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A couple of Cassettes on Jon Roses Fringe benefit label frb 028 033 FLAC

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A couple of Cassettes on Jon Roses Fringe benefit label frb 028 033 FLAC 1600-h/IMG_0001.jpg"> Jon rose , is a virtuoso violinist who as a late teenager moved to Australia from britain , i know him mainly as a free improvisor ...though he has been involved in performing lots of different genres of music , often deliberately de contextualizing them for satirical purposes. i guess he is an archtypal post modernist whatever that is.... From the late 70s through to the mid 80s he had one of the very few independant operations specialising in free improv and experimental music in Australia( both vinyl and casettes). he used to sell them at gigs. These days he has a fairly prestigeous reputation here ... a result of wisely having moved back to europe in 1986, and performing with the likes of Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Evan Parker and so on...... Luckily for us , he has since moved back and is performing regularly. HERES A LINK TO HIS WEBSITE Both of these tapes have never been reissue...

25 Awesome things Ive failed to post on Music Thing over the last couple of months

25 Awesome things Ive failed to post on Music Thing over the last couple of months My new favourite Wikipedia page is Unusual types of gramophone records. (Thanks, Steve) Bleep Labs BitBlob is the only thing to buy this Christmas. A patchable synth encased in a pyrex glass jar complete with glowing monsters. $216, limited edition of 30... Another xmas essential is Benges Twenty Systems album - a lovely booklet/CD package with twenty tracks recorded on twenty different systems, from Moog Modular to NED Synclavier. (More pics here at Hardformat) New synth #1: Dave Smith Mopho, tiny yellow all-analog synth for $399 (from Analog Haven). Like the button marked push it, dont like the lack of knobs. The Trons are a robot band from New Zealand (MySpace) (Thanks, Louis) Totally Wired is an interesting-looking obsessive documentary about the Berlin synth store Schneiders Buero. Trailer. (Thanks, Luka) Wonderful podcast #1: Welcome to Mars, the series about sci-fi and the cold war is now a...