beyondbooking.com: "Despite being a minimal-techno artist, Pronsato offers a palette that’s as full of unexpected patterns and meticulously rendered textures as a Wassily Kandinsky painting." Read on
domino records: "Pram’s restless groove, an endearing and gently refusenik mix encircling early Rough Trade innovators The Raincoats, astro jazz, sci-fi soundtracks, creepy Victoriana, tropical analogue and tumbledown funk." More
Watch the latest uploaded footage from our recent 25th anniversary season including Christian Marclay's Screenplay event, plus Sonny Simmons & Tight Meat and Jooklo Duo at London's Red Rose."
BBC.co.uk: "Paul Bennun goes on a seven day digital diet. News, food, entertainment and social life are all accessed solely through the portal of his computer screen. From his desktop he uses Skype to conduct interviews to assess the social implications and cultural ramifications of a life lived online.
We hear the arguments for and against the effects of virtual interaction, from the psychological repercussions of being able to contrive multiple web personas, to the social impact of flexible working conditions facilitated by wireless gadgetry, to the different ways of thinking required for Instant Messaging.
Featuring interviews with Howard Reingold (inventor of the term 'virtual community'), sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, 'cybershrink' Sherry Turkle and science-fiction writer William Gibson." Listen here
nzzfolio.ch: "Keiner konnte den Geheimtext des Serienmörders Zodiac knacken – bis der Primarschullehrer Donald Harden kam. Heute wünscht er sich, er hätte den Code nie gesehen.
Donald Harden hatte den Fall der erschossenen Teenager nicht verfolgt, aber die Zeichenfolge weckte in dem leidenschaftlichen Kreuzworträtsellöser einen sportlichen Ehrgeiz; er wollte dem Verfasser auf die Schliche kommen
Nach einigen Stunden verliess ihn die Geduld, er legte sich schlafen. Seine Frau blieb wach. Ihre anfänglich schaudernde Bewunderung für die mysteriöse Botschaft hatte sich in eine Besessenheit gewandelt, die bald irrsinnige Züge annahm. Bettye Harden arbeitete die ganze Nacht und die darauffolgenden Tage. Ihre Tochter Leslie, die damals 15 Jahre alt war, erinnert sich, dass die Mutter drei Tage und drei Nächte lang an dem grossen Tisch sass, ohne zu schlafen oder zu essen. Sie vernachlässigte den Haushalt, hörte auf zu kochen. Jahre später wurde bei Bettye Harden eine manisch-depressiv Persönlichkeitsstörung diagnostiziert." Weiter
Contents summary: Keith Moline meets exotic avant-rockers Pram in their Birmingham dreamhouse. Plus Brian Marley's Harry Partch Primer, Michael Gira's Invisible Jukebox, Michael Bracewell on Roxy Music and more alongside all our regulars including Global Ear, Epiphanies, Savage Pencil's Trip or Squeek and more. Read on
Hear a track by Pram offered up exclusively to The Wire.
Hear a soundwalk through the installations at Riga's sound art exhibition SKAN.
See excerpts from a Kinescope of Harry Partch's Revelation In The Courthouse Park.
Listen to a selection of tracks by Lionel Marchetti.
