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Marceline Smith chats to the infamous founder of acidlogic.com about his new book, his music, his time at diskant and just how generally great it is to be Wil Forbis. Read more >>
Marceline Smith caught up with Oxford's finest electro-noise experimentalists as they prepared for diskant's ten year anniversary party. Read more >>
From the archives:
Paul Cannell was something of an in-house painter for Heavenly and Creation Records. Marceline Smith visited him at his studio in 1992 to talk about his work.
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(Originally posted July 2004)
I’m fluctuating wildly these days between my usual lifestyle of drinking too much, not eating enough and not getting enough decent sleep and a New Thing of not drinking, trying to eat well and generally trying to keep myself together. I’m getting tired of continually dealing with health and psychological issues, and […]
Apologies for this, but seeing as Souvaris has been an ongoing concern for over 8 years now and have visited many strange and exciting lands (and venues) in our time, it’s always been a minor scandal that we have never ventured over the Scottish border. HOWEVER! This will change on Saturday, as we will be […]
The days might be getting shorter and winter may be on its way but at least it’s almost time for this year’s Audioscope. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Audioscope is an annual musical extravaganza organised by diskant’s own Simon and Stu in aid of homeless charity Shelter. This year it takes place at […]
(Originally posted April 2004)
Benevolent good egg David J Stockwell gave me a pile of stuff from Narnack Records, after informing […]
If you win the Nobel Prize for Literature, you generally have to be pretty good at writing (this is not the case with the Peace Prize). The 3 novels I’ve read by Prize winners have all been pretty good but poetry and theatre aren’t so much my thing. Harold Pinter was the 2005 Laureate and […]
Sorta post-rock, sorta like Appliance, they sound warm and uplifting:
The French Quarter Myspace page
(Originally posted February 2004)
Looks like it might be time for another column - all the signs are falling into place: a parcel of review […]
A host of swirling echoes and schoolgirl voices jump from ear to ear. A proud and primal beat follows. Welcome to the jarringly entertaining world of Grampall Jookabox, Indiana’s prime beat master and tune churner.
Quite a bit of drama to this release. David Adamson, the man behind the moniker, was struck by inspiration, cancelled a […]
(Originally posted October 2003)
INCOMING!
Wow, hey, look at this great big pile of records and CDs I have before me, which I should have been listening to diligently […]
Two Minute Noodles display all the reasons why watching a duo can be great fun. Keys and drums face each other, interplaying and generally having a ball. This is well-formed and intense tunes, taking some influence from the thumping drive of Philadelphia’s Need New Body. Drummer ‘Moz’ (also in Chops and Quack Quack) swings his […]
It's diskant's 10 year anniversary this year! We had an awesome party and you can buy our celebratory zine right here for just £1
