DIAMANDA GALAS – “Double-Barrel Prayer” (from the album You Must Be Certain of the Devil, the third part of The Masque of the Red Death)
My first try at this was lost due to programmer incompetence so now I’ll make it short an[…]

And here’s the Art Of Noise’s Paul Morley interviewing Morrissey, from 1988. Readability issues abound, but if you’ve even a flickering interest, it’s worth it.[…]

Mos Def and Mahler, Josh? How about Claude Debussy and Rakim? The first place I tried was here, and I was fooled for a second, but it’s a car gadgets site. I wonder which Russolo would have preferred?[…]

MOS DEF – “Mr. Nigga” (from the album Black on Both Sides)
At least partly, an indictment of what seems to me (in the midst of the white-bread breadbasket of America) to be those – black specifically but hold that thought &#82[…]

The sort-of-debate between me and Robin that’s characterised today’s nylpm springs in part from Simon Reynolds’ Fave Records of 1999.[…]

MOS DEF – “Ms. Fat Booty” (MP3)
CHRIS MORRIS – “Motherbanger” (Flexidisc, given away with Select June 1992)
KOOL KEITH – “Intro” (from the album Black Elvis/Lost In Space)
Mos Def is kind of like […]

BUTTERFLY CHILD – Drunk on Beauty (MP3)
This is the very essence of luxuriant. I vaguely remember Joe Cassidy being hailed (especially by David Hemingway, one of the great lost Melody Maker writers) as one of those epic, expansive lush pop gen[…]

SUPER HUMAN POWERS – Intellectual Extra Terrestrials (MP3)
I know I’ve talked at length about their “West Evil Rhymes” (and rightly so, a mutation of Geography and Time even Momus might have dismissed as absurd, incongrous an[…]

If you skim over the market boosterism at the end, this old article from Reason magazine is pretty much required reading for anyone interested in pop, irony, elitism, fake-fakeness, etc., themes not entirely absent from Freaky Trigger recently.[…]

YOROKU SAKI – Tech-Scientific (Alpha Version) / Goodtimes (Demo Version) (MP3s)
Maybe it was the reference to the predictions in George Orwell’s 1984, and their historical presience, that attracted me first (but then it almost inevitably […]