Evocative, homegrown reels.

How my 10 year old son is discovering new music.

People commit to all kinds of activities, she said, "for the process, for the memories… The argument that there is nothing tangible at the end of it…

Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert

I haven’t been keeping up with the donationware idea as well as I’d hoped. There’s a surprise. I’m blaming being stuck on one of those interminable…

A while back I caught myself posting a work-related thought to Path. I realised that I’d broken one of my internalized guidelines (not rules) so I jotted…

267. Age-appropriate Music (by tom gauld)

Erik XVI – When Particles Collide.

Fisk Industries – Death Is The Final Step.

SAMO© by Greg Enemy

Here’s some music I enjoyed in 2010, with links to download or listen on Spotify as appropriate.

I tend to lose track of things I’ve managed to get done, so have been thinking about keeping weeknotes for a while. I reckon monthnotes might be a better…

Thanks, Tom.

A project with Mr, Mills (by Yuri Suzuki).

Patrolman 1: “Right, so if it goes ‘fump fump fump,’ we go in and bust some heads, yeah?

A Visual History of Loudness in Popular Music | FlowingData

i love techno (B) printed poster, 2009.

Spinach, yeah. Good on its own, but even better with potatoes.

If you have ever carried 1200 vinyl records up to the 4th floor, you´ll know how I feel about turning my label into a digital only operation

Day 282 – LJ Kruzer & WJ Pig – Ambient Electronica Outfit.

FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE

I’ve always said, and I’ll always stand by it no matter who says I’m wrong, that the best way to have a music career is to sit down and write some music.…

Musician’s Easy Guide to the Internet – A Song A Day

LJ: “I used to play in the school jazz band, don’t you know? Third trumpet, I was. Third trumpet. Never played a solo in me life. We were awfully good,…

muxtape:

joelaz:

UK electronica/idm/post-rock group Posthuman have gathered together their entire back catalogue, put it into one big torrent and released it to the public.

The Chap’s difficult third album Mega Breakfast is out now. It’s super super, good good, brilliant.

headlessness:

Boredoms in the Bathroom - Dresses (from the doubledotdash xmas 2007 compilation).

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to take some time here to raise a serious issue, that of homeless and abandoned tunes. Many pieces of music…

Leila has signed to Warp. The new album Blood, Looms & Blooms (featuring collaborations with Terry Hall and Martina Topley Bird) is due on the 9th of June.

A David Toop essay from the sleeve of Warp's Artificial Intelligence II album

Yadogg » Vinyl Sleeve Heads

Koi Carp, a track from LJ Kruzer previously featured on The Wire Magazine's website.

We specialize – we offer an organic product. It is lumpy and expensive and made with love and it can save you. It’s the right thing to do. It isn’t shiny…

ambient persuasive tea cup (via headlessness)

Radiohead’s much-debated decision to let fans choose what they pay for its new album online is a promotional tactic to boost sales of compact discs, the…

From Sleevage, an album cover blog.

I'm so emigrating.

Cover of Non-Format's Love Song book

Not only is Christian Vogel an avid user of the site, he uses his journal to publish stories of his life as a musician, his record label station 55…

The Chap: (Hats Off To) Dror Frangi.

Double Fold, an album from Scanner inspired by the Nicholson Baker book of the same name.

Just back from Sónar2004 in Barcelona. Well, bits of Sónar, anyway; turned up a few days late due to back trouble and so only caught the Saturday evening…

Worked in Westbourne Studios for a bit, before moving to less cramped quarters.

Two Lone Swordsmen: Sex Beat.

Earworm: The Divine Comedy’s Lost Property.

Fällt Publishing’s Invisible Cities installation “offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities painted with…

Earworm: Super Furry Animals‘ Do Or Die.

