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Keith Fullerton Whitman

Thursday, July 3, Keith Fullerton Whitman will perform live on the Rare Frequency radio program on WZBC. For the last decade or, Keith has been one the most consistently figures in American electronic music. His discography is as variegated as it is voluminous. For years he dished out a righteously furious mix of breakbeats and esoteric cut-up experiments under the moniker Hrvatski (the one pseudonym that stuck out of a gaggle of many that he used on 1998’s wonderful (and hellaciously eclectic) Attention: Cats! LP). Eventually, though, he all but abandoned the breaks for more abstract terrain and began releasing records under his given name exploring a broad range of styles and techniques from ambient guitar drone to musique concrete, krautrock to early electronics….

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Ning Nong Blog

“What a noisy place to belong/Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong.”

Cut out a word or two and you’ve just about hit the nail on the noggin. The Ning Nong Radio show, which follows RF every Thursday on WZBC, is indeed a noisy place to belong. For those who wish to know what’s on the noisy mind of Ning Nong, check out his (relatively) new blog Ning Nong Says. Mr. Ning Nong loves records more passionately than anyone I know (and that’s saying something given the circles I run in) and will tell you a thing or two about ‘em. He also loves organic celery and may well wax rhapsodic on that subject in a future blog post….

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Ghost Box Clip

The folks at the Ghost Box label (home to such wonderful, library music loving acts as the Focus Group and Belbury Poly) have posted a short film by director Julian House. The haunting (or perhaps simply hauntological) clip titled “Phenomena and Occurences” was made for an event organized by those intriguing people behind Strange Attractor.