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why isn't there a raccoon thread all up in here yet
Miss you all too x

Comment by nickinko June 30 permalink
We lost one of our own
Oh man, this is such terrible news. I can't say anything in text except how sorry I am.

Comment by nickinko October 2017 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING

Comment by nickinko March 2017 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
I AM interested in that, thanks! Though I didn't really get the last one (MUSIC VOL), which was very lowercase/quiet indeed.

Comment by nickinko September 2016 permalink
Machinefabriek
Something new from the Dutch maestro. This time a dynamic half hour piece with long-time collaborator Anne Bakker on scrapy see-sawing violin and, unusually, warbly vocals from Edita Kartkoschka. The first half floats about in (and is occasionally s…

Comment by nickinko August 2016 permalink
( ( ( (((DRRRRROOOOOoOOOOONNNNNE))) ) ) )
I can't play that video for some reason, but I will look into it, thanks. 2016 has pretty much swamped me with good new music, as well as nice albums from some old trusties. A very strong year.

Comment by nickinko August 2016 permalink
( ( ( (((DRRRRROOOOOoOOOOONNNNNE))) ) ) )
2016 has been a bit of a drone revival year for me. The masterpiece behind this is Abul Mogard's 'Works', which is just stunningly good. The story goes that he's a Serbian factory worker who retired, missed the noise of his workp…

Comment by nickinko August 2016 permalink
What are you reading at the moment?
I read a lot on holiday over the last two weeks. I didn't really enjoy Tom McCarthy's Satin Island, a story of 21st century ethnography that was smart but never really settled down into any kind of character or plot. Then I read Paul Auste…

Comment by nickinko August 2016 permalink
Miscellany
woah! That is an excellent baby!!

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
2016 is getting serious now. A wow release from Demdike Stare's label

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
I went out last night and saw a band
Just got tickets to see Kristin Hersh here in Brighton in November.

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
Yeah, still obsessing over this Abul Mogard record. Beautiful sounds.

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
What are you reading at the moment?
Michael Crummey - Galore I just finished this sprawling, multi-generational epic set in 18th/19th scentury Newfoundland, and loved it. It's sort of a Newfy 100 Years Of Solitude I suppose, and by the end it really got inside my imagination. M…

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Narcissists in LA: Podcast Thread
I just noticed Heartbreak already mentioned 99% Invisible up there, which is part of the radiotopia thing

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Narcissists in LA: Podcast Thread
I thought Id revive this thread to mention Radiotopia, a collective of story-based podcasts that I've fallen in love with and been listening to voraciously on my daily commute over the last few weeks. So far, I've listened to The Truth (1…

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Internet habits die hard
A lot of my internet roots go back to a site called TMO (Throwing Muses Online) which was the first forum I ever joined when I turned up in Korea in 1998. It's a diaspora now though, flung to the far corners of Socialmediasia

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
So the new Pixies track is actually good. Now I'm pointlessly, I'm listening to Indie Cindy again. It's still the single most disappointing album I've ever heard in my life.

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Internet habits die hard
I follow and communicate on a weekly basis with a bloke on Twitter who I first encountered in the comments section of Momus' livejournal blog nearly 20 years ago.

Comment by nickinko July 2016 permalink
Does the rest of the world care about the UK's EU referendum?
Yeah, I think Corbyn's finished. A decent man caught up in a pre-meditated fly-trap. As Diane Abbott said today, it's not the (Blairite) Parliamentary Labour Party against Corbyn, it's the PLP against its own membership. Grim days for…

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
Does the rest of the world care about the UK's EU referendum?
It's 6am and I have to go to work soon, so apologies that this isn't written nicely, but this is what I see: a Remain camp without a Plan B and a Leave camp without a Plan A, total political chaos and the biggest constitutional crisis fo…

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
Does the rest of the world care about the UK's EU referendum?
Fuck it. I feel ashamed and betrayed this morning.

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
Does the rest of the world care about the UK's EU referendum?
I find the whole thing incredibly depressing. A bunch of bitter oldies trying to burn the young'uns bridges. I wanna be in the United Kingdom, the European Union, the World Union, and any other union that's going around. Bigger the better.…

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
Abul Mogard Works This is incredible if true. Made by a 70 year-old Serbian retired factory worker with no previous experience in music, and who wanted to recreate the complex textures and drones of his workplace. It's absolutely beautiful,…

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
It's happening again (2016 music)
You might like David Thmas Broughton?

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
It's happening again (2016 music)
As it's June, I thought I'd put a rough list of my favourite albums of the year up here. I think that so far it's been the best year for ages for the music I like. It would be nice to hear what other people have been digging too, of c…

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
Dumb Parent Tricks
Wow, that is very impressive! Is he going to keep it going competetively, do you think? Does it take a lot of commitment?

Comment by nickinko June 2016 permalink
It's happening again (2016 music)
Woah, this new Autechre.

Comment by nickinko May 2016 permalink
It's happening again (2016 music)
The new David Thomas Broughton is jaw-droppingly good. Album of the year by a mile at the moment:

Comment by nickinko May 2016 permalink
What are you reading at the moment?
So I finished Preparation For The Next Life, and the second half was really moving and powerful. Desperately sad though. It was such a vivid book of place too, following the two principal characters as they walked and ran through various immigrant c…

Comment by nickinko May 2016 permalink
I went out last night and saw a band
I have tickets to see Stars Of The Lid later in the year, at a chirch here in Brighton. Speechless with excitement.

Comment by nickinko May 2016 permalink

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