• soundcloud.com
  The Ghost of Mrs Payne (Field Recording 13.03.1975) The mayor has decided that it's time to hear more from Scarfolk's audio archive. This post refers to a previous one about the disappearance of primary school music teacher Mrs. Payne whose body was found encased inside an ancient standing stone (go here for more detail) Forensic examination of the stone revealed that it had originated more than 300 miles away and historians could not ascertain how prehistoric man had transported it to Scarfolk, much less how Mrs Payne had found her way into a 300 million year old rock. The police reported it as a chance accident. When the stone was broken into chunks and sold as 'Payne's Pain' souvenirs in the Scarfolk gift shop, purchasers began hearing ghostly music in their homes. Additionally, the music was heard at the stone circle where Mrs. Payne's body was found, as well as at the geological site of the stone's origin. The souvenirs were recalled and buried at the centre of the stone circle in Scarfolk fields, now the only location where the music can still be heard, but only on the anniversary of the death of Payne's husband who found himself unexpectedly dismembered during a pagan ritual competition for the under 10s. This is a field recording made from the stone circle. field, recording, scarfolk
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SPEKTRMODULE 21 Pathological Heart 29 minutes and 53 seconds

If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.

Direct mp3 link.  Or press Play on the player.  iTunes link.

@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug?

Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.

#SPEKTRMODULE

1. logotone

2.  Auscultation of the Heart (excerpts) -  J. B. Barlow and W. A. Peacock    (album: Auscultation of the Heart)

3.  “heart whispers” -  Gkfoes vjgoaf   (album: Light Weaving)

4.  “Okono” – The Dead Sea   (album: The Dead Sea)

5.  “Cambrian Sea” -  Peter Klausmeyer  (album:  Electronic Music, Vol. V)

6.  “African Tribal Dances 11” -   Pondo   (album: v/a – African Tribal Dances)

7.  “Caverns Of Tsyr” -  Nubiferous    (album: The Black Mountaineer)     

8.  2. Auscultation of the Heart (excerpts) – J. B. Barlow and W. A. Peacock (album: Auscultation of the Heart)

9.  “Crystals (Mahr Dream Mix)” – Vortex Rikers    (album:  Her Embrace)

10.  logotone

PREVIOUSLY: 1 – Fire Axes In Space | 2 – The Lane | 3 – Comfort And Joy | 4 – Long Count | 5 – Underfoot | 6 – The Chamber | 7 – Spark Gap | 8 – Death Is No Obstacle | 9 – Misty Eyed | 10 – Dirt Launchpad | 11 – Dreams Of The Woodland Cult | 12 – Dispatch Render Ghosts | 13 – Hull Oxide | 14 – Galactocentric | 15 – Celestial Navigation | 16 – The Rain Hive | 17 – Revisitation | 18 – Leaving | 19 – Jetstream Awake | 21 – Juddernaut

From the Diesel Sweeties store – this new version has glow-in-the-dark ink.

• Listen to articles on the go – Audiofy.it
  "Audiofy.it reads out articles of your choice whenever you have some time to kill."
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• dOCUMENTA (13)’s 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts // Alejandro Jodorowsky
  "The contents being a reproduction of a notebook that, despite the impeccably lettered cover, has nothing to do with the aborted Dune film project. Instead its pages are full of Jodorowsky’s obsession with the Tarot de Marseille. This obsession lasted decades and may offer you at least a partial answer to the question “what has he been doing for the last 30 years?”. In fact Jodorowsky maintained an interest in this centuries old Tarot deck, finally releasing an edition based on his research in 1998 with Philippe Camion."
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• With 4M users, Hipstamatic unveils Oggl, a standalone iOS social networking app for your best photos
  "Available only for iPhones right now, Oggl offers two key features that separates itself from the other apps: capture and curation."
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I love that this even exists.  Funny as all hell.  Even funnier, to me, is that I really like the design.  Available from Inquisition.

I just upgraded the hosting plan for my SPEKTRMODULE podcast, which will allow me to bring the frequency closer to weekly. 

(The new hosting plan also gives me the option of designing standalone Android and iOS apps for the podcast, but I really don’t have that kind of time, and I really don’t want to charge people yet for that kind of access, which the system seems to want me to do.)

The great joy of SPEKTRMODULE, for me, is locating new music, and rooting through my digital collection, to find things I like that go well together.  It’s me little hobby.

But, since I want to increase the frequency, I’m going to do this: if you make music that fits the general tone of SPEKTRMODULE, could you maybe send me a link at warrenellis@gmail.com ?  I do love to discover new stuff.

The SPEKTRMODULE podcasts all live here.  The most recent one has been listened to by some 25,000 people, which I frankly find baffling.

Haunted, resonating piano sounds.  I like this as a sound to go to sleep with.  G’night.

• CULT OF THE SUN GOD on Vimeo
  CULT OF THE SUN GOD music_ PATRICK SHIROISHI / BLACK SUN SUTRA (2013) (www.patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com) visual_ ARIS KINDT FILMS (www.ariskindtfilms.com) Nancy J Kwon
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• Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world’s first 3-D printed gun
  "Yes, it's undetectable, but more importantly it's unobservable by institutions and countries and sovereigns…. This might be a politically important object."
  (tags:crime war fabbing pol )
• Write for Dropbox lands on iPad, bringing remote keyboard and clipboard features to its note-taking apps

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• Create Photo Zines on Your Smartphone

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In association with Diesel Sweeties Store, we made, for one week only, a new t-shirt.  Rich Stevens says of it:

If the internet was honest about itself, Baconcoin would be the new hotness in crypto currencies. Decode its delicious code if you dare.

View it here.

Lots of really interesting imagery at her portfolio site.

As you can see.  Pull it over your head and wear the visage of Scroobius Pip as a mask.  Insane.  Also, frankly, a bit disturbing when they’re the first thing you see on Instagram in the morning.

Buy them here.  Scroobius notes that, although they’re a men’s cut, “The girls in the shoot were liking the small and mediums.”

You all know Scroobius Pip, right?

A new album by the purveyors of fine ambient salve for the mind.  Good night.

I missed this earlier, due to being out of the house and nobody emailing to tell me it was going live today.  I’m looking at you, Greg. 

LADY SABRE is a very entertaining webcomic by Greg Rucka & Rick Burchett.  Sky-sailing 19th Century spy-privateers from Cascadia?  Read a bunch of it for yourself, for free.  The team are Kickstarting the collection, digital and physical versions.  Please take a look at their Kickstarter campaign.  Greg’s a writer I have great admiration for.

Because I swear it looks to me like she’s breathing out a word in water.  Exhaling liquid language.  The shot is by Francesca Woodman, an artist who died in 1981 according to this collection of her work at Fluid Radio.  Click through for some more fascinating images.

The day I can do without a keyboard case for the iPad, I’m getting one of Miranda’s Moodycases.  These things just look gorgeous.