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Sunday 19 January 2020

SV Stop 327: Altruism And The Power Of One

I was feeling a few different ways in the last few months about more than just music. It was a lifestyle thing. Altering lifestyle for the better, not just eating a healthier diet.

For some, or lots of subverts, depending on their viewpoint (reader, poster, critic, editor, et al), altruism, the "power of now", "power of one", basically another way of saying transcendence too, became part of all this hypothetical stodge, a stew of hefty energy. 

Altruism, to me, is truancy of a belief system, or many belief systems. A "because obviously" kind of thought soon follows. But it's so essential to doing basic tasks, being, basically any bloody form of living.

In this thread we aim to collect all the balls about altruistic principles, from Brian Enosification, to mood music effects and techniques, just because I'm too lazy to work my fat Cartman ass into writing a prequel book about life and death parchment.

So feel free to join in. No pressure though, having me waffle on in a self-propelled space. Hey, you might even have an idea for your own book project from this. Mine was simply going to be called Book 3 of the Freeze Dry series: "Altruism Failure".

Hugs and sneezes
Muttley
 
PS: Subvert had a 500 Internal Server error when I posted this; the maintenance of the site is still ongoing, long may it continue; not everyone is an admon here. 

Monday 13 January 2020

SubVersion Stop 326: Wire Chart 2019

Somewhat belatedly, here's my seventh (2019) set of acquisitions, all according to the criterion “buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month” – plus three more to make up a proper Wire 15 chart. For reference, the previous six years’ were: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

The # marks denote the issues in which the records featured.
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SubVersion 2019 15

#419 Éliane Radigue - Oeuvres Électroniques (Ina-GRM)
#420 Black Thought - Streams of Thought Vols.1&2 (Human Re Sources)
#421 Alvin Lucier / Trevor Saint - Ricochet Lady (Black Truffle)
#422 Wendy Eisenberg - The Machinic Unconscious (Tzadik)
#423 Mopcut - Accelerated Frames of Reference (Trost)
#424 The London Sound Survey - Thames (Persistence of Sound)
#425 9T Antiope & Siavash Amini - Harmistice (Hallow Ground)
#426 K-X-P - IV (Svart)
#427 Olivier Messiaen / Linda Catlin Smith / Apartment House - Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Among the Tarnished Stars (Another Timbre)
#428 Haino / Merzbow / Pándi - Become the Discovered, Not the Discoverer (RareNoise)
#429 Zonal - Wrecked (Relapse)
#430 Eve Risser - Aprés un Rêve (Clean Feed)

+#420 Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon)
+#427 Pharmakon - Devour (Sacred Bones)
+#429 Morton Feldman / Philip Thomas - Piano (Another Timbre)

Compiled by Jonathan Tait, subvertcentral.blogspot.co.uk
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And my record of the year for 2019: Harmistice, which is available for streaming at The Wire website, or you can go and actually buy it via the Hallow Ground bandcamp. “A cross-continent project inspired by a nightmare” seems pretty damn appropriate for 2019.