Category Archives: music

Introducing Isabella Santacroce

Isabella Santacroce & Maria Callas, a Youtube mix by FactoryB0y.

Introducing Isabella Santacroce.

Andrej, thanks for the links. Loved your post about the Kyrous (did not realize there was a second brother). I’ve made a stub for Ariel. I was intrigued by his reference to Shaolin Soccer, the term sounded so familiarly unfamiliar to my ears (is the film any good?). I would like to review Le Surréalisme au cinéma in greater depth but would just as rather publish its CAPs and SIPs analysis (in the style of what I am doing for Film as a Subversive Art), if that were possible.

For Santacroce: tip of the hat to Jaklien Teuwen.

Here is a film based on the work of Santacroce:

Luminal

Music writing informed by critical theory

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Beau Mot Plage (1999) by Isolée

This post dedicated to Woebot. Who else could write an article on canonical house music informed by critical theory? The answer is below the quote.

“I really admire exercises like Harold Bloom‘s “The Western Canon” and F. R. Leavis‘s “The Great Tradition“. It’s not just the critic’s job to dissect, it’s a crucial task to re-imagine and assemble. My recent idea has been, in the absence of any other strong generic competitor to it, to try and extract from within the tradition of House-music-proper a strand of what I’m calling “Mauve House”. If the methodology used in tackling the pyramidic proliferation of dance music genres, used to be naming each subset, nowadays a more appropriate approach might be like filleting a joint of beef, that’s to say stripping out one strand from the carcass.” http://www.woebot.com/2007/06/mauve_house.html

Answer: Simon Reynolds. Internal links are mine.

Introducing The World of Kane

The World of Kane (founded in 2005) is a pop culture blog I happened upon this morning while researching Robert Bonfils:

Anna Karina sings “Roller Girl“

The World of Kane seems to be especially keen on French pop culture, his Serge Gainsbourg category testifies. His site is retro-futuristic. In his own words Will Kane says he”feels a nostalgia for an age yet to come,” best illustrated by his post on French designer Pierre Paulin (1927- ). Pierre Paulin is similar to Olivier Mourgue.

As a present to World of Kane:

Serge Gainsbourg-France Gall :: Dents de Lait/Dents de Loup

From the French tv show of 1967 directed by Maurice Dumay & Pierre Koralnik

Spread yourself over me

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Gwen Guthrie – Peanut Butter (12inch)

Voiced by Gwen Guthrie, rhythm section by Sly and Robbie, keyboards by Wally Badarou, mix by Larry Levan. The mixes Larry does for Island with Sly and Robbie and Gwen Guthrie in 1982/1983 are among the most exciting records of that era. The Padlock mini-LP which was released in 1983 on the Garage Records label includes ‘Hopscotch’, ‘Seventh heaven’, ‘Getting hot’, ‘Peanut butter’ and ends with the brilliant title track ‘Padlock’. The sleeve of the German Island pressing was done by Tony Wright, who was also responsible for Lee Perry‘s ‘Return of Super Ape‘ cover art.

Some Wally Badarou:

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Chief Inspector (1984) – Wally Badarou

 

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

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“Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll” is a modern variation of Wine, women and song. In the 20th century, particularly in Western usage, the expression “drugs, sex and rock and roll” often is used to signify essentially the same thing. The terms correspond to wine, women and song with edgier and updated vices. The term came to prominence in the sixties as rock and roll music, opulent and intensely public lifestyles, as well as libertine morals championed by hippies, came into the mainstream.