Tag Archives: Demdike Stare

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2020

Posted on 28/12/2020 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Are we all still alive after Christmas with your family? Is your family? Not dismembered among a morass of Turkey bones? I’ve had a stressful Christmas, which I won’t get into, suffice to say Christmas was cancelled and I’ve barely … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 30th Century Boy, Antifa, Aphex Twin, Bandcamp, Be Up A Hello, Bill Callahan, Black Lives Matter, Blade Runner, BLM, Blonde on Blonde, Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Crystal Castles, David Johansen, Demdike Stare, Dismembered family members, Doğu Çiçekleri, Eastern Flowers, Essential Listening, Fragments of Nothing, Gold Record, Highway 61 Revisited, James Blake, Jon Collin, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Loose Ends, Madlib, Malibu Liquor Store, Marc Bolan, Mojave Desert, Murphy's Law, Nick Cave, Persian, Placebo, Róisín Machine, Róisín Murphy, Richard D. James, Rough and Rowdy Ways, Sault, Sean Lennon, Shit & Shine, Sketches of Everything, Squarepusher, Streetsoul, Stressful Christmas, Sven Wunder, The Best Albums Of 2020, Tribute to Marc Bolan: AngelHeaded Hipster, Turkey bones, Turkish, UNTITLED (Black Is), UNTITLED (Rise), Various, Velvet Goldmine | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: Blowing Up The Workshop 90 by X-Altera & 95 by Death Is Not The End

Posted on 30/06/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

In recent times the prospect of listening to a multi-hour mix has held little appeal. I mean, what if I like it? And it requires multiple listens to parse it’s elements satisfactorily. While that makes mixes similar to albums, how … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged autoplay algorithm's can be okay sometimes, Bristol, Charlie Bones, Conceptual esotericism - whatever fella, Death is Not The End, Demdike Stare, Dingy bedroom Jungle is not a euphemism, Essential Listening, Inverted snobbery, Jungle, Mix, NTS radio, Pirate Radio, Shazaam, Support independent music in new ways, X-Altera | Leave a comment

Song Of The Day – The Best Songs Of 2016

Posted on 28/12/2016 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Well friends, brace yourselves, we’ve just about reached the end of 2016. A year which became infamous for numerous famous deaths and inexplicable Black Mirrorish events. George Michael’s sudden passing makes me wonder if any of the following efforts I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Song Of The Day | Tagged 00000 Million, 2 Late 4 Love, 22 A Million, 2845, 4 Degrees, A Moon Shaped Pool, Acid Ali Khan, Acidub, Aether, Alex Cameron, Alexandria, András, Animal Style, Anohni, Bay Rouge, Begins, Blackstar, Blond, Bon Iver, Buddy Love, Convextion, David Bowie, Demdike Stare, DJ-Safety, Emotinium (Roy Of The Ravers Secret Mix), Exploration, Fat White Family, Fly, Frank Ocean, Furfour, Going Going…, Gold Panda, Good Luck And Do Your Best, Grumbling Fur, Happy Ending, Hard Working Man, Harvey Sutherland and Bermuda, Hits Hits Hits, Hopelessness, House Of Dad, I Need A Forest Fire, I Talk BB, In My Car, James Blake, Jessy Lanza, Jesus Alone, Jumping The Shark, Konnichiwa, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, Lazarus, Lyrics (Featuring Novelist), Machete Savane, Man (Gang), Mango Peach, Manticore, Manticore (Johnny Nash Remix), Mr Fingers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nicolas Jaar, Oh No, Outer Acid, Party Language, PJ Harvey, Porter Ricks, Priestess, Priestess/Bravado, Promise, Radiohead, Roy Of The Ravers, Santa Monica, Sapto, Seigfried, Self-Control, Shadow Boat, Sirens, Skeleton Tree, Skepta, Skype, Song Of The Day, Songs For Our Mothers, Stranger Things Main Theme, Stranger Things Offical Soundtrack: Volume 1, Suneaters, Suzanne Kraft, The Best Songs Of 2016, The Colour In Anything, The Comeback, The Hope Six Demolition Project, The Numbers, The Wedding Present, The Wheel, Three Sides Of Nazareth, TM404, Too many tags, Untitled (B1), White Ferrari, Willow, Wonderland, Workshop 23 | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: Muslimgauze

Posted on 16/08/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Let’s consider the bastardisation of the word ethnic. Its contextual use is invariably pretentious and therefore so is the question. Similar to the incessant use of ‘iconic’, its overuse means it no longer carries gravitas. Now it simply means – … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Aphex Twin, Azzazin, Bryn Jones, Demdike Stare, Essential Listening, Iranair Inflight Magazine, Manchester, Muslimgauze, Muslimgauze files, Muslimgauze: Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones, Narcotic, Zul'm | Leave a comment