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Rastronaut - The Autumn Mix

   

TRACKLIST:

1. DEADBEAT – Lost Luggage

2. 2562 – Redux

3. 2562 – Basin Dub

4. 2562 – Kontrol

5. HIJAK – Babylon Timewarp

6. MUNGO’S HI-FI – Haffi Rock

7. ROB SPARX – Dub Warrior

8. ROB SPARX – Vagabundo

9. SKREAM – Rutten

10. ZOMBY – Spliff Dub (Rustie Remix)

11. ZERO 7 – Everything Up (Joker & Ginz Remix)

12. JOKER – Snake Eater

13. JOKER – Digidesign

14. LOEFAH – Disko Rekah

15. N-TYPE – HP Sauce

16. CHASE & STATUS – Madhouse (Dead Money Remix)

17. CHASING SHADOWS – Amirah

18. CHASING SHADOWS – Ill

19. BAR 9 – Strung Out

20. CARDOPUSHER – Homeless

21. JOKER & GINZ – ReUp

22. JAKES – In Tha Place To Be

23. RUSKO – Mr. Muscle

24. RUSKO – Moaners

25. THE PRODIGY – Take Me To The Hospital (Rusko Remix)

26. MR. OIZO – Flat Beat (16bit Remix)

27. BURAKA SOM SISTEMA – Sound Of Kuduro

28. BURAKA SOM SISTEMA – Luanda-Lisboa

29. RESO – Beasts In The Basement

30. SKISM – The Blank (16bit Remix)

31. EXCISION & DATSIK – Swagger

32. CYPRESS HILL – Child Of The West (Switchdub’s Dubstep Remix)

33. JAKES – Custard Cream

34. SKREAM – Blue Eyez

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Lo - The Day After

 

Smoking # 43

Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation

In almost every room people were sleeping, but not like babies. This was not the carefree sleep that would restore them to rise and shine for another day. It was the sleep before — and sometimes until — death.

In some of the rooms in the hospice unit at Franklin Hospital, in Valley Stream on Long Island, the patients were sleeping because their organs were shutting down, the natural process of death by disease. But at least one patient had been rendered unconscious by strong drugs.

The patient, Leo Oltzik, an 88-year-old man with dementia, congestive heart failure and kidney problems, was brought from home by his wife and son, who were distressed to see him agitated, jumping out of bed and ripping off his clothes. Now he was sleeping soundly with his mouth wide open.

“Obviously, he’s much different than he was when he came in,” Dr. Edward Halbridge, the hospice medical director, told Mr. Oltzik’s wife. “He’s calm, he’s quiet.”

Mr. Oltzik’s life would end not with a bang, but with the drip, drip, drip of an IV drug that put him into a slumber from which he would never awaken. That drug, lorazepam, is a strong sedative. Mr. Oltzik was also receiving morphine, to kill pain. This combination can slow breathing and heart rate, and may make it impossible for the patient to eat or drink. In so doing, it can hasten death.

Mr. Oltzik received what some doctors call palliative sedation and others less euphemistically call terminal sedation. While the national health coverage debate has been roiled by questions of whether the government should be paying for end-of-life counseling, physicians like Dr. Halbridge, in consultations with patients or their families, are routinely making tough decisions about the best way to die.

Among those choices is terminal sedation, a treatment that is already widely used, even as it vexes families and a profession whose paramount rule is to do no harm.

Doctors who perform it say it is based on carefully thought-out ethical principles in which the goal is never to end someone’s life, but only to make the patient more comfortable.

But the possibility that the process might speed death has some experts contending that the practice is, in the words of one much-debated paper, a form of “slow euthanasia,” and that doctors who say otherwise are fooling themselves and their patients.

There is little information about how many patients are terminally sedated, and under what circumstances — estimates have ranged from 2 percent of terminal patients to more than 50 percent. (Doctors are often reluctant to discuss particular cases out of fear that their intentions will be misunderstood.)

