Love this!
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Just purchased, no shipping charges this time. Happy to pay extra to cover, if you want to pm me we can arrange
Glad to see turntable weights weren’t on the list! Comment section is funny- can tell a few of them have fallen for the market bs!
Oh, jeez, Squarespace is doing my head in. Although I’m sure it’s user error *eyeroll * (Mine, I mean!)
Thanks so much for the purchase. I’ll get that in the post this afternoon.
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Just started reading Haunted Weather by David Toop, anyone else read this? Really interesting ideas about sound and what constitutes music, but done in a sort of travel memoir type style which is really enjoyable and not dry (so far).
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Yes, I love this book! Reminds me I should re-read it.
Here’s a couple of excerpts that stuck out to me:
Kurosawa’s views on sound were very clear. ‘Ever since the silent film gave way to the talkie,’ he said, ‘sound has interfered with the image - and at the same time this flood of sound has become largely meaningless. That is why the director must be very careful - because a motion picture must be the most effective combination of both image and sound. Cinematic sound is never merely accompaniment, never merely what the sound machine caught while you took the scene. Real sound does not merely add to the image, it multiplies it.’
Extreme noise terror is a purifying balm, a rent in the fabric of the universe, a transgression against the forces of conservatism, corporeal denial and suppressed psychic energies. This is the received wisdom. But the truth is, playing brutally loud music is quite easy. Exhausting, perhaps, and disastrous for the ears in later life, but not in the same league of difficulty as playing really, really, really quietly. Playing on the threshold of silence can turn your body into a war zone of cramps and tremors, provoke clumsiness and mental panic, push your concentration, levels beyond all previous limits, expose every flaw of structure and execution and finally turn a docile audience into a howling mob.
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lol, it went for $115k (plus the auction fees which i read were like 26%)
https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/the-florian-schneider-collection
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Thanks for sharing @elzorro
This is good on Boccaccio
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just saw this book posted on facebook. Fucking hilarious - the ultimate gatekeepers have lost the keys and have been overrun…
the comments section is hilarious
“Is it subtitled ‘how I wish the scene to die with me’?”
“Clearly Northern Soul “ belongs” to some people …I didn’t know that . As a newcomer to the scene (1976) I apologise if I have hijacked anything …I think I may be guilty of sliding on my heels instead of my foresole and I believe I may have spun in the wrong direction once or twice…apologies for any distress his may have caused the owners and custodians .”
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Sadot! 
Pass me the irony meter, I think it’s broken. Does he not see the ridiculousness of his ‘argument’?! Black music commodified and re-purposed for a White audience…
Northern Soul is a pretty welcoming scene in my experience. Some of the best nights out I’ve ever had were in the old Belmont Social Club for Aberdeen NS club nights. Rough as fuck, on the Black and Tans all night, then a few Spicy and Coke to round it off! He sounds like a good time, probably stays busy slagging off the DJ for not playing the ‘original cover up’ 
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Didngt they protest with banners at Blackpool Mecca when Ian Levine dared to play something recent that fitted the evening
That would have been good in the House Clubs
I tried to make a n AI picture of a sign saying ‘More Hardfloor’ but this is best Google AI did ( Im sure there are better image generators)
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And a fierce compilation to go with it, I went to the Boccaccio once and it was an intense place 
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Love Trevor. He answered my question on his AMA on his Instagram the other day 
I asked him what his favourite 12" remix he’d done on ZTT was. Answer: FGTH War.
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this is a free link to a paywalled article, so i’m not sure it’ll appear in preview. if you folks can’t read this, let me know and i’ll take it down.
“The AI Kids Take San Francisco - Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image”
kind of a long read. sort of fascinating, sort of scary, but absolute confirmation that the san francisco i knew from the 80’s and 90’s isn’t coming back.
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After having taken a break from his books for a minute, I’m about halfway into Murakami’s Afterdark. Definitely darker than his other stuff that I’ve read, but I’m hooked.
Fascinating, thanks for that
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