All the usual...
Bristle's Blog From The BunKRS
Pat Mills // Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge // Diana Rigg // PJ & Smiley // Ted Maul // Dr Clara Greed // Leo Baxendale // Richard Tomlinson // Diplo // Tim Bentinck // Miriam Margoyles
A bit of everything, but a spoonful of sugar always helps the medicine go down:
acid house, afrobeat, anarchopunk, baile funk, bashment, bastard pop, bleep, bluebeat, breakbeat, buzzpop, crunk, disco, doris day, downtempo, electro, electro funk, eskibeat, favela beats, folk, funk, gabba, garage, glitch, grime, hardcore, hi-life, hiphop, house, industrial, jungle, klezmer, krautrock, kwaito, lo-fi, lovers rock, mashup, miami bass, new beat, new wave, oi, old skool, psychedelic, psychobilly, punk, quadrille, rare groove, reggaeton, rhythm and blues, rock, rock and roll, rocksteady, roots reggae, salsa, samba, ska, skiffle, soca, soul, sub bass, tech house, techno, uk garage, vaudeville, waila, xoomii, yardcore, zouk, zydeco...
But what's in a label? Music can be all this or none of it, and still move you...
Some of the artists, bands, composers, performers and wandering minstrels who shimmy my world include:
4hero , 23 Skidoo , 808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , A House , Aaron Spectre , Aba Shanti , AberNStein , Adam Freeland , Adina Howard , Agentlovelette , Aggro1 , Alabama 3 , Alex C , Alex H , Alison David , The Aloof , Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra , The Arcade Fire , Art Of Noise , Aspects , Atari Teenage Riot , ATOM , Audiodile , Audioshrapnel , Autechre , The Auteurs , The Avalanches , Aztec Camera , Ballistic Brothers , Bernard Herrmann , Beth Orton , Big Audio Dynamite , Biosphere , Blaggers ITA , Blackstar , Bomb The Bass , Bonde Do Role , The Breeders , BuG , The Bug , The Chi-Lites , Chris T-T , Chumbawamba , Cléan , Coldcut , Crass , Curtis Mayfield , Dead Prez , DFRNT , Diplo , DJ C , DJ Donna Summer , DJ not-I , DJ Schmolli , DJ Zebra , Drugstore , Dunproofin' , Electric Beat Consignment , EMF , Emilie Simon , Emily Loizeau , Evolution Control Committee , Fat Club , Fela Kuti , Fluke , The Flying Pickets , Flying White Dots , Freestylers , Fun-Da-Mental , Genaside II , Genius/GZA , Geto Boys , The God Machine , Goldfrapp , Greg Wilson , Gunshot , Hazel Winter , Herbie Hancock , Hubert Césarion , Humurak D Gritty , The Illuminoids , Indeep , Jav MC , Jill Scott , Julian Cope , Kate Bush , Kelis , Kid Carpet , The Kleptones , KLF , Kristin Hersh , Lady Sovereign , Lock3Down , Love , M.I.A. , Madnomad , Malago , Massive Attack , mr_hopkinson's computer , Naughty By Nature , Negativland , New Fast Automatic Daffodils , NTM , Oil Experts , Orbital , The Outlaws , Overlord X , Paris , Pavement , Peaches , Pegz , Pitman , Quel Est La Date , Rachid Taha , Radical Dance Faction , Ragga Twins , Red Snapper , Renegade Soundwave , Richard Thompson , Roots Manuva , rx , Saïan Supa Crew , Sandy Nelson , Saul Williams , Shitmat , Shut Up And Dance , Skinnyman , Smith & Mighty , Soundhog , Space Raiders , Stoloff & Hopkinson , The Sundays , Super Furry Animals , Tchad Unpoe , Thomas Dolby , Throwing Muses , Ultra Vivid Scene , Up, Bustle & Out , Venetian Snares , The Waterboys , Wax Audio , White Trash Ambition , The Who Boys , Wreckx-N-Effect , Xerox Soundsystem , Yazoo , Yellow Magic Orchestra , Zamali , The Zen Hussies ...
Sure, i like the stuttering shutter... Big budget blockbusters and shoestring personal visions, auteurs and artisans, words and pictures... Ealing comedies, HBO TV movies, Brat Pack, Mamet, Lumet, 'La Haine', Kurosawa, 'Shaun Of The Dead', Kevin Smith, 'The Elephant Man', John Carpenter, there's good and bad in it all...
CoolestEverLand : better than television!
No heroes - no disappointments; but hon menshes to:
Bo Maggs + Cedric Peate // Alan Moore // Helen Steel + Dave Morris // Archie Leach // Hugh Thompson Jnr, Lawrence Colburn + Glenn Andreotta