I should use this a lot more than I currently do. It is so much fun. I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing, except of course where I get something I like and continue to make sounds with it.
More Olegtron 4060 fun
Category: Music
Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.
Listening to Blemish again
This is a difficult album. Not an easy listen at all. I remember when it first came out, it left a lot of people cold, and I think that back then I wasn’t sure what to make of it either.
Now I find that I actually quite like it. Even the contributions from Derek Bailey, which were very difficult listening. I like the album now. But it does require a more concentrated form of listening. Something more focused. It isn’t the kind of listening that I can do casually.
But I think it’s an album that’s worth listening to every now and then.
So I went to the Abbey Road Red launch, and it was pretty nice actually
So, last night I was at the launch of Abbey Road Red, a new music tech incubator at the iconic studios. It was a lovely event with some really nice tech companies showing off what they had to offer. Matthew Herbert performed and it was all pretty awesome overall.
To be honest I’m glad to be invited to these kinds of things. It’s nice to be a part of it.
Listening to David Sylvian’s albums again
After getting Hypergraphia yesterday and starting to read it I thought I’d start to listen to some of Mr Sylvian’s albums again. I haven’t listened to some of them for a long time and a few of them only a handful of times.
So today I started to listen to:
- Blemish
- The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter
- Manafon
These are, at times, difficult albums. Having said that, “The Good Son vs The Only Daughter” is one of my favourites.
So I’ll post some thoughts in a few days when I’ve had a chance to listen to these properly. I’m looking forward to this revisit.
Actually really enjoying the latest New Order album
On first listen I wasn’t sure about this album. I listened to it again the other day and was actually quite impressed with it. As a long time fan of New Order I was very hopeful that this album would deliver, and whilst it’s taken me a little while to get into it I think it’s done just that.
I’ve been listening to it on Spotify so far, but maybe I should buy it.
Cassette Store Day 2015: The Metal
The metal was the best you could get, and you paid a high price for it back in the days when tapes were at their height. And it was heavy. The casing was metal and it looked awesome. I’ve still got a couple of these somewhere, and they’re brilliant.
Cassette Store Day 2015: Favourite Cassettes – Chemical tapes: Rainbow Valley / Wind in Willows
Cassette Store Day 2015: Favourite Cassettes – Heartbeat
Another single I really like and decided to keep in cassette form. In fact, with this I’m not sure I’ve got it in any other format at all.
Cassette Store Day 2015: Favourite Cassettes – Unknown Public 1
Unknown Public is now long gone, but I was an early subscriber, and this is the first ever issue. I actually ordered it on CD I think but got the first one on cassette then had it changed. So this is the only cassette version I’ve got.
The whole package was beautifully made and it is a lovely object in its own right.
Cassette Store Day 2015: Favourite Cassettes – Jean the Birdman
It was a bit of a surprise collaboration in my opinion, but a good one, and this is one of the songs I liked the most from the album.
Cassette singles are such an anachronism but I love them, so I had to keep this one.
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