AUTECHRE – Drane (from the Peel Session disc, recorded 13 Oct 95)
The track itself is a 10+ minute expanse of typical twittering Autechre percussion and childlike melody, progressively more and more overcome by a slightly watery, buzzing drone.[…]

End of the special relationship: Barney Hoskyns on why British music doesn’t sell in America right now. Takes several paragraphs to reach the inevitable conclusion, “because it’s rubbish”. And why are Radiohead such an excepti[…]

Black Box Recorder – there’s a new pair of articles up about them on the main site: a live review from David S and a thing by me which is actually nothing much to do with the band at all.[…]

My first encounter with the exotic was on the Magic Mill at Thorpe Park, a South-East England theme park which from appearances had originally been based around a cramped zoo or city-farm set-up. At some point in the late 70s it had seemingly panicke[…]

PayLAR$.com: if anyone ever again tells you that Americans don’t ‘get’ irony, refer them here.[…]

c/o Josh, red balloon is a site where people post mixtapes they make on various themes. Now as you imagine I like this as an idea BUT i) as Josh says, most of the mixes are pretty unvarying, ii) there are no track-by-track comments at all, which are […]

It is a little bit pathetic to blog your own site, but needs must, and during the current FTP crisis I’ve no other means of letting people accessing this from the freakytrigger.com page know that there’s a new article up. It’s good,[…]

DEAD PREZ – “Hip Hop”(CD Single, Loud Records)
Dead Prez think all those ‘fake-ass’ streetrap records “sound the same”. which just shows they’ve not been listening properly. Except they obviously have b[…]

SONS OF THE PIONEERS – “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”(MP3)
Best known if known at all for providing the credits theme to The Big Lebowski, “Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds” manages in two-and-a-half minutes to achieve the kind of big[…]

It’s always nice when someone you admire turns out to have good taste. On the other hand, nobody’s perfect.[…]