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Idiot Woman: “What songs are you going to play tonight?’ Florian Schneider: “All”.

As the countdown to Michael Jackson’s debut performance at the 02 is almost over i’m reminded of one of my very favorite works by the king of pop. As an eight year old boy there could not have been a better homage to self reflection and humility than his 1988 slice of poignant pop bliss. When coked up stock brokers were loosening their ties to the early strains of acid house its comforting to know there was someone out their fighting for the little man.

Any youtube clip with a Barry’s Tea ad reference is good by us.

As you may have guessed this blog is pretty much closed for retooling.Keep in touch with us by checking out our monthly podcast hereHere’s some cool stuff to keep you happy

Lets not patronize you & waste your time, just mail info@stateofshock.net marked ‘Gimme’ & we’ll most likely sort you a guestlist for this Sunday at Twisted Pepper. We’re planning a few special things visually so it should be a fun night out.

I really love these! Recutting of trailers to change the semiotic associations that we have with ‘classic movies.This time under the knife is the solitary sensual outlet for ladies in their early forties in the 1980’s; Dirty Dancing.

And you should probably keep an eye out for this…

Or a DJ, gather round to here to tragic tail of The Dancepig.

I’ve recently being doing a lot of research based around the value of a message and how it is affected by the format in which it is delivered. In a similar vein to fantastic but over-cited “Medium Is The Message” book by Marshall McLuhan (which is still a very valid read for any interested in that area)

This is a strange way of conveying this but also very worthy one. A performance of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody using the following equipment…

- Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound / Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar / 8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong / HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals.

Despite the extreme hype that surrounds this vinyl only release (Nathan Barely 2009?) its nonetheless the first essential purchase of the year in our eyes. The 12″ in question is Burial’s two track collaboration with Kieran Hebden’s Fourtet; entitled Wolf Club/ Moth.

I can’t really respectfully articulate the sound of this record other than to say it sounds almost exactly as expected. Thats not meant with any disrespect as its a pure fusion of the two artists sonic artillery and rhythmic inventiveness to create something utterly modern and beautiful.

Buy it here.

You may have noticed that this site hasn’t been updated stylistically in a long time. There’s two good reasons behind that, the main one being my relocation to London and my time being eaten by the college monster. The other being the major changes coming to Shock in the next few months. The first of which you may already have noticed, our radioshow rebranding from The Shock Podcast to our more international Shock World Service. In other news I quite like this new track from Tiga. His last album and pretty much most of his releases bar Pleasure From The Bass have been dismal as have his DJ sets but this track Shoes is highly infectiousness. I’d probably class it more of a pop record then house but thats not meant as an insult.STOP THE PRESS: coming to Shock very soon: Andrew Weatherall (Twisted Pepper, Sunday 31st May) XXXchage (Button Factory, Saturday 27th May)