Tribe – On home coming and belonging (Sebastian Junger)

“whatever the technological advances of modern society – and they’re nearly miraculous – the individualized life styles that those technologies spawn seem to be deeply brutalizing to the human spirit”

One hell of a book! Sebastian Junger will be familiar to many of you as he is bobbing on a geezer of fame. to some – Junger is a bit of a celeb & dismissed as the ultimate embedded bias bitch (being a contributing editor to Vanity Fair doesn’t help these accusations) Continue reading Tribe – On home coming and belonging (Sebastian Junger)

Kero – Firewire Funk 12″ LP

for fucks sakes Detroit! what is it about Detroit? It must be something in the water? I am not referencing that unspeakable mass poisoning shit from Flint – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/24/flint-michigan-water-crisis-lead-poisoning-families-children … somewhat a national treasure, with one of the best IDM ground-swells on Earth, Detroit boasts considerable appendage, & at the crux of that is beyond lip-smack LowRes Continue reading Kero – Firewire Funk 12″ LP

The Price We Pay

“Throughout the world inequality is soaring to new heights. And the wealth of nations that once provided prosperity for the majority has gone missing. This is the story of powerful forces deepening the divide between the few and the many”. So begins one of the most urgent & informing documentaries you have never heard of (& if you have, congratulations is required). Director Harold Crooks brings his attention to the malady of The City Of London, tax havens, British Common Wealth satellites, offshoring & tax evasion, if not more accurately “tax negation” or some 99.99% equivalent. It’s an Continue reading The Price We Pay

Duran Duran Duran – Over Hard CD

Gargling garble from the inner-most psychosis of mechanical anatomies bloated digital organs, one…man? – stands responsible for some of the best, most enthralling, ridiculous & stand-out hard-Breakcore, spastic Glitch, Speedcore speckled extreme IDM what-the-fuckery over the last decade plus –  x3 Duran aka Donna Summer & if I am not utterly in error? – Jason Forrest himself?! Continue reading Duran Duran Duran – Over Hard CD

Tani Tabbal- Triptych CD

Hot-off the inky-bud of last years “Mixed Motion” disk, Tani Tabbal douses more fuel on his growing spate of creative commotions as a leader, producing, for me, the best of his excellent yearly recordings – Triptych. Tabbal is most identified for his long-standing creative/recording partnership with Roscoe Mitchel/Sound Ensemble but has been expounding his releases repertoire with these three recent additions. Triptych esemplasticates traditional, character-rich Bop/Jazz/Blues amalgams with progressive alterities Continue reading Tani Tabbal- Triptych CD

Melanocetus Murray – Megalodon Harsh Tones/Entropy of the Universe (cassette)

Dirty blast-centric Noisegrind from Greece from old-school organism. A big platter of parasite infested lytic dredge from thousands of meters beneath sea-level & belting to boot… the tape comprises two sessions, the best being the A-sides “Entropy Of The Universe” which compacts about twenty-odd trax in an amputorium of bass-distortion fermentation, possibly a guitar? – slow tempo, but fast-picked, Blur-Noise with the occasional D-beat/original Continue reading Melanocetus Murray – Megalodon Harsh Tones/Entropy of the Universe (cassette)

Malad/Chappai Split Cassette

Christ! It’s a Noiscore duo from Ukraine on Blast Beat Worship Tapes! Two lads from Kiev disgracing themselves in the backroom/basement/brothel boutique of backwoods for bench-press. Trash drums & broken-bass …. Unbeknown to most mortals, Ukraine is a secret style-icon/mega-attraction for creative champions on the cusp of art-genius revolution. Not sure that Malad Continue reading Malad/Chappai Split Cassette

Inhalant – Clinical

Texas! 2005! Here skulks a master of atmospherics, a dingy carcass of lo-fi Power Electronics, Death Industrial/Dark Ambient & dishevelled Noise, ravaged by years of open-air exposure & elemental dereliction – Inhalant. Easily one of the classiest practitioners in a genre beset by dog-shit, dumbness & hyper entrenched unoriginality, Inhalant (aka Chad Wicked) strides distinguished with a  subterranean savviness & stand-out artistic quality, without forgoing any of the squalor, brackishness or leer associated with the genres initial ideals. In fact, on his better Continue reading Inhalant – Clinical

Adjust – Omerta CD

Adjust! A veteran colossus of IDM & intense Electro hybridization hurtling out of the Detroit gutter-lining with all cylinders flaring! Those not in the loop better lasso some shit wi’ the quickness! Dance-floor incinerators of charred-Techno-come-Breakcore trespassing on Industrial-Glitch with a heavy flecking of assorted IDM fusions & intersecting digital-dynamism over Electro/Noise mercurial miscreants. This particular release – Omerta – (Adjusts Continue reading Adjust – Omerta CD

The Battle For Home – The Memoirs of a Syrian Architect (Marwa Al-Sabouni)

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A wayward & quaint-laden angle on the tragic Syrian conflict from the perspective of architect & writer Marwa Al-Soubani. A native Syrian, Marwa has a PHD in Islamic architecture, manages a private studio in Homs & has also written a plethora of articles for various municipal/architectural publications. Thus sets the excursion for a differing & more gentle perspective on the Syrian catastrophe than the blitzed & haggard bitterness of front-line reporters & warzone residents (The Battle For Home also contains a withal of sub-topics that may even become the books ultimate priority). Continue reading The Battle For Home – The Memoirs of a Syrian Architect (Marwa Al-Sabouni)