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Hexa (1971) by Victor Vasarely.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 New music of the week is Tape 05<\/em><\/a>, three minutes from Boards Of Canada following their thirteen-year silence, which was released on Thursday after several days of the group and their record label teasing a comeback with mysterious VHS cassettes and cryptic posters<\/a>. I’ve been listening to the Sandison brothers’ discography for most of the week while trying to get a major illustration commission finished; this revelation has been the icing on a deteriorated, over-processed cake. I’m now looking forward to whatever emerges next.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Long London Uncovered<\/a>: Alan Moore (again) and Iain Sinclair (again) in conversation. Alan’s second novel in the Long London cycle, I Hear A New World<\/em>, will be published next month.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Chris Mullen<\/a>. Not a name that most will recognise but Mullen’s sprawling website, The Visual Telling of Stories<\/a>, has been linked here on many occasions. A remarkable resource.<\/p>\n \u2022 More new music: Boots On The Ground<\/em><\/a> by Massive Attack, Tom Waits; Angel Lost<\/em><\/a> by Luca Formentini; Phaser For The Ocean, Chorus For The Moon<\/em><\/a> by Hatchback.<\/p>\n \u2022 Coming soon from Strange Attractor: Sensual Laboratories, Light Shows, Experimental, Film and Psychedelic Art<\/em><\/a> by Sophia Satchell-Baeza.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: \u201cA beautiful purplish hue\u201d: Frank Dudley Beane\u2019s experience with ergot and Cannabis Indica<\/a> (1884).<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: An Invisible Jukebox mix<\/a> for Irmin Schmidt at The Wire<\/em>; and DreamScenes \u2013 April 2026<\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n \u2022 At The Quietus: Greg Anderson and Stephen O\u2019Malley of Sunn O)))<\/a> discuss their love of hiking.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Film Quarterly: Elinor Dolliver<\/a> on the surprising folklore of analogue horror.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Gilway Paradox<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Strange World of…Spacemen 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tape Kebab<\/em><\/a> (1974) by Can | The Attic Tapes<\/em><\/a> (1975\/6) by Cabaret Voltaire | The Black Mill Video Tape<\/em><\/a> (2012) by Pye Corner Audio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"