Tracker hero 4Mat recently released the very excellent “Surrender“. On this blogpost he explains some of the processes of creating the songs – a great insight into the genesis of the work.
A free SVG alphabet
I am a longtime Flickr user but since I’ve never had a pro account (so far) I have lost track of the number of images I have uploaded in the six or so years I’ve been active on there (Flickr allows you to upload lots of images but if you have a free account you […]
Music for DXing
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 […]
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 […]
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Soon it will be 20 years from when I started a diary. I don’t think I was ever imagining what it might be like to be 36 years old when I began all that. I am really into Lolcats, Kenny Everett and daydreaming. ———————————–
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 […]
From the land of Oz
Earlier this year it was my birthday, and a good friend who lives in Australia sent me over three Scritti Politti 12″ singles. The parcel was sent via sea-mail and arrived yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised but not, however, expecting the records to be padded and packaged with all manner of exotic (to these eyes […]
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 […]
A DTD for Life Redux
Around 5 years ago I began working intensively with XML and XSLT at the company I was then working for. My main task was to write XSLT stylesheets to turn book and journal XML into online products so that anyone in the world could access them via the internet (providing they had a subscription for […]
Listomatic
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 […]
I wonder what would happen if…
…you developed colour film in black and white chemicals? Well, you get a negative of sorts. Having just shot a whole roll of 200 ASA film in a camera set to 400 ASA, I got a bit concerned about sending it off to a lab who were not going to realise what I'd done and […]
Kodak Verichrome
The other day I got an Agfa Click for £1 This was cool enough in itself, as it’s not only a great vintage medium format plastic camera, but I also have the sister model the Agfa Clack. The Clack takes 8 shots on a 120 film and the Click takes 12. But even cooler was […]