Good Night

Post Midnight Ambient Floating Weirdness

Some post midnight weirdness -

Maja Ratkje - Vacuum

( More music here )

Enjoy.

Good Morning

Wet Sunday

What a crap day it has been. it started raining this morning, then turned to sleet and then rain right through the rest of the day. Now it is dry but the ground is sodden. I have been indoors listening to music on the whole and some light reading – if you can call New Scientist light reading or a book on neutrinos as such.

I was going to pop out to the pub this evening to watch the next episode of STD but as I have a very busy Monday with seven visits I shall not bother now. I have three in Stroud, two visits in Chatham , and two visits in Maidstone,

Just hope it is a dry day.

Back track 1994

Goung through the Wire website here was their Top 50 for 1994 -


1994 Rewind

50 Records Of The Year

Portishead Dummy (Go! Discs)
Massive Attack Protection (Circa)
David Toop & Max Eastley Buried Dreams (Beyond)
Peter Brotzmann Die Like A Dog (FMP)
Laika Silver Apples Of The Moon (Too Pure)
Charles Gayle Live At Disobey (Blast First/The Wire)
Jeru The Damaja The Sun Rises In The East (London)
John Oswald Grayfolded (Swell/Artefact)
O'rang Herd Of Instinct (Echo)
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble BOfficium (ECM)
AMM Newfoundland (Matchless)
Bill Frisell Music For The Fims Of Buster Keaton (Nonesuch)
Beastie Boys Ill Comunication (Capitol)
Earthling Nothing/Nothingness (White Lablel)
FM Einheit/Caspar Brotzmann Merry Christmas (Blast First)
Nick Cave Let Love In (Mute)
Orbital Snivilisation (Internal)
Paul Schutze The Surgery Of Touch (Sentrax)
4Hero Parallell Universe (Reinforced)
Craig Mack Flava In Ya Ear (Bad Boy)
Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet (Duophonic)
Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era (Death Row)
Plastikman Musik (Novamute)
Muziq Tango N'Vectif (Rephlex)
Cheb Khaled N'ssi N'ssi (Mango)
Kristin Hersh Hips And Makers (4AD)
Robin Holloway Concerto For Orchestra No 2 (NMC)
Trans-Global Underground International Times (Nation)
MC Solaar Prose Combat (Talkin Loud)
Boredoms Chocolate Synthesizer (WEA Japan)
Tricky Ponderosa (Island)
Jeff Buckley Grace (Columbia)
God The Anatomy Of Addiction (Pathological)
Roni Size Music Box (Full Cycle)
Fun-Da-Mental Seize The Time (Beggars Banquet)
Suns Of Arqua Govinda's Dream (A Guy Called Gerald Remixes) (Arka)
Blur Parklife (Parlophone)
Mouse On Mars Vulvaland (Too Pure)
Scorn Evanesence (Earache)
Nirvana Unplugged In New York (Geffen)
Ascension Five Titles (Shock)
Ken Ishii Innerelements (R&S)
Moody Boyz Product Of The Environment (Guerilla)
Frank Zappa The Yellow Shark (Music For Nations)
Baaba Maal Firin' In Fouta (Mango)
Roger Sessions Chamber Music (Koch)
Goldie / Metalheads Inner City Life (ffrr)
Joshua Redman Mood Swing (WEA)
Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers' Orchestra Portraits (Intakt)
Jon Hassell & Bluescreen Dressing For Pleasure (WEA)

I have five from that year ,including the top two ,which well deserve their positions. In fact three of them came from that Bristol city area sound of trip hop, Portishead,Tricky and Massive Attack.



Massive Attack - Protection

( More 1994 music here )

Back track 2000

Just one more back track tonight - Wire's best of 2000.


