“Do you think that Nirvana was happy music? I mean music has been melancholic from Wagner to Nirvana, all of it! I really think that music is, by definition, melancholy.”
Blaine L. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) interview, 2020
“Tuxedomoon has not been easy to pigeonhole. That’s probably a large part of our appeal. “
Arcane Delights, Radio Show 4, (CAMP Radio 31/10/20)
Music in the margins
Arcane Delights Radio Show 3, (CAMP Radio, 3/10/20)
Music in the margins
Arcane Delights Radio Show 2 (CAMP Radio, 5/9/20)
Music in the margins
Disco Inferno – ‘Summer’s Last Sound/Love Stepping Out’ (Cheree, 1992)
“For all this talk of Summer and love, there’s a worm in Disco Inferno’s apple that never really ever goes away.”
Harold Budd – ‘The Pavilion Of Dreams’ (Obscure Records, 1978)
“I realized I had minimalized myself out of a career. It had taken 10 years to reduce my language to zero but I loved the process of seeing it occur and not knowing when the end would come.”
Mücha (Interview with Amanda Butterworth)
“If I connect genuinely with even a couple of people, that’s ace and really that’s something to focus on, rather than focus on who I’m not connecting with.”
The Durutti Column – ‘Without Mercy’ (Factory Records, 1984/Factory Benelux, 2018)
“But wait! A drum machine in a modern classical piece? Only on Factory Records. I’ve never, to this day, heard anything so wrong be so right. “
If only I could get up before 9am…(My Record Store 2020 picks for August 29th)
“Re-issue, re-package, please the press in Belgium?”