The Beasts Of Bourbon - The Axeman's Jazz
49 minutes ago
Saturday 30 June 2018
Golden Dreaming Mix
Tracklist
1 Dream World by Jah Wobble
2 Quorum/Dancing & Blood by Low
3 The Tell by David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke
4 Animalitos (Ain't No Sunshine)/White Bird by Woven Hand
5 Gold Day by Sparklehorse
6 Memories of Love by Stuart A Staples
7 I Have To Tell You Something by Jenny Hval
8 My Love by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
9 Call Me Back Again by The Walkabouts
10 A Love Song (Set Me Straight) by Josh T Pearson
11 Come Pick Me Up by Ryan Adams
12 Currency of Love by Silversun Pickups
Thursday 28 June 2018
Friday 22 June 2018
Radio Discordia 017: T.A.Z. - Hakim Bey and Bill Laswell
T.A.Z.
[Temporary Autonomous Zone]
Anti-Copyright 1992
Explorations of the political, the personal, the social, and the metaphysical from writer and spoken word artist Hakim Bey. A meld with musical terrorist Bill Laswell.
Bey advocates nearly everything, including creating free states for like-minded cabals and collectives. He recommends marginalized groups form secret societies and concludes with a lengthy piece on boycotting cop culture. Musique concrete cloaks his words in an eerily seductive melange of avant-garde noise and ambient music. But the sounds are almost immaterial. Bey's words are the primary focus of this disc.
A swirling, surreal vertigo of information and methods for "escape", woven with the kind of airy tones and hallucinatory rhythms that Laswell has been playing with lately, Bey's voice calms and prepares the listener for an age where missing information and the icons of late capitalist high-tech correspond with an increasing alienation of this "X-generation"'s most primitive needs. Most of all, Bey doesn't come across as a cheesy, overzealous, visionary bard, but presents us with ideas point-blank, allowing us to be choosy in aiming our own forms of poetic terrorism against those forces that attempt to suppress and homogenize humility and free thought.
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01 Chaos
02 Poetic Terrorism
03 Amour Fou
04 Immediatism
05 The Tong
06 Boycott Cop Culture
Published by Axiom Records 1994
The Power of Art and the TAZ
However, and it is a very BIG however...
I first discovered Hakim Bey AKA Peter Lamborn Wilson thru Semiotext[e], the first issue I bought being 'Schizo - Culture' (PDF) in 1978
Thursday 21 June 2018
Tuesday 19 June 2018
Monday 18 June 2018
Steve Albini has earned his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the 2018 WSOP's Event #31, $1,500 Seven Card Stud. Albini's victory over a 310-entrant field was worth $105,629
Friday 15 June 2018
Low - Quorum/Dancing & Blood/Fly
Featuring the music videos "Quorum" "Dancing and Blood" and "Fly" from Low's upcoming album Double Negative
(Release Date: September 14, 2018)
The McKenzie Tapes
wow, major new stash of live tapes of '80s/'90s indie/noise/DIY, including the fall, sun ra, sonic youth, wire, palace bros., the feelies, husker du, dinosaur jr, & many many more (via former maxwell's employee david mckenzie). https://t.co/8rTg10RGH0— jesse jarnow (@bourgwick) June 13, 2018
The Last Poets - Shaw Theatre London (2/85)
Recorded by Mixmaster Morris on a Walkman Pro.
I still have a copy in storage of the recording I did at The Paradiso in Amsterdam on the same tour
Wednesday 13 June 2018
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Spiritualized - I’m Your Man / A Perfect Miracle
Spiritualized will release a new album, And Nothing Hurt, on September 15 via Bella Union
Tracklist:
1. A Perfect Miracle
2. I’m Your Man
3. Here It Comes (The Road) Let’s Go
4. Let’s Dance
5. On The Sunshine
6. Damaged
7. The Morning After
8. The Prize
9. Sail On Through
Spiritualized to release new album And Nothing Hurt as orange vinyl box set
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - The Old Bar Fitzroy Melbourne (15/5/18)
I did unfortunately miss the first two songs
Monday 14 May 2018
50 Years of Beauty In The Streets (May '68 Revisited)
It’s 50 years on from 1968 - a year that saw demonstrations and revolutions around the world, the beginnings of anti-war and civil rights movements in the US and the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. It also saw the start of the Nixon Administration, a successful orbit of the moon and the dawn of the television age that brought the world into living rooms.
