Bitten by The Black Dog
Cover to Techno Playtime EP
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Krautrock
Welcome to my idiosyncratic survey of Krautrock, the German experimental rock movement that flourished from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. I’ve already written about one of its chief pillars, Tangerine Dream, but there’s a lot of other wonderful groups to explore.
K pop supernova
Clip from Aespa's Supernova video
Minima and Maxima
Boards of Canada: Marcus Eoin and Michael, or Michael and Marcus Eoin. Not sure. Looks cold where they are though.
The Cure
"Short back and sides, please!"
Bauhaus, in the middle of our street
Bauhaus is my rock guilty pleasure. I got madly into them at 17 - so enthusiastically, in fact, that one school chum told me “I used to quite like Bauhaus until you wouldn’t shut up about them.”
Brian, the babe they called Brian
I’ve pondered Eno a lot. The only musician who had as varied a time in the 1970s was Bowie - indeed it seemed inevitable that the two would end up collaborating. By my count, and by dim memory of his excellent biography, from 1971 - 1982 he:
My Yeah! playlist
People often respond to crisis in strange ways, and my response to Covid lockdown, in March 2020, was to compile my first Spotify playlist.
One after 929
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New Age of (hu)man
I want to write a survey of New Age music that I like, but I’m hamstrung by not having a decent definition of what New Age music is other than I know it when I hear it. It’s easy to identity common elements of New Age music: trappings of Eastern mysticism, “world music” instrumentation, cosmic yearning, FM synthesisers, California; but there’s music that contains some of these elements that I…