Faber Author Blogs
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:28 AM
on Simon Reynolds' Blissblog blog 
BOOK NEWSnews about Retromania's foreign editions and the American first-time release of Energy Flash Retromania * the French edition is published by Le Mot et le Reste Éditions on February 9th as Rétromania: comment la culture pop recycle son passé pour s'inventer un futur. I will be in Paris for the launch 2/20 to 2/23, details about the presentation on 2/20 to follow soon.* the Spanish edition
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM
on Simon Reynolds' Blissblog blog
really is a terrific record, kudos to Trunk making it available again
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:52 PM
on Simon Reynolds' Blissblog blog
tickling my fancygot a piece on the Fred Judd and Daph Oram archival issues in the next Friezewould have bunged this solo project by Radiophonic mainstay David Cain in the Frieze-r if i'd known it was coming -- sterling archeology by the indefatigible Jonathan Trunk Esq and this one too ( although it doesn't quite fit, being American, plus Suzanne Ciani shortly after the bleepy early phase
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM
on Simon Reynolds' Blissblog blog
"why so glum, chums?"--interesting piece by Ryan Diduck for The Quietus on "The New Bleak" aka "hypnagothica" and its relation to recent political/economic/environmental traumas^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^talking of dark things, Valerio Mattioli, who writes for LaRepubblica tells me that there is an Italian counterpart to hauntology that was recently covered as part of an article in Blow Up (sort of Italy's
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 1:44 PM
on Simon Reynolds' Blissblog blog
terrific controlled rant from mnml sggs's PC on "comfort house" (and by implication all music-as-comfort-food* scenarios), inspired by two mixes suffocated by politesse and the feeling of having "heard it all before’":"it could have been mixed 12 years ago and not sounded any different. In fact, if it were mixed 12 years ago, it would be very likely to sound exactly like it does. I've been
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM
on Simon Reynolds' Blissblog blog
matthew ingram pointed me towards this lotlike it, lots not really similar, but has a similar effect on me as Metronomy -- evocative but (mostly) unplaceablethe upside of atemporalitywhole album stream: