As far as I’m aware this was never released. It’s a 12″ from brother and sister Sophie and Peter Johnston’s wonderfully optimistic and passionate debut and only album. This is the B2 remix (why were the best mixes always the 2nd track on the B side?) and to my mind is the most innocent, uninhibited [...]

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Good to see these two legends of 80′s synth pop releasing or re-releasing their work. I had a huge soft spot for both of them growing up through my teens in the 80s. It was a heady time of understanding what a quality sound system was (thanks to my friend Simon Cranshaw), what live music [...]

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It’s somewhere I’ve always wanted to go ever since I saw these amazing aerial photos of the site in the Nevada desert.

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I’ve loved David Sylvian ever since Adolescent Sex, the post-punk 1978 Japan album. I’ve seen him live more recently and although the gig was amazing he’s lost me until recently with his melancholic poetry based music that is more about negative space than rhythm.

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For all my newer blog readers: in a former life I was a DJ. Check out my early nineties rave diaries over on my hobby site. God knows why but here is a mix of mine from 1991. If you were there maybe you can help me ID the missing tracks over on Soundcloud?! Enjoy

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This one’s for Archie:

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Need I say more… simply awesome! Tron+Daft Punk=good

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From the fantastic PSFK blog: In August last year, a group of die hard Radiohead fans recorded footage of the band playing in a live concert in Prague. The fans captured the concert from several angles and have now made the entire recording available as a free download in multiple formats. Radiohead also contributed to [...]

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I posted this on Facebook but it has to be bookmarked here too… This video is a recording of a dub plate made on the history of 6 second break from the b side of a 7″ single released in 1969 which spawned the breakbeat scene in the UK that was so close to my [...]

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Here’s a new concept that I hadn’t heard of before – Lerdahl Law. I read about it in the Times but of course can’t link to the article as it’s behind the paywall (here is the link if you have subscribed). The Times article is about a new phenomenon in cinema as pioneered (sic) by [...]

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