2000 Rewind

50 Records Of The Yea


Anti-Pop Consortium Tragic Epilogue (75 Ark)
Kid606 Down With The Scene (Ipecac)
Radiohead Kid A (Capitol)
The Fall The Unutterable (Eagle)
Otomo Yoshihide Cathode (Tzadik)
Outkast Stankonia (Arista)
Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele (Epic)
Ryoji Ikeda Matrix (Touch)
Derek Bailey String Theory (Paratactile)
Joe Harriott Genius (Jazz Academy)
Kid Koala Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Ninja Tune)
Coil Musick To Play In The Dark Vol 2 (Chalice)
Luomo Vocalcity (Force Inc)
Primal Scream Exterminator (Creation)
Current 93 Sleep Has His House (Durtro)
Fushitsusha I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only
Sense (Paratactile)
Parker/Guy/Lytton & Marilyn Crispell After Appleby (Leo)
Philip Jeck Vinyl Coda I-III (Intermedium)
Pole Pole 3 (Kiff SM)
Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol 1: Day Of Niagara (1965) (Table Of The Elements)
Chicago Underground Duo Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey)
John Butcher & Phil Durrant Requests & Antisongs (Erstwhile)
Infesticons Gun Hill Road (Big Dada)
Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg The Magic Sound Of Fenno'berg (Mego)
Merzbow Merzbox (Extreme Special Editions)
The Necks Hanging Gardens (Fish Of Milk)
Einstürzende Neubauten Silence Is Sexy (Mute)
Terry Riley The Gift (Organ Of Corti)
Various Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music Vol 4 (Revenant)
Gordon Mumma Studio Retrospective (Lovely Music)
New York Art Quartet 35th Reunion (DIW)
D'Angelo Voodoo (Virgin)
Isolée Rest (Playhouse)
Grateful Dead Dick's Picks Vol 16 (Grateful Dead Records)
Current 93 Faust (Durtro)
Evan Parker & Keith Rowe Dark Rags (Potlatch)
Kim Gordon/Ikue Mori/DJ Olive Kim Gordon/Ikue Mori/DJ Olive (SYR)
Dean Roberts And The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema (Ritornell)
Derek Bailey/Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Calvin Weston Mirakle (Tzadik)
Two Dollar Guitar Weak Beats And Lame Ass Rhymes (Smells Like)
Cat Power The Covers Record (Matador)
Flanger Midnight Sound (N'Tone)
Wu-Tang Clan The W (Loud)
C-Schultz & Hajsch C-Schultz & Hajsch (Sonig)
Jah Wobble Molam Dub (30 Hertz)
Angus MacLise Brain Damage In Oklahoma City (Quakebasket)
Charlemagne Palestine Karenina (Durtro)
Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen)
Milford Graves Stories (Tzadik)
John Fahey Hitomi (LivHouse)

Just four this time still in my collection.


Primal Scream - Exterminator

Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

Current 93 - Sleep Has His House

Book 4 - Georgina Harding "The Spy Game"

Georgina Harding "The Spy Game" (Bloomsbury)







The direct gaze of the woman sipping a cup of tea on the dustjacket of the UK hardback, really caught my eye - a spendid cover and evocative title too. Reading the blurb, expected an espionage story straight out of John Le Carre, but this thoughtful and slow-burning novel is something completely different.

Anna remembers her mother leaving, and people saying she died, but she and her brother Peter didn't get to attend the funeral. They both think there is something more to the story, and this book is about how they grow up and try to figure out this mystery that is their mother.

She starts the book talking about the fog that she remembers so vividly from the day her mother left. I think this is an interpretation of the whole fog of their lives concerning their mom and their background. The whole time I was reading I felt like I was waiting for some conclusion that never came. The book was more about how this not knowing shaped their lives as children, and then again as adults. The narrator goes back and forth from being a kid and talking about the things happening at the time, and being an adult and going to look for any proof of who she was, and who her mother could have been.

I really liked this book, it gives you the choice to come up with your own conclusion. And leaves you wanting more.

Book 5 - Christine Sutton "Spaceship Neutrino"

Christine Sutton "Spaceship Neutrino" (Cambridge University Press)




As a bit of a geek and that one of my hobbies is an informal study of particle physics; therefore, the title caught my interest. It's a terrific book for some serious information on the amazing sub-atomic particles known as neutrinos. It may be a bit technical for the totally uninitiated, but with a sincere interest, I think most anyone would enjoy it.

If you really want a fascinating explanation of neutrino theory I recommend "Spaceship Neutrino" as a great introduction despte it being a few years old - in fact published 1992 - and we know more about these massless particles than we did then it still is solid groundwork for further investigations.