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Highly recommend this book: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

The front cover of the first paperback edition (Bantam, 1967) of The Crying of Lot 49. Cover art: Dancing woman with blue hair, blue mini dress and Paisley top surrounded by monochrome Paisley swirls. In the middle-distance: a Beat-group drummer at his drumkit. A Bizarre, Saturnalian Plunge Into The Underground "A Streamlined Doomsday Machine." - The New York Times

The back cover of the first paperback edition (Bantam, 1967) of The Crying of Lot 49. Same artwork as the front. WHO IS OEDIPA MAAS? And what was she doing when the Paranoids blew out all the lights? What was the strange legacy of Pierce Inverarity that first led her to the world-wide conspiracy known as the Tristero System, and then on into the mystery and enigma of America itself? The Crying of Lot 49 "Full of sadness, terror, love and flamboyance... The major character is really Pynchon himself." -The New York Times "Pynchon's grim version of the Holy Grail... The work of a virtuoso with prose... His intricate symbolic order ..akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses." -Chicago Tribune

Psychedelic Pynchon. (Via eBay)

YouTube video by La Synthèse Humaine New Uses for Old Circuits 02: Songs Of Éliane

Another great entry from Chris aka La Synthèse Humaine www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uT3.... Talking about Radigue and an approach to FM feedback we were chatting about last week.

A wonderful remembrance...and it also confirms my distaste for Schaeffer.

Éliane Radigue, French composer and musique concrète legend, dies aged 94 The Paris-born artist reinvented the synthesizer through meditative and feedback-drenched sonic explorations

The greatest. Her Oeuvres Electroniques box set would be one of the things I would grab first if the house was burning down. RIP

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

b&w photo of Éliane Radigue at the NY Cultural Center in 1971 ( or ‘72? ), installing for the premiere of “Chry-ptus”, standing alone in rows of empty auditorium seating

quote from Éliane Radigue: “It's the quality of the listening one brings to sound that makes it perceptible; it's the listening that makes it our own, according to the quality of our attention. If you open your body and your mind to listening with an active attitude, you will draw out very specific things. The condition for listening is obviously different according to the point in time, according to one's state of mind. That's the mirror effect, it's a reflection of one's state of mind in that moment. There exists a means of listening to any sound and making music of it.“

thank you Éliane Radigue. a towering inspiration in learning how to listen & lifetime creative practice.

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.

What a loss. One of the most important artists of the past 50 years.

Kevin McCloud is great.

YouTube video by La Synthèse Humaine New Uses for Old Circuits 01: Slope Generators as Lowpass Gates

Most Excellent. 100% Thank You. I hope it is not risking slop to say I hope there are many more.

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Also, we only have a handful of the 3CD set of Contraluz left in stock.

Yes, there is a new batch of FOUR new releases coming out shortly on Critique of Everyday Life!

Jump on our last release before the new batch drops.

Ha. Chris absolutely knows his shit.

[OK! I'M GOING TO BE VERY HYPERBOLIC HERE OK?]

every synth video channel on the internet should be pushed into the ocean except for La Synthèse Humaine and that one that host's Hordijk's masterclass

yeah don't @ me HYPERBOLE! WOOOOOO! YEEEEAH!

same

I really enjoyed Inspector Imanishi Investigates aka Castle of Sand which also fits your metaphor. I was looking for more by Matsumoto, so I definitely plan to snap this one up.

i got the invite for the 50 years leon party this spring which now sounds like it’s going to be a retirement party

‘They always gave us the heaviest work’: how Maga billionaires relied on Mexican labor Trump administration seeks to remove ‘illegal aliens’ but Uline’s past employment practices reveal a different reality

Semi-annual reminder to not buy things from ULINE. If shipping items is part of your world, it's very easy to source packing materials from local and/or non-terrible businesses.

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Lovely one!

We live in a magical place.

It's still wild to me that Billy Ocean plays on "Climate of Hunter"

Ah, yes. Punching down is always the noblest move

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20 YEARS:
'Z-Menge' by Asmus Tietchens (LINE_025)
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15 YEARS:
‘Remain’ by Stephan Mathieu (LINE_047)
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What a line up.

lmao. i own every single one of these.

YouTube video by Comedy Central UK Oldholio | Beavis And Butthead

Good happens. youtu.be/q_fh7d1zYF8?...

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Still my favorite Bowie.