tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54998322009-07-13T09:55:54.095Z<strong>A SIDE: SONIC TRUTH</strong>: Packing in the certaintyBrucenoreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-40889830740504013402009-07-13T09:48:00.002Z2009-07-13T09:55:45.778Z

From Steel Harmony on Jeremy Deller's Procession at the Manchester International Festival (where I see the Blackout Crew rave scrotes were representing Bolton area):Certainly better than that Nouvelle Vague Joy Division cover.

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-91803975650410554382009-07-07T11:31:00.008Z2009-07-07T11:56:44.020Z

Yes I have been in the attic pulling out all the MMs and (as I am duty bound to embarrass my mother every time) 'Neemies' and asking myself the question should they stay or should they go. I'm veering toward a cull, keeping only the most significant issues and giving away ('to a good home', etc) the rest. Some of the most emotive covers are here:Manic Street Preachers – Indecent Exposure (inside

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’Twas a backintheday that food was a mere back-end service at festivals, with the highly drugged off only able to manage a falafel or two before returning to the trip. Now it’s the cretinous focus – Jimmy Doherty has invited his friends Jamie Oliver, James Martin as well as a Gennaro, Gino and another James or two for very cosy phonetic arrangement for ">Harvest at Jimmy's at his massive east

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The two male students got on at Brockley. Opinionated, informed and fully commentisfreee, at first they were assessing the progress of the civil engineers on the east London line extension, perhaps wondering just when that direct link to Shoreditch will open. But thought soon turned to weightier cultural matters. Apropos of maybe a post-Glstnbry sartorial appraisal in this close summer, one

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And with Sonic Strewth in danger of turning into an offbeat football webzine, I also belatedly link to Owen on the Theatre of Creams, in itself part of an appendix on his ">BD urban trawl:“">...many curious things, including the bizarre Yeltsin-Constructivism of Old Trafford, where domineering symmetries, bared structure and outrageously kitsch statues prove the enduring ridiculousness of the

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...Iran promptly ‘retired’ four of the green armband-wearing players, just one element of Khamanei’s crackdown. Fifa’s complaint to Tehranwill make no difference at all.

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Just as it should be, it's an actual tune that has done the best justifying of the continuum talk, though it has come from a theorist's camp. ">Cooly G's ep on Kode9's Hyperdub offers two belters in ">Narst and Love Dub. Narst is all early Wiley ominous strings with a banging undercurrent and firm subs redolent of early Warp amid hints of soca/funky influence. Love Dub pays homage to the often

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In a definite boost for the stuttering http://www.cinestatic.com/whorecull/music/2009/03/top-10-of-decade-first-entry.asp">top 10 of the decade series (resuming soon! - I told you it would take all year), City fan and Leeds’ finest Corky offers an inspiring top 10, full of regional detail and free of London insular bias. LCD, the 'Werk and !!! among them - this is getting the compi fingers

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Forget the recession-proof world of obscene transfer deals - the 80 squillions that took the volatile hyena Ronaldo to the filthy merengues from the theatre of cream par example - by far the most important soccer gesture took place last night when half the Iran team, including captain Mehdi Mahdavikia, wore green armbands in support of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, as efforts

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It’s a look I resort to all too often, and not just to myself when something mildly upsetting has happened. That’s because this little expression’s emotional range is deeper than you think, coming in handy as a hello substitute. It was particularly adaptive in this regard during a recent euro-fam break in the other Bretagne there in France. Here, you don’t know whether the almost-community of the

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-67963350862769623582009-06-11T17:57:00.005Z2009-06-18T12:51:11.197Z

(adds some edits)Love Nina’s posting of various unequivocal positions on patriarchcal naming practices even by the so-called leftwing – husband insisting on wife losing her ‘maiden’ name, sons often being given the name of the father, vanity and pride and a cloying cosseting taking over. Let me mention my pet hate on naming for the next generation - the lurch to Victoriana. All these emilys,

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Bruce has flipped causes for his next spot of gig organisation. The man we used to recognise round these parts as Czukay has helped put together a benefit night for Climate Camp, again at London's Cross Kings, just a skip up York Road from King's Cross. Expect another set of diverse performances including improvisation, character comedy and some rousing musical acts to finish things off,

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It is by comparison with a top CALL night that we can now honestly say how disappointing the night was in Lee a month earlier. Blame the relocation, and the location, but not the acts themselves, those of whom on Saturday’s bill at the Cross Kings again put in a great shift as a football manager might patronisingly say. These include the Amigans, Bard Stupid, Matt Dolphin and the Carbon Town

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-52738315706310923242009-05-19T11:21:00.002Z2009-05-19T11:33:33.694Z

The CALL fund and awareness-raising night returns this weekend, this time better located in town at the Cross Kings in, that’s right, King’s Cross. The cause of ‘Defend Education, Defend jobs’ is the same (with many people likely to come from a demonstration against LMU cuts), but the line-up has been refreshed with some new acts and Truth set to play a few sets, one early on and one after Radio

