Burl Veneer’s Music Blog

The 80s are coming back

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:50:27 -0700

They've been coming back for quite some time now (since 1990), of course, but now my 1980s are coming back. Since my recent post on Slab!, band member Stephen Dray has announced their imminent reformation (in the comments on this blog post), or r...

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I'm still listening to Nine Inch Nails (and Peter Hope)

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:03:47 -0700

Here I am saying The Slip is the best Nine Inch Nails album since the first one when I haven't really listened to any of them since Broken. So I've been trying to catch up, going from recent to older; Year Zero and With Teeth are actually better ...

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Hold all calls, I'm listening to Nine Inch Nails

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:48:38 -0700

I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan from way back. I was hanging out with my pal $ean at the original Kemp Mill Records where he was assistant manager the day Pretty Hate Machine came out; I bought one right out of the shipping box. I listened to it and k...

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It's raining queens (Mississippi Queens)

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:43:01 -0700

I have previously written about my dear friend, the late Mark Harp. Mark's band Null Set brought postpunk to Baltimore; when another band called Null Set, from another city, put out a record, Mark's Null Set changed their name to Cabal. The sing...

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The Dream Ticket

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:45:33 -0700

With all the buzz about an Obama/Clinton (or Clinton/Obama) "dream ticket," the time is ripe for posting Cabaret Voltaire's "The Dream Ticket." Recorded in 1983, it is arguably their earliest mastery of American-style electro, overlaid with their...

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Belatedly, Cabaret Voltaire

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:09:36 -0800

Here I've been going on about Sheffield and the great industrial dance music of the 80s and I haven't even gotten around to Cabaret Voltaire yet, arguably the godfathers of that whole scene. So to remedy that, here's the video for what is probabl...

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Organico: file with Mahjongg

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:32:22 -0800

A week after discovering Mahjongg, a band playing exactly my kind of music, I've found another one without even trying. The Vintage Library Emporium sharity blog shares old albums (1978-1990, mostly) of library music, instrumental music intended ...

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Chrome: Das Gift der Musik

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:44:25 -0800

Once again I'm in "it's easier to download the album from a sharity blog than to find it on my shelves" mode, which is how I ended up with a digitized copy of Chrome's Raining Milk album yesterday. Hearing Chrome's cyborg metal for the first time...

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Mahjongg rewards my RSS addiction

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:11:26 -0800

I've been using Google Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds right and left, because if the information is out there I want to know it as soon as it gets there, dammit! And yesterday it paid off: reading my feeds at home, finally, after a gruelling tw...

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Ultramarine reminds me of 23 Skidoo

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:38:44 -0800

Upon discovering, just last year (fashionably late again) that A Primary Industry had morphed into Ultramarine in 1990, I got Ultramarine's first album, Folk. It's a nice extension of the softer side of API, with lots of layered reeds (from both ...

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