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“What do you type on?” Writing about the great Ghédalia Tazartés got me thinking about figures will creep in and out of the peripheries, casually doing their thing, making waves that are ultimately (sometimes after the passage of decades) felt in the “mainstream” (insofar as a mainstream even exists anymore). Transmissions from the Interzone, bounced … Continue reading Bulletin Of The Coordinate Factualist

“We Have Explosive”: The Outsider Story Today, I'd like to focus not on one the many figures I'd been planning to, but instead a complete bolt from the blue. Hand to the forehead, it just came to me. This is a figure whose very identity is a mystery, linked only to one remix for a … Continue reading Smirkoff

The Future Sound Of London We Have Explosive Electronic Brain Violence Ok, so I know that FSOL already got a tile of the month with their stunning ISDN full-length, but this series isn't so much about the codification of a rarefied canon (that's what The Parallax 100 is for!) but rather a chance to hook … Continue reading The Future Sound Of London – We Have Explosive

I've long been fascinated by a certain type of record, where a very particular confluence of sounds and factors intersect to produce an unlikely minor masterpiece that sounds like little else around. Typically, there's some collision of the synthetic and organic involved... although sometimes one side fills in for the other. The rhythm might be … Continue reading Oil – Slight Of Hand

The Beta Band roam the dusted plains. As they say over on Wikipedia, “This article is a stub,” just a place to get down a concept while it's still fresh in my mind (after all, that's how Terminal Vibration started out in the first place). As you've probably noticed, I've been hinting around the concept … Continue reading In Dust We Trust

Khaleel No Mercy (12" Promo) Hollywood: 1998 Picking up that thread on return to that overcast day in Autumn and a brace of 12"s from Elements, we move from loose-leaf Hard Hands 12"s to the first of the promos. Where Octave One and Anthony Shakir checked in with prime examples of freeform techno soul at … Continue reading Khaleel – No Mercy (12″ Promo)

Bushflange Crossing Point (Hard Hands: 1995) It was an overcast day in Autumn, the Indian Summer heat mingling with the moisture in the air and rainclouds hanging heavy in the sky. You'd almost think you were in San Juan if you lost track of time and space, cruising somewhere on the north side of the … Continue reading Bushflange – Crossing Point

Cresting into the dawning days of springtime, the last frost retreats into the shadows and the culling of the winter weeds. A towering stack of records nestled under the marquee, waiting in the cool of the morning shade, ready to accompany the landscape/ing as the lingering cold slowly recedes beneath the warm rays of the … Continue reading Garden Grooves 007

Polly said today, she'd find another way... tomorrow. Time is tight, tasks and projects coming down with a quickness. Posts less frequent, but underneath the surface the wheels are turning. Building out the framework, piece by piece in the remains of the day, while the mass production loop just rolls out into the perpetuity. Sometimes … Continue reading Polyesterday