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-42807840390593055192009-05-19T11:16:00.003Z2009-05-19T11:33:05.803Z

Motor’s rmx of Kanye West’s Robocop (from the forthcoming film) is not likely to make the CALL playlist, where more party-oriented fare rather than ‘death rave’ will be required. This grinding French-US techno act has spent a few years on Nova Mute churning out mechanihilist output (I’m a fan of their Stuka Stunt/Junker twelve from 2005; it sits nicely with Vitalic and all the spazz) but have

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-75706091259563030012009-05-06T12:42:00.009Z2009-05-06T14:35:31.593Z

Hiem – She’s the One (Matthew Jonson Circles in Time remix – Crosstown Rebels 2004) (series growing here)I knew about Hiem’s schlocky Sheffield take on song-based electro dance from Corky putting their Chelsea on one of his CD compilations. It was an abrasive, underproduced number, overlaid with spoken word about the reet headfuck that is the erstwhile local girl, which the NME described as ‘like

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-4704423989906322742009-04-28T10:47:00.004Z2009-04-28T11:02:40.239Z

Getting to play six records ‘out’ is not why I still collect music, but that was the only opportunity during the latest CALL night, where the line-up was staggered and numbers were down due to the relocation and, perhaps, metropolitan aversions about suburban SE London in general and how far out the Dirty South is. (A train to Lewisham and a 15-minute walk down the A20 gets you there; props to

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-50214260404368231682009-04-15T13:43:00.002Z2009-04-15T13:46:52.747Z

Next Thursday’s night in aid of the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning has switched venue to Dirty South in Lee. Here’s the ">venue home page, ">Facebook event and that Jezza's ">palpable excitement at the upcoming event. Flyer is below. Hope to see you there.

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Recently there has been a breakthrough in clearing out the music crap that accumulated over the years from my partner working in the business then became serious landfill when her distributors/marketers went bust at the end of last year. Check ">Music Magpie out, it’s an ultra-easy way of selling unwanted CDs – just put the barcode in and the CD is valued straight away. Continue through your list

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-18917554593777383592009-04-08T12:39:00.006Z2009-04-09T14:54:52.435Z

Vitalic - La Rock 01(international Deejay Gigolos 2001) (series growing here)There might be years of pre-ownership speculation about a tune you go on to love, especially if you have no idea which is the right remix or which label it came out on first or even if it is the right one. That was the case for me with Vitalic’s La Rock 01, first out on hell’s International Deejay Gigolos in 2001. A

Cullanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-79785842187690409672009-03-31T22:49:00.006Z2009-04-01T14:42:01.801Z

To the critiks Rajko Muller [nom d’output Isolée] was in some ways the classic microhouse, sophist, undance artist who’d much rather add 12 bars of subtle tinkering than anything in search of pavlovian effect on the floor. But conventional house music and its already several contexts were pretty consolidated by the turn of century. What we needed now was rave artistry. Isolee had already switched

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-84838971195685611432009-03-30T12:20:00.003Z2009-03-30T12:27:34.865Z

An early plug for another night @ the Montague in aid of the ">CALL campaign, on Thursday April 23. It’ll keep to the same format of comedy, singing groups and bands such as tribal reggae punks Radio Revolucion (check the ">Gernika stylings on their myspace), but adds in new acts like The Rules, a promising pop-punk act led by Paul and George, formerly sticksman for Earl Brutus among others. Mad

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-13765193296623818392009-03-24T14:18:00.015Z2009-05-06T13:03:43.119Z

DJ Zinc – 138 Trek (Tru Playaz 2000)The decade starts with one of jungle’s prime movers stepping back from that scene to create something with populist appeal across rave's fractured genres. Mr Super Sharp Shooter DJ Zinc released the Beats By Design ep in January 2000, and 138 Trek, named after its bpm, quickly became the in-demand track and was soon released as a 12’’ with the trip-hoppy

Cullanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-24577021179630421822009-03-19T17:33:00.005Z2009-03-19T18:03:24.962Z

Digital crawlers will surely be on this, but Skepta has joined the grime digi-pop gravy train of Roll Deep, Dizzee, Wiley and Tinchy. Ostensibly a cover of the turn-of-century electroclassic Tiga & Zyntherius' Sunglasses at Night, all the key elements are there, catchphrase choruses (the particularly lame 'roses are red, violets are blue, you know i've got my eyes on you'), digital belches, a

Cullanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499832.post-15745407737760135582009-03-13T13:54:00.004Z2009-03-13T14:18:15.815Z

In the third month of the final year of the zero-zeroes, the double 0s (please not the ‘naughties’), where is the noise and build-up for ‘Best Songs/Sounds/Albums/Squelches/Bubbles of the Decade’? Obviously there is still time for a belter to barge its way into any journalist’s carefully curated lists, but they should all be pretty much done by now, right?It's up to me then to work the fetish for

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