Monthly Archives: September 2018

This is definitely a kind of music, but I’m looking for this sampled and looped…and turned into something that’s not just a ring-tone. The starting point for this would be Kraftwerk’s, Trans Europe Express (1976). But there would also also … Continue reading →

A railroad standard, recorded in 1939 and filmed here, in 1943, on a train…Perfect. And with wonderful jackets and an easy style. Genius.

Lovely.  

Another one, lovely. Austin Cooper was a tutor at Byam Shaw…and a great poster designer. He was one of the “big five,” offered exclusive contracts by the LNER in the 1920s. The five poster designers were Tom Purvis, Frank Newbould, … Continue reading →

Just arrived. Lovely.

Here is Johnny Cash singing along with some lovely old steam trains…Just to get us rolling.

I’ve posted before about railways, locomotives and music…my friend and colleague, Abbie, recommended a spotify playlist of railway machine-noise. It’s a kind of ambient drone, and a sort of music. There’s something of this in the kling-klang soundtrack of the … Continue reading →