Australian ABC's Radio National has been exploring what it was about 1968 and how it changed the way we think about culture, identity and politics today
1968: A fractured America (Info/Download)
How the spirit of May '68 inspired filmmakers like Godard and Truffaut (Info/Download)
Lessons from past resistance movements (Info/Download)
My '68 (Info/Download)
What led to the student protests of 1968? (Info/Download)
The Music of 1968: Part I/2
Ready for revolution - the psychology of protest (Info/Download)
Activism and 1968 (Info/Download)
Activism that’s less aggressive and far more persuasive and persistent (Info/Download)
May 1968 Revisited (Info/Download)
& finally
Saturday 31 March 2018
Thursday 15 March 2018
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Adrian Sherwood - Live 3RRR Melbourne (13/3/18)
Listen back HERE (starts at 59:00)
Alternatively grab my recording from the live performance NOT from the radio broadcast
Monday 26 February 2018
Thursday 22 February 2018
Augie March - When I Am Old
Only filmed here at Exile Towers a couple of weeks ago featuring long time resident Uncle Jack
Wednesday 21 February 2018
A familiar face from 1978
Kodwo Eshun: Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture
Kodwo Eshun delivering the inaugural Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. 19th January 2018
Thursday 8 February 2018
John Perry Barlow R.I.P.
Principles of Adult Behavior
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Nothing to tell now/ let the words be yours/ I am done with mine.
Be patient. No matter what.
Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him in the same language and tone of voice.
Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
Expand your sense of the possible.
Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
Tolerate ambiguity.
Laugh at yourself frequently.
Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
Give up blood sports.
Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.
Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.
Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
Praise at least as often as you disparage.
Admit your errors freely and soon.
Become less suspicious of joy.
Understand humility.
Remember that love forgives everything.
Foster dignity.
Live memorably.
Love yourself.
Endure.
(Written in 1977 on the eve of his turning thirty)
Pictured above with Bob Weir
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Nothing to tell now/ let the words be yours/ I am done with mine.
Thursday 1 February 2018
Aht Uh Mi Hed Mix
Tracklist:
01 Terry Callier - Live With Me
02 Banbarra - Shack Up
03 Tim Buckley - Get On Top
04 Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black (Instrumental)
05 Bernie Worrell - Rentstrike (DJ Smash Remix)
06 Herbie Hancock - Hang Up Your Hangups
07 Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Selfish Gene
08 Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
09 Lady Margo - This Is My Prayer
10 Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time
11 Dr John - Right Place, Wrong Time
12 Flora Purim - What You See
13 Cher - Walk On Gilded Splinters
14 Esther Phillips - Home Is Wher The Hatred Is
15 Opals - You Can't Hurt Me No More
16 The Staple Singers - You've Got To Earn It
17 Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman
18 Betty Davis - Your Mama Wants Ya Back
19 Chris Clark - I Want To Go Back There Again
20 The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
21 Curtis Mayfield - Now You're Gone
22 Hall & Oates - She's Gone
23 The Temptations - Ain't No Sunshine
Love lost & found
It's been a while...
Friday 26 January 2018
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Help save Bill Laswell's Orange Music Studio
In an era where music, among other creative endeavours, has been devalued as mere “content,” freely accessed through the new digital medium, the very survival of those who create music and art and culture has been threatened. Bassist, iconic producer, and sonic visionary Bill Laswell becomes the latest legendary talent to fall victim to the vagaries of these crazy times. Beset by health problems while trying to navigate this harsh and uncertain economic landscape, Laswell is struggling to maintain Orange Music, the legendary New Jersey studio that he as helmed for the last 20 years. He is putting the call out to all fans, friends, and fellow artists alike: If you can help, please do so now. No contribution is too small.
As an artist and producer, Bill Laswell really needs no introduction. Though he has operated largely out of view of the pop charts, he has managed to collaborate with the giants in practically every genre of music—from Miles Davis to Mick Jagger to Bob Marley to name but a few. At the peak of his commercial success, he even produced the Grammy-award winning hit “Rock It” for Herbie Hancock in 1983, one of the first songs that helped hip-hop crossover to the mainstream. At this point, he could have moved to L.A. and cashed in, but he chose to stay in New York and later, New Jersey, and keep it real. In doing so, he displayed his very real commitment to the underground.
Orange Music, the studio Bill moved to in 1998 after getting priced out of rapidly-gentrifying Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has a storied history of its own. Supposedly built in the late 60s for Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, it was originally called Vantone Studio. In the 70s, groups like Jethro Tull, Humble Pie, Brooklyn Bridge, and Carole King recorded there. In the 80s, the studio was renamed Grand Slam Studios and hosted such luminaries as Aerosmith and George Benson. When Laswell took over the studio, he brought with him his international cast of colourful characters, producing such artists as Tabla Beat Science, Sly & Robbie, Matisyahu, Bernie Worrell, and the inimitable Lee “Scratch” Perry. As a maverick in his field, he has always supported other independent artists, who, like himself, are striving for something further, deeper, and true. That’s why he allows other artists and independent labels to use the studio at reduced rates. So many stand to lose if Bill cannot hold onto Orange Music.
Bill’s entire career is a powerful statement of art over commerce. Money has never been an issue, but Bill now needs your help.
PayPal account for Bill Laswell:
More info & Rewards
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