The Birmingham-based Default Response network have a selection of mp3 recordings taken from their live events, including sets the excellent Russian duo…

V/Vm Test Records are one of those nice record labels, the kind that publish the bulk of their nutty back catalogue as mp3s after they’ve been deleted.…

Enooze – the site for “experimental electronic music & experimental journalism on experimental electronic music” – is back with a new look and new toys…

Well, service would have resumed had I not been distracted by the edited highlights of Gallipoli, Karaoke Box Dai Chan, Heaven, The Goldhawk, 93 Feet…

Foundation have announced details of next year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Directors Cut UK 2004. There’s no word on the line-up so far (as is…

From a review of Spring Heel Jack, J Spaceman, Matthew Shipp, Evan Parker, William Parker and the incredible Han Bennink at the Queen Elizabeth Hall:

Ever since the nasty NTL people took away CNX and replaced it with The Biography Channel, I’ve had to satisfy my cravings by listening to Zorak’s puerile,…

The Cursor Miner track pressedRetina features on Pre-set, a new compilation of electronic music taken from demos received by Mute Records. Another track…

Londumb was established to campaign against the BBC’s gradual dumbing-down of their London station, GLR London Live BBC LDN. As part of the ongoing…

Warp Records look set for another successful year if the WARPWIFOF2003 promo mix (RealAudio) is anything to go by.

Still away; just dropping a few bits in while recovering from the exceptional Seed Records birthday party at Aldwych last Friday.

Something to fuel any fanboy/fangirl’s healthy obsession with Ladytron: in a recent Guardian interview, they namecheck Syd Barret, Serge Gainsbourg, Black…

William Burroughs’ Thanksgiving Prayer from 1990’s Dead City Radio. Imagine a link to a recording of the track right about here ; it was tricky to find.

Art of Perception, a German record label, have been busy releasing a series of 12″s that attempt to provide soundtracks for the various races in the…

The Uncharted Audio people are playing the disused Aldwych tube station as part of Seed Record’s 2nd birthday celebrations.

Stereolab have released ABC Music, a collection of Radio 1 sessions recorded between 1991 and 2001. Before you buy (but not in place of buying,…

LJ Kruzer is playing Not Clickable in Warrington at The Foundry tonight (Wed 23rd October), with Thorsten Sideb0ard and The Legendary Jesse Belle.

Two new Ebbs and Flows mp3s, including a charming cover of tinfoillake by Cursor Miner. The LJ Kruzer cover is coming soon, apparently.

Mark and Lard corner, including The Sanctuary for Abandoned Mark & Lard Catchphrases. That’s the bunny.

The Guardian interviews Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton about the forthcoming adaptation of Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar:

Gabba.net, the people behind Plug and Play, are keeping a temporary, online archive of selected mp3s from their Winamp playlists. Current top selections…

Leaf’s new label compilation Lost for Words features tracks from Boom Bip & Doseone, Susumu Yokota, Murcof and The Sons Of Silence and is only three whole…

Robert Tubbs, ‘musician’. Not to be confused with Robert Tubb, musician.

Pulp, Warp and Eat Your Own Ears have got together to put on Auto, a huge party in Magna near Sheffield on 14th December:

How did I miss this? Logan’s Sanctuary is the soundtrack to an imaginary Logan’s Run sequel.

Emperor Norton have some Realaudio versions of three tracks (Seventeen, CrackedLCD and Turn It On) from the forthcoming Ladytron album “Light and Magic”,…

Cursor Miner has been thoughtful enough to provide a decent selection of mp3s from his recent album, Explosive Piece of Mind.

Busy for a while. In the meantime, a new low in lazy weblogging: all the links I've never slept with (or, um, weblogged).

Big Uncharted Audio update follows. Cursor Miner’s new album Explosive Piece of Mind (Lo Recordings) is in shops now (Independent review). The Remote…

Matt Groening is curating next year’s U.S. All Tomorrow’s Parties festival (June, UCLA).

Warp/Creative Review animation microsite.

Black Dog’s seminal 1993 album, Temple of Transparent Balls, gets a welcome re-release on 1 July. Parallel, the compilation featuring odd bits of GPR…

The new Ladytron album, Light and Magic, is currently set for a US release on September 17th. No word on the UK release date yet.

Go to Sonomu Presents… Lo And Behold! on Friday 21st June, featuring Cursor Miner, Andy Drumboy (Stereolab), They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them), Lord…

Rephlex’s lektrogirl are holding dj workshops “for people who have never touched decks in their lives before and want to know how to make some noise”. The…

Terrible chat-up lines, dating dos and don’ts and hints & tips from Nathanial Merriweather’s Lovage, a Prince Paul/Automator project.

