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‘In The Light Of Time – UK Post-Rock And Leftfield Pop 1992-1998’ (Ace Records, 2023)

“…you could almost feel the grime and noise of the capital clinging to the songs. While it was a time of huge creativity, that on-the-edge-of-breakdown sense is still audible.”

ace records, arcane delights, disco inferno, earwig, hood, insides, jeanette leech, laika, leftfield pop, main, post-rock, pram, seefeel, simon reynolds, spoonfed hybrid

Piano Magic Diaries : Artists’ Rifles

“I was later to realise that Woodbine, as with many other studios, was really just a blank canvas on which to paint. That we arrived with our brushes and next to no ideas was somewhat ironic.”

album, artists rifles, Dead Can Dance, felt, john rivers, martin duffy, piano magic, post-rock, postrock, recording studio, rocketgirl, wilfred owen

Arcane Delights Radio Show 13 (Mixcloud, 19/4/22)

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ambient, arcane delights, dreampop, indiepop, industrial, mixcloud, music, post-rock, radio show, vini reilly

Piano Magic Diaries : The Troubled Sleep

“Did we want to be on a label called Green Ufos? We were called Piano Magic for fuck’s sake, so we couldn’t exactly throw stones in that glasshouse.”

4ad records, album, arcane delights, electronica, indie-rock, piano magic, post-rock, postrock, the troubled sleep of piano magic

Arcane Delights Radio Show 12 (Mixcloud, 20/3/22)

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ambient, arcane delights, dream, dreampop, electronica, folk, industrial, mixcloud, post-punk, post-rock, radio show

Arcane Delights, Radio Show 10 (CAMP Radio 17/4/21)

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arcane delights, CAMP Radio, post-rock, postrock, radio, radio show, radioshow

Piano Magic Diaries : Writers Without Homes

“Take the head of a duck, the body of a goat, the legs of a rhino, the tail of a cat, stitch them altogether and see what you have.  It may not be beautiful but it’s certainly interesting.”

4ad, 4ad records, blog, darren hayman, diary, electronic music, electronica, hefner, joe boyd, john grant, martin andersen, paul anderson, piano magic, post-rock, simon raymonde, suzy mangion, tram, vashti bunyan

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.”

cheree, disco inferno, ian crause, paul wilmott, post-rock, rob whatley, rough trade records, sampler

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