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Rcommendr posted an update 6 hours ago

I bought Judy in Disguise by the Silicon Teens when it came out. Love them.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/silicon-teens-daniel-millers-synthpop-virtual-band/

Shortly after founding the indie label Mute, Daniel Miller produced a…

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Rcommendr posted an update 5 days ago

Always worth checking out the Backlisted summer reads. I have only read Ministry of Time which i quite like but will def buy the Anomaly and have been meaning to read the Alexander Baron for ages.

Have also been tying to publish a kind of version (aka rip off) of the Ted Hughes book

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Rcommendr posted an update a week ago

… enjoyed this piece about the rash of Oasis books coming your way this summer and the problems about writing about the Gallagher’s output (i.e the final run of shit albums).

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/oasis-biography-review/

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Rcommendr posted an update a week ago

I enjoyed this episode of Tape Notes, there is a great bit where they put the vocals for Sexy Boy through a Leslie speaker and suddenly they realise they have made something special. He drives home through Paris at night realising his life will never be the…

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Rcommendr posted an update a week ago

Loved this Charlie Brooker interview about making Black Mirror…

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Rcommendr posted an update a week ago

Love this – i think Pete Paphides is putting out an album by them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oY-rgbIno&t=325s


Rcommendr posted an update a week ago

Some would say pretty niche but i say pretty amazing. A book of hand drawn Thrash Metal band logos found on demo cassettes.

https://klassewrecks.com/collections/all-print/products/kfax9


Rcommendr posted an update 2 weeks ago

Found this disturbing not quite sure why. It would be the most fundamental shift

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/were-close-to-translating-animal-languages-what-happens-then

AI may soon be able to decode…

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Rcommendr posted an update 2 weeks ago

Rustic log stools anyone? One previous owner – David Lynch. Some of his belongings currently up for auction.

https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/1426208/david-lynch-four-rustic-log-stools

Just a moment…


Rcommendr posted an update 2 weeks ago

Carrying on Dom’s nature tip here is a short video about an incredible garden in Mexico. Is it a garden? Or just series of sculptures in the jungle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcsOeiadls


Rcommendr posted an update 2 weeks ago

The new V&A Storehouse in Hackney looks amazing, what a clever idea turning a storage facility into a museum so lots of things on display and the ability to order up items to…

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Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

On one of the problems with car, where to park them.

https://aeon.co/essays/what-a-history-of-underground-parking-reveals-about-postwar-policy

The explosion of automobiles shaped cities and lives. But an enduring…

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Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

Big fan of Stardew Valley and am super interested in Eric Barrone’e new game Haunted Chocolatier (which he has been working on for years)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olf3wAuCfeU&t=1222s



Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

Love this new Cerrone X Christine and the Queens collaboration. Disco heaven. Cerrone appears like a mental Billy Idol in the background of the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrMiVd9QlM&t=200s


Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

As Jonny Ive and Sam Altman tease an A.I. hardware device (arghhh) it is worth revisiting the great Ian Parker’s masterful profile of Ive. The understated writing style could be described as, ‘slight lifting of eyebrows throughout’.

“The audience applauded two redesigned iPhones and a new touchless

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Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

niche content alert!

Video of electronic music dude Hainbach visiting an early mechanical musical instrument museum and recording weird sound!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbAnJCkGJsM


Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

Ok where does Ingmar Koch crop up next…

Kompact, Cologne, Minimal

Here is a wonderful oral history of Kompact – the world’s most famous (?) record store. And yes, Ingmar is there at the start.

https://ra.co/features/1436

As it reaches its 20th anniversary, RA…

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Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

We have an interview coming up with the German techno producer Ingmar Koch. He is one of those people that is forever doing interesting things. He currently runs Liquid Sky Artist Collective in Portugal. It takes its name from a New York shop (that in turn takes it name from a film) that he was involved…

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Rcommendr posted an update 3 weeks ago

I have been reading Antony Penrose’s biography of his mother The Lives of Lee Miller. It is a fascinating book. I went on a tour of the Sussex farmhouse Farleys that she shared with her husband the surrealist painter Roland Penrose recently. You can see in the house that is his story that for a long time…

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