While there are universally accepted protocols for treating conditions like flu and diabetes, this is not as true for the management of people’s last weeks, days and hours. Indeed, a review of a decade of medical literature on terminal sedation and interviews with palliative care doctors suggest that there is less than unanimity on which drugs are appropriate to use or even on the precise definition of terminal sedation.

Discussions between doctors and dying patients’ families can be spare, even cryptic. In half a dozen end-of-life consultations attended by a reporter over the last year, even the most forthright doctors and nurses did little more than hint at what the drugs could do. Afterward, some families said they were surprised their loved ones died so quickly, and wondered if the drugs had played a role.

Whether the patients would have lived a few days longer is one of the more prickly unknowns in palliative medicine. Still, most families felt they and the doctors had done the right thing.

Mr. Oltzik died after eight days at the hospice. Asked whether the sedation that rendered Mr. Oltzik unconscious could have accelerated his death, Dr. Halbridge said, “I don’t know.”

“He could have just been ready at that moment,” he said.

With their families’ permission, Dr. Halbridge agreed to talk about patients, including Mr. Oltzik and Frank Foster, a 60-year-old security guard dying of cancer. He said he had come to terms with the moral issues surrounding sedation.

“Do I consider myself a Dr. Death who is bumping people off on a regular basis?” he asked. “I don’t think so. In my own head I’ve sort of come to the realization that these people deserve to pass comfortably...

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Beats In Space: Juan Atkins & Ashley Beedle

BIS Radio Show #499December 15 2009

Pt 1 with: Juan Atkins 1. Model 500 - Wanna Be There - R&S

2. Model 500 - Nightdrive (Thru Babylon) - Metroplex

3. Model 500 - Ocean To Ocean - Metroplex

4. Octave One - Life After Man - 430 West

5. Son's of The Dragon - The Journey Of Qui Niu (CV 313's The D Mix) - Echospace

6. Quince - GoBang - Delsin

7. The Black Dog - Train By The Autobahn (DJ Remix By Robert Hood) - Soma

8. The Vision - Explain The Style - Metroplex

9. Efdemin - The Pulse (John Beltran's Summer Light Remix) - Curle

10. Motorcitysoul - Vivid (Roman Flugel's Desperate Dub) - Simple Records

11. YNK - Schultze Swing - Percusa Records

12. Mendo - Everybody I Got Him (2009 Mix) - Cadenza

13. Unknown

14. Juan Atkins & Kimyon - Work For Money - All About

15. Robert Hood - Rhythm Of Vision - M-Plant

16. Kimyon - Platform View -

17. Unknown

18. Unknown

Pt 2 with: Ashley Beedle Electronic Rudie! Dub Can't Fail Mix:

19. 3 Generations Walking - Midnight Bustling (Francois Kevorkian Dub)

20. Basement 5 - Immigrant Dub

21. The Pop Group - 3:38

22. Dub Pistols feat . Rodney P - You'll Never Find (Dub)

23. Stiff Little Fingers - Bloody Dub

24. Generation X - Wild Dub

25. Flesh For Lulu - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Dub Version)

26. The Pogues - Young Ned Of The Hill (Dub Version)

27. The Clash - One More Dub

28. Bauhaus - Here's The Dub (She's In Parties)

29. Leftfield - Dub Gussett

30. Air - How Does It Make You Feel? (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

31. Massive Attack vs Mad Professor - Radiation Ruling The Nation (Protection)

32. Reverend And The Makers - Sundown On The Empire (Adrian Sherwood On U Sound Disneydubland)

33. The Clash - Robber Dub

34. The Specials/Rico Rodriguez - Ghost Town (Extended Mix)

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Scientists aim for musical impact

The Large Hadron Collider will have a song dedicated to it.

The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known by its French acronym Cern) is to record a song dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The LHC is the vast physics experiment built in a 27km-long underground tunnel, which runs in a circle under the French-Swiss border.

The ditty written by clinical psychologist Danuta Orlowska has been set to the tune of the Hippopotamus song by Flanders and Swann and its chorus