Music For DXing by Spunkle is a suite of sixteen songs rooted in the hobby of listening to the radio. Originally released amongst friends and fans in 2003, Music for DXing mixes the sounds of shortwave with primeval electronica in a drumless, bassless, trebleless midrange landscape of anticipation. Music for DXing is out now on […]
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Nine questions about Music For DXing
An interview by John Zap, 24th January 2011 What is DXing? – Well, let’s go straight to Wikipedia for that one! “DXing is the hobby of tuning in and identifying distant radio or television signals”. It’s a hobby I’ve done since I was very young, like 10 years old. I got a radio-cassette recorder for […]
How did I get into…
…Stackridge? I was thinking about this earlier on as I was reading a book that I got for Xmas. The story of how I got the book is sort of interesting but I was reminded of Stackridge as their place in my taste has quite an odd pedigree. For those that don’t know, Stackridge are […]
Gig review: Thomas Dolby
Carling Academy Birmingham, October 8th 2007 On an autumn Monday night a colleague and I saw Thomas Dolby in concert at the Academy in Birmingham. Not so long ago I would have had this on the “this would never happen list” but since so many things that I thought would never happen keep happening, I’ve […]
Goodbye Tony Wilson
I was upset to hear yesterday of the news of the death of Tony Wilson (obituary here on the BBC News website, though Blogdial says it nicely too). I got the chance to meet and chat with him in 2005 and I’m glad that I was able to let him know how much his TV […]
An Igloo’s Not The Place I Wanna Be
So, in the early 80’s I got my first reel to reel tape recorder from a jumble sale. Me and my mate were really into reel to reels. A relative gave me a reel of the Beatle’s Red 62-66 LP that they’d taped for me. When you got to the end of side two there […]
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Currently on car stereo: Klute – No One’s Listening Any More Genesis – Greatest Hits (Disc 2) Ginger Baker Trio – Going Back Home Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV Films recently seen: My Best Fiend House of Flying Daggers Chronicles of Narnia Currently reading: Midge Ure – If I was Ulrika Jonsson – Honest Barry […]
Gig review: Double G and the Traitorous Three
Kilburn Luminaire, February 5th 2006 The operative phrase here is “never say never”. I’ve been a major fan of Scritti Politti since Wood Beez hit the charts in the mid-80’s, and always knew of them as a studio entity; this was a “group”, with a constant member in Green Gartside, who made exceptionally deluxe music […]
List of songs from 2004-2005
I am Kloot – Over My Shoulder Coldplay – Speed of Sound Cream – Badge S’Express – Mantra for a state of mind Killers – Smile Like You Mean It Ambulance LTD – Stay Where You Are Razorlight – Really Really Wish The Coral – In the Morning Coldplay – Speed of sound Arcade Fire […]