SIMON REYNOLDS
People are constantly asking me for my thoughts on Mark Fisher. Only a slight exaggeration.It actually got a little wearisome and I had to start saying no. But then I seemed to get a second wind. Or maybe I just found it easier to comply than to write the note explaining why I couldn't. Here's...
SIMON REYNOLDS
A flurry of recent debate on the topic of cultural stagnation versus "the future is alive and well actually!"Here's an interesting article by Gabriel Szatan at Resident Advisor from a few weeks agoIt starts with a electronic dance festival experience that feels blocked and static:But by some...
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Interesting piece at Split Infinities on a band that is getting talked about at the moment but written before all the are-they-or-aren't-they buzz "Amid the mid-morning lull between morning cartoons and the much preferable after-school block, sick-at-home American schoolchildren of the late 20th...
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Just about the most hauntological thing I have ever seen, and it was made in 1962! This BBC short film, titled "The Lonely Shore" and produced under the aegis of the program Monitor, imagines a team of researchers visiting the deserted wasteland of the British Isles centuries after an...
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Product description:Hauntology - a massive 3.2Gb of organic electronic music samples from acclaimed composer and producer Si Begg. The library is full of amazing abstract, melodic and percussive loops as well as weird effects, sweeps and tonal textures.Via Dissensus's 0Bleak in this threadHere is...