Bluedot 2022: Friday Diary

byMark Roland
July 23, 2022

There's more to Bluedot than music. Mark Roland explores the lesser-travelled nooks of the space telescope's weirder environs

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Mark Roland

Holly Herndon ‘Platform’ (4AD)

byVel Ilic

The California-based boffin returns triumphant with an ingenious second album of laptop exploits

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3 minute read

Brian Eno ‘The Ship’ (Warp)

byMark Roland

Float On

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8 minute read

Late Works: Works in Progress

byClaire Francis

Offer a diverse bunch of musicians an assortment of instruments sculpted by artists, give them six hours to write and record a song, and what do you get? Meet Late Works and their ‘Of Noise’ LP

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3 minute read

Tangerine Dream – In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979 (UMC/Virgin EMI)

byMark Roland

Virgin Record’s run on German electronic and avant-garde talent in the 1970s kept the UK supplied with a soundtrack of electronic manifestations of mood.

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1 minute read

Charlemagne Palestine ‘theeOorgannnissstheeGgreattestttSsynthesizerrrEverrrrr’ (Meakusma)

bySpenser Tomson

Like a super time-stretched diminished chord, infinitely punctuating the terrifying twist of some real-life horror movie, ‘theeOorgan…’ slowly……

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3 minute read

ALSO ‘ALSO’ (R&S)

byAndrew Holmes

Bass men Appleblim and Second Storey break beats, boundaries, the mould, everything…

Bluedot 2022: Friday Diary

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Mark Roland

Holly Herndon ‘Platform’ (4AD)

Brian Eno ‘The Ship’ (Warp)

Late Works: Works in Progress

Tangerine Dream – In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979 (UMC/Virgin EMI)

Charlemagne Palestine ‘theeOorgannnissstheeGgreattestttSsynthesizerrrEverrrrr’ (Meakusma)

ALSO ‘ALSO’ (R&S)

Steve Cobby

Suddi Raval ‘Hardcore Uproar’

Robin Guthrie

Eric Siday

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Deep Feeling Fascination

White Noise: Lightning Strikes

Sleaford Mods: Grim Tales

Andrew Weatherall: “I’m a sponge, I want to soak up everything”

Bluedot 2022: Friday Diary

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