. these are 2 of them:
Adam Curtis is a british documentary maker whose films tackle his high concept obsessions with power, rationality, identity and cold war psychology. all of his films are on archive where you can stream and download them. of the more recent ones, the trap deals with the political use of the idea of freedom and the power of nightmares deals with terrorism. both are brilliant, but i’ve just been pouring over the mayfair set which charts the rise to dominance of the free market in britain and america. Curtis is a fantastic storyteller, you often hear him directing interviews from behind the camera and he is not shy to contextualise things with amusing tangential details. episode 3 of the mayfair set about the insanity of wall street in the 80s is a case in point (no spoilers here).
most of Curtis’ documentaries were made for the bbc, whose archives of footage are one of his main sets of source material. now he blogs (and embeds archive footage from and) for the bbc too. he’s been writing about afghanistan’s history with the west. it’s good – you should read it.
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montage of images of musician Ahmad Zahir.
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the second blog is
A Journey Round My Skull is curated from america but takes in design and illustration from around the world. there’s a heavy focus on book covers and children’s illustrations. frequently amazing. here’s a sample:
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Takeo Takai’s birds (this image 1974)
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Carlo Farneti, illustrations for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, published 1935
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Peter Barker-Mill, wood-engraving for A Voyage round the World by Sparrman, 1944
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Long Neck Deer by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (from a third post of illustrations from Iranian childrens’ books)
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Russian elementary school textbook on The Miracle of Life, 1992
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image – ‘Von Hinten’ by Via Lewandowsky
Shed is based in Berlin. He has one foot in the ostgut ton camp. He makes very good music. He has a new mix up which is full of UK productions. It’s here for the next couple of weeks.
Tracklist:
Moving Ninja – Uranium – Tectonic
Distance – Empire – Hotflush
Peverelist – Esperanto – Punch Drunk
Elemental – Metal Funk – Runtime
Moderat – Rusty Nails – Bpitch
Black Pocket – U’re A Sta (Martyn Remix) – Fat City
Skream – One For The Heads – Tempa
Elemental – Shiner – Urban Graffiti
Aphex Twin – Digeridoo (Live in Cornwall) – R&S
Drexciya – Water Walker – Submerge
Link – The Augur – Evolution
UR- The Seawolf – UR
Surgeon – Dry – Dynamic Tension
Joy Orbison – Wet Look – Hotflush
Loefah – Twisup Vip (RMY by Youngsta & Task) DMZ
Pan Sonic – Vampina 2 – Blast First
MDR – Rerun – MDR
Zomby – Strange Fruit – Ramp
Shed – Supa – Soloaction
House, Garage, Shed. The Domestic Architecture Continuum™ (or da nuum™). This tune is from ‘Shedding The Past’. buy.
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Releases also occasionally appear under the name equalized. Drums buried in the wake. 2009.
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also interview here:
“[Ostrich Mountain Square] is a kind of field recording. I was hanging out the mic of my window and record what happen on the street. That’s it. I love to play with sounds and technical devices. Always having a 4 to the floor drum makes me bored.”
Shed – Ostrich Mountain Square
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ten ton percussive, train-sampling, unstoppable piece of music from Dakar, care of Aby Ngana Diop. the album in full is here…
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absen(t/ce) apologies. hopefully this will be the first of many posts as i attempt to get back on the horse called blog.
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winter brought snow. a fair bit of it. dubsola did a mix about snow. it’s soft and well formed, nestled inside a zip file here.
tracklist
Bing
Hauschka – Ginsterweg (from Snowflakes and Car Wrecks)
Inch Time – Icicles and Snowflakes
Ezekial Honig – Fractures and Fissures
Robin Saville – Snow Jewel
Tenniscoats – Aurora Curtains
The Necks – Drive By
Harold Budd – As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
Fluxion – Atlos
Carl Craig – Es. 30
Vainqueur – Elevation
Indio – Snowdrifts
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“In his essay The City in the Age of Touristic Reproduction, Boris Groys traces the tourist back to Kant’s Critique of Judgement before aligning it with the view of a satellite. In the same essay he argues that the theme park is more primary: ‘[P]resent-day urban architecture has now begun to move faster than its viewers. This architecture is almost always already there before the tourists arrive. In the race between tourists and architecture it is now the tourist who loses. Although the tourist is annoyed to encounter the same architecture everywhere he goes, he is also amazed to see how successful a certain type of architecture has proved to be in a wide range of disparate cultural settings.’ The theme park arrives first, because it is finally immaterial; the power which it exerts is finally a virtual power. The power of the virtual.” from.
DELAY! Delay dElay deLay delAy delaY……..
margaret dygas – invisible circles
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from last year on the perlon label. brutalist like snow.
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