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  • Music History
  • Experimental Music

  _{Jun. 18, 2024}

  Innovative and experimental musicians of the early 1970s

  Recently I recorded a mix tape for my dad, and when the song Baba O’Riley by The Who came on I saw his eye light up. Born in 1953 he would have been 18 when this track came out – and this got me thinking. So much was happening in the world at that time in music and loads of tech was coming into existence. The psychedelic phase in the late 60’s had matured, AND, all the synthesisers were just being released.
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  • Music
  • Technology
  • Lifestyle

  _{Jun. 16, 2024}

  Return of the cassette - Mixtape

  Escape from instatraz. On my quest to escape the all knowing gaze of my phone screen, and reclaim some time in the real world I banned myself from scrolling, and instead go some books and started reading instead - however, I soon was longing for some sweet lullabies when i suddenly realised - cassette tapes were awesome. Also, I heard somewhere recently on the grapevine that tapes were coming back.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Literature

  _{May. 18, 2024}

  20th Century Sci-Fi Reading List

  My reasoning on the 20th centrury scifi stuff is that those scifi authors didn’t predict the future, they effectively created it, it is it’s own force and they propelled it further into existance, inspiring young minds who are now working full time to make these ideas a reality. Art replicating life, replicating art ad infinitum. Next on list sci-fi The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke, 1956 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K.
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  • Reading List

  _{May. 11, 2024}

  The Book of 5 Rings

  Growing up I was obsessed with Bruce Lee. I was fascinated with concepts such as removing yourself from the immediate situation in the minds eye, trying to see where you are from a distance, from the outside, without the limitations of your current perspective – and, the way Bruce Lee talks about being like water, water is able to crash and flow, to assume any shape, the shape of it’s vessel.
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  • Ideas

  _{May. 7, 2024}

  Back to the Internet

  It was not soo long ago that the web was born.