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ReynoldsRetro: January 2015
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Torrents versus the Void. Friday, January 30, 2015. Interview with Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream (RIP). Who I interviewed eight years ago for this piece on the analogue synth epic genre. THE FINAL FRONTIER: The Analogue Synth Gods of the 1970s. Rock of their German contemporaries Can, Faust and Neu! Until now, that is. In the last few years bands have emerged who have unabashedly cited Tangerine Dream as an influence. France’s M83 take their name from the spiral galaxy Messier 83 and make...An album wh...
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ReynoldsRetro: July 2015
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Torrents versus the Void. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Gender, rebellion and rock 'n' roll. An interview looking back at The Sex Revolts, done a few years ago with Christina Mohr. You wrote „ The Sex Revolts. 8220; together with your wife, journalist Joy Press – what was it like to write „as one“? Given that the book is 17 years old this seems like a very cool gender-bending project! And why didn´t you do it again? Having to kill her afterwards.” We failed the cool test. We wanted to get it out quickly too be...
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ReynoldsRetro: October 2014
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Torrents versus the Void. Monday, October 13, 2014. LFO, Melody Maker. Director's cut, Observer Music Monthly. There’s been a spate of retro-rave flavoured releases from the aging Anglo vanguard- a reinvocation (conscious or unconscious, it’s hard to say) of the era when this music was simultaneously the cutting edge. In the pop charts. The first really great techno album released anywhere (unless you count ancestors Kraftwerk, alongside whose godlike genius LFO’s best work ranks, if you ask me). There'l...
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ReynoldsRetro: September 2014
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Torrents versus the Void. Monday, September 29, 2014. Add N To (X). Add N to (X). Add Insult to Injury. Links to this post. Wednesday, September 24, 2014. From plateaux to platus: a tale of decline. Themes- Volume 1: March 79-April 82. Themes- Volume 2: August 82-April 85. It's a trick of history. Just as it's difficult to listen to U2's genuine peaks without looking for the seeds of the fatuous flatulence of. The first two volumes of. The glistening "Promised You A Miracle" was Simple Minds' breakthroug...
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ReynoldsRetro: April 2015
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Torrents versus the Void. Sunday, April 26, 2015. DANCE MUSIC OVERLOAD: Sonicnet column #1. This record store is just about the only one left in New York that still tries to stock every kind of. Meanwhile, the last time I went to that store, the over-stuffed-racks were almost falling of the walls. I'm waiting to read about the first record retail catastrophe: Aspiring Disc Jockey Crushed By Vinyl. Inspired by this oral history. Links to this post. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The Observer Music Monthly.
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ReynoldsRetro: March 2015
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Torrents versus the Void. Monday, March 30, 2015. Give Peace A Dance - hardcore techno rave comp 1992. Psychotic Reactions: Give Peace A Dance Volume 3. But I reckon there’s potential in hardcore to become more than just a safety valve for wage slaves to let off steam with. Hardcore fans talk appreciatively of “mad sounds”. But “mad” also means angry, as in “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore”. Techno literally. In the same way that a storm or the sea or The Young Gods rages. 8217;s “...
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Torrents versus the Void. Sunday, February 1, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Rip It Up Footnotes. Rip It Up and Start Again: News. Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews. Archive of my old website Blissout at Wayback Machine. Simonreynolds at mindspring dot com twitter: SimonRetromania. View my complete profile. FANZINE BONUS MATERIAL Q and AS with: JOHN EDEN (W. FANZINES Melody Maker, January 24th 1987 by Simon. FANZINES: The Lost Moment Monitor, issue 1, 1984.
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ReynoldsRetro: May 2015
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Torrents versus the Void. Friday, May 29, 2015. And paranoid vibes from Seventies auteur movies like Pakula's Klute and Coppolla's The Conversation, and voila, you've got the future. This sort of talk- precursors, legacies, inheritors, ahead-of-their-time, etc- is pretty academic, though: the real question is, why listen now? De-civilising ferocity of Seven Songs. Links to this post. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. THE CULT OF DILLA. June 16th 2009, The Guardian. I don't know why, really, since I only had a vague...
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ReynoldsRetro: June 2014
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Torrents versus the Void. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Blank Regeneration: Luke Haines, New York in the '70s. New York in the ‘70s. Director's cut , The Wire. Pushed by music magazines and rock documentary makers, “the place to be” is a perennially alluring notion. The conviction that a single city – London, San Francisco, Manchester, Seattle, Berlin—is currently pop culture’s energy center, a vortex fermenting. On New York in the ‘70s. Is actually his tenth solo album. It also closes out a diverting if ...
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ReynoldsRetro: June 2015
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Torrents versus the Void. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Dinosaur Jr - interviews 1987 1991, and Bug review. Yes this piece was done before they had to add the Jr at the end cos of threats from West Coast acid-rock veterans band of same name! They're not much to look at, Dinosaur. It's hard to connect this shaggy, sheepish trio with the tempest they unleash, live and on vinyl. They are unimpressive,. You're Living All Over Me. It's as though the noise is somehow independent of them, that it's. Neither phallus ...