We have been testing PsyMage, a prototype hot from the workshop of our in-house skunkworks one man band Jimmy Chombo. It is quite a simple concept really- a suite of virtual reality helmets built with the detritus of an abandoned research programme which, when activated, generate an interactive visualisation of the swirling maelstrom which is [...]

Nick Noeding Jr. is busy. Besides his Shoegaze/Down-tempo/Acousmatic /Tape music solo work as Pollination , he is also currently involved in the following projects Day Of The Woman (w/ Yppah and Stenographer ), Collider (a Yppah collab), 10k Cities (a Zoomzip collab), and Slow (a Stenographer collab). And then there is also his wildlife analysis photography. Oh, and he also plays in Yppah's live band. So we were pretty excited to received a mixtape from Nick the [...]

People love to hate on mainstream pop music. It's easy to dismiss pop music as one dimensional and pop musicians as fabricated entertainers, but the interesting thing about the genre is that beneath the perfect bodies and fake smiles, are a bevy of truly talented voices, crafting the subtleties of the music behind the scenes. I recently introduced you Miike Snow , a trio sure to be making waves in 2009. A project with decidedly indie-leanings, two of the members are better known as powerhouse pop production duo Bloodshy & Avant . Today I'd like [...]

A mix by Jonas Munk of Manual 1. I Suppose.mp3 Puressence 2. Pray.mp3 Lycia 3. Burnt Flowers Fallen.mp3 Type O Negative 4. Ella Megalast Burls Forever.mp3 Cocteau Twins 5. Nothing Natural.mp3 Lush 6. Burning Bridges.mp3 Japan 7. Never Known.mp3 Durutti Column 8. Slo Peeq.mp3 Freescha 9. Shake off the Ghosts.mp3 Simple Minds 10. The Same Deep Water as You.mp3 The Cure 11. Fear Of Flying.mp3 Bowery Electric 12: Seaforth.mp3 [...]

Freescha: "Abominable Love," from the Slower Than Church Music LP (Shingle Street, 2002)

Freescha: "Church Music," from the Slower Than Church Music LP (Shingle Street, 2002)

freescha - smurf shoe (mp3) it's easy to forget at times that manchester has more than one record shop : more than two or three in fact. but all of these little record shops that we maybe take a little too much for granted are endangered; and that's not just those in manchester of course. the reality of this has been brought home to me over the last month or so with one of my favourites going the way of the dodo . so, by way [...]

image from here Frozen Still & Numb Frozen still Solid as ice Numb like a charcoal gray day Eyes feasting on the remains of nothing Things that once were, now forgotten dreams Forward is reverse, light is dark Trickles of emotion dry like the Sahara Movement ceases to exist, stillness surrounds Only the echoing, empty pain manages to survive A constant [...]

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If I tried to explain my mood over the past year in words, it would just end up being a big fucking jumbled up mess. However, if I were to explain my mood over the past year in music, it would be the music that Freescha produce. "Head Warlock Double Stare" (one of my new found favorite album titles) is a mixed, matched, mashed up soundtrack for the nightmares of my dream world (and for this