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Synecdoche, Denton, TX

Monday, October 7, 2013

Never ask a man band if he’s they’re from Texas: Midlake got rid of their old singer, and the forthcoming album Antiphon grows bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger with each and every listen.

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NERVE RAG

Monday, September 23, 2013

Though I’m sure many have heard of  (and read from) it, this post goes to Merve Verlag,  mono.kultur’s neighbor during the MISS READ Berlin Art Book Fair.  The quintessential philosopher’s publication since 1970, it has introduced to the intellectually voracious such venerable minds as Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze.  In contrast to the stagnancy that usually pervades academia, [...]

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Fundamentals Shopping Mall

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Portuguese town of Óbidos has long been known for its medieval cuteness (while earlier it was regularly presented to the queen of the day to demonstrate the king’s affections, now it is continuously admired by senior citizens of northern European countries and photography classes with substantial equipment).
However, in the midst of souvenir shops and [...]

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‘SAY_____’

Friday, September 13, 2013

Since the advent of industrialization, man has belabored the destruction of human identity in the technological sinkhole, enmeshed in metal, wires, and electricity and ever growing to the beat of Moore’s law.  The insistent currency of interchangeable events, status, and messages meted out by social networking sites presently fill the absence of the harder personal [...]

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SILENCE/SOUND

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

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F Kenya Never Dies: Madame Zehae Ala’s Return

Thursday, June 20, 2013

It’s a great week in music: The Palaceer of Shabazz Palaces (and formerly: Digable Planets) took over blogging duties at Gorilla vs. Bear, Modeselektor are going to turn Berlin’s Fete De La Musique (that’s tomorrow) into a sweatfest at Mauerpark, and yet we keep returning and returning and returning to a track that first made [...]

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Killin’ It

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

I seriously have the hardest time deciding which one is the better GLK mix – and I’ve listened to both of them back to back for what feels like more than a week straight now. Sorry, neighbors!

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HOLY

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Leos Carax, the director of Les Amants du Pont Neuf, practices sorcery with his new film Holy Motors. Competed in Cannes, this astonishing film surprises the audience with beautiful scenes as well as its discrepant and strange characters. Even the most disturbing scene is humorous and absurd in the fantastic world created with Denis Lavant, [...]

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A FOOL FOR YOUR BELLY

Thursday, October 18, 2012

What is it with new acts at first remaining incognito these days? Jesus, Mike Milosh & Robin Hannibal, what about it? I’m HOOKED, so put your names on your website already!

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What’s the point in wasting time/on people that you’ll never know

Friday, October 5, 2012

She’s not quite Trish Keenan, but Melody certainly got melodies.

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