THE F.U.N.K SINGLES PAGE JUNE 2013
SINGLE OF THE MONTH 1INSIDE INFO & MEFJUSMYTHOS(VIRUS)Oh man, there's a sound threaded through this that's just EVIL. It's like something from a Japanese horror movie, this low-down croak that...
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20 THOUGHTS ABOUT LOVE AND ERYKAH BADU
(original review from The Quietus, April 23rd, 2010) 1. I’ve put our uniforms in the wash. We’ve got a few hours to get ready. Aww love. I hope you get banished from pop soon. You're in a bad way....
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CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES ISSUE 3 'METAL: A COLUMN'
[Editors note - June 2013 A warning - this, to my eyes now, is bad writing. At times terrible writing. Not just the obvious fact that too many sentences start with the word 'And'. The thrust of it, the...
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Finding Autotune's Pleasure Centre: A Dancehall Column 2010
March 2010 from The Quietus (original edited piece here.)New decade. New afflictions. Porn fatigue. It sets in eventually don't it? Not just in the wrist or eyes or nethers but crucially in the head....
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F.U.N.K SINGLES PAGE DECEMBER 2013
ACTION BRONSON FT. PRODIGY & RAEKWONSEVEN SERIES TRIPLETS(Atlantic)As the pop biz winds down for a Festivus For The Rest Of Us, a sneaky chance to dig out things forgot in the past month. Nice...
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AN A-Z OF MY FAVOURITE POP FROM 2013 - An end of year almanac from the...
A message from the editor: "Well, it's certainly been a year hasn't it, a year in which things have occured and sometimes other things have also occured. A year in which musicians have made music, and...
View ArticleHAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITPOP BRITPOP IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY PART 1
KULA SHAKER'K' (Parlophone Records) Melody Maker, 14th September 1996 I've just been informed by that porridge-faced wanker, Simon Mayo, that Kula Shaker are "the next Oasis". Of course, the obvious...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRITPOP BRITPOP IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY PART 2
SLEEPER DIGBETH INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM Melody Maker 21st October 1995 INDIE is in Birmingham. Indie goes down a rapturous storm. Indie makes everyone happy tonight. Indie is lovely. Indie is the...
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THE F.U.N.K SINGLES PAGE JANUARY 2014
ARMIN VAN BUUREN SAVE MY NIGHT (Armada)MARTIN SOLVEIG & LAIDBACK LUKE BLOW(Spinnin) Wooh! Electronic Dance Music! Bold futurist electronic soundtrack to hedonistic transgression and polymorphous...
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HELLO METAL MY OLD FRIEND
Plumbing The Depths For Spring - Three Bolts From The Black T'other night, perhaps in a paroxysm of the usual loathing looking at the NME, I compiled on FB & Twitter a long list of videos that for...
View ArticleFIVE HOURS MY BRAIN HURTS A LOT
Neil Kulkarni's Spare Hours Volume 1: Let's Start What We Have Come Into The Room To Do by Neil Kulkarni on MixcloudNeil Kulkarni's Spare Hours Volume II: Don't Know Why I Have To Work by Neil Kulkarni...
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MY POMPOMS ARE TOO DROOPY: some thoughts on Alex Turner, the music press, and...
Nice one AlexIs this the place to be? What am I doing here? Hey, I'm not glad, no triumph here, it's always sad to lose an enemy. You are way more defined by what you don't like than what you do....
View ArticleREADER'S DIGEST: SPRING EDITION
Just in case you missed them.I had a look back over the recent brace of T.Rex reissues here.I wrote this review of Ian Crause's startling, stunning 'The Vertical Axis' album.I also wrote this review of...
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F.U.N.K SINGULAR PAGE, MARCH 2014
LILY ALLENAIR BALLOON(Regal/Parlophone)Why just one single this month? Too busy, too knackered, too much to hear, too little time. 'Air Balloon''s a handily emblematic release for my purposes....
View ArticleF.U.N.K RADIO VOLUME 1 - SPRING 2014
Decided to start compiling the stuff I write about into a little mix every season. Here's the first instalment. There'll be another along anon. Also on my Mixcloud page are my 'Spare Hours' mixes which...
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OH MY CUNTING CHRIST HOW DID I MISS THIS? BÖLZER "AURA EP" AND OTHER CHEERY...
<a href="http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/b-lzer-aura">Bölzer - Aura by Iron Bonehead Productions</a>BölzerAura EP(Iron Bonehead Productions) In a...
View ArticleF.U.N.K RADIO SPRING 2014 PART II : FOR THE NON-DANCERS
Stuff that I couldn't squeeze on to the first F.U.N.K mix for Spring, alot less hip-hop, more drone, metal and electronics incl. a HALF HOUR from the astonishing Nemorensis. Yeah, going for the big...
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A HEADS UP ABOUT SPARK MASTER TAPE
OK, here's what we know - next to fuck-all. 2 years ago, New Years Eve 2012, a mixtape dropped called 'Syrup Splash'. It was fucking great. The sleeve and the mystery behind its creators led alot...
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A WILD FEELING: SAXON SOUND SYSTEM TAPES
Smiley Culture & Asher Senator from Saxon Sound, in the NME: " . . . we started making what we call ‘style’ by writing rhyming lyrics that went on and on without finishing… continuous style. The...
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EASTERN SPRING THE MIX
EASTERN SPRING: THE MIX by Neil Kulkarni on Mixcloud(all txt from 'Eastern Spring' by Neil Kulkarni, published 2012 by Zero Books)1.Lata Mangeshkar - Ghanu Waje Ghun Ghuna(from the album ‘Amratachu...
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