Plutonic Rainbows

Jonny Trunk's ability to dig out the rarest dusty reels and DATs from the archives, basements and attics of the Radiophonic workshop's various entourage has turned up possibly his most unbelievable find yet. Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield's original electronic soundtrack to the avant-garde film Circle of Light: The Photography of Pamela Bone, directed by Anthony Roland.

Circle of Light was premiered in 1972 and within three months was selected to represent Great Britain in the Art Film class at the Cork International Festival where it won first prize. Surprisingly for a film held in high regard, the nocturnal drones that Delia and Elsa produced to soundtrack it has never been commercially released before on vinyl. Believed to be Delia's longest surviving work, elements of her more esoteric workshop material bleed into the two compositions, Blue Veils & Golden Sand spectral tape loops glow in the midst and unravel a sinister edge to the soundtrack, while the second side's birds chirping casts a dreamlike haze that's both sedating and disorientating in the best way possible.

New album from Gothenburg producer, Axel Backman who records as 1991. You can get a copy here. This new album continues his signature low-fi sound with faded 90s techno.

Brian Eno's 'The Ship' is now available for preview. It's only on Spotify so you'll have to download the app just in order to listen to the title track. Alternatively, (and much less hassle), you can hear it on Youtube.

New Order have announced that their album Music Complete will be re-released as Complete Music with all the extended remixes that were previously only available on the vinyl. It will available on May 13th.

Track Listing is:

1. Restless (Extended Version)
2. Singularity (Extended Version)
3. Plastic (Extended Version)
4. Tutti Frutti (Extended Version)
5. People On The High Line (Extended Version)
6. Stray Dog (Extended Version)
7. Academic (Extended Version)
8. Nothing But A Fool (Extended Version 2)
9. Unlearn This Hatred (Extended Version)
10. The Game (Extended Version)
11. Superheated (Extended Version 2)

Can it really be true? Literature & Latte, the company behind the excellent Scrivener word-processing software have announced on their blog that it has now entered the beta stage. It's been a very long wait. I remember when this was first announced back in 2009.

These past three years, I have been increasingly interested in vintage fashion from the 1980s and early 1990s. A good site I recommend is Uneasy Nostalgia. They have some great magazine scans from years gone by.

A few people have asked me recently about Escada Pour Homme. This is a relatively difficult fragrance to find and quite expensive too. If you're looking to find out more about it (before pulling the trigger), then my review may be informative.

Moving months of HD movies from S3 to save some money. AmazonS3 is an excellent storage facility but once you you get some serious TB action, the costs mount up pretty quickly. The cheaper option is to put everything in Glacier but then you have the problem of trying to retrieve stuff using the AWS console.

Slept straight through about twelve hours. Not surprising as I hadn't slept the previous two days. Long distance travel is exhausting unless you have the money to travel in first class.

Trying to sort out my room a bit. So much stuff. Great to have so much space to move around in.