that’s kind of devastating, actually.
I’m not sure I totally agree with you, though. Britain is old and creaky and gray and there’s just no getting around it. I’m not sure if you all could totally shake free from that. as I write this, I’m peering out the window at an enormous, sparkling, spotless American metropolis thinking it’s no wonder why our current pop music is superficial, sanitized, impermanent, and empty.
I spent time last year reading through some of Mark Fisher’s old blog posts and discovered this radio series he collaborated on for Resonance FM in 2005: http://www.deeptime.net/blog/?p=863
Real hauntology hours!
Two compilations I would definitely recommend for seekers of hauntology-related themes in electronic music areThe Outer Church and Lessons (both from Front and Follow). The Outer Church in particular was my introduction to a lot of these ideas for me. Both feature Robin the Fog, an artist working in tape manipulation who also performs as Howlround. He did a pretty cool intereview with FACT a few years back: http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/12/robin-the-fog-interview/
I’m also currently working on a podcast called WYRD_SIGNAL with some emphasis on Hauntology - admittedly mostly in the first episode, with the rest looking mainly at the weird and the eerie and tangentially related subjects, but we’ve plans to return to the theme over the next few weeks
I met Robin the Fog a couple of years ago at The Railway in Winchester. Howlround did a wonderful tape-manipulation performance that night, but I was talking to him about the Ghosts Of Bush LP. When I was in school I got to do my work experience at BBC Bush House as one of my brother’s friends was a studio tech there, so snapped up one of the original pressings from Bandcamp. We had a good chat, and it turned out he knew my brother’s friend still, who was pleased to learn how small the world was following an exchange of texts. So that was nice!
Suitably lo-res photos, including the heap of unspooled tape at the end of the performance:
i dont have much to add right now but i wanted to relay this kind of thread is the pivotal reason i joined a site like this, thanks for that
GOOD THREAD
I posted this in the radio section but this is a much better home for it:
Consulate from Perth (one half of Senate) has a show on new Melbourne internet radio station Skylab called I Am Located In A Gas.
If there are any Mark Fisher fans reading, this show has the highest concentration of The Weird And The Eerie, in the full kpunk sense, of anything I’ve listened to in quite a while. Perfectly curated and liberally sprinkled with Consulate’s own productions, which you’ll be into if you enjoy Yally/Raime, Shackleton etc.
Only two eps so far, both here:
http://skylab-radio.com/artist-shows/4UjaOIFJ4QMCOYmuMOE0iY 2
there’s also something that’s massively unsettling about all of Consulate’s output and I couldn’t say exactly what it is. The spectres haunting his work might be some particular ghosts of Western European jouissance - football ultras, violent medieval anarchy, gabber, trench warfare - all observed from the other side of the world, at great physical remove but relative cultural proximity.
Case in point: listen to this track and then google its name
I have no idea where to put this but in this thread - David Rudnick and Clouds imagine a terrifying, violent rave-dystopia 400 years in the future in the remains of Glasgow. Incredible work of design and worldbuilding, wowowow
http://neurealm.net/
didn’t want to start a whole New Release discussion/thread so posting this here. really dig Fonolith’s output (Neil Scrivin/Phono Ghosts/Meatbingo) and would probably label this stuff “hauntological”.