Fabulous Sound Machines at the Croydon Clocktower.

Odd, bootleg-style MP3s from Leila.

Currently listening to a couple of albums from John Zorn’s Tzadik label; Memories Are My Only Witness by Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto fame) and Dreams by…

Headlessness interview on Chuck D’s SlamJamz venture.

Some quick Uncharted Audio updates. The sonomu launch party (featuring Cursor Miner, Rothko, Junkboy, Simon Fisher Turner and more) takes place tonight…

Guardian journalist goes looking for UK underground music. Finds it. The end.

Nautilus are holding a Break-Fux-A-Thon Competition, to be judged by Venetian Snares, Jay from Coredump and Schmee from Planet Mu.

The Pixies’ original demo (The Purple Tape) will be released under the title “Pixies” by spinART records on July 9th.

The Guardian reports on new music recognition technology.

Jay Rubin’s Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words looks worthwhile (if far from definitive or overly insightful).

Time to dig out Chris Morris’ excellent Pixies spoof Motherbanger (MP3, 1,139Kb).

The complete lyrics from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – the ultimate in-car entertainment for children of the late 70’s.

3 Beads of Sweat are set to re-release ye olde Mountain Goats compilations on CD: Bitter Melon Farm, Ghana and Protein Source of the Future…Now! (listen…

New Fridge song – Surface Noise And Electric Piano (MP3, 6,251Kb). Related: Eph reissued (with Kinoshita Terasaka, Of EP and remixes).

Whammstein – a covers band, concentrating on the very best in shouty grinding industrial and 80’s covers. Related: drinking whilst on antibiotics.

Stuck for something to do this Thursday evening? Of course not. After all, you’re the busy, thrusting, socially well-endowed type! However, should you…

ATP have confirmed that Autechre will curate next year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK (as mentioned last month).

Feeding off the naked lunch – Irvine Welsh on Burroughs, Trocchi, the “relationship between drugs and the artistic muse” and new play William Burroughs…

Anglepoised presents LJ Kruzer’s Since I Took A Taxi (MP3, 5,828k) – a stunning reworking of Bob James’ Angela (Theme from “Taxi”). Praise: “Ooh. It’s…

Premium collectible Urban-style action figures for sale (from those nice people at Minidisco).

UK-wide Extreme turntablist tour featuring Otomo Yoshihide, Marina Rosenfeld, Janek Schaefer, Lepke B and more.

Lyrics from Sushi K’s rap.

The Breeders are back with two(!) new singles (Off You – limited, 10″ vinyl, mirror board sleeve – and Huffer) and a new album, Title TK. They’ve also…

The new Belle and Sebastian album, Storytelling, is set for a June 3rd release.

sonomu – a new project from the state51 conspiracy – “will become a unique personalised place for new music discovery and discussion”. Promises “a swathe…

The official Dick Bruna site featuring screensavers, colouring pictures, games and the Dick Bruna Song. Related: Miffy versus Hello Kitty.

CNN article on music hardware vs. music software and related Slashdot discussion (ye olde “real” instruments vs. electronic instruments debate as well as…

The Lovebytes 2002 festival of digital art takes place this weekend in Sheffield, featuring Dave Green (of NTK fame), Apple Creative Technology and Lego…

AV Deck “features pre-release and live independent music presented by DJ’s and artists from the Beggars Group of labels” (i.e. 4AD, Too Pure, Mo’Wax,…

Companion site for the recent album by the Mountain Goats.

Reduced prices on City Slang, Warp, Chemikal Undergound and Ninja Tune albums from Fopp shops.

Lo Recordings get their act together with their new site, with information on Rothko, They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them), Barry 7, Luke Vibert and the…

A list of references and oddities from the recent Boards of Canada album, Geogaddi.

On the 29th April 2002 we are releasing Portishead’s acclaimed PNYC live show remastered on DVD “PNYC“. Including the full length performance and…

It’s not Christmas (or the anniversary of last year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties), but I can never find the lyrics to Atmosphere’s “If I was Santa Claus” when…