Urbanomic

One last blast from the COVID bunker before the second wave hits. Tunes from DJK Huysmans, chat from around around the world, and T-shirt advertorials (get your PlaguePod T-Shirt here: https://www.urbanomic.com/event/conceptwear-2/)

It's not over til it's over! Your favourite car crash of a podcast returns one last time for a sunny Sunday afternoon with a special solar-powered remote broadcast from End of the World Garden, with a UK Garage set from DJK Huysmans, phone-ins from across the globe, and finally a CoronaQuest victory!

As the COVID era segues into something far more cursed, in this exclusive communiqué Anthony Nine drops a poetic-occultural dubplate mapping the fundamental lines of contemporary struggle in a world of politricksters. With a timely advocacy of the power and discipline of real magical practice against the insidious enchantments of ‘meme magic’ and the uncontrolled consequences of its tawdry cons, this impassioned reading touches on memory, the powers of bewilderment and misdirection, and our relation to life and death, past and future. Essential listening for survival in 21st Century Babylon.

Anthony Nine is a writer and artist from the UK now based in Miami. His work explores intersecting themes of occultism, African Diaspora traditions, psychogeography, music and culture. The extended text version of 'Guns of Brixton' with additional content will be published in ‘Conjure Codex 4’ by Hadean Press this summer. He is the author of ‘Space Weather Report’, a colouring book account of the world of spirit, available from Revelore Press. His first novel, Dub Seance, a story of lived magic set in London, New Orleans and Miami, is forthcoming. He is also a contributor to Urbanomic’s book Audint—Unsound:Undead (2019).

Follow Anthony Nine on Twitter @spaceweather9

With thanks to Allison Brice, Hewson Chen, and Davis White for technical help.

Tracklist:

Round Five, Barrington Levy/Scientist - Scientist

King Tubby's Rockers - Roots Radics/King Tubby

Braces Tower Dub - Augustus Pablo/King Tubby

Rock a Dub - Al Campbell/Scientist

Pulsar - Scientist

Destruction Sound Battle - Prince Far I

Dub With a View - King Tubby

M16 - Roots Radics/Scientist

The Mummy's Shroud - Scientist

Tapper Zukie in Dub - Tapper Zukie/Philip Smart

Dub the Right Way - Soul Syndicate/King Tubby

Guns of Brixton - The Bug/Spaceape

PlaguePod returns to take a look at Crack-Ups and Lockdowns, with readings of real-life and fictional breaking points, plus a return to the subject of mental health in weird COVID times with Matt Colquhoun aka Xenogothic. We have Mark Fell joining us to chat from deepest Rotherham with some extremely tidy tracks, and welcome Agnès Gayraud as our guide on a journey into ‘impossible’ French pop.

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, author of Omnicide, enumerates 11 important principles for understanding coronachan as a demon. Extracted from PlaguePod Day 41.

More details: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/omnicide/

Inigo Wilkins reads from his forthcoming book Irreversible Noise – extracted from PlaguePod Live Day 34.

More details: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/irreversible-noise/

A truly next-level Princely Persian Mayday PlaguePod as we bring together Omnicide author Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and our favourite Geistig Lego™ AGI engineer Reza Negarestani. Lisa Blanning joins us with a special selection of COVID tracks, Amy Ireland jacks in from the Pandemonium Matrix to discuss viral demonology, and we talk coronamania and oil futures, and find out what our guests’ favourite Britney tracks are. With a taste of a poison paradise, could this be the night that someone—while being considerate to their housemates—finally defeats CoronaQuest…?

PlaguePod Live: Cope Edition. What's going on? It's been over a month in lockdown, the epistemological conundrum of coronavirus has been solved (no one knows anything) and we are bored, deranged, chronically anxious, and have no idea what to talk about. But there is fresh junglism, there is CoronaQuest, and there are guests: Enrico Monacelli and Laura Tripaldi report back from Italy, Shaun Lewin continues the search for rare jaffa cakes and COVID/corvid crossovers, and Edinburgh's finest Proc Fiskal brings some tunes and lockdown updates from the Heart of Lothian.

Readings from the collection Audint—Unsound:Undead (published by Urbanomic, https://www.urbanomic.com/book/unsoundundead/) as featured in PlaguePod Day 26.

0:00 Lisa Blanning, ‘Ghost In The Machine: Hikikomori And Digital Dualism’ (music: DVA [Hi:Emotions], NOTU_URONLINEU, on Hyperdub)

9:53 Steve Goodman, ‘Dossier 37: Unidentified Vibrational Objects on the Plane Of Unbelief’

25:00 Lendl Barcelos, ‘2014: The Visual Microphone’

32:35 Shelley Trower, ‘Peripheral Vibrations’

38:22 Erik Davis, ‘Resonance’

49:20 Charlie Blake, ‘Sonic Spectralities: Sketches for a Prolegomena to Any Future Xenosonics’ (Music: Haswell and Hecker, ‘Blackest Ever Black’ on Warner Classics)

55:50 Eleni Ikoniadou and Carolin Schnurrer. ‘The Lament’

1:11:22 Nicola Masciandaro, ‘Purgatory’ (music: Bach, Wölfgang Rübsam, Prelude and Fugue in C Minor/Wo Soll Ich Fliehen hin, on Naxos)

1:23:37 Agnès Gayraud, ‘Glossolalia/Xenoglossia’ (closing music: Christophe, ‘Voix sans issue’, on Disques Motors).

Check out our other Audint podcast, ‘Unsound Methods’ too.

In this action-packed PlaguePod we present a series of readings from Audint—Unsound:Undead, plus some extra special additions from the Audint Crew and from Kode9, we invite listeners to call in to our brand new feature, the challenging dystopian adventure game CoronaQuest, and with guests Thomas Moynihan and Shaun Lewin we talk existential risk, Hydroplutonic Kernow, spinal catastrophism and, most crucially, lockdown snacking—tackling some fundamental questions: Which snacks are optimal for lockdown conditions? And is it possible to develop a definitive speculative ontological schema capable of encompassing the dynamism of the entire mouthfeel continuum? Lewin teams up with DJK Huysmans to drop some sucrose-laden snack tracks.