A guitar anti-hero, scalding ears with that sulphuric sound of his.Revelations is the peak, for Killing Joke and for Kevin "Geordie" Walker."We were drunk, intoxicate" Revelations is where Killing Joke arrives at itself, brutally shearing off  precursor-traces and exterior inputs.Which is not to say the journey to absolute individuality is without excitements. But they funked more when they ..read more

 Spinner of one of my favorite sound-spaces of recent times - "The Well-Tuned Marimba".  From Selected Early Keyboard Works. An interview with the composer-performer-poet-mathematician. Another interview with the composer-performer-poet-mathematician, this one at Tone Glow. Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent - possibly final - release, on Blank Forms Editions. Release rationale / bio:The ..read more

 I'm off to Italy for La Biennale di Venezia, where I will be on the panel Futurhythmachine, chatting with McKenzie Wark, Steve Goodman aka Kode9,  and Valerio Mattioli + Valerio Mannucci of Nero Editions.If you happen to be in town, it's at 11 am on Friday 27th October, at Biblioteca ASAC ..read more

So lovely to chat in-depth with Rudy Tambala for the first time in 34 years about A.R. Kane and the wonderful new A.R Kive box of their kore kreation. A condensed distillate of our 3-hour conversation appears at Pitchfork as this Q-and-A. Chatting with Rudy by Zoom, I learned a surprisingly large number of things I never knew about the group, which is perhaps odd given how many times I ..read more

Here's a cool side-project by two members of the hauntology-aligned Ghost Box groop Beautify Junkards - João Branco Kyron and Tony Watts  aka Hidden Horse. Here's what I said of the new album Incorporeal, which is out now in vinyl and digital editions on Holuzam:“A startling step sideways from Beautify Junkyards’s sweetly spooky psychedelia, this parallel project brings the New Sonic Architecture ..read more

The heartbeat of Astral Weeks - and effectively the band-leader.Another of a number of other career highlightsAnd another ..read more

Kieran Press-Reynolds on how "the recent explosion of remixing — from sped-up edits and nu-SoundClown mashups to fanmade bootlegs — is rewiring the way we create and consume music in both thrilling and unnerving ways". At No Bells blogzine ..read more

 Spied in the window of Book Nook!(Alerted by Folk Horror Revival)Also to be seen on the shelves of the Book Nook  Yes, a new tome from the prolific Stephen Prince  -  A Year in the Country: Lost Transmissions: Dystopic Visions, Alternate Realities, Paranormal Quests and Exploratory ElectronicaIt follows swiftly on the heels of last year's A Year in the Country: Cathode Ray and Celluloid ..read more

Talking of phonetic near-namesakes,  it has come to my attention that there's a lot of Simon Reynoldses out there. Simon was a very common name. for baby boys in the 1960s and '70s  in the U.K- a knock-on of the popularity of The Saint, with its dashing Simon Templar character, and then a bit later Simon Dee the "with it" TV presenter. Reynolds is a fairly common name, not quite Smith or Brown ..read more

Shawn Reynaldo is a music writer who's just published his debut book First Floor: Reflections on Electronic Dance Culture through Velocity Press, which has a growing catalogue of interesting tomes on dance music.   The title comes from Shawn's Substack / newsletter First Floor. Check out his columns like this recent one on the rise of spectacle within dance culture.  Recently Shawn and I had a ..read more