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About Me

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Get your own playlist at snapdrive.net! Writer of Music Reviews and Featurettes relating to electronic music and otherwise. No, I'm not a 'Hack' or a 'Critic'... I just write appraisals and considerations. Hopefully the opportunity will present itself for interested parties to Eat My Pudding, whatever the flavour. It's a pity we're forced to engage here in the Commodification of the Self, but there you go. There's always the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. It's grim up north...

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My Blog

REWOUND :: Volume 12 (Alan Lockett's 2008 Top Ten)

Here I go again with a Top Ten (x 2) retrospective on igloomag
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:23:00 GMT

Some Greats of ’08

Phew! 2008, eh? Seems like I blinked and it went by... Anyway, I'm here to announce:Now Appearing at a blog page near you: '08 Greats Vols. I and II  containing 30 Greats from '08! Solicitously selec...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:03:00 GMT

Great Axescapes

So having spent the last couple of years engaged on an on-off archaeology-cum-ethnography of ambient-ish and drone-inclined music using guitar as primary source, I decided to put together some sort of...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:19:00 GMT

Twenty Hertz: Romancing the Drone (furthernoise)

I have a mini-profile-cum-extended-multi-review-type piece on Twenty Hertz and associated artists (esp. Paul Bradley) posted on furthernoise.org right about here:Twenty Hertz: Romancing the Drone
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:59:00 GMT

Longitudinal listening

"Current listening" lists posted around various forums allow a snapshot of a listener's intake. It occurred to me to stretch that time frame out and represent listening experience over a longer period...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:06:00 GMT

15ofthebestof2007

I've made available for download a mix containing tracks from some of my favoured plays of 2007. The link below is to a .zip file which contains a continuous mp3 (128 kps bitrate) of 78:27 mins in le...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:43:00 GMT

furthernoise radio blah-blah

The background to this was an invitation onto an edition of the fortnightly broadcast presented by the editor of furthernoise.org, one of the websites that publishes my music-related blah. The brief w...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:50:00 GMT

further furthernoise

So I have further distillations from the Lockett lexical sewage recycling reviewage plant posted in consideration of two recent releases that have nicely sluiced my ear canals: one is another in a lon...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:28:00 GMT

furthernoise...

...is a site covering a range of artists and activities from experimental ambient and noise ambits. It's maintained by sound artist Roger Mills who, serendipitously, lives just down round the corner h...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:03:00 GMT

Biggin' up the ig gig (more o' them dances about architecture)

You can read more of my unwieldy blend of compound noun pile-ups, syntax errors masquerading as Proper Style, and Zeigeist channeling musico-cultural blah-stroke-commentary, with chunky embedded nugge...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 22:55:00 GMT