Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL)
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REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronics, eschatological ambience & brown acid techno on adapted bits of farm machinery & petrol cans
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“The road from the West Country to London is the A303. You think that’s an accident?” #acid #psychedelicduelling #wyrdwildwest
FKA Twigs’s Water Me just came on in the car & I’d forgotten what a beautiful, sad, alien-sounding song it was. The Arca production is devastatingly weird but very simple. I remember writing about it when it was released & thinking they were going to change everything. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtM...
FKA twigs - Water Me
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November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
FKA Twigs’s Water Me just came on in the car & I’d forgotten what a beautiful, sad, alien-sounding song it was. The Arca production is devastatingly weird but very simple. I remember writing about it when it was released & thinking they were going to change everything. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtM...
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A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
“These days, if you show indifference or outright hostility to established codes of conduct you can be thrown in jail, these days.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
“These days, if you show indifference or outright hostility to established codes of conduct you can be thrown in jail, these days.”
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Sleazy’s great passion project Desertshore perhaps never fully saw the light of day in the way he’d intended (cf. Balance and The Ape of Naples) but I still return to it often - would have loved to see what him and Balance et al would have made of it m.youtube.com/watch?v=wgQJ...
Throbbing Gristle - Desertshore
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November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Sleazy’s great passion project Desertshore perhaps never fully saw the light of day in the way he’d intended (cf. Balance and The Ape of Naples) but I still return to it often - would have loved to see what him and Balance et al would have made of it m.youtube.com/watch?v=wgQJ...
Half way through this & really enjoying it. It’s not exactly a page turner in the conventional sense but the chapters are short so you find yourself, er, turning the pages… it’s my before bed book so I only manage about 40 pages a night but there’s a lot to think about in every page
And continuing the climate-change near-future sci-fi / horror… onto this one now, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry For The Future
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Half way through this & really enjoying it. It’s not exactly a page turner in the conventional sense but the chapters are short so you find yourself, er, turning the pages… it’s my before bed book so I only manage about 40 pages a night but there’s a lot to think about in every page
I realise that my teenage self probably didn’t altogether understand or comprehend the complexities of what Dennis Potter was attempting to do with objectification and the male gaze and probably Sartre’s ‘The Look’ but I think I got SOMETHING out of watching Blackeyes in 1989…
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I realise that my teenage self probably didn’t altogether understand or comprehend the complexities of what Dennis Potter was attempting to do with objectification and the male gaze and probably Sartre’s ‘The Look’ but I think I got SOMETHING out of watching Blackeyes in 1989…
Watching this again for a thing & it’s better (and more blue) than ever. Unbelievable work from everyone involved. I guess I saw it first circa 1990 but it must have been utterly perplexing in 1981
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Watching this again for a thing & it’s better (and more blue) than ever. Unbelievable work from everyone involved. I guess I saw it first circa 1990 but it must have been utterly perplexing in 1981
Can still really remember how electrifyingly excited very little me was when I realised there was going to be a TV show based on The Book Tower where Doctor Who would review kids books… #DoctorWho #books
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Can still really remember how electrifyingly excited very little me was when I realised there was going to be a TV show based on The Book Tower where Doctor Who would review kids books… #DoctorWho #books
One of my favourite books
⚙️NEW NINETY-NINE NOVELS EPISODE⚙️
A dystopian vision of the future, a young boy in a violent world, a made-up language. No, not A Clockwork Orange, but RIDDLEY WALKER by RUSSELL HOBAN.
At all the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...
A dystopian vision of the future, a young boy in a violent world, a made-up language. No, not A Clockwork Orange, but RIDDLEY WALKER by RUSSELL HOBAN.
At all the usual places and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
One of my favourite books
Top 5 film genres:
- they may be paranoid but everyone is also out to get them
- everyone lies until it’s too late; and then everyone’s sad
- physics travel time but actual
- guy / girl has all the one liners but only eventually gets the girl / guy
- (probably nothing happens)
- they may be paranoid but everyone is also out to get them
- everyone lies until it’s too late; and then everyone’s sad
- physics travel time but actual
- guy / girl has all the one liners but only eventually gets the girl / guy
- (probably nothing happens)
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
Top 5 movie genres:
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Top 5 film genres:
- they may be paranoid but everyone is also out to get them
- everyone lies until it’s too late; and then everyone’s sad
- physics travel time but actual
- guy / girl has all the one liners but only eventually gets the girl / guy
- (probably nothing happens)
- they may be paranoid but everyone is also out to get them
- everyone lies until it’s too late; and then everyone’s sad
- physics travel time but actual
- guy / girl has all the one liners but only eventually gets the girl / guy
- (probably nothing happens)
And continuing the climate-change near-future sci-fi / horror… onto this one now, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry For The Future
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And continuing the climate-change near-future sci-fi / horror… onto this one now, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry For The Future
REEL play the Hits of Hauntology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Nc...
