Monday 5 October 2009

The Black Dog – Siiiipher

Short movie using 7 loops from dream machines and William S. Burroughs. Clips selected at random by software, no human edits

'Mad' Mike Banks interview from 'The Wire'




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"Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live."

Bendle & michael dustdevil - Peaceful Liberation

Bendle & michael dustdevil - My Little Soul Soaring (Remix)

Bendle & michael dustdevil - Moss

Sunday 4 October 2009



Kalan Sherrard

Photo 'The Guardian'
Kalan was arrested at the recent G20 demonstration in Pittsburgh and charged with RIOT: felony 3rd degree; REFUSAL TO DISPERSE: misdemeanor 2nd degree.
Kalan Sherrard

Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses (Live at The Echoplex LA 10-02-09)

Some rather tasty bass work from Flea!
More videos here.

Burial - Fostercare



Burial's new track from the '5 Years of Hyperdub' release.

Ted Williams & I are both speechless...

Ted Williams & I are both speechless...

It's Sunday: "Fug off!"

Pacou - UR Promo Mix


Pacou - Somewhere In Detroit Mix


Underground Resistance - Transition/Inspiration



There will come a time in your life when you will ask yourself a series of questions.
Am I happy with who I am?
Am I happy with the people around me?
Am I happy with what I’m doing?
Am I happy with the way my life is going?
Do I have a life or am I just living?
Do not let these questions strain or trouble you just point youself in the direction of your dreams find your strengh in the sound and make your transition.

Do not spend to much time thinking and not enough doing.
Did I try the hardest at any of my dreams?
Did I purposly let others discourage me when I knew I could?
Will I die never knowing what I could have been or could of done?
Do not let these doubts restrain of trouble you just point yourself in the direction of your dreams.
Find your strength in the sound and make your transition.

There will be people who say you can’t - you will.
There will be people who say you dont mix this with that and you will say "watch me".
There will be people who will say play it safe, thats to risky - you will take that chance and have no fear.
You wont let these questions restrain or trouble you.
You will point yourself in the direction of your dreams.
You will find the sreangth in the sound and make your transition.

For those who know its time to leave the house and go back to the field.
Find your strength in the sound and make your transition.

The Unknown Writer


Bonus: Audio
Underground Resistance - 'Transition' (Acapella)

Rhythm & Sound/Scion Live Sessions

Nite - Nite (honest...no really...)

Fedaden - Scintillation


Fedaden

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Saturday 3 October 2009

Grateful Dead Archive to move online

UC Santa Cruz has received a major grant to help digitize the Grateful Dead Archive at the university library.

The university was awarded a National Leadership Grant of $615,175 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

The grant will allow the UCSC Library to digitize materials from its Grateful Dead Archive spanning from 1965 to 1995. The project will include a new website titled, "The Virtual Terrapin Station."

Grateful Dead Archive Online

"We are honored to be among a select group of libraries and museums chosen as recipients of National Leadership Grants," said UCSC Librarian Virginia Steel.

"This is a first for the UCSC Library, and the grant gives us the opportunity to create a new model for web-based archives that will include traditional materials from our Grateful Dead Archive--along with materials contributed by scholars and Deadheads around the world."

The website will offer access to the Grateful Dead Archive materials, including original documents, clippings, media,articles along with three decades of the bands recordings and its performance of thousands of concerts.

The website will also allow fans to contribute to the archive. The library plans to develop a click-through permissions form for content contributors to help extend the reach of the archive to the academic community.

The Grateful Dead donated their large band archive to UC Santa Cruz in 2009. The processing of the archive is expected to be completed in 2012 with parts of the collection being made available as the work progresses.

@ 'Webpronews'

(Thanx again SirMick!)

Nice...toes!

Photograph by Man Ray (1930)
(Thanx Chris K)

HA!

Ta Scurvy!

Ladies & gentlemen, for one night only - The Lee Harvey Oswald Band

Burial vs Basic Channel - Arch Trak (bootleg mashup)

This mashup of Burial's 'Archangel' and Phylyp's 'Trak' for once really works!

The Rolling Stones - Montreaux Rehearsals May 1972



A great find from Willard!

George Carlin's "Seven words you can never say on TV " routine

"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love...as I say, they're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have really.

We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we assign a word to a thought, [clicks tongue]. And we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. I like to think, yeah, the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.

There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' 'Awwww.' There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad Intentions.

