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MP Flapp @mpflapp.bsky.social · 11h

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (Arrow, UK 2012) – highlight of todays DVD clean-up: sealed copy of the DVD/Blu-ray… who knew… I suspect I bought this in Fopp (Manchester) Pre/Post Liverpool Psych Fest back in the day… and forgot about it #MeikoKaji masterpiece ;-)
youtu.be/LkjpvFCuaZs?...

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 12h

#cassunday
The Skaters - Dripping Avenues/Wind Drapeing Incense cassette Sick Head Tapes 2006
Edition of 60 packaged in an audio book case.

Black/grey murky collage of ancient temples/buildings/ruins.

White background, black text reads:
1. DRIPPING AVENUES
(REALITIES OF STAIRS TO WHICH INVERSED FORMS ARE DRIPPING AVENUES)
BRASS TEMPLES BORN OF.... THE MOUNT ECLIPSING THE SUN, UPON THE TEMPLES
COURTYARD ARE MEN PERFORMING AN EXHUASTING RITUAL, AN EXCERCISE WERE ONE BODY AND ARMS IN PROPORTION TO HAVE THE EFFECT OF CREATING THEIR
BRAINS INTO A SHAPE, AS THE REPETITION OF THE SAME MOVEMENT CREATS A PHYSICAL MEMORY IN THE AIN WHICH CAN BE EXPRESSED IN A PHYSICAL DENT OF THE BRAINS TISSUE.THEY ARE PERFORMING THIS RITUAL CESSIVELY IN THE HOPES THAT THEIR BRAINS WILL TRANSFORM INTO THE SHAPE OF A PYRAMID AND AT THIS
INT BEGINS HEAVEN WHICH IS TO VISUALISE ROOMS IN WHICH
MERCURY ANO MEMORY PERFUME STAND IN
CCESION WITH THE FULFILLMENT OF THE COMPLETIÓN
OF THE PYRAMID.
2. WIND DRAPEING INCENSETHE MOVEMENTS OF THIS PIECE ARE EXPRESSIONS AFTER THE STAGES OR STAIRS OF A TARAHUMARININDIAN CEREMONY

RECORDED BY THE SKATERS. IN SANITS HARBOUR, THAILAND DEC 2005
SPECIAL TAPE EDITION OF 60 RELEASED BY SICK HEAD TAPES

White cassette in plastic case. Black writing reads: SICK HEAD #6

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 1d

Very much looking forward to this and the 4 day residency at Cafe Oto.

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 2d

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Jeanne Lee, A Voice That Contorted Time

The singer's groundbreaking 1975 album, "Conspiracy," is a visionary blend of jazz and poetry that redefined the possibilities of human sound.

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Edition @edition-festival.com · 2d

[Ahmed] — Oslo Soundcheck

vimeo.com/1124817406?f...

Opening music: 'Lotus Blossom' by Billy Strayhorn performed by Antonin Gerbal (Piano) and Joel Grip (Double Bass). [Ahmed] then play a spontaneous arrangement of 'Farah 'Alaiyna (Joy Upon Us)' by Ahmed Abdul Malik.

[Ahmed] — Oslo Soundcheck

[Ahmed] is: Pat Thomas, Piano Seymour Wright, Alto Saxophone Joel Grip, Double Bass Antonin Gerbal, Drums Footage shot during [Ahmed]'s soundcheck at Victoria…

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 2d

#CDFriday
Coil - ANS CD in black clamshell case. Eskaton 2003.
(the original version picked up from merch table at Autechre’s 2003 ATP festival in Camber Sands)
&
Coil- ANS 3 CD/1 DVD box set Threshold House 2004 #Coil

Black clamshell case next to a box set with a picture of the ANS synthesiser on it. Red circular sticker in white capitalised text reads:
WARNING! CONTENTS MAY MAKE YOU SPAZZ OUT

4 close up colour photographs of the ANS synthesiser arranged in a square.

