This is surely telling us something wonderful about the green transition: that done well - in built environments and housing and beyond - we could reconnect to the sources that let us relax back into our true natures…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brendon rarely misses…🔊🔊
JUST IN! 'Underground' by Thelonious Monk
Quite possibly the most badass album sleeve of all-time.
Late 1960s post-bop jazz number from the mighty Monk.
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Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones, as A Man Called Adam, have been making records about the natural world since before it was the done thing...
They bring their Remember Nature project to Tate Modern as part of Gathering Ground:
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With Bad Brains frontman H.R. in tow, serial collaborators New Age Doom fuse metal, hardcore, punk and reggae into new forms of spiritual music
New Age Doom featuring H.R. – Angels Against Angels
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Black & white photo of a concrete side of a somewhat dilapidated building that has graffiti written with spray paint. The graffiti reads “Time doesn’t exist Clicks exist.”
Cover design still looks like the future.
This Rodriguez Jr remix is on constant ROTATION currently … 🪩 🔊🔊 youtu.be/lSZlMquUqAg?...
The image features abstract typography on an orange background, displaying the text "Sun Electric. Epizodes (1 — VII)" in a mix of black and white stylized letters, with a circular yellow outline.
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: ‘Episodes' by Sun Electric
A welcome return from the German electronic pair as they release their first album in almost two decades.
www.normanrecords.com/features/bes...
"Before electronic music filled festival grounds, before synthesizers became mainstay pieces of gear in local bands, a small but visionary group of women laid the groundwork for the sounds of the future …"
Meet the Women Who Paved the Way for Modern Electronic Music:
My back garden
Ace moon up this eve
Manuel Göttsching
E2-E4 (1981)
a continuous hour-long piece of music that would uncannily imagine the arc of dance music for a quarter of a century, with early adopters in Chicago and Detroit as well mediterranean pleasure palaces.
back in circulation
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HAPPY 303 DAY
Free download / today only / deleted tomorrow
posthuman.bandcamp.com/album/303-da...
The handbook provided here from Berklee is packed with great information.
cloud.info.berklee.edu/bol-music-pr...
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During the last two years, Loula Yorke has released 6 albums and a mixtape and she's only just getting started. Joe Muggs talks to the modular synthesist about a background in raving and activism, and why it's time to start thinking of herself as an artist
Loula Yorke Interviewed
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Deepchord's Rod Modell with two new albums, out today
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1971, Hamburg, Germany
Chuck D speaks to students as the sessions begins. May 4, 2022. Photo by Bad Man's Son
In 2022 Chuck D shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, he talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future
Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
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Mat Carter
Neville Watson
Managed to get myself out Saturday night to the ace Vaultage in Reading, pure class courtesy of Mat Carter and Neville Watson 🔊🔊
This was sounding particularly fine 🔊🔊 : youtu.be/yAwb8QLB5Ko?...
The Full Rotation of the Moon: A Beautiful, High Resolution Time Lapse Film
Deepchord
Atmospherica Vol 1 (2015)
another half-hour haul of Deepchord from the archive, newly reissued
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Colour facial close up photograph of Sly Dunbar, wearing glasses with a small gold ear ring. Part of a hat and some dreads are also visible.
We say goodbye to the Jamaican drummer Sly Dunbar who died at the age of 73 this week, after helping steer the beats of reggae, working globally with everyone from Serge Gainsbourg to Grace Jones
Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom
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Conitniuoing the rave theme, a great little documentary on my favourite club of all time. The utterly mental Que Club, Birmingham. A happy, bizarre, sinister, labyrinthine palace of sin and *proper* TECHNO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcS...
Nico Jaar / Other People’s shadowy dub techno project Surface Access follow last year's cult debut 12” with more stealth missiles in classic Basic Channel/Vainqueur/Porter Ricks mode...
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England and Wales have some of the most restricted access to water in the world. Only 3.4% of rivers have an uncontested public right of navigation.
In November 2018, Paddle UK launched its Clear Access, Clear Waters Campaign.
paddleuk.org.uk/clear-access...
#Democracy #PublicAccess #Freedom #UK
Refracted light on stairs
Refracted light
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
Imagine if mankind could somehow harness the mythical unending power reserves of the 1980's Yamaha memory backup battery. Predicted in service manuals to last 10 years at most.... 40 years later we've still never found one that actually needed replacing.
