Category: Music
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I can only disappoint U.
I love the band Mansun. If you forced me to pick my favourite three musical acts I would almost certainly pick them to be in that list somewhere. Admittedly my list changes moment to moment, but they would be in with a shot. Why am I mentioning this? Well I am in something of a…
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Depeche Mode and a Black Celebration?
Today I bought the latest Depeche Mode album “Memento Mori”. Which apparently means something like “Remember we all die.” Suitably upbeat for a Depeche Mode Album certainly. I have bought every DM album on the day of release since Violator back in 1990. I had bought their music before that, but never on release. I…
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Area 51, music and an apology.
So hi, it’s been a while hasn’t it? I apologise to anyone that likes my work*, whether music or writing, it has to be frustrating for you to have to wait to see what I do next and when. Imagine then being inside my bonce? It is like a torrent of half-formed ideas and plans…
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A Suitably Pompous Name
Sorry that I have not posted in a while. I have not been feeling that well, work is very stressful and I am suffering from anxiety and depression. It is not that I don’t want to make things, it is more that I can’t right now. The other weekend I decided to make some ambient…
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Art for God’s Sake?
This month our infrequent contributor, Fanny Malinkus, looks into things to do in, or around London this October.
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Korg NTS -1 first impressions
Korg Nutekt NTS-1 Digital synth kit – An early overview. Just as a little background to start with, I have played synths and keyboards for years. I love mucking about with an envelope in ways that would get you ejected from a Post Office. And all of those posts you see on social media saying…
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Orchestra Sponsorship
Guest blogger Jeffanen Argle from TOOHIGHBROWFORU, looks into the darker side of the world of wood and strings for us.
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Music? Call that music?
It’s just a noise. People who say that music was best in a certain decade, you know that they are wrong, don’t you? Unutterably, brain-meltingly, quantifiably wrong. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes though. I should know, I do it all of the time. Come on in, the confusion is just the right temperature. They…
