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Redd Panderson wrote:
Yes, actually, and it was both one of my favorite R35TT tracks + one of my favorite TH tracks (both two of my favorite BOC tracks in general!)

It's A14: compare it to New Seeds

akirako wrote:Hey!

Despite the sunny weather there's a gloomy and introspective side to Catalonia. Barcelona is a post-industrial town and it didn't rust to death because of the service economy, but nobody's exactly happy about the way things are going and even the Olympic redevelopment/gentrification scheme was sort of traumatic. Except for St Miquel and Barceloneta all of the beaches are artificial and built on brownfield/former industrial waste disposal pipelines. The Forum is built on Francoist execution grounds. They were killing so many people they'd make them stand in a row, then mount a machine gun on a car and drive by until nobody was standing. Plus if you go back in history there's not a lot of happy times. Basically everyone has a list of people they'd kill if another civil war broke out lmao, we're just too polite and cowardly in a twisted way (despite being such an insufferably loud and brash town). You know, like how nobody tells the guys rapping in the metro to fuck off but everyone rants about them in private. It's also like that when things get ugly because, despite being loud as fuck, nobody wants to stand out like that.

But Primavera Sound for instance started in Barcelona and it does employ a lot of locals in decision making positions. I don't like their business model but I mean there's definitely a strong local musical intelligentsia. Canada the artsy advertising/music video studio is also from Barcelona and they've made some stuff for Warp bands, Battles iirc. Vagina Dentata Organ, the guy that rants about serial killers on that Whitehouse album was from Barcelona too, etc.

There's a fair bit of local experimental music too but I guess yeah, that's not even close to where the mainstream has been for ages, and since both Spanish and Catalan public TV has become dreadful I don't think there's going to be much in the way of making any sort of less mainstream music reach the public. It used not to be like that, and at least 5 or so years ago betevé had a couple of good programmes, I wonder what it's like now. Overall the scene is in a deep crisis but it has more to do with how difficult it's become to book a venue and how much of a right-winger in disguise Collboni is, rather than lack of interest. Sad times but being bitter and complaining all the time, then not doing anything about it is the quintessential Catalan character trait

Moloch wrote:My LP + shirt still hasn't arrived. I'm afraid it's either been lost or stolen. What an ordeal!

Den wrote:I thought it was cool that Inferno and Paul McCartney’s album dropped on the same day.

Rikkiebags wrote:Number 2 in the current midweek charts behind some bloke.

Widmerpool wrote:

akirako wrote:Hey!

Despite the sunny weather there's a gloomy and introspective side to Catalonia. Barcelona is a post-industrial town and it didn't rust to death because of the service economy, but nobody's exactly happy about the way things are going and even the Olympic redevelopment/gentrification scheme was sort of traumatic. Except for St Miquel and Barceloneta all of the beaches are artificial and built on brownfield/former industrial waste disposal pipelines. The Forum is built on Francoist execution grounds. They were killing so many people they'd make them stand in a row, then mount a machine gun on a car and drive by until nobody was standing. Plus if you go back in history there's not a lot of happy times. Basically everyone has a list of people they'd kill if another civil war broke out lmao, we're just too polite and cowardly in a twisted way (despite being such an insufferably loud and brash town). You know, like how nobody tells the guys rapping in the metro to fuck off but everyone rants about them in private. It's also like that when things get ugly because, despite being loud as fuck, nobody wants to stand out like that.

But Primavera Sound for instance started in Barcelona and it does employ a lot of locals in decision making positions. I don't like their business model but I mean there's definitely a strong local musical intelligentsia. Canada the artsy advertising/music video studio is also from Barcelona and they've made some stuff for Warp bands, Battles iirc. Vagina Dentata Organ, the guy that rants about serial killers on that Whitehouse album was from Barcelona too, etc.

There's a fair bit of local experimental music too but I guess yeah, that's not even close to where the mainstream has been for ages, and since both Spanish and Catalan public TV has become dreadful I don't think there's going to be much in the way of making any sort of less mainstream music reach the public. It used not to be like that, and at least 5 or so years ago betevé had a couple of good programmes, I wonder what it's like now. Overall the scene is in a deep crisis but it has more to do with how difficult it's become to book a venue and how much of a right-winger in disguise Collboni is, rather than lack of interest. Sad times but being bitter and complaining all the time, then not doing anything about it is the quintessential Catalan character trait

Absolutely spot-on on the understated gloomy aspect of Catalonia. Even without delving as deep into our sociohistorical wounds as you did it just lends itself naturally to brooding.
(Or maybe that's just me.)

In Barcelona itself I make a point to avoid the most touristic areas. They are crazy and not in a dainty, picturesque way, but fucked up and drained of identity, not to mention dangerous. Between drug-peddling gangs, greedy and/or everlastingly wasted foreigners who fancy the city as their toilet and the infamous local police I don't know what I dread the most. Ironically it's often the most lumpen quarters (like in the outskirts and the área metropolitana) that are teeming with a soul of its own, seeping through the cracks of a grotesque urban planning: a ragged, almost psychedelic feel not too different from how Marsé portrayed it in his post-war novels. One day, soon I am due a good stroll with Inferno on my headphones.

Sadly I haven't kept up with its music scene as I don't *really* live there any longer, but there used to be more than a few local and experimental-minded venues sprawled across the city, if you ignore the big salas and festivals. Despite the crisis it still seems to attract musicians like very few places do in Europe. I *kind* of miss that, personally, if anything.

superuser wrote:濁ったプリズムの向こうに浮かび上がる狂気

That’s the tagline written on the obi strip in the Japanese edition of the vinyl/cd

It translates to “the madness emerges from behind a clouded prism”

superuser wrote:濁ったプリズムの向こうに浮かび上がる狂気

That’s the tagline written on the obi strip in the Japanese edition of the vinyl/cd

It translates to “the madness emerges from behind a clouded prism”

portiss wrote:The 1 I ordered through Rough Trade is still in pre-transit, with an ''Unknown Estimated Delivery Date''.
Really hope this doesn't screw up and I can't get my hands on the limited edition anymore.