Warren Hatter
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Warren Hatter
@frenchrocksampler.bsky.social
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Brighton, East Sussex. I write about the French equivalent of Krautrock. 25 @ResonanceFM shows: bit.ly/FRSradio Concrete Science Fiction Riot forthcoming on Strange Attractor
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25 radio shows bit.ly/FRSradio
Manifesto in tQ tquiet.us/CSFR
On magma for Shindig! bit.ly/MagmaShindig
Richard Pinhas Bakers Dozen tquiet.us/RP13
Zeuhl top ten: bit.ly/ZeuhlTop10
Later, Concrete Science Fiction Riot, forthcoming on
@strangeattractor.bsky.social
oops - Rëlisp, not Rëslip
There's a band in Mexico called Rëslip making heavy Zeuhl with the intensity, but not the virtuosity, of Koenjihyakkei. Thrilling stuff noizumx.bandcamp.com/album/warth-k
Warthåk, by Rëlisp
4 track album
noizumx.bandcamp.com
Let’s do this. (I have - to Tidal a while ago)
Have you quit Spotify?

Now is the time to do so

Please take a time to watch (or bookmark for later) our latest podcast with @mynabirds.bsky.social about Spotify CEO’s investment in military tech youtu.be/svJnpYwgo9A?...

(Be grateful of any shares as I’m new to YouTube and building an audience)
Why it's time to quit Spotify
YouTube video by Drowned in Sound
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Alt text should be: “cover of Elizabeth Alker book ‘Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop’”
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I know a lot of us have feelings about Bandcamp’s changes in ownership over the last few years. But it’s still true that buying music directly from independent labels and artists on Bandcamp remains one of the best ways to support the musicians you listen to.
This reads like WeTransfer will train LLMs on all the stuff we transfer, royalty-free forever. You know, the stuff you’ve slaved over that has some value.
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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BLUE FIFTY-FOUR: BEN RICHTER

Deep listening accordion drone on tape or digital from here: bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...
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BACK IN STOCK: 'La Planète Sauvage (Expanded Original Soundtrack)' by Alain Goraguer

Iconic score to the classic sci-fi animation.

2LP blue vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve. Includes a zine.

www.normanrecords.com/records/1986...
Some cracking tapes/DLs forthcoming/out on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social, incl Summer by Beckton Alps2, "the second in a four part series of albums imagining Stone Age people reacting to the changing seasons" and this new one from Nicholas Langley cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-sq...
One Square Centimetre Of Light, by Nicholas Langley
6 track album
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com
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An album of experimental music made by Todmorden school children evokes The Necks, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a series of exotic locale. The kids are all right, says @spinal-bap.bsky.social

Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra - Places We Have Never Been

buff.ly/9gUDPkC
Artists/bands with most albums in my collection (5 or more):
A Tribe Called Quest
Can
Sea Power
Daniel Avery
Echo & The Bunnymen
Gong
Heldon
Low
MF DOOM
Magma
Mogwai
Scott Walker
Stereolab
Sunn O)))
Teeth Of The Sea
Wrekmeister Harmonies
Artists/bands with most albums in my collection:
Severed Heads
Finitribe
Peggy Lee
Klaus Wunderlich
Human League
Mogwai
Blancmange
Artists/bands with most albums in my collection:

Kate Bush
Fela Kuti
The Fall
PJ Harvey
Miles Davis
Sunn O)))
Nurse With Wound
Shit and Shine
Bowie
Funkadelic/Parliament
James Brown/The J.B.s
Omar Souleyman
Well this is marvellous. Mid-1980s Nigerian abstract SF electronica
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So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
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Wikipedia nugget du jour.
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No one seems to remember when the internet - and Twitter - wasn’t about ‘engagement’ but just… having fun. How we’ve internalised the Growth Delusion as individuals, treating ourselves as brands requiring outreach, is beyond me, and deeply cringe.
The larger reality to contend with is that microblogging — here, there, and everywhere — is now a marginal form of online engagement. Everyone serious about reaching wide audiences is doing video or podcasts. Arguing about Bluesky and Twitter — it's proud nobodies fighting proud nobodies.
... but harmonic music and ragas were his main love, I understand. This was from his first solo album, made on return from his first trip to India youtu.be/qz8U-EjGlME #ArielKalmaRIP
Ariel Kalma - Les Temps des Moissons
YouTube video by vacantmoon
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He was responsible for the harmonium on this classic trip by Heldon, with Richard Pinhas on synth youtu.be/D7w1hmEIT4M
Aurore
YouTube video by Heldon - Topic
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RIP Ariel Kalma, citizen of the world who was part of so many great French things, not least tenor sax in the gang Cyrille Verdaux got together to record this soundtrack youtu.be/Be_OKxwqh-g
Clearlight ► Ananta [HQ Audio] Delired Chameleon Family 1975
YouTube video by Suha Önder
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There's me asking a nerdy question and now I see he has left us. What a life
It's such a lovely record. Have you heard the Richard Tinti record it was originally released with? I've not. I think it's the original field recordings, well over 30 minutes each side so the grooves must be shallow. #ArielKalma