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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer is Just Like Here But Worse. That’s all the insight you’ll ever get. So you might as well go back to sleep. You were born without a heartbeat and kept alive in an...

Music For Howie B-B-Babies

Music For Howie B-B-Babies

Listen to Music For Howie B-B-Babies byGeecologist on hearthis.at Part 2 of the Howie B hagiography... Part 1 is here. I don't know what it is about albums from folks who are primarily producers, but goddamn they're good. And that's not a genre restricted statement...

For The Love of Howie B

For The Love of Howie B

Since bagging a copy of Music For Babies back in the 1990s, I've been a big fan of Howie B's exploits. Hot on the heels of that abstract wonder, came Turn The Dark Off, a simpler instrumental hip hop record, but still with tons going on and some exceptionally good...

Symbols and Signs

Symbols and Signs

For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present to take to a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. Desires he had none. Man-made objects were to him either hives of evil, vibrant with a malignant...

The Power Of Geography

The Power Of Geography

The political union of 1707 had been preceded by a natural one over 400 million years earlier. England was attached to a small continent called Avalonia, drifting northwards across the ocean. At the same time, several thousand kilometres away, Scotland was heading...