4 colour photographs of glass plate etchings used in the making of the music for the CD set arranged in a square

Side one of the text that came with the box set, the back of the box set (another colour photograph of the ANS synthesiser) and the open clamshell case showing the original CD with the words COIL ANS in black text on a white square printed on the CD.
The text reads:
The ANS was first conceived in the 1930's by Soviet Army colonel Evgeny Murzin, It is a large mechanical device • The first fully functioning version, other than an original wooden prototype, was completed in the 1950's. Each component was engineered by hand.
It's purpose is to convert graphic designs made by the composer, directly into sound. Murzin was a big fan of the music of Russian composer Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin, so he named his new invention after him.
At the heart of the machine is a glass plate is coated in a sticky black mastic-like substance, into which the composer scribes marks or lines of various thicknesses and shapes. Having made the design on the plate using a stylus, the composer then slides the glass plate through the 'pick-up' section of the machine. As he does so, light passes through the marks he made and is picked up by an array of light sensitive cells or diodes. These signals are fed to a loud speaker where they become sound for the first time.
In order that the light represent distinct frequency rather than just white noise or AC hum, the light passing through the plate is not supplied from a single constant source, but 800 individual sections.
The brightness of each of these 800 light sources is modulated into a sine wave by its own rotating optical disc contained within the machine. These discs are printed photographically so that, as they spin, they create pulsing current, in a range of frequencies from approximately 10hz for a light at the bottom of the array, to 25khz for the light at the top.
As varying amounts of each frequency of pulsing light are detected at the 'pick-up' section of the machine (based on the thickness and position of the marks scribed on the …

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 3d

Ibrahim El-Salahi - Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams, 1961-65, enamel and oil on cotton

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 5d

Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Chapter Two: Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83 :: Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker 📙

October 23 :: Soul Jazz Records

www.dustygroove.com/item/220408/...

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 5d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 5d

I’m a sucker for a bit of Lana Del Rey…

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Richard! 😃

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 5d

I have never read any Thomas Pynchon so I am starting at the beginning. I’ve already had to look up 2 words in the title of the first chapter! 😂 #booksky

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 5d

I love the cover of ‘Avalanche’…

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 7d

#cassunday
Heather Leigh - Jailhouse Rock
Fag tapes 2006
Numbered edition 38/90

Yellow/pink textile pattern stripes on black as background with a “too difficult to describe’ collage in the centre. Heather Leigh in black typeface on a green paper scrap near the middle

Dull mint blue cassette, back of orange/black j-card, fag tapes written on a yellow paper scrap, jailhouse rock in black typeface on green. 38/90

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 8d

JPS Black on the table?

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 8d

😂 quality pic!

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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 9d

This is 43yrs old!

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 9d

Missed last nights show but I’m there tonight and tomorrow….

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 9d

#CDFriday
Coil - Porto CD (Red edition)
Numbered edition of 100
No label 2006 Portugal #Coil
An authorised bootleg recording of Coil’s live performance on June 21st 2003 in Porto, Portugal.

Clear plastic wallet with CD and CD shaped clear plastic disc with a small black and white sticker on the top right corner.
“Printed acetates displaying biological micrographs in colour”

Printed acetates displaying biological micrographs in colour and printed semi-transparent paper insert with coloured design

The full package laid out:
Semi -transparent paper insert (that reads Coil Porto, it is numbered 78) and clear CD shaped disc with track listing in red text. (Track listing reads:
Blue Rats. Triple Sun. Radio Westin. Drip Drop. The First Five Minutes After Death)
Printed acetates displaying biological micrographs in colour.
The CD itself.

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 10d

For the 75th anniversary of Peanuts here’s a link to an essay I wrote about Charles Schulz’s deep love of Krazy Kat

www.michaeltisserand.com/ottimliffs

Ignatz throwing a brick at Charlie Brown, drawn by Charles Schulz

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 14d

Couldn't give a hoot about golf for the most part, but that was deeply satisfying.

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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 16d

#CDFriday
Massive* (Massive Attack) - Unfinished Sympathy CD single Wild Bunch Records 1991

Front cover of CD.
A scarred, lined and weathered black hand, palm facing forward, bandaged fingers raised on a greyish, greenish, blueish background.
Red text reads:
massive
unfinished
sympathy

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 18d

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Matt Anniss @sellbydave.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in recent months thinking about Keith McIvor AKA JD Twitch, who passed sway on Friday. There is much more to come, but here’s a first, raw tribute. Rest in power Keith - we’ll miss you x

www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/20...

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 19d

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