This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear more, become a patron at patreon.com/LoveMessagePod In this patrons-only episode Jeremy is once again flying solo on the podcast to explore the lives, ideas, and uses of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Starting in the intellectual hotbed of late-60s Paris, Jeremy explains who the pair were, how they met, what their shared - somewhat heterodox - philosophical canon was, and how this was expressed in their two-volume work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Deleuze and Guattari are often seen as being very hard to comprehend, but Jeremy introduces us to concepts like schizoanalysis, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, the rhyzome, the refrain and the notorious body-without-organs in accessible and easy to digest language. Through the work of both the composers cited by the philosophers and a good deal of musicians who weren’t, Jeremy shows how the radically materialist, non-dualist analysis of Deleuze and Guattari can help us understand how music works on us as listeners, with examples ranging from Messiaen to Keith Rowe and Kode9. Books: Deleuze and Guattari - Anti-Oedipus Ian Buchanan - Reader’s Guide to Anti-Oedipus Deleuze and Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus Jeremy Gilbert and Ewan Pearson - Discographies Jeremy Gilbert - Common Ground Kojo Eshun - More Brilliant Than the Sun Ian Buchanan & Marcel Swiboda (eds) - Deleuze and Music Tim Lawrence - “In Defence of Disco (Again)”. New Formations, 58, Summer 2006 Jeremy Gilbert - “In Defence of 'In Defence of Disco’”, New Formations, 58, Summer 2006 Tracklist: Olivier Messiaen - Fête des Belles Eaux Olivier Messiaen - Chronochromie Mozart - Adagio for Glass Harmonica Schumann - Cello Concerto in A Minor mvt. 1 Debussy - Rêverie Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Karyobin Pt. 5 Keith Rowe - Ode Machine No. 2 Oval - SD II Audio Template Kode9 & The Spaceape - Sine of the Dub

In this episode Jeremy takes to the lectern for a two-hour mega-episode on the New Left in the second half of the Twentieth Century (and beyond). Picking up in the 1950s, where our previous episode concluded, we chart the full emergence of the New Left in various locations on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Students for a Democratic Society, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the anti-Vietnam war movement and more. Jeremy spends time explaining the pivotal year of 1968, with its raft of political assassinations, violent disorder at the Chicago Democratic Convention, and the barricades of Paris, set alongside the work of crucial thinkers like EP Thompson and Raymond Williams. Jeremy contests the prevailing notion that the New Left laid the groundwork for the bourgeois individualism of the 80s, showing how its focus on anti-racist, feminist, anti-authoritarian politics, along with demands for maximum democratic freedom, can be traced all the way to the Bernie Sanders movement. Jeremy relates the politics of the New Left to a series of musical scenes, including Krautrock in Germany, proto-punk in Detroit, West Coast acid rock, Feminist post-punk, Hawkwind, the Pet Shop Boys and more. Next episode we return to NYC for our first encounter with Larry Levan. Check out our new website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Books: Raymond Williams - The Long Revolution Port Huron Statement, 1962 Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle Raoul Vaneigem - The Revolution of Everyday Life Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski - The New Spirit of Capitalism Tracklist: Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier Phil Ochs - I Ain’t Marching Anymore The Stooges - 1969 MC5 - Kick Out The Jams Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers Can - Mushroom Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Hawkwind - We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago Helen Reddy - I Am Woman Tom Robinson Band - Glad to be Gay T. Rex - Children of the Revolution The Strawbs - Part of the Union The Clash - Remote Control The Slits - Typical Girls Pet Shop Boys - Shopping

This is a patrons episode. To become a patron, head to Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music has been on their turntables recently. Tim kicks things off with a bang - sigh - with a field recording of a thunderstorm and a lengthy conversation about New Age, David Mancuso’s wind machines, Frankie Knuckles and the -8 pitch control. Jeremy brings Deep House and Welsh Jazz harp, along with memories of the trials and tribulations of record shopping at Fat Cat Records.  Tim and Jeremy also return to Summer of Soul, share a lesser-known Pharoah Sanders cut, Afro-House floor fillers and dedicate some time to the life and work of Collin Curtis. This is part of a rough series of more conversational, unplanned episodes reflecting on what's been on our record players recently and what we've been up to that we'll be releasing to patrons to say thank you for your support. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tracklist: Environments: Totally New Concepts in Sound - Ultimate Thunderstorm Amanda Whiting - Little Sunflower Ju Ju - Black Samba Pharaoh Sanders - Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong Arturo Sandoval - Fiesta Mojo Nina Simone - Are You Ready Guinu - Palagô (Jose Marquez Remix) Slam Mode - Monopole Cignol - Modularity Born Under A Rhyming Planet - Spasm Band

Following our last episode on the state of psychedelic culture in the 1970s, we wanted to expand the historical setting in which our series is situated. In that spirit, in this episode Jeremy goes solo, taking it all the way back to the 1790s for a historical primer on the New Left: a political tendency to emerge from the decline and split of the hegemonic left forces of the early and mid-century left tradition. In order to accurately explain who the New Left were - and to challenge a prevailing inaccurate story about what they achieved (more on that next episode) - we go back to the origins of the French Revolution for a refresher on what we mean by ‘left wing’. In a whistle stop tour, Jeremy explains the concepts of Liberalism, Conservatism and Radicalism, and the historical conjunctures that they emerged from.  We hear about the ‘old left’ of the Communist party and the USSR, exploring their aesthetic and political frameworks, and how the tendency fractured after 1956. For the music heads, Jeremy discusses the somewhat bogus ideas of popular authenticity that gave folk music a privileged position within the old left, and lays the groundwork for the more expressive libertarian art forms that would accompany the New Left. Plus the Spanish Civil War, Trotsky and the New Left Review. Become a patron at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Tune in, Turn on, Get Down! Books: Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook EP Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class Tracklist: Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger  - Dirty Old Town Peter, Paul & Mary - If I Had A Hammer Trini Lopez - If I Had A Hammer Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the full podcast, plus much much more, become a patron at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. Jeremy and Tim conclude this mini-series on the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference with a look at some of the other contributors to the event. They explore the rhizomatic theories of Gilles Deleuze and discuss desire with Felix Guattari, taking in the Steppe nomads, molecular revolution, and explaining why trees are bad as they go. We also hear about the composer John Cage and his Zen Buddhist influences, the Mudd Club, the internal pressures the conference faced, and ask whether it could be seen as a success.  Plus, minimalism, the Modern Lovers, and the meaning of ‘schizo’ in the conference title. Books: Deleuze and Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus William Burroughs - Naked Lunch Tracklist: Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Forty Minutes pt.1 John Cage - 62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Eliane Radigue - Triptych pt.1 The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner