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Edward James by Ren\u00e9 Magritte; La Reproduction Interdite (1937).<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “James was filmed in the late 1970s, striding round Las Pozas in a sweater and a tattered dressing-gown, surmounted by parrots (The Secret Life of Edward James<\/em><\/a> can be seen on YouTube). When asked what motivated him, he replied: \u2018Pure megalomania!\u2019 He was having his second childhood, he said, though he wasn\u2019t sure the first had ever ended.” Mike Jay<\/a> on lifelong Surrealist, Edward James (1907\u20131984), and the concrete fantasia he built in the Mexican jungle.<\/p>\n \u2022 “I found the roots of electronic music in a cupboard!” Musician Paul Purgas<\/a> (one half of Emptyset) on the discovery of early electronic music from India’s National Institute Of Design. Related: Purgas talks about his discovery<\/a> with Patrick Clarke.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Phil May. Here’s The Pretty Things<\/a> in their guise as psych band “Electric Banana” for an appearance in What’s Good for the Goose<\/em> (1969). A decent moment in an otherwise terrible film.<\/p>\n \u2022 Music is a memory machine: David Toop<\/a> explores how the transmission of music between disparate cultures can be a tool against populism and prejudice.<\/p>\n \u2022 Kraftwerk’s remarkable journey, and where it took us: Bob Boilen and Geeta Dayal<\/a> discuss the tanzmusik<\/em> of D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dangerous Minds<\/a>: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy: Fifty years ago The Cockettes turned drag upside down.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hua Hsu<\/a> on the secret lives of fungi: “They shape the world\u2014and offer lessons for how to live in it”.<\/p>\n \u2022 The great writer who never wrote: Emma Garman<\/a> on the flamboyant Stephen Tennant.<\/p>\n \u2022 Cult 1998 PlayStation game LSD: Dream Emulator<\/em><\/a> is finally playable in English.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jim Jupp<\/a> of Ghost Box records talks about the Intermission<\/em> compilation album.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jonathan Moodie<\/a> on psychoactive cinema and sacred animation.<\/p>\n \u2022 Alex Barrett<\/a> on where to begin with Akira Kurosawa.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Skeletons<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Skeleton Makes Good<\/a><\/em> (1982) by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Red Skeletons<\/a><\/em> (1996) by Coil | Kids Will Be Skeletons<\/a><\/em> (2003) by Mogwai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Edward James by Ren\u00e9 Magritte; La Reproduction Interdite (1937). \u2022 “James was filmed in the late 1970s, striding round Las Pozas in a sweater and a tattered dressing-gown, surmounted by parrots (The Secret Life of Edward James can be seen on YouTube). 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