30.11.08

borrowed & blue 30.11.08

Congratulations to comrades 20jazzfunkgreats and The Quietus for caning the gongs at the Record Of The Day awards on Thursday!

The award for least-read blog and most consistently-dropped music journalist goes to...

RE:ACTION

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• 1987
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• 1997
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• 1979
• 2008
• 1994
• 1980
  

29.11.08

borrowed & blue 29.11.08

So goodbye drunk-at-train-stations blurry phonecam, hello cathedrals-in-the-sky-making Holga...

RE:ACTION mix for surging comedowns and floating highs:

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22.11.08

borrowed & blue 22.11.08

K. One more mobile phone picture.

RE:ACTION:

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• 1983
• 1968
• 1972
• 1970
  

21.11.08

borrowed & blue 21.11.08

I'm going to overhaul the pictorial element of borrowed & blue soon, so this scary dog might be the last beautifully-flat mobile phone picture you see........

RE:ACTION mix yo:

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• 1989
• 1969
• 2007
• 1968
• 1969
• 1977
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• 2001
• 1971
• 1968
• 1985
  

16.11.08

borrowed & blue 16.11.08

borrowed & blue imaginary radio for headphones presents a RE:ACTION mix.

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• 2008
• 1997
• 1997
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• 2007
• 2001
  

07.11.08

borrowed & blue 07.11.08

I recently interviewed Paul Morley for a piece on ZTT and I was interested in the way he segregated the labels output into different 'series'. The 'Certain' series was composed of "surreal, possibly bleak cabaret"; 'Incidental' was "experimental research".

I've been experimenting with using two different processes to determine the borrowed & blue mixes recently, and have noticed that some people have preferred one to the other. I'm going to continue both audio streams, but in homage to ZTT I'm going to label them. ACTION will be our mixes of music that has more or less been specifically designed to reach as many people as possible, while RE:ACTION will be the opposite, lonely sounds that crave obscurity.

This is a RE:ACTION mix.

• 2007
• 2007
• 2002
• 2001
• 2004
• 1982
• ?
• 1984
• 1997
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• 1992