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
REEL play the Hits of Hauntology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Nc...
James Bond is a fictional character, no reason at all you can’t just re-set in a Mad Men universe or Victorian Scotland or Elizabethan London, you muppets. Or have the ACTUAL Muppets do him.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
James Bond is a fictional character, no reason at all you can’t just re-set in a Mad Men universe or Victorian Scotland or Elizabethan London, you muppets. Or have the ACTUAL Muppets do him.
Right, that’s it; if shops are telling me Christmas is here, I’m starting to play my Scott Walker records. Long story but, I should add, a Scott Walker record is not JUST for Christmas.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Right, that’s it; if shops are telling me Christmas is here, I’m starting to play my Scott Walker records. Long story but, I should add, a Scott Walker record is not JUST for Christmas.
Can we go back to the old meaning of iconic?
Lily Allen & Scissor Sisters to headline Mighty Hoopla 2026: Other acts confirmed to play next year’s edition of the vibrant South London event include Jessie J, Little Mix’s Perrie, and iconic boyband Five.
Lily Allen & Scissor Sisters to headline Mighty Hoopla 2026
Other acts confirmed to play next year’s edition of the vibrant South London event include Jessie J, Little Mix’s Perrie, and iconic boyband Five.
diymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Can we go back to the old meaning of iconic?
Could never quite face Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012) but watched it last night &, my God, post Trump it hits even harder
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Could never quite face Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012) but watched it last night &, my God, post Trump it hits even harder
Just saying
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just saying
Wow, logged onto DISSENSUS again for the first time in what must be 15 years and had a lovely time in there. Good to see so many of the old bloggers again, in post form at least.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wow, logged onto DISSENSUS again for the first time in what must be 15 years and had a lovely time in there. Good to see so many of the old bloggers again, in post form at least.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
I’ve started (again) taking little slim paperbacks (poetry is good) that fit in my jeans pocket to read while waiting for friends because they are always late & there’s something just awful about waiting in pubs looking at my phone - but now…
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’ve started (again) taking little slim paperbacks (poetry is good) that fit in my jeans pocket to read while waiting for friends because they are always late & there’s something just awful about waiting in pubs looking at my phone - but now…
Watched Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent this morning at 5am (long, dull story). Crikey. Thought I’d already watched it - had the box set for years - but, unless my traumatised mind has repressed it, it turns out I haven’t. By all accounts Haneke is actually a bit of a laugh.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Watched Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent this morning at 5am (long, dull story). Crikey. Thought I’d already watched it - had the box set for years - but, unless my traumatised mind has repressed it, it turns out I haven’t. By all accounts Haneke is actually a bit of a laugh.
Double Bill: “We'll cause some trouble, we'll make you laugh, we're Thing One and Thing Two on our behalf!"
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Double Bill: “We'll cause some trouble, we'll make you laugh, we're Thing One and Thing Two on our behalf!"
I was in a slightly ‘tired & emotional’ 3am state in my tent at a small music festival in Wiltshire last year, listening to this & convincing myself it was the ACTUAL… origin of #DrumNBass m.youtube.com/watch?v=puK4...
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Fireworks
YouTube video by SiouxsieBansheesVEVO
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November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I was in a slightly ‘tired & emotional’ 3am state in my tent at a small music festival in Wiltshire last year, listening to this & convincing myself it was the ACTUAL… origin of #DrumNBass m.youtube.com/watch?v=puK4...
You’d think whoever came up with ‘What if Street Art but Meme?’ idea might have trashed it at conception but we live in a 6/7 world so 🤷 I’ve seen the ‘I farted in yoga’ things in a few places now.
Pretty bad at photos yesterday and didn't get one of the graffiti that said 'Funk Zomby' but I got this
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
You’d think whoever came up with ‘What if Street Art but Meme?’ idea might have trashed it at conception but we live in a 6/7 world so 🤷 I’ve seen the ‘I farted in yoga’ things in a few places now.