Category Archives: music

New Order YouTube Goodness

Posted on August 28, 2007 by admin

It’s been a while since I posted any YouTube videos, so here you go to get you in the mood for ATOMIC. 3 clips of New Order live in the BBC Radio 1 studios, 1984. Fantastic stuff, and well worth … Continue reading →

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It’s Just Like A Cassette, But Not!

Posted on August 14, 2007 by admin

From here: Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s? If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette … Continue reading →

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Buy vinyl, get CD too!

Posted on August 9, 2007 by admin

So I picked up the new Interpol album Our Love To Admire on vinyl the other day from the good people at Slow Boat, and a very nice package it is – double 12″ in gatefold with inserts blah blah … Continue reading →

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New Joy Division & new Mick Jones!

Posted on August 9, 2007 by admin

From the NME (http://www.nme.com/news/30194): Joy Division‘s back catalogue is to be reissued with extra material to coincide with the release of ‘Control’, the biopic about their singer Ian Curtis. Both the band’s studio albums, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’, and the … Continue reading →

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Where are my friends tonight? Again…

Posted on July 26, 2007 by admin

Great article on the ‘melancholy greatness’ of LCD Soundsystem’s fabulous ‘All My Friends’ by Hua Hsu at Slate. Read it here. Big thanks go to ‘friend of nothingelseon’ James for the link. B

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Talking Heads live in Rome 1980

Posted on July 23, 2007 by admin

In more Atomic anticipation, some kind soul has uploaded the following live footage of Talking Heads to Youtube: Talking Heads w/ Adrian Belew December 1980 “Live in Rome” Pro-shot live performance of Talking Heads. Another great show from the Adrian … Continue reading →

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Synth Pop/Electronic History Lesson for download!

Posted on July 19, 2007 by admin

There is an excellent early electronica/new wave/synth mix available for download here: http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=12 This is a fantastic sampler of late 70’s/early 80’s electronic, minimal synth, synth-pop music. Includes The Associates, OMD, Paul Haig, Thomas Leer, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, John … Continue reading →

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Reaching for the sublime in music design

Posted on July 10, 2007 by admin

Nice site hardformat.org set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the … Continue reading →

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New Moon on Mondays!

Posted on July 3, 2007 by admin

Blimey! There’s a new Happy Mondays album! The cover looks like this: The tracklist is: 1. Jellybean 2. Angels And Whores 3. Deviants 4. Rats With Wings 5. Cuntry Disco 6. In The Blood 7. Anti Warhole On The Dancefloor … Continue reading →

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Return of the mix!

Posted on June 15, 2007 by admin

Here’s the tracklist for the first 24 Hour Party People mixtape (CD actually). I’ll have a few to give away on Saturday night, so if you want one, just come up & ask. Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing! Franz … Continue reading →

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