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veins.

Loscil's Sea Island has made my ambient fave five. It stays just the right side of cheese as opposed to say, bvdub.

Great album.

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https://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/linkwood-expressions

Liking the sound of the new album from Linkwood. Lovely warm synths and ambient atmospherics on the two beatless opening tracks, then Off Kilter bumps along nicely with its rolling bassline and Detroit pads. Title track Expressions, Ignorance is Bliss and Love Lost all tread a similar 4/4 path if you dig deep techno. Feels like there might be a bit of filler between the good shit though.

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My copy of Squarepusher's Damogen Furies came through the post today; only had a few listens but it seems alright. Lots of heavy beats, lots of bleepy stuff and some fun buildups... One or two tracks seem a bit too random, others feel like maybe they don't go anywhere, but generally it's very listenable stuff. From my first listens "Exjag Knives" is my favourite track at present - it starts off very slow and calm but then gets a bit more playful later on. :)

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Ack, Squarepusher is at the Cheltenham Town Hall on Sunday night (click) - that's like a 15-20 minute walk from me. Would love to go see, but I dunno if I'd have the time...

I'd go and watch any artist (that I like obviously, not fucking Blur for example) if it was a 20 minute walk away. Everywhere anyone plays is 2 hours away min!

By the way, I also bought the new album. On vinyl, which is interesting as the track order is backwards for the other editions. Try it, start with the last track first and work you way to track 1 as the final one (and its the worst track on the album!). It starts off on a much heaver and darker footing that the other way around!

Makes you wonder what other albums have a totally different mood played in reverse track order....mmmmm

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Ack, Squarepusher is at the Cheltenham Town Hall on Sunday night (click) - that's like a 15-20 minute walk from me. Would love to go see, but I dunno if I'd have the time...

You make time for that. You don't see the likes of Squarepusher in Cheltenham very often, if at all. Shit, I'd go if I didn't have plans.

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Sunday 3rd May at 13:00 on Radio 6 - Sounds of a city - The Human League - Travelogue

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, founder of Classic Album Sundays, looks deep into The Human's League's Travelogue album, and the city from which it was built; Sheffield. Talking to lead member Martyn Ware, she delves into what made this album such a pivotal moment in the landscape of Sheffield's music scene, and why synths unlocked an entire universe for musicians. From the heavy industry, poverty, and even the space race, everything that went into this album came out the other side to inspire a new generation of musicians, inadvertently starting a dance music revolution in the City. Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk discusses the album's pop values, whilst our very own Jarvis Cocker give us his own unique take on the tracks and their links to Sheffield. From Roisin Murphy and Toddla T to Orbital's Paul Hartnoll, the album and the City's influence has been felt far and wide, so tune in to this exploration of one of pop's darkest moments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05t2djc

The 11 year old me is somehow laughing out loud at this. They have been calling it "seminal" all week, which is really odd when I think back to when I first bought it. I'm not going to pretend I bought it when it came out (I would of been 9 at the time) but shortly after "Dare" came out. Lets face it NO one bought it when it came out!

Its been part of my musical DNA growing up, so it might make interesting listening! Shame that Philip Oakey isn't on the show, but interested to know Javis' take on it.

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Go you cunt.

I went. Totally worth it. :D He did a few bits of jazzy improv guitar stuff at the start and end, but also did a bunch of Damogen Furies stuff as well as some older tunes like Modern Bass Guitar and Arterial Fantasy, so that was pretty great. There was also quite the lightshow going on too, with massive screens behind him doing crazy futuristic Winamp visualizer shit :P Oh and a live venue makes all the difference - the town hall's kind of big but the room was still shaking with the bass hits. TLDR - awesome :wub:

Pics nicked from other people's twitters (I didn't really want to wave my phone around during ;) )

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I went. Totally worth it. :D He did a few bits of jazzy improv guitar stuff at the start and end, but also did a bunch of Damogen Furies stuff as well as some older tunes like Modern Bass Guitar and Arterial Fantasy, so that was pretty great. There was also quite the lightshow going on too, with massive screens behind him doing crazy futuristic Winamp visualizer shit :P Oh and a live venue makes all the difference - the town hall's kind of big but the room was still shaking with the bass hits. TLDR - awesome :wub:

Pics nicked from other people's twitters (I didn't really want to wave my phone around during ;) )

YtbwAjA.jpg

Er85S7n.jpg

Great stuff, at least he has dropped that lone Daft-Punk silly helmet thing he had going on last time around.

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If anyone is around the Soho area before the 31st May I recommend seeing this.

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/ryoji-ikeda-and-the-vinyl-factory-present-supersymmetry-at-brewer-street-car-park

The Vinyl Factory is excited to announce the UK premiere of a new work by international artist-composer Ryoji Ikeda that explores music and visual art through mathematics and physics. supersymmetry is Ikeda’s first large scale solo exhibition in London, and his first project in London since spectra (produced by Artangel) dramatically illuminated the capital’s night sky in August 2014. This new piece is an immersive, disorientating installation of colliding, mutating, sound, text and visual data, utilising forty projectors and computers.

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