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Composer in Focus
(Dear Internet. About a week ago I wrote about 1200 words on this. Then a hard drive crash took it. Obviously nature thinks I should write less. I promise).Each year…
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WNIGN: The worst music in the world.
When my old man wanted to indicate something was truly bad he would compare it to something he called ‘Malaysian Brass Band Music’. There was nothing worse – even a…
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Wednesday Night is Garbage Night: The Golden Voice of WONG SHIAU CHUEN
Bought in a Singaporean market around 1973, a bootleg cassette of Golden Voice of Wong Shiau Chen – although exactly which one is hard to know as there was FOURTEEN…
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Wednesday Night is Garbage Night: COKECAN
(Archivist Note - there were originally a number of pages which linked to obscure cassettes in my collection. All these are being restored under the "Wednesday Night..." category but it…
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John Lennon’s toilet
A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) – nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said.How may we…
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An open letter about open letters… + a gift.
FIRST OF ALL – HAVE A GIFT! THE SECOND HALF OF OVER BARBARA ISLAND IS NOW AVAILABLE! READ THE FOLLOWING GARBAGE WHILE IT DOWNLOADS. Glasnost spills across the virtual western…
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Jed From Landis
Jed worked at Landis Music back in the early 80s. He sold pianos, and increasingly synthesisers. Jed was the man who found me a whole KORG MS modular system for…
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CONTROL 2010 SYMPOSIUM NYC
Attention Cyber Digital Artists! You are invited to CONTROL 2010: an exclusive symposium to be held Friday – Sunday in NYC next week.Courtesy of Apple we’ll be touting the new…
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Rebigotting
Gosh gee willikers! How time flies when you’re servicing high interest debt! The Big Bigot album was released 24 years ago, and the last time it was remastered is now…
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Dogs and Monkeys
I can’t believe I got a couple of thousand words into an analysis of Something Awful dot com. I was trying to account for why I became interested in the…