Remote Jeroen far too remote to be part of this transmission. Freeform for today with not a music blog review but a pointer to the FreeMusicArchive. A great library for copy right free music with a creative commons licence that you can use for your blog, documentary or anything else. The rest is a rig […]
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Right, a new week a new blog, this time it’s the incredible EXP ETC or experimentaletc.blogspot.com If a very wide variety of experimental music is your thing, you’ve found a treasury. Three years in existence and about a thousand posts and still speeding up.. where will it end? Into a complete discography of obscure japanese tape music? […]
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Music blog focus of this week is Continuo, the blog specializing in more or less obscure audio by visual artists and composers. It is a great companion to UbuWeb where it shares some collectors items like the Tellus cassette series and MusicWorks series produced by John Oswald. Show started with the second installment of Jodel […]
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Back from the summer recess and full speed ahead into the continued recession with a new weekly focus on an interesting music blog. This week Wheee just passing by at blogspot.com, check the taglist for a rough indication of music played. Also this week the first installment of weekly jodel lessons. New and degraded only […]
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Yes, we did it, a daring program with mostly edgy disco beats: death disco, bizarre disco, paradisco, industrial disco, electroclash.., but also the infamous beats of Dat Politics and Kid606. What else does one want heading into a hot summer break? Karl Marx? Football? Politics? Till next Edge, somewhere end of August..
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or is it just freeform, radio programming without a theme or clue what to play next. Anyway, a great discovery this week: “Das Original Oberkreuzberger Nasenflötenorchester – der Grindchor” really wonderful stuff. Contemporary bagpipe music from David Watson (album “Skirl”), electronic music from Iran, Wim T. Schippers’ Billen Om Op Te Zitten, the always amazing […]
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Music that ticked us over from the mainstream. Nurse with Wound, Laibach, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frank Zappa, John Zorn & Naked City, David J., Mahavishnu Orchestra. Those were the days..
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This week we decided to go and see if we could find some gems from the Scandinavian experimental music subcultures. And yes did we find some great material, some familiar (M.A. Numminen, Rune Lindblad, Arne Nordheim, Maja Ratkje), some new (some Rune Grammofon artists and great folk music from Lapland, courtesy of the great Smithsonian […]
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In the early 1980’s the infamous and critically acclaimed comic duo Van Kooten en De Bie introduced the TegenPartij (the ContraParty). It was meant to criticise the upcoming conservative rightwing political parties in The Netherlands, but instead gained followers of their own who really believed the TegenPartij was to take part in the upcoming elections. […]
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Leon Theremin, inventor of the mystical instrument the Theremin that could be played by just waving one’s hand in the air. A sensation when invented around 1930, where Theremin travelled the world and became a spy, relaying technological information from the US to the SU. Theremists: Lydia Kavina, Clara Rockmore, Lucie Rosen, Dr Samuel J. […]
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Edge is in a cryogenic state and awaits to come back alive.