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    The (very welcome) shock of the new: Autechre – Quaristice

    by 5:4 February 1, 2008 • 21:48
    February 1, 2008 • 21:48

    The closest i’ve come to a solitary road trip was last year, when i drove from the cosy shelter of the Cotswolds to the exposed shelf of the east coast. Knowing that, even if i treated the speed limit with my usual agnosticism, the drive would still take at least…

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    The shock of the old

    by 5:4 January 31, 2008 • 10:16
    January 31, 2008 • 10:16

    In the summer of 2001, during an 11-day tramp around Iceland, the Beloved and i took a chance and attended a baritone recital, given at the church in Egilsstaðir. It was a strange and beautiful experience; he chatted a fair bit between each song, and we did our best to…

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    What’s In A Name? (Part Two)

    by 5:4 January 30, 2008 • 14:08
    January 30, 2008 • 14:08

    In my post Style and Idea: What’s In A Name?, i said that i’d been provoked to consider genres “and more besides”; here, then, is the more. Our determination to classify things – as a means of containing them, thereby reducing them and making them (or so we believe) more…

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    Why don’t you just switch off your CD player and listen to something less boring instead? : Onetwo – Instead

    by 5:4 January 22, 2008 • 10:25
    January 22, 2008 • 10:25

    There’s something inherently exciting about the collaboration, particularly when each protagonist has a well-known and established career. The idea of two individually interesting artists producing something new and unexpected together is more than enough to whet the appetite. i’ve been spending time with a comparitively recent example, teaming two names…

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    Style and Idea: What’s In A Name?

    by 5:4 January 20, 2008 • 20:49
    January 20, 2008 • 20:49

    A few days ago, i listened to an album described by its label as “ritual ambient”, which i found an intriguing idea for a genre; yesterday, i spent time with another release on the same label, listed as “ceramic IDM”. i’m not sure i can even begin to unpack quite…

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    Into the “other”: Pan Sonic – Kesto (234.48:4)

    by 5:4 January 18, 2008 • 20:34
    January 18, 2008 • 20:34

    i’m a sucker for series and cycles, from collections of compositions into a larger whole (such as Richard Barrett‘s Opening of the Mouth and Charles Tournemire‘s L’Orgue Mystique) to multiple-CD albums and box sets. i love them; perhaps it’s something to do with the sheer effort required to engage with…

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    Beautiful angst: The Cure

    by 5:4 January 17, 2008 • 11:16
    January 17, 2008 • 11:16

    Back when life was all of a teenage, when the concept of “family” still held some substance for me, i was taken to spend a few days in the company of my “cousins” in London. There wasn’t much to do there, and i recall one particular day when i and…

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    Dancing (kind of) and drifting (ish): Stravinsky, Autechre, The Orb

    by 5:4 January 10, 2008 • 22:02
    January 10, 2008 • 22:02

    IDM is to dance music as Stravinsky is to instrumental music; discuss. Well, not exactly, but it strikes me there’s something of a similarity, particularly in the way that the underlying pulse is fragmented into irregular metres. This is probably why i love IDM (and Stravinsky) so much, although i’m…

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    Music for Epiphany and more

    by 5:4 January 7, 2008 • 09:21
    January 7, 2008 • 09:21

    Yesterday was the feast of the Epiphany, and it strikes me as strange that there is so little music written for Epiphanytide. Advent and Christmastide are overflowing with possibilities, but composers have clearly not been inspired by this season. It might be that it’s been somewhat vague until more recent…

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    Merzbow and h³o

    by 5:4 January 5, 2008 • 16:32
    January 5, 2008 • 16:32

    Yesterday’s listening was confined to a single album, Merzbow‘s Door Open at 8am. Annoyingly, i felt distracted while listening, so i don’t feel i’ve engaged with it adequately; i’ll try again soon, perhaps as part of my journey into Masami Akita’s work. This morning i spent time with OM Electrique,…

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    From the ridiculous (via noise) to the sublime

    by 5:4 January 4, 2008 • 15:31
    January 4, 2008 • 15:31

    When any series comes to an end, it’s an emotional experience, and so it was yesterday when the last two CDs in Andrew Liles‘ 12-CD Vortex Vault series dropped through my letterbox. Black Pool and Black End mark the conclusion of an amazingly prodigious cycle of discs, released once a…

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    Irish Old and New

    by 5:4 January 3, 2008 • 19:07
    January 3, 2008 • 19:07

    There was an entirely accidental Irish connection to yesterday’s listening. Greatly enamoured as i am of Clodagh Simonds‘ gorgeous voice (she now records as Fovea Hex), i thought it would be interesting to listen to her earliest work, as part of the influential group Mellow Candle. Their 1972 album Swaddling…

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    2007: memories and echoes; 2008: first sounds

    by 5:4 January 1, 2008 • 18:08
    January 1, 2008 • 18:08

    There were many, many musical highlights in 2007, but a lot of disappointments too, which i guess is unavoidable, considering the amount of music i listen to throughout the year. Probably the worst of the lowlights of the year was Avril Lavigne‘s The Best Damn Thing, an unfortunate title considering…

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