Tag: RIP
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This is a preview of next year
On the Discogs entry for the After Shock label, it still lists a couple of phone numbers you might use to contact the label. Putting your mobile on the label of a 12″ was common in the old days of grime, when few artists had managers, distribution was barely on the agenda, and creating your…
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This microphone turns sound into electricity
On Shellac’s debut album At Action Park, Bob Weston, Steve Albini and Todd Trainer were credited as playing “mass”, “velocity” and “time”. Maybe this was just a throwaway gag on a record whose sleeve also included instructions for “resuscitation from apparent death by electric shock”. But considered alongside the LP’s annotations of materials and production…
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Large speaker systems and very large spaces
The death of Phill Niblock breaks a golden thread which ran all the way back to the postwar cultural explosion on America’s East Coast. He was a composer of minimalist music, but before that a film maker, and a photographer who worked amid the jazz scene – he snapped his teenage idol Duke Ellington many times,…
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