Thursday, 1 December 2011

Christmas is Bach.

As it's the first day of December I thought that it would't go amiss to lay down Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

It's big time and I'm sure the lyrics say  'the holiday's are coming! the holiday's are coming!'  


No, really.


Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Big Time

Thanks to @djBlakey for showing me this tool which will help you understand how big or small you are.

VERY COOL WAY OF SEEING SCALE (MICRO-MACRO)   ← click link

Arvo Pärty

It's always a good time for Arvo Pärt but particularly nice when it is colder outside. Some of the most beautiful music ever written.

Friday, 11 November 2011

The Calming Peace of a Cloudless Sky (via drugs).

Bizarre to think that a solution to stress in the 50's was so chemcially brazen. Amazing promo video for an anxiety drug produced by Pfizer.


Friday, 4 November 2011

Steam Engine made of Glass...



Is this actually interesting?

It's interesting.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

How to Record Drums

Brand New blog where Todd Terje asks stupid questions to top producers. First up is James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem.

Thursday, 27 October 2011

Witch's Spell



Last weekend myself and a few others headed to the Oxfordshire village of Little Tew for a Cotswold caper.

We walked round Chastleton House - a Jacobean mansion.   This place was also popular with this charming Neo-Nazi family all dressed in black - the father had this really cute SS belt buckle on.   There were terrifying and aggressive but you can't fault their cultural taste; their idea of a Saturday afternoon jaunt is right up meine strasse.  Neo-nazis and I don't agree on many things but I think we may have just about found something in common here.  Which is great.


After this we headed to the Rollright Stones, a neolithic stone circle a few miles away. In the centre of the stones a fireplace and evidence of offerings and sacrifice piqued our interest and we happened upon a fold of paper stuck in a nook in one of the stones.   Here is a snap of us on the stones.



 When we tentatively unravelled it we found it was covered in drops of dried blood and some herbs.  The blood and herbs were the trimmings of what can only (and realistically) be understood as a pagan's spell.


Spell reads - and after some research understand this to be a 3by3 spell (apparently).

Goddess of Love
Fairy Apsara
Bring my love Karl
To visit and contact me
my love i see (?)
is so deep
I need to see
if he wanted me
one visit I know
will show and tell
Please bring to me
by the clock strike 12
by the power of 3x3
as i will it so shall be
blessed be


Let's not forget - it was covered in drops of real blood and sprinkled with magic herbs (mistletoe/rosemary {presumably}).  I'm 99% certain that this is  exactly the sort of behavior that gets you sectioned, or worse.  I can safely add that it would really rattle my cage to know that someone was creeping around, letting blood, sprinkling magic and hiding spells in preshistoric stones so that I would appear at midnight; if I did magically appear, I'd really wish I hadn't.

We are all reasonably worried for Matt and Dan.  Dan found the note and therefore presumably broke the current spell which means terrible will happen.  Likewise, a gust of wind blew the magic herbs up and all over Matt - again - this doesn't bode well.    I wish them both luck.

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Isolated Sounds

Thanks to Andy Eschaskech for showing me this absolute wondrous site...

A Strangely Isolated Place -  the site features ambient mixes from many different electronic artists.  Brilliant resource for those who like this type of mesmeric audio Rothko - amazing stuff.


Czech aus ist ambient perfection from Marsen Jules - absolutely beautiful sequence of beatless perfection.


isolatedmix 18 - Marsen Jules - Drifting in the Liquid Air by astrangelyisolatedplace