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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Does techno have signifiers?

  • Why am I listening to so much techno at the moment?

  • The menacing, alien, unworldly qualities of acid techno embodied in a hostile but spectacular landscape

  • I know my thoughts but I can’t hide them

  • I know you love to fall

  • So I stayed in the darkness with you

  • Glow

  • Stay calm, boy, my thoughts are burning like they’re napalm

  • Anno: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi

  • Maybe we are all members of an orchestra that is merely tuning up

  • And you can’t fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all

  • Follow me into the sun

  • What am I? I am only dust in this light

  • ☀️Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits

  • How can I make sad music if I’m not sad anymore?

  • Stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being

  • What does thinking sound like to you?

  • Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

  • Let the tower fall!

  • I lazily send songs like flocks of doves into the blue above⁠

  • to drag it out and to make it echo and to get involved and to fall in love

  • I am the ambulance that never comes, the antidote you spill

  • The most engrossing extended live version I’ve ever seen by a band

  • How do cultural objects change who we are?

  • my life as a teenage scarecrow

  • Where I end and you begin

  • I know the culture here is to stay humble but shit

  • Winter is coming

  • A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

  • On playing well and making yourself heard

  • Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence…

  • Well it’s a deep dark night and I hear you, I’ve been there

  • This is the anthem, the slogan, the summary of events

  • Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

  • You’ll need somebody when you come to die

  • So you were born and that was a good day, some day you’ll die and that is a shame

  • Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

  • We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz

  • You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge

  • What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

  • The Lacanian understanding of love

  • I talked to somebody again who knows how to help me get better

  • Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

  • There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

  • I just discovered depressive breakcore and I’m in love

  • Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

  • In defence of optimism

  • An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

  • Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance

  • On returning to music

  • Mining resonance to the point of exhaustion, or, why does this sound so shit to me now?

  • When music and fiction mingle

  • the backstory to creative work

  • this is not a pipe

  • the politics of noise in historical perspective

  • Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#15)

  • Conlon Nancarrow

  • Upper Clapton Dance (cc @Mookron)

  • Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#13)

  • The Pleasures of Speed

  • “Excuse me, I’m lost…”

  • Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#9)

  • What an amazing instrument: the mridangam

  • Beautiful shining synth songs dreaming of annihilation

  • Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#7)

  • Social Acceleration and Musical Innovation

  • Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#3)

  • Valuing electronic music

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