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HAPPY 808 Day
One of the last shots of Industrial Records London studio in 1981, featuring Chris Carter’s newly acquired Roland TR-808…
it was kept in regular use for a further 20 years by ‘Chris &Cosey’.

#808day @RolandGlobal

Why isn't there a digital version? I got rid of my last cassette player decades ago and have never regretted it. Now, though, I would love to have it back just to play this cassette. However, I definitely won't be buying a new player … ;-)
Could you PLEASE make this release available to download?

#NowPlaying #TerryReid 💔

Poster for EATING RAOUL (1982), starring, written, and directed by Paul Bartel - BOTD in 1938

Four images from "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills" (1989)

“I was aiming for something between ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and Luis Bunuel’s ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.’ There are no burning offenses we wish to reveal. I just wanted to show the divisions between the upper class and their servants, but in a modern way.”

-Paul Bartel #BOTD

ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

Robert Mapplethorpe, Iggy Pop, 1981 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1078610

Album of these early hours
Éliane Radigue - Trilogie de la Mort

Nearly God – Poems (w/ Terry Hall) // Savage Republic – Siam // Ohi Ho Bang Bang (Akiko Hada, Holger Hiller, Karl Bonnie) – The Three // Billie Ray Martin & Spooky – Persuasion (written by Throbbing Gristle) // David Lynch – Ghost Of Love / Imaginary Girl // Zombi– Digitalis // Glyn Styler / Lydia Lunch – The Desperate Ones // The Soft Pink Truth (Drew Daniel) – Was It Ever Real? (incl. ‘The Anal Staircase’ written by Coil) // Voov – It's Anything You Want It To Be, And It's A Gas (samples from ‘No Frank in Lumberton’ by Peter Braatz) // Thighpaulsandra – The Michel Publicity Window // Neneh Cherry – I've Got You Under My Skin // Bomb The Bass – Darkheart / Dressed In Black // Sonic Youth – Starpower // Diamanda Galás w/ John Paul Jones – Do You Take This Man? // Cut Hands – Afro Noise

for the first and LAST TIME: no vinyl – because these are actually all the CD singles I have in my collection … ;-)
#WeekendSingles (Part 20)
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Derek Jarman’s hand painted designs for the original 1991 edition of England’s Dreaming. Three of them, never used. The book will be republished next year, anniversaries obvs

"Nature is alive and talking to us. This is not a metaphor"
- Terence McKenna

27.11.: johnny jewel, colosseum
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Farewell to the visionary American theatre director Robert Wilson (1941-2025). With Einstein on the Beach (1976), on which he collaborated with composer Philip Glass; Death, Destruction, and Detroit (1979); and The Civil Wars (1983), he left an unforgettable impact on the stage.

I had that dream again

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20.10.: "eraserhead xiu xiu", silent green

Amazing what you come across in the back of a cupboard. The very first TG microphone including fake blood - used at the 1976 PROSTITUTION exhib at I.C.A when we officially launched Throbbing Gristle

“New acoustic spaces in the dancehall”: The Sabres Of Paradise reviewed - The Wire The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns - aka The Sabres Of Paradise - still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498.

Read the full review here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

I spent the whole day tidying up the basement and found almost all the 90s issues of #TheFace there. Cheap to sell, but only for collection from Berlin. Interested?

#weekendsingles

Oz RIP

Duckduckgo image search, now with AI blocking function

About time a search engine did this.
Picture research is time-consuming enough with also having to trawl through page after tedious page of false, redundant, pointless imagery claiming to be something it isn't.
#FuckAI #duckduckgo

KW 30: Die Woche, in der wir für mehr Sicherheit geworben haben Die 30. Kalenderwoche geht zu Ende. Wir haben 19 neue Texte mit insgesamt 224.879 Zeichen veröffentlicht. Willkommen zum netzpolitischen Wochenrückblick.

Mehr Überwachung, weniger Grundrechte – das ist die Sicherheit, die Dobrindt, Merz und Klingbeil meinen.

Wir haben den schwarz-roten Entwurf für ein neues Sicherheitspaket veröffentlicht. So schnell ist wieder Herbst. Und die Aussichten sind alles andere als rosig.

Unser Wochenrückblick.

Matt Johnson – Burning Blue Soul // Various Artists – Natures Mortes - Still Lives

The 4AD sampler ‘Natures Mortes’ from 1981 contains the A-side of the debut single ‘Controversial Subject’ by #TheThe. The remastered CD version from 1997 also includes the B-side ‘Black And White’ as a bonus track. Check out the ALT text.
#WeekendSingles

Hyena (A Soundtrack By The The) // The Gadgets – Gadgetree (1980) // The Gadgets – Love, Curiosity, Freckles & Doubt (1980) // The Gadgets – Blue Album (1983)

The The – Giant // Marc And The Mambas – Untitled // Various Artists – If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul // Various Artists – Some Bizzare Album

Fans of #MattJohnson / #TheThe will also find these records interesting … ;-)
#WeekendSingles
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four 7-inch singles by Matt Johnson / The The: We Can't Stop What's Coming // I Want 2 B U / Velvet Muscle Scream // $1 One Vote! / Mrs Mac // Slow Emotion Replayed / Crow Commotion Displayed

four 7-inch singles by Matt Johnson / The The: Cognitive Dissident / When Is The Heart Of Waiting // Linoleum Smooth To The Stockinged Foot / Mycelium Muse // Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave Of William Blake / Frozen Clouds // Risin' Above The Need / Where Do We Go When We Die?

Here are more recent #WeekendSingles from #TheThe … :-)
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six 7-inch singles by Matt Johnson / The The: Uncertain Smile / Three Orange Kisses From Kazan // Perfect / The Nature Of Virtue (Version I) // The Beat(en) Generation / Angel // Sweet Bird Of Truth / Sleeping Juice // Infected / Disturbed // Slow Train To Dawn / Harbour Lights

Like I said, only #TheThe singles will be played this weekend!
#WeekendSingles (Part 18)
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YouTube video by FarrahAnwar THE THE / Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin / 17 September 2024

A short clip I shot of #MattJohnson / #TheThe singing ‘Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave Of William Blake’ …
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Grégoire Colin in "35 Shots of Rum" - BOTD

Review Paula Rego at Museum Folkwang | Berlin Art Link Johanna Siegler reviews Paula Rego’s solo exhibition ‘The Personal and The Political’ at Museum Folkwang in Essen

Johanna Siegler reflects on Paula Rego’s retrospective at Museum Folkwang in Essen that foregrounds the artist’s engagement with the narrative structures of moral indoctrination, nation-building and its political imaginaries, as well as other, more mundane mythologies that shape collective belief:

What 4 perfect albums came out when you were 21?