And words, you know the seven don't you? Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, wow. Tits doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, Tits, come here. Tits, meet Toots, Toots, Tits, Tits, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, New Nabisco Tits. The new Cheese Tits, and Corn Tits and Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits Onion Tits, Tater Tits, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.

Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list...like cocksucker and motherfucker. Those are...those are heavy-weight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those K's. Those are aggressive sounds, they jump out at you. CocksuckerMotherfuckerCocksucker. It's like an assault, on you. So I can dig that.

And we mentioned shit earlier, of course. Two of the other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are Piss and Cunt, which go together of course. But forget about that. A little accidental humor there. Piss and Cunt. The reason Piss and Cunt are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind Fuck and Shit, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you fuckers, I am going to tinkle now.'

And of course the word Fuck. The word Fuck, I don't really...well, this is some more accidental humor, but I don't really want to get into that now. Because I think it takes too long. But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word fuck is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word fuck, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with. 'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna fuck ya now. But we're gonna fuck ya slow.' So maybe next year I'll have a whole fuckin' rap on that word. I hope so.

Uh, there are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.

But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words. Remember the ones your giggled at in sixth grade? 'And the cock crowed three times.''Hey, the cock the cock crowed three times. It's in the bible.' There are some Two-way words, like it's okay for Curt Gowdy to say 'Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.' But he can't say, 'I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He must have hurt them by God.' And the other two-way word that goes with that one is prick. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick. No, no."

(Thanx SirMick for the reminder)

The Velvet Underground - What Goes On (thanx Mogs!)



Kode9 & The Spaceape - Time Patrol


Friday 2 October 2009

Happy Birthday Hyperdub



Rhythm & Sound @Biomix 2004

RHYTHM & SOUND
(Sounds)


Great introduction to Basic Channel
HERE

So who the fug are 'American Police Force'?

American Police Force
Start at Fifi's post here and then trawl your way through the web.
This is a good place to start.
A nice touch that their address given is shared with a medical marijuana dispensary in California!

...and why does 'Team America' keep popping into my head?

Gas mask bra traps Ig Nobel prize

The bra can be converted into one mask for the wearer and one for a needy bystander

Designers of a bra that turns into gas masks and a team who found that named cows produce more milk were among the winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel prizes.

The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think".

The peace prize went to a Swiss research team who determined whether it is better to be hit over the head with a full or empty bottle of beer...

The governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank received the prize for mathematics for printing bank notes with such a wide range of denominations.

@'BBC'

My favourite was the guys who converted diamonds out of Tequila. Yes they were from Mexico.
(Thanx Carolyn)

He forgot to mention that it has a pointed end for easy insertion...

...when he stops talking out of his arse that is!

Ancient Skeleton May Rewrite Earliest Chapter of Human Evolution

Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor--and it is full of surprises. Although the creature, named Ardipithecus ramidus, had a brain and body the size of a chimpanzee, it did not knuckle-walk or swing through the trees like an ape. Instead, "Ardi" walked upright, with a big, stiff foot and short, wide pelvis, researchers report in Science. "We thought Lucy was the find of the century," says paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill of Yale University, referring to the famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton that revolutionized thinking about human origins. "But in retrospect, it was not."
@'Science Now'
Thanx 'Go Monkey Go'
Your thoughts Kirk Cameron?

Half of babies 'will live to 100'

More than half of babies now born in the UK and other wealthy nations will live to 100 years, researchers say.

The study, published in The Lancet journal, also says the extra years are spent with less serious disability.

@'BBC'

Revealed: millions spent by lobby firms fighting Obama health reforms

America's healthcare industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to block the introduction of public medical insurance and stall other reforms promised by Barack Obama. The campaign against the president has been waged in part through substantial donations to key politicians.

Supporters of radical reform of healthcare say legislation emerging from the US Senate reflects the financial power of vested interests ‑ principally insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms and hospitals ‑ that have worked to stop far-reaching changes threatening their profits.

The industry and interest groups have spent $380m (£238m) in recent months influencing healthcare legislation through lobbying, advertising and in direct political contributions to members of Congress. The largest contribution, totalling close to $1.5m, has gone to the chairman of the senate committee drafting the new law.

@'The Guardian'

Thursday 1 October 2009

The Bug - Skeng

Irony of the day

Woody Allen calling for Roman Polanski's release.