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"On this week’s show, Mary Anne has a fantastic mix from Warp Records new boy Flying Lotus. Plus there’s a brand new and exclusive track from Darqwan, along with tracks from Warrior Queen, Prefuse 73, Pinch and Yolanda, Terror Danjah, Luke Vibert, and Nathan Fake." Download here
A podcast series from Smithsonian Folkways and CKUA Radio
folkways.si.edu: "This series of 24 one-hour programs explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records (now at the Smithsonian as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings). The music of modern day giants like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Ani Difranco is interwoven with original Folkways recordings to demonstrate the lasting legacy that Folkways Records has on popular music. Recent and archival interviews with Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Mickey Hart, Studs Terkel, and others help reveal the remarkable human stories behind this equally remarkable collection. The series was produced by CKUA Radio in Alberta, Canada and originally aired in 1999." RSS Feed
pitchforkmedia.com: "Dylan Carlson started Earth in Seattle in 1990, releasing four albums of heavy drone-metal before taking a break 1996. While he was away, bands such as Sunn0))) and Boris picked up his torch, spreading the sound so far that when Carlson reignited Earth in 2002, the audience awaiting him had grown." Read the whole interview
Edwin Pouncey writes for British music magazine Wire and occasionally contributes comic strip, “Trip or Squeek” to its back pages. In February 2005, Pouncey spilled some ink on one of his “guilty pleasures,” Black Metal and its ilk. Under the guise of Savage Pencil, Pouncey has produced some intriguing artwork for the Wire’s “Primer” feature, and has exhibited numerous times, notably the “Artfang” exhibit, a series of prints and drawings inspired by and speaking to the music of Black Metal. Here, Stylus writer Stewart Voegtlin and Pouncey discuss the aforementioned, Pouncey’s artistic influences, his love of Mad Magazine, the old masters and Abruptum. And while the man has no plans on creating a coffee table book of his work, he is currently working on a website." Read the whole interview
wnyc.org: "In 1999, an Iraqi refugee code-named Curveball told German intelligence agents that Saddam Hussein had produced mobile biological weapons factories. Even though Curveball’s information seemed dubious, it became the centerpiece in the Bush administration’s case for war. Los Angeles Times correspondent Bob Drogin argues that the White House and the CIA didn’t care if the source was credible or not, because they had already made up their minds to go to war. His book is <a href="www.amazon.com" title="Order "Curveball" from Amazon.com">Curveball.
hyperdubrecords: "After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their content becomes irrelevant and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void." Read the whole interview
wikipedia.org: "Manorexia is an experimental instrumental project of composer J. G. Thirlwell (primarily of Foetus). Manorexia was formed in 2001.
As opposed to Thirlwell's other instrumental group, Steroid Maximus, Manorexia features no collaborators and eschews musical structure for a more free-form and spontaneous approach. The results are often described as cinematic and textural. To date all albums have been released on Thirlwell's own Ectopic Ents label and have been sold only at concerts or via the Official Foetus Website." Read on
soundopinions.org: "Robert Wyatt has been making music for five decades, but he's as much of an innovator now as he was when he was a member of the pioneering English psychedelic band The Soft Machine. Tune in to hear his conversation with Jim and Greg and get a taste of his new album, Comicopera."
Product Description: "The highly anticipated complete series of one of the most acclaimed events in television history finally comes to DVD. This definitive Twin Peaks Gold Box Edition has been carefully supervised by David Lynch and will include for the first time ever on DVD the original and the European version of the pilot. This 10-disc groundbreaking series will feature all 30 newly re-mastered episodes, all-new 5.1 Surround Sound and is loaded with exclusive featurettes, new interviews, introductions and much much more!
dradio.de: "Eine TV-Serie, die die Judenverfolgung im Zweiten Weltkrieg darstellt, ist ein echter Straßenfeger im Iran. Die 30-teilige Serie wurde im Auftrag des staatlichen Fernsehens hergestellt und das, obwohl Staatspräsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad ein bekannter Holocaustleugner ist." Weiter
Ein Mercedes für Hitler
dradio.de: "Der in Frankreich lehrende Historiker Frabrice d'Almeida belegt in seinem Buch "Hakenkreuz und Kaviar" die enge Kollaboration der oberen Zehntausend mit dem Hitlerstaat. Almeida schildert, wie Teile des Geldadels Adolf Hitler zur Macht verhalfen." Weiter
Der Templer-Orden
dradio.de: "700 Jahre hat es gedauert: Heute spricht der Vatikan den Orden der Tempelritter frei vom Vorwurf der Ketzerei. Die Tempelritter waren der mächtigste Orden ihrer Zeit, sie sollen unwahrscheinlich reich gewesen sein, der französische König Philipp der Schöne ließ den Orden brutal zerschlagen." Weiter
hyperdubrecords: "After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their content becomes irrelevant and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void." 
Product Description: "The highly anticipated complete series of one of the most acclaimed events in television history finally comes to DVD. This definitive Twin Peaks Gold Box Edition has been carefully supervised by David Lynch and will include for the first time ever on DVD the original and the European version of the pilot. This 10-disc groundbreaking series will feature all 30 newly re-mastered episodes, all-new 5.1 Surround Sound and is loaded with exclusive featurettes, new interviews, introductions and much much more! 
. Diese sind gültig bis zum 30. Dezember 2007. Also schon mal an die Weihnachts- geschenke denken!