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HOPE SPRINGS AT F.U.N.K BLOG - FEB/MARCH/APRIL's BEST MUSIC THAT I CAN REMEMBER
Unlinkable but listened to alot this past week - beautiful stuff from 50ft Wave and Spain. Here's the other things that have been squirrel-ransacking my birdfeeder soul this month.COMMODO's been making...
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PRINCE ROGERS NELSON 1958-2016 RIP
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear" - C.S.Lewis, A Grief Observed Of course, what you mourn at first, is yourself. Too soon to reassure myself by recounting Prince's importance, or his...
View ArticleJUST OUT - "One Step Forward Two Steps Backward: 1976, Reggae & Critical...
Wrote about the politics of Jamaica and 3 of my favorite reggae albums from 1976 for the Quietus here - as well as the habits of forgetting so common in colonial critique. ANY excuse to hear this again...
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EASTERN SPRING CHAPTER 5: WORMS IN A FIG
Sure, keep building and burning, we’re here all night. A decade ago, another Thursday night, two days after the twin towers fall I’m walking home from band practice, blissfully sated, crossing a...
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WILDSTYLE
CHARLIE AHEARN INTERVIEW Neil Kulkarni, Uncut, July 1998"Re-released this month after 15 years, WILD STYLE is regarded as the seminal rap movie. Director Charlie Ahearn puts needle to the groove with...
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Money's Too Tight To Mention
If you've enjoyed any of my writing of late, please please please donate at my paypal which is moonbear69@live.co.ukNot a joke, genuine panic about how my family can be fed, how I'm going to keep the...
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TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT - FALLING OUT AND BACK IN LOVE WITH RAP MUSIC IN 2016
Westside Gunn's superb 'FlyGod' LPYeah, I'm 44 and I'm going to be writing about hip hop. Film it, it'll last longer. Yes it's like an embarrassing uncle dancing at a wedding. And like him, I CAN'T BE...
View ArticleNEIL KULKARNI'S SPARE HOURS VOLUME 29: DENN ALLES FLEISCH ES IST WIE GRAS
Been a while but uploaded another one of these - no mixology, no talking, just music, for use at work home and play. There's shedloads of stuff on my mixcloud page to explore, dig in. 1. SHENSHEMA by...
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EASTERN SPRING: CHAPTER 6 - TOO DUMB TOO AMNESIAC
(written in 2011, suffice to say things've got no better since, quite the reverse in fact) Hey. Wake up. You fell asleep. I’ve been for a walk, down the hill, up the hill, through the entry, past the...
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CURRENT LISTENING JUNE 2016
BISHOP NEHRU Magic 19Bishop Nehru - Magic 19cos it's great and already picking up comments about it being old fashioned from young idiotsCATS OF TRANSNISTRIA Divine <a...
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THE STONE ROSES - Beautiful Thing Single Review
The sleeves have been a dead giveaway haven't they? As have the shots of the reconvened lads. The thought that John Squire looks at the sleeves of the two comeback singles thus far and is happy is...
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WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ?
Sometimes, like a retired bricklayer peering through a wire-mesh porthole in the temporary wall around a construction site, I peer back at the world I used to work in, mainstream music journalism, just...
View ArticleNEIL KULKARNI'S SPARE HOURS VOLUME 30 - I JUST WANT SOME SKANK
1. NUMBERS ON THE BOARD by PUSHA T2. I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING by THEM3. JAWBONE & THE AIR-RIFLE by THE FALL4. RED HOT by CAPPO FT. NAPPA5. LIKE THE INNOCENT PT. 2 by THE BESNARD LAKES6....
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"Writing Is A Performance": An Interview With Me by Sean Parker
(2013, reprinted from GodIsInTheTVzine.co.uk without permission, hope it's ok Sean) In your capacity as a music critic, you are known for your intolerance of reviews you see as 'boring'. What's your...
View ArticleF.U.N.K BLOG RADIO - BEST OF 2016 SO FAR PART 1
Part 1 of several - everything I've been digging thus far in 2016 in one pocket-sized hour of sound.1. Sittin By The Radio ft. Lauren Oden by ADRIAN YOUNGE2.End Your Life by SONANCE3.The Banjo ft....
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BRITAIN - SEE THYSELF: A WORD BEFORE THURSDAY
"Enoch was right" Even a stopped clock etc. This is all good but skip to 37 minutes. Was I really so foolish to expect this kind of standard of debate in the hastily called EU Referendum? Perhaps so,...
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EASTERN SPRING: POSTSCRIPT - RADIO GOLHA
OKAY BEFORE READING ON RIGHT CLICK HERE, OPEN IT IN A NEW TAB, GO TO PROGRAMMES, RANDOMLY PICK ONE AND PLAY IT.Listening? Good, then continue. Lately, I’ve been transfixed by a transmission I have no...
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HOREHOUND "S/T" + MESSA "BELFRY" - WHY FEMALE-FRONTED DOOM IS BOSSING MY 2016
If there was one doom-metal/sludge release from last year that was really addictive for me it was Windhand's amazing 'Grief's Infernal Flower' set. If it slipped on by you, acquaint yourself. Riffs big...
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COMMODO - "HOW WHAT TIME" ALBUM REVIEW
After its nephews, the cousins d'n'b, grime, dubstep faded in the 00s inevitable that hip hop would reassert itself as BASS-music's most powerful drunkuncle-like force, coincidental with hip-hop's...
View ArticleSHITTIEST MOST REPELLENT AND DEPRESSING MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK : SOME CUNT...
Of course, goes without saying that I would dearly love everyone and everything in this video to be consumed by a ball of fire and that this is not a 'true definition of an artist' (as stated on the...
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