Archives – 2018 – February  

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2018 Music Diary Week 7: The Week Of Unsettlement
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— 23 Feb 2018 Tom 4 comments

This is late, and brief, as I’ve been in France helping my parents as my Dad’s been ill.
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Day 43: TAL NATIONAL – Tantabara: Pell-mell afro/jazz/rock from Niger, teetering on the line between exciting and exhausting. Everything sounds […]

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The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2017: #10 – #1
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— 23 Feb 2018 Pete Baran 15 comments

Hi, I’m Edgar the computer from the flop film Electric Dreams in 1984. Yes, the one the song comes from. I was just a normal 16 bit computer until my nerdy owner thought he would put out a fire near me with some sparkling wine. After a brief mo[…]

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2018 Music Diary Week 6: The Week Of Wakanda
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— 15 Feb 2018 Tom Comment

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Day 36: ???? – Sekundenschlaf: Philip Sherburne’s Pitchfork review goes in deep on the enjoyably ridiculous backstory of this dude, how these are supposedly found tracks from the hard drive of a PC from the Chernobyl isolation zone or […]

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The Inaugural FreakyTrigger TV Poll: #24 – #13
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— 9 Feb 2018 Pete Baran 11 comments

Hi we’re the Telebugs, unloved 80’s British cartoon characters who traded on British kids loves of robots and television and still failed to create a following across our 88 tedious episodes. Part of this disdain might be that whilst we a[…]

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2018 Music Diary Week 5: The Week Of Lassitude
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— 5 Feb 2018 Tom 2 comments

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Day 29: JOHN SURMAN – Invisible Threads: Pastoral, ruminative jazz from an English composer and saxophonist. Very much a set of mood pieces, it seems to me, whose folky calm is upended at one point by a much brisker cover version. Chosen[…]

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Read Harder Challenge (3 of 24): DATURA
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— 4 Feb 2018 Tom Comment

Datura, or a Delusion We All See by Leena Krohn
(Read as part of the Book Riot Readharder challenge 2018. Category: A single-sitting book.)
An anonymous woman in an anonymous (though clearly Nordic) city receives a flower for her birthday. She begins[…]

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