Finding New Music

[jazzy_dave]

Space bar sometimes plays up so when i think i have made a space i haven't and the words getallbunchedup.

I am often editing when i see what bloopers i have made.  Happens in comments too , where a  "p" should have been placed instead of an "o" or any combination of letters.

Anyway,i digress, as always.

It was fascinating to read what kishenehn said about finding music. In the 70's my main source if alternatives to the generally boring mainstream was radio shows such as John Peel's program on BBC Radio 1. His music selection was eclectic , and often quite surprising. Other sources were dedicated genre specific magazines or fanzines. Then Wire Magazine came along in  the eighties, which albeitly started as a jazz and new music magazine but soon expanded to cover almost everything from avant garde to field recordings,electronica to jazz and improv, techno to ambient, exotica to grime,modern claasical to folk,and all other undercurrents you could mention. The internet has expanded that world beyond all measures, and whilst chocies now seem to be narrowing due to corporate greed there are still pockets of resistance to the normative hegemony. Bandcamp, as an example, is one such site that lets all the proceeds godirectly to teh artists themselves. Johnny Trunk allows downloads of esoteria on his website for a mere fifty pence each Friday and it is one i higly recommend if you are looking for old weird stuff.

It is through bandcamp that i found artists such as Klein and Kemper Norton, but i only knew of the site by way of the excellent Wire magazine. No other music journal comes close to its breadth and analysis. Perhaps Pitchfork comes the nearest to that august bibleof the new and transgressive.

So,i suppose i better do a music post and the reason now for doing such a post is that i needed a pee in the night and finding that i am wide awake again.

I also bought the June  Wire whilst i was in Brighton and Hove recently.



I was also tempted to open my bag of goodies from my bro - but have not as yet.