Andy Rourke, bassist for The Smiths, died yesterday at the age of 59. In 2004 he returned to Salford Lads Club, scene of an iconic image of the band, and spoke to one of the club's stalwarts - Archie Swift.
It’s a sad day today, as we say farewell to my friend Knocky, the Zulu warrior, Jah Shaka. Shaka played a huge part in the establishing of AriwA
In the very early days he would book the studio weekly, and shared building in Peckham, with Jah Shaka Music operating from the HQ
Been watching more music production videos recently as a source of inspo and new ideas… anyone got any faves? In the vein of Ableton’s “One Thing” series, @MrNedRush's tutorials on using Ableton to generate crazy sound design procedurally, even FACT’s Against The Clock, etc
The Aztec combo is when you combine psilocybin mushrooms and cacao. The theobromine in the cacao adds extra euphoria, stimulation and is a mild MAOI, potentiating the psilocybin effects.
Teaching my dad, at the age of 70, how to use a TB303 in under 2 and a half minutes...
Added some 909, reverb and distortion 'n' he was off!
#acid#tb303#dads
With his reinstatement of Cruella Braverman as Home Secretary, we see what Sunak really stands for:
Crushing civil liberties, persecuting refugees, sacrificing lives to the billionaire press.
The Nasty Party never went away.
Why is Boris Johnson on holiday in the Caribbean when he is supposed to be at work in Westminster? And why would you put a man who skives off from serving his constituents in charge of the wellbeing of all of us?