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"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy

"Your songs are pretty little paths - take us somewhere nice." - Elodie Amandine Roy, Applejack Zine
Let me tell you a story Doug Aitken told me about Werner Herzog.
So, Aitken and Herzog were having lunch; the Californian installation artist, the German film-maker, and a few other guys round the table. The main course is over and the waiter brings...

Let me tell you a story Doug Aitken told me about Werner Herzog.

So, Aitken and Herzog were having lunch; the Californian installation artist, the German film-maker, and a few other guys round the table. The main course is over and the waiter brings out a kind of whicker basket full of berries – specifically raspberries and boysenberries – by way of dessert.

The waiter offers the fruit basket to the first guy at the table and he picks out a few berries and starts chowing down.

He turns to the next guy round the table, who rather haughtily asks about the origin of the berries, like he wants to know their cépage or something, but evidently he’s satisfied by the waiter’s response and he too starts merrily munching away.

The waiter turns to Herzog, offers him the basket. Herzog takes one look in the basket and he turns round to Aitken and exclaims thunderously, “Raspberries are for the weak!”

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Discos are preparing our youth with the reaction speeds necessary for World War Three.
fuckyeahbrutalism:
“  Resort Town Flaine, Haute Savoie, France, 1960-82
(Marcel Breuer & Associates)
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fuckyeahbrutalism:

Resort Town Flaine, Haute Savoie, France, 1960-82

(Marcel Breuer & Associates)

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wandrlust:
“ Retired Form, 2008-2010 — David Maljkovic
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wandrlust:

Retired Form, 2008-2010 — David Maljkovic

(Source: phdonohue)

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filmphilo:

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Cactus River (Khong Lang Nam). An Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2012 short.

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aggregat456:
“ Engraving of Athanasius Kircher’s Organorum, from Kircher, Phonurgia Nova sive Coniugium Mechanico-physicum artis et naturae Paranympha Phonosophia concinnatum (1673), 143.
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aggregat456:

Engraving of Athanasius Kircher’s Organorum, from Kircher, Phonurgia Nova sive Coniugium Mechanico-physicum artis et naturae Paranympha Phonosophia concinnatum (1673), 143.

(Source: aggregat456-blog)

6 years ago
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Extract of a lecture by Karlheinz Stockhausen, with music by monster bobby. http://littleother.blogspot.com

6 years ago
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cavetocanvas:
“ Edward Steichen, Sunday Night, 40th Street, negative 1925
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cavetocanvas:

Edward Steichen, Sunday Night, 40th Street, negative 1925

(Source: cavetocanvas)

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waltdisneywithblood:
“ On the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick).
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waltdisneywithblood:

On the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick).

(via phdonohue)

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Vote for me! monster bobby remixes paloma faith

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So I made this Paloma Faith remix for an on-line competition. If you vote for me, there is the slightest chance that I might get some cash. So please do so by following this link. Many thanks.


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Halloween III : Chariots of Pumpkins

“In Halloween II, the first of the series on which they collaborated, John Carpenter and Alan Howarth built up a tight skein of tension woven from music that often sounded like atonal, percussive noises, and incidental noises – alarms, buzzers, etc. – which interacted in various ways with the music. The sound was cold, relentless and utterly inhuman – the perfect counterpart to a masked killer in the process of being transformed from psycho on the loose to embodiment of all evil.

Its follow-up, Halloween III, is a different kettle of fish altogether. Based on an original script by Nigel Kneale (QuatermassThe Stone TapeThe Year of the Sex Olympics), who later asked to have his name removed from the credits, Season of the Witch often feels like a very classy movie that has had a series of decidedly unclassy moments rudely inserted into it by a grubby-fingered juvenile – it just so happened that the grubby-fingered juvenile’s name was Dino De Laurentiis, one of the most powerful producers then in Hollywood. Fortunately, the score that Carpenter and Howarth produced is definitely on the classy side.”

Read more from my latest Reel Sounds column at Electric Sheep Magazine.

6 years ago
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“The cracks were starting to show”: Strange Idols & Idolatry

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Your friends and mine, The Strange Idols, are to release a new retrospective CD album on Cloudberry Records.
Due out on the 25th, the CD will feature all the singles and b-sides released by the group during the three or four years they were active in London before they split up about five years ago, plus a few bonus rarities, all lovingly remastered for this special edition release. Shoegazing fans will no doubt be interested to note that Neil Halstead of Slowdive fame recorded and produced several of the tracks of the records.
There’s a tremendously extensive interview with all the members of the band over at the Cloudberry website. But in the meantime, this seems like an ideal time to dredge up the remix I did of their song ‘She’s gonna let you down again’ which you can download below.
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