Adrian Slatcher Online
Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
Bedroom Cassette Masters Vol.8
I’m very pleased to be featured on the Bedroom Cassette Masters series of downloads for the 3rd time. Put together by the industrious Simon Holland this rediscovers those 80s bedroom musicians from a pre-internet age recording electronic music with synths, drum machines and 4-track portastudios.
My track “Complexities Part 6” is credited to The Folly and was recorded in early 1986 when was 18, turning 19. It was the high water mark of my ambient instrumental recordings, the whole piece clocking in at 22:41 – the maximum I could fit on one side of a C46 tape! This final section is far from ambient being a shimmering euphoric chord sequence.
Download and you get a lovely PDF booklet to go with it.
I was previously on volume 1 (“Exit from Maya”) and volume 5(“The Wasp Factory”) and on the 90s compilation volume 7 (“Last Night We Were Soft Porn”).
Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- The End of Cultural HistoryWhen Fukuyama wrote about the "end of history" in 1992 he was prompted by the fall of communism in 1989. taking the intellectual gamble that the "cold war" and its ending was a defining moment. Debunked somewhat since - not least by 9/11 - there's a certain sense-making that went into that declaration. The short twentieth century wou […]
- Manchester: City of LiteratureOn Thursday I attended the official launch for the bid for Manchester to become a UNESCO City of Literature, part of its creative cities network - an excellent initiative that sees cities worldwide networking and creating partnerships and exchanges through their mutual love of different art forms. I was at the launch a few years ago in Norwich when they anno […]
- Cop Hater by Ed McBainI don't read that much detective fiction but when I do I've always liked the hard-boiled or the noirish. Oddly I've never picked up an Ed McBain before, despite being a big fan of one of the writer's other pseudonym's Evan Hunter, whose 50s jazz noir "Second Ending" is even more a favourite than "Blackboard Jungle […]
- EEK! by EEK! - new electronic musicEEK! by EEK! is a new project of electronic instrumental music. 8 tracks of jittery electronica taking in old school techno, acid and trance, and mixing with contemporary dubstep, glitch, its ideal for Sunday morning listening or Saturday night jigging around. My first release for six months - this is a 30 minute side project that harnesses the digital sound […]
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenIn this Pulitzer Prize winning debut novel Viet Thanh Nguyen tells the story of what happened after the Vietnamese war to the diaspora of his people, through the effective telling of its narrator, a Captain in the South Vietnamese army. From the start we know that the Captain is telling the story as a confession to the Commissar, and that he is was a spy on […]
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