NagNagNag

"NagNagNag (Original Mix / RHK #4 mix / Tiga & Zyntherius Full Version / Akufen's Karaoke Slam Mix)" double white label 12" promo, UK/Europe 2002.

1991

"It's all about the start. Pieces like this from 1991 was the most easy jobs to do in electronic music production, difficult to listen it full without not enter in exhausting boring. Todays is still boring, but it's all about a start, when nobody knew Warp and it was only an small store in Sheffield. Surely just 100 record copies pressed from this track and just 25 sold, also, the acronym WARP referending to: Weird And Radical Projects, invites to think that it was called like this to give a chance to be selled or listened. It's all about a start."

KLF

The KLF

(also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band who originated in Liverpool and London in the late 1980s. Scottish musician Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and English musician Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as the JAMs. As the Timelords, they recorded the British number-one single "Doctorin' the Tardis", and documented the process of making a hit record in a book The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way). As the KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered stadium house (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and, with their 1990 LP Chill Out, the ambient house genre. The KLF released a series of international hits on their own KLF Communications record label and became the biggest selling singles act in the world in 1991.

From the outset, the KLF adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy, making anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of cryptic advertisements in New Musical Express (NME) and the mainstream press, as well as unusual performances on Top of the Pops. In collaboration with Extreme Noise Terror at the BRIT Awards in February 1992, they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance pre-announced the KLF's departure from the music business and, in May of that year, they deleted their entire back-catalogue. Drummond and Cauty established the K Foundation and sought to subvert the art world, staging an alternative art award for the Worst Artist of the Year, and burning one million pounds sterling (approximately £2.35m as of 2022).

The duo have released a small number of new tracks since 1992, as the K Foundation, the One World Orchestra, and in 1997, as 2K. Drummond and Cauty reappeared in 2017 as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, releasing the novel 2023, and rebooting an earlier campaign to build a "People's Pyramid". In January 2021, the band began uploading their previously deleted catalogue onto streaming services, in compilations.

Oneiron

Ohrwert 

Has been the moniker for dub excursions since 2006 and the focal point of musical output for many years. Have been doing hardware live shows since 2008 but minimized the setup over the years. Still incorporate hardware in shows, but not as much due to logistics and vulnerability of vintage equipment. “Ohrwert” has been registered as a business since 2013 at the Chamber of Commerce in Arnhem, the Netherlands under number 57557209 with EU-VAT ID NL001863977B42, and is also trading as “Arjen Schat” and “Trésor D’argent”.

Have been releasing live ambient and sequential music as Arjen Schat since 2006 as well. Though most of the releases are influenced by the Berlin-school of electronic music, some albums include meditative drones and deep electronic soundscapes. Demonstrate a lot of the techniques uses on my YouTube channel, besides uploading studio performances and video clips.

Kluster - Klopfzeichen

Klopfzeichen 

Is the debut full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster.

Klopfzeichen was recorded on 21 December 1969 at Rhenus-Studio, Gordorf, Germany. Liner notes on the CD reissue on the Hypnotic label as well as some websites place the recording date precisely one year later in 1970. This is incorrect as it would place the recording after the initial release date. In addition Kluster founder Conrad Schnitzler stated in interviews that the recordings took place during the same period as the first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation, which occurred in late 1969.

Klopfzeichen was released in November 1970 on the Schwann label. With a plastic embossed cover, including two multi fold-out inserts. Only 300 copies of the original LP were pressed and sold.

The album was first reissued by Schwann in 1980 – with new cover art and a sticker touting Cluster and Conrad Schnitzler's previous membership in Tangerine Dream – and then on the U.S.-based Hypnotic label in 1996. This CD reissue also contains a nearly 16-minute-long bonus track from the 1980 Cluster & Farnbauer release Live In Vienna.

The album was again reissued on the Japanese Captain Trip label on April 20, 2007 as a 450 copy limited CD edition with an adaption of the original cover art-work and a bonus track by Eruption, "Black Spring", from their 1971 sessions.

In 2012 Bureau-B released another reissue on CD as well as on 180gr vinyl. The original cover art-work was adapted, new liner-notes provided by Asmus Tietchens.

Tadao Kikumoto

Tadao Kikumoto, was the chief engineer of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

Sato Yoshiaki

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"As we could speak about similar to The White Stripes band, this genius from Belgium knows how to punch with the aesthetic electronic rock the minds and hearts. Sometimes it is an honorific composition to the Primal Scream most electronic rock albums. Covering from now the 70s rock in modern times, more is going to come in this form Machine 26, this is the supreme entertainment for those lovers of the freak vibes from rock music in 2024.

We would love to categorize this guy as the best unique version of a solo rocker, sometimes getting into collaborations an exceptional and special talent. This way to mix the electronic aspect from 90s to nowadays rock music is an exceptional idea turned reality as difficult could be materialize only with special endowments this mix, no matter how many times you gotta listen to this

without getting an alarm into your head the terrific sound hits inside you. Marvelous talent from Belgium."

Franco Grignani

IWS International Wool Secretariat.

1964

Presentation of the Italian graphic designer Franco Grignani (1908-1999) This is a text in which he himself presents his work and his vision of the profession (initially published in the collection "Graphic Designers in Europe" in 1973).

Harold Budd

Harold Montgomory Budd 

(May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020) was an American music composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimal music and avant-garde scene of Southern California in the late 1960s, and later became better known for his work with figures such as Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie. Budd developed what he called a "soft pedal" technique for playing piano, with use of slow playing and prominent sustain.

Budd was born in Los Angeles, California, and spent his childhood in Victorville, California on the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert.

Harold was only 13 when his father died, and soon his family fell out of their comfortable middle class existence. He was sent up to the desert to live with friends and relatives as often as possible, but the reality in Los Angeles was growing up in a tough neighborhood, and as the oldest son, being the man of the house. During this time Black culture had an enormous impact on Harold, especially jazz music and bebop, and he could be found in his teenage years playing drums in bars and jazz clubs in South Central Los Angeles.

Drafted into the army, he joined the regimental band where he played drums at Presidio of Monterey (POM). Jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler was drafted at the same time and was also a member of the band. Budd joined him in gigs around the Monterey area. Budd's experience of the army made him determined to get an education.

Swans (Michael Gira & Jarboe)

Martin Phillipps has died unexpectedly

Martin Phillipps, the founder and frontman of seminal Dunedin band The Chills, has died unexpectedly. He was 61. Phillipps’ death was announced this evening on The Chills’ social media pages. “It is with broken hearts the family and friends of Martin Phillipps wish to advised Martin has died unexpectedly,” The Chills’ post read. “The family ask for privacy at this time. Funeral arrangements will be advised in due course.” The guitarist and lead singer was the driving creative force behind The Chills and has been part of the band since its inception in the 1980. The Otago Daily Times reported Phillipps was recently admitted to Dunedin Hospital with liver problems. The band signed with Flying Nun Records and were one of the earliest proponents of the Dunedin sound - a musical, and cultural, movement in the Otago city in the early 1980s characterised by a mix of punk rock with jangly, psychedelic-influenced guitar playing. The Chills website described Phillipps as having “a single-minded determination to take quality, original NZ-sounding, melodic rock music global”. He battled with drug addiction, alcoholism and contracted hepatitis C in the 1990s. Some of the The Chills’ biggest hits include; Pink Frost, Heavenly Pop Hit, I Love My Leather Jacket and Kaleidoscope World. A 2019 documentary titled The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin Phillipps explored the history of the band and Phillipps’ life-threatening brush with hepatitis C and liver failure. Phillipps told RNZ in 2021 that watching the documentary led to some self-reflection. “I had not sort of seen how basically odd I was and how that impacted on other people and that gave me a lot of cause for reconsidering things that had happened in the past and so on,” Phillipps said. “I know that I’m not a hurtful person by nature but realising that just the sheer being unaware of people’s situations around me could also be hurtful, so that was quite a revelation really.” Phillipps said his health was much better having cleared the hep C, but compared to other people his energy levels were still comparatively depleted. Reflecting on one of The Chills’ later singles Destiny in the same 2021 RNZ interview, Phillipps said he was trying to face up to his own mortality in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s a wee bit of a struggle between how much of this is pre-planned and how much of it is me shaping my own destiny... I think a lot of people have been going through those same kind of questions, particularly overseas where there is still a lockdown, they must be thinking a lot of them ‘well what did I do to deserve this or what have we done?’.”

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