From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V11 #149 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, October 20 2009 Volume 11 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] BBC 4 Friday Synth Britannia [Tim ] Re: [idealcopy] BBC 4 Friday Synth Britannia [Hold ] Re: [idealcopy] BBC 4 Friday Synth Britannia [Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] BBC 4 Friday Synth Britannia Available till 26 October (sorry rest of world, UK only): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n93c4/b00n939g/Synth_Britannia/ Tremendous show I thought. About time this subject had a decent documentary, and reminded me just how much I *love* this stuff. Just a few of the Highlights: Richard H Kirk wandering around a (still) very post-industrial looking Sheffield with his Super 8 camera. John Foxx's ace, and decidedly non-Europop, Lancashire accent. Chris Carter's Gristle-izer Daniel Miller's amazing collection of synths...including Kraftwerk's Vocoder used on Autobahn(!), and a huge, wheezing old sequencer the size of a small fridge used to make the early Depeche stuff. The curvier, but still rather saucy Human League girls bemoaning the day the Linn Drum turned up in the studio. The most unpretentious people in Pop surely?! All the Depeche clips...how the hell did they go from prancing little boyband lambs to Sleazy S&M Industrial Pipe-bangers to stadium-straddling rock behemoths?! (Possibly by hoovering up enormous quantities of drink & drugs!). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:49:24 +0100 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Bill Withers the Forum Forum update! Bad boy "B.Hell" having recieved a thorough dressing down off several forum members (not me I hasten to add!) has been suspended for 1 week..after which he must play ball or be kicked off for good. Craig G has advised "B.Hell" that he perhaps start his own blog page rather than use the PF forum as one. "B.Hell" really should do a blog. He could become the enfant terrible of the blogging world. I daresay a lot of us would subscribe so he wouldn't need the ready-made audience he gets on PF. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:57:05 -0700 From: Hold Subject: Re: [idealcopy] BBC 4 Friday Synth Britannia Agreed Tim, excellent doc. (GREAT seeing Mr. Foxx!) Steven On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Tim wrote: > Available till 26 October (sorry rest of world, UK only): > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n93c4/b00n939g/Synth_Britannia/ > > > Tremendous show I thought. > > About time this subject had a decent documentary, and reminded me just how > much I *love* this stuff. > > Just a few of the Highlights: > > Richard H Kirk wandering around a (still) very post-industrial looking > Sheffield with his Super 8 camera. > > John Foxx's ace, and decidedly non-Europop, Lancashire accent. > > Chris Carter's Gristle-izer > > Daniel Miller's amazing collection of synths...including Kraftwerk's > Vocoder used on Autobahn(!), and a huge, wheezing old sequencer the size of > a small fridge used to make the early Depeche stuff. > > The curvier, but still rather saucy Human League girls bemoaning the day > the Linn Drum turned up in the studio. The most unpretentious people in Pop > surely?! > > All the Depeche clips...how the hell did they go from prancing little > boyband lambs to Sleazy S&M Industrial Pipe-bangers to stadium-straddling > rock behemoths?! (Possibly by hoovering up enormous quantities of drink & > drugs!). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:50:34 +0100 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] BBC 4 Friday Synth Britannia Bought a terrific new record of Jon Foxx's today called 'Impossible' on a whim as I saw it in our local shop and took a punt on it. Fortunately it's excellent and very much in the style of 'Metamatic'. Big stabs of cold icy analogue synth and big hissing drum machines...perfect! http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=John+Foxx+%26+Louis+Gordon&pType=1 Love the record he did with Robin Guthrie as well: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=John+Foxx+%26+Robin+Guthrie&pType=1 Hold wrote: > Agreed Tim, excellent doc. (GREAT seeing Mr. Foxx!) > > Steven ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V11 #149 ********************************