Warren Hatter

“Radigue homed in on the sound – looked within it. She was a true experimental artist” My piece for @thequietus.com remembering Éliane Radigue, who left us on Monday

Thanks for all the love for this, and thanks @thequietus.com for commissioning. Éliane was - and remains - such an inspiration.

"Sounds can have their own meaning" – Remembering Éliane Radigue | The Quietus Warren Hatter reflects on the life of an extraordinary, innovative artist, ignored for most of her life before being celebrated this century

I wrote a ‘Remember Them’ piece for @thequietus.com about the wonderful Éliane Radigue. I hope I’ve done her justice thequietus.com/news/remembe...

So true. Realising that high volume isn’t necessary for her work’s impact was a massive step for me in appreciating Radigue. (A lesson I learned someone on the other place many years ago)

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

Oh no. She was unique. There’s a case that Éliane was the most revolutionary musician of our times, and yet almost unknown until 25 years ago.

I saw drummer Charles Hayward at the Hayward Gallery

Post a banger that isnt in English youtu.be/WLQeYggeF_I?...

Only Came To Say Goodbye, by Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop 6 track album

Everything about this tape is beautiful crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/only-c.... By @rjraffa.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social on Crash Symbols out of West Virginia. The label is open to UK/EU distribution so raise your hand if you might be able to help.

Bodie & Zeulh

It was also an oddly reserved crowd on Friday night in Brighton. I wonder if it’s because they’re doing a proper ‘tour the album’ show, with older tracks picked to fit stylistically into the set … but half the crowd hoped for a heritage thing??

Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Et Cætera View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2003 CD release of "Aux Armes Et Cætera" on Discogs.

You could count this dub/version double CD as two albums, I suppose www.discogs.com/release/2575...

oops - Rëlisp, not Rëslip

Warthåk, by Rëlisp 4 track album

There's a band in Mexico called Rëslip making heavy Zeuhl with the intensity, but not the virtuosity, of Koenjihyakkei. Thrilling stuff noizumx.bandcamp.com/album/warth-k

Let’s do this. (I have - to Tidal a while ago)

Alt text should be: “cover of Elizabeth Alker book ‘Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop’”

Well this looks fascinating www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

I know a lot of us have feelings about Bandcamp’s changes in ownership over the last few years. But it’s still true that buying music directly from independent labels and artists on Bandcamp remains one of the best ways to support the musicians you listen to.

French is Earth Ghor!

This reads like WeTransfer will train LLMs on all the stuff we transfer, royalty-free forever. You know, the stuff you’ve slaved over that has some value.

BLUE FIFTY-FOUR: BEN RICHTER

Deep listening accordion drone on tape or digital from here: bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

BACK IN STOCK: 'La Planète Sauvage (Expanded Original Soundtrack)' by Alain Goraguer

Iconic score to the classic sci-fi animation.

2LP blue vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve. Includes a zine.

www.normanrecords.com/records/1986...

One Square Centimetre Of Light, by Nicholas Langley 6 track album

Some cracking tapes/DLs forthcoming/out on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social, incl Summer by Beckton Alps2, "the second in a four part series of albums imagining Stone Age people reacting to the changing seasons" and this new one from Nicholas Langley cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-sq...

Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra - Places We Have Never Been album cover. Seven hands sitting on top of a large drum skin that looks a little like the moon.

An album of experimental music made by Todmorden school children evokes The Necks, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a series of exotic locale. The kids are all right, says @spinal-bap.bsky.social

Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra - Places We Have Never Been

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Artists/bands with most albums in my collection (5 or more):
A Tribe Called Quest
Can
Sea Power
Daniel Avery
Echo & The Bunnymen
Gong
Heldon
Low
MF DOOM
Magma
Mogwai
Scott Walker
Stereolab
Sunn O)))
Teeth Of The Sea
Wrekmeister Harmonies

Well this is marvellous. Mid-1980s Nigerian abstract SF electronica

Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Tomorrow, in London, for free thanks to @babayagashut.bsky.social. Always trust @organmagazine.bsky.social’s recommendations

A Wikipedia paragraph which reads: "According to the painter Gabriel Fournier, one of the most memorable scandals was an altercation between Cocteau, Satie, and music critic Jean Poueigh, who gave Parade an unfavorable review. [citation needed] Satie had written a postcard to the critic which read, "Monsieur et cher ami - vous êtes un cul, un cul sans musique! Signé Erik Satie" ("Sir and dear friend - you are an arse, an arse without music! Signed, Erik Satie."). The critic sued Satie, and at the trial, Cocteau was arrested and beaten by police for repeatedly yelling "arse" in the courtroom. Satie was given a sentence of eight days in jail.[17][18]"

Wikipedia nugget du jour.

No one seems to remember when the internet - and Twitter - wasn’t about ‘engagement’ but just… having fun. How we’ve internalised the Growth Delusion as individuals, treating ourselves as brands requiring outreach, is beyond me, and deeply cringe.