how can this not be great?

I don't make a habit of posting links to things that i havn't listened to yet, but there's a new cry.on.my.console mix thing, and from the tracklist, it looks like it cannot fail...beware, however -

"51mins 01sec
58.4MB
160kbps"

cry.on.my.console: a harrowing experience

(ps: I'm still not entirely sure about the etiquette involved with the direct linking vs hosting yourself thing...I know some people prefer to not have their bandwidth leached, and other want to know the numbers - I've made this a direct link, mainly because i want to be down the pub in a minute and simply don't have time right now...if this is bad manners, someone please let me know so I can sort it in the morning...advice is welcome).

I've got a biscuit tin/to keep your panties in...

Genesis P.Orridge and his wife are trying to turn themselves (by plastic surgery and hormones and stuff) into each other. That's an odd thing to do, but even stranger than that was the attempt (over a decade ago) by ambient dance spods Spooky and ex-Electribe 101-er Billie Ray Martin to turn the Throbbing Gristle classic "Persuasion", a dark and disturbing stalkers lament, into a vaguely accessible torch-song-cum-ambient-dance number. What the eedup kiddies of 1993 thought when it turned up on chillout compilation "Trance Europe Express" must have thought, I cannot imagine. The oddest thing of all may be the fact that it has dated less than many of the other tunes on there...

Spooky + Billy Ray Martin: Persuasion (buy)

Queen Mums of Pop #2: Shot by Both Sides...

Beyond dispute.

Magazine: Shot by Both Sides (buy)

"Think only of Your Selves..."

Hawkwind havn't any mp3s on their site. The Progarchives (usually a wonderful source for all things prog) claims they have had 40+ members and released over a hundred albums (including live ones, compilations etc), but only has the painfully overexposed Silver machine for download...

Progarchive doesn't list all the spin-off bands (Oh Pete Frame, where are you now the world needs you?), but here are a couple of tracks from two of the many bands who have intersected with the very venn world of hawk (there MUST be a list somewhere):

Inner City Unit: Amyl Nitrate (site)

Robert Calvert and the Maximum Effect: Orgone Accumulator (site)

wtf wednesday...

Two from Spasticated record's "Ministry of Shit" album - buy it while you can...

Mark N: I Love Faeces

Trotters: Ice Ice Bacon

catching up (part II)

It's difficult to know what to post after a few days off - the way I usually do this is to *trawl*, links from links from links until my hard drive aches like Johnny Vegas's 4am bladder...you can tell when I'm struggling, because I post a track I know you know I know (already)...you kind of get into a groove, following a seam, and a few days off blows it...so it's back to the front line...

So here's the thing: check poj, check gybo, check apeonaut, beatbox saboteurs, The Confidential, GHP, the newly relaunched Boot 106, check all the places you know and post what's new and exceptional...

tomorrow, there'll be new stuff (actually, tomorrow is of course WTF Wednesday and I already know what you're getting, so I mean Thursday) but today here's something good from my bookmarks...

E-Jitz: Shit Shout Out

Poj Master:Penis McSupaFly

catching up...

Been to cornwall. It was nice. Came home. Had my tea. It was nice. Listened to this. It 's fucking great.

The Infadels: Brandon Vegas (buy)