#antistar

[pootkins]

antihoemstar

[inthesnappysnouse]

"Arturo [from Katherine Dunn's Geek Love], he's a fish boy who lives in a tank, who's got no limbs. People come for miles to listen to him enraptured. To be part of him they start to cut off bits of their limbs. This surgeon sets up in the square so people can have their limbs removed. You get this level of disciples, the most minimal are the people who've just done a finger, who sit at the back. The most extreme, who've had all their limbs cut off, are swaddled in bandages and sit at the front, rocking around and listening to every word he says. To me it's a perfect analogy for celebrity and religion. The cult of celebrity, people want to be stared at by the pop star like oxygen, like blood."

Robert "3D" Del Naja on Antistar, from X-Rayed Magazine, May 2003.

[derangedrhythms]

(I’ll turn a stone I’ll find you)

Massive Attack, Antistar

[petallls]

antistar by massive attack

[thesoundsallstaythesame]

Can you lick my wounds please can you make it numb?

[jeffgerstmann]

How do you decide what is premium content and what is free? It seems like Ranking of Fighters could have been premium and something like the Contra "this is the run" could have been free. It seems kind of arbitrary.

The original concept is based on the idea that things that’d be “editorial” in nature would be free, and things that are deeper or less focused on coverage of new products would be behind the wall. That isn’t necessarily a hard and fast rule, but it’s the general idea behind those decisions.

But in order to get people to understand that we do more than talk about new releases, there’s a need to have some things out there that go beyond that. So that led to me wanting to run more free streams on the site. It also helps expose us to new people on platforms that aren’t our own (Twitch, Beam, etc). At some point, the reality of our schedule at the time meant that running those Wednesday live streams with actual regularity was a bit beyond us, so we shifted some of those shows into different spots (ROF is now taped, generally speaking) but kept them free, rather than saying “hey, this thing we started for free is now behind a paywall.” You’re right, though. Ranking of Fighters was originally designed as a premium show.

[vocalsynthplaylist]

[blackchantilly]

Every now and then I go through phases where I listen to Massive Attack a whole lot. This song sounds like drugs and sex.