All Things Amazing

Anyone with eyes and my email address has probably seen this site before, or at least some of the images I've found on it. All Things Amazing is a community LiveJournal showcasing rare and unusual, often vintage, photographs.  I've just added the site to our blogroll, an oversight that should have been rectified a while ago. The blog has a fluid and fairly open membership, but it also has some rules to govern that chaos, and they seem to work.

They do allow nudity and adult themes, so the link may be NSFW depending on where you work and in which century. Nothing too hardcore, and certainly nothing illegal.

The images above are an all-but random selection, grabbed in a few minutes as I wrote this post. It's well worth taking some time to go through their vast archive, if you like that sort of thing.

Ekoplekz live set

(From FACT Magazine)
We've blogged before about the uniquely dark stylings of Ekolplekz, and since then, his 12" for Punch Drunk has been on continual repeat on the stereo. Connecting the dots between Daphne Oram, Merzbow and Bass Clef, he imbues the lead-heavy textures of industrial noise and radiophonic soundscaping with a warped sense of rhythm and deep skanking vibes. Whilst Stalag Zero / Distended Dub touched on Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten and the post-punk sound, his live set is a more melodic and spacier proposition, full of depth and warmth. Here it is on Fact magazine's soundcloud.


Ekoplekz' blog, World of Eko, is a great resource for the discerning analogue fiend - full of snapshots of vintage hardware, links to some beautiful soundscapes, and some seriously cool artwork.