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Boomkat on KTL IV

Posted: Nov 27, 2008

Another mighty KTL opus, but this album feels rather different from the previous three: IV is the first full-length album by Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley to have not been based on commissioned work, and consequently should be a more conventionally 'album-like' affair. To a certain extent that's probably the case, and these six compositions run through a broader range of ideas, all very carefully constructed and finely polished... in a terrifying sort of way. Some of this refinement migh...

Fuckin genious

Posted: Nov 26, 2008

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Cope’s Busking Tour: Manchester

I’m all blogged up, so in an effort to relieve myself I begin with the Archdrude’s visit to Manchester as part of his Joe Strummer Memorial Busking Tour which took in a whole series of historical sites of civil protest and direct action across the UK. In Manchester he played at the site of the Peterloo Massacre - something that doesn’t need much introduction (see here if you’re not up-to-speed), but requires a lot of remembering.

Amo...

or wu-tain

Posted: Nov 26, 2008

Seldon: maybe Wu-Tang Clan should do some shows with Watain?

Seldon: Watain-Clan.

VOID

Posted: Nov 25, 2008

Streamline 1023

Posted: Nov 25, 2008

Its hard to find much music better than this...
The stillness and subtle slides of the pre dawn air captured so graphically and with such precision.

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Stockhausen on Human evolution - 1972

Posted: Nov 24, 2008

Excerpt from Karlheinz Stockausen's May 1972 lecture to the Oxford Union on 'Four Criteria of Electronic Music'. Here, Stockhausen responds to a question concerning the loss of 'Humanity' in electronic music.

METALION: THE SLAYER MAG DIARIES Anthology Book Announced

Posted: Nov 24, 2008

Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen and Bazillion Points books are proud to announce that work has begun on a compendium of the best material representing twenty-five years of outrage from Metalion's infamous SLAYER MAG. In addition to rare archival material unseen in decades, the book will include unreleased and exclusive interviews and artwork, historical photographs from Metalion's personal archive, and never-before-seen portrait photography taken by Metalion himself during the 2000s. More than jus...

KTL IV

Posted: Nov 23, 2008

KTL IV will be released in January 09 on Editions Mego, you can preorder the CD version now if interested. Its also going to be distributed in North America through Forced Exposure and UK/Europe via Kudos. This is the first [non-live] KTL material recorded outside of the context of theatre & film sound design/soundtrack work. 6 tracks, about an hour. Art below. Illustrations by Demian Johnston. Album recorded and Produced by Jim O'Rourke in Tokyo September 08. Atsuo/BORIS plays total SWANS ba...