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    The Jung Ones

    Has anyone spent any time with Carl J? I've only picked it up secondhand and even then only faintly. Worth exploring, or a load of cobblers?
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    indie for thirdform

    My son put me onto this British singer Nilüfer Yanya - she's half-Turkish on her dad's side, grew up listening to Turkish music and classical, then picked up an electric guitar I really like the nervous, skittery feel to the melody and groove.... and her dry papery vocal timbre Wondering if...
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    "destroy minor chords"

    "Sometimes my contribution [as a record producer] might have been as minimal as just saying, 'Shall we stop for a few minutes?... And then of course, other times I work like a normal musician. I say, 'Why don’t we have a G major instead of that B minor' or whatever. In fact, I nearly always say...
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    ad libs in early grime

    listening to this old fave from 2005 and suddenly struck by the fact that it features ad libs - a running commentary of jeering, taunting, scoffing - growls, gnashings, percussive mouth-noise - the occasional almost decipherable word questions A/ is this way in advance of the Americans...
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    Dreams and dream theory

    I wonder if anyone can recommend books or writings on dreams - the function of dreaming, the meaning of dreams, and how these have changed over the centuries, or are different in other cultures - artistic movements influenced by the idea of the dream... I think there's probably some...
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    Prissy Locutions

    I have been collecting "prissy locutions" - itself a rather fussy way of describing writing or speech that is excessively fastidious and finely phrased. As I labor through the far-less-pleasing second volume of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, one thing that keeps me entertained is his...
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    sublime detournement of samples from pop songs

    Orca isolate a gorgeous bit of singing from Beverley Craven's #3 hit, amputating it from the sappy chorus Splicing lines from the second verse ("You look like you're in another world/But I can read your mind") into lines from the first verse ("It's four o' clock in the morning/And it starting...
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    what the kids are into

    Or even what your kids are into, if you have any exhibit A "so sweet like a Mellotron"
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    Dancing versus dancing

    Struck me that there is a distinction between people who are into dance music meaning music that is designed primarily for dancing to, and people who dance to the music they like So for instance, take the historical (possibly ongoing, I wouldn't know) phenomenon of the student indie-disco -...
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    British vernacular of recent vintage

    A couple of idioms I've noticed that people didn't use when I was last living in the UK fulltime ie. the early '90s. Etymological thoughts and argot-semiotics welcome. As are other contenders for UK vernacular that's emerged in the last decade or so. 1/ "rock up" I notice this being used in...
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    Inventing Sounds Way Ahead of Historical Schedule

    Spinning off of phil.'s Reggae Roots in Techno? thread, and hopefully helping to keep it uncluttered with irrelevancies, how about a free-for-all dumpthread for examples of freakily premature and precocious occurrences that uncannily preview much later developments in music.... especially when...
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    Gormenghast

    Anyone into the Mervyn Peake trilogy? I had a second-hand Penguin copy of the first one for about 25 years - it was already yellowing when I picked it up, and it just got browner and browner and less appealing to handle. Eventually I chucked it out, unread. But then this summer I saw the whole...
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    live albums

    Anyone got any time for these? I can barely think of any that I rate or would ever want to play. It seems a bizarre idea, wanting to bring the concert vibe into your living room. Like, isn't the point of a recording to be studio-sculpted and glisteningly perfect and make pictures in your...
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    Brushing your teeth

    Got a new dentist recently and the hygienist told me something that surprised me - you are not supposed to rinse out after brushing, instead you should spit but not use water, because the fluoride needs to "sit" on the teeth for a bit in order for it to adhere and do its job of protecting and...
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    Album as Event versus Album as Sessionable

    Spinning off the chat about Trout Mask Replica, it struck me that there are albums that you only need to listen to once (only want to listen once?) (are only capable of listening to once? ). Undeniably towering and overwhelming aesthetic experiences, something everyone should submit themselves...
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    Canonic Albums by Artists Who You Love and Revere But For Some Reason This One Bypasses You Almost Completely

    Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat The Beatles - The Beatles aka White Album The Band - Music From Big Pink David Bowie - "Heroes" Can - Ege Bamyasi Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (exceptions with these albums being The Obvious Singles e.g. "'Heroes'", "The Weight" - even...
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    "Thought is the enemy of flow"

    "Thought is the enemy of flow" This quote could probably be a thread in the Music forum, because it's by a famous drummer, Vinnie Colaiuta (a famous drummer I'd never heard of until I saw someone post this quote - but apparently he is King Drummer, toast of the technical mags. I wondered if...
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    "Why do bankers love techno?"

    A recent article in Spectator Life Why do bankers love techno? by Josiah Gogarty "Bankers and other assorted finance bros are an inescapable presence on the London nightlife scene. Industry, the British-made TV drama that follows a group of graduates on (and off) a City trading floor, begins...
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    air

    air guitar, air drumming, air bass, air keys - who here is irresistibly provoked to a mimetic physical response by music? confess it! and what are the kinds of music that provoke it? for me it's certain kinds of rock (not indie), certain kinds of jazz (fusion, jazz-rock). has this impulse...
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    Moving Shadow - the full-length single-artist albums

    Two questions for da masssive - what are the worth-a-listen single-artist albums that Moving Shadow put out, beyond the obvious (Omni - Deepest Cut)? - noticed that none of these mostly late-90s / early 2000s albums by Omni, E-Z Rollers, Dom & Roland, Flytronix, Guardians of euuch Dalliance...
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