state of listening

04/18/2014 by alaundre

Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form – from the glorious artwork adorning gatefold sleeves, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the […]

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before there was punk…

01/24/2014 by alaundre

Really awesome documentary from Drafthouse Films. Includes a live set performed at SXSW (that extra felt almost as long as the documentary.) Great stuff.

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eyes without a face

06/17/2013 by alaundre

“Les Yeux Sans Visage … your eyes without a face…” Couldn’t wait for the blu ray version to be released so I tracked down the old Criterion dvd instead. There is still a creepy overall feel to it for a film made in 1960, even if it is rather tame by today’s standards. . Included in the disc is a documentary by the same director, George Franju, titled Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des bêtes) contrasting between a “typical […]

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karl hyde : edgeland

04/28/2013 by alaundre

Really love this album | Included in the deluxe edition is the dvd Outer Edges, directed by Kieran Evans karl hyde | kieran evans

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random tees : 303 + documentary

01/28/2013 by alaundre

documentary on the roland 303: another music documentary:

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Lee Perry, The Upsetter

07/20/2012 by alaundre

– received my limited edition Lee Perry figure more than a week ago : vinyl figure designed by Archer Prewitt for PressPop released thru Aggronautix // ordered the version that came with the documentary “The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry, The Upsetter” by Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough (including an additional score by Ethan Higbee aka nahte). Fascinating…and unexpectedly much darker and sad in parts. .

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dub documentary

07/17/2012 by alaundre

– i’m watching this at the moment:

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history

11/27/2011 by alaundre

.. also watched this…memories

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