De Toekomst Hervonden

None of this meant that music got worse . There were still great songs being written and great performances given. Recording became ch...

Lynn Barber in gesprek met J.G. Ballard voor Penthouse (1970) uit Extreme Metaphors , de zeer uitgebreide interviewbundel van Ballard (o...

Is this a problem? Well, kind of. Except that it's not about age, exactly, or some, simplistic “the old should retire with dignity and...

Uit het uitstekende interview met Boards of Canada in De:Bug : Simon Reynolds strongly relies on you as the forefathers or originators o...

Interessant om weer terug te lezen. Simon Reynolds in 1995 over het gevaar van muzikale overproductie. Gewoon een "voorspelling" ...

Ik opende net voor het eerst de essaybundel Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses die ik al jaren vooral zocht vanwege Ian Penmans stuk o...

Can you imagine what The Futurists would have done with an Information Superhighway?  Mark Amerika, Avant-Pop Manifesto (1992)

Of course, we could all just listen to all of our old albums, CD’s and mp3’s. In fact, nowadays that’s where the industry makes most of i...

But instead the duo signed with Columbia, the most major of major labels, which Thomas Bangalter praised in the interview as “the first rec...

No I can’t agree with technology or computers or software programs sucking life out of music. On the other hand, the computer – or I guess s...

But it is dub, and what's at work is the old dub trick of suggesting what's not there, what's been dispensed with. I imagine tha...