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Objectif:Lune

It’s all Dam-Funk‘s fault. After weeks and months procrastinating over what to do with the ever increasing Archive de Ulysses82-it was the chance to hand over some ‘cheap heat’ to the west coast’s leader of the nu-funk revolution, that finally… Continue reading

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Kind of Blue’s 50th Anniversary

John Fordham on the enduring legacy of Miles’ seminal album; As is now part of jazz folklore, the New York sessions that produced this remarkable album were completed in a handful of takes over just a few hours, with a… Continue reading

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Disco Sucks

“It was a strange night,” Trammell said. “It was crazy. What a night. Thirty years later, and we’re still laughing.” NYT on the 30th anniversary of the Night Disco Went Up in Smoke. Gotta love the 70′s-imagine trying to get… Continue reading

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The night football was reborn

Anyone with a more than a passing interest in sport, especially in football (but not specifically in Arsenal) should read Jason Cowley’s wonderful account of the final game of the 1988-89 season. It’s all happening so fast, yet there’s also… Continue reading

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Rip it Up and Start Again

In a way, a strange, new American dream can be found here, amid the crumbling, semi-majestic ruins of a half-century’s industrial decline. Urban regeneration and the rise of artistic communities in the city of $100 homes. Detroit’s artistic community making… Continue reading

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I think we’ve got one….

70s, scifi, french italian*, animated, synth heavy, video. It’s like all the keywords in my life have converged into one 3:34 long video. *thanks inie

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Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In is a beautifully evocative vampire film by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson. In lesser hands this tale of youthful alienation could have become some cliched teen love story (it still might) but here the tone is… Continue reading

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Something for the weekend

For a blog that used to be all about music, it’s been ages since we have posted any of our favorite mp3s. I guess the soul searching that followed the ‘is it promotion/is it theft ?’ mp3blog debates awhile back… Continue reading

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An illustrated example of the word Change.

from patrickmoberg

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A life well lived

If they don’t make them like that any more, it is because Paul Newman was an exemplar of that most unfashionable of things: manliness. He was masculine in an old-fashioned, untutored, un-ironic way, whether playing good guys or outlaws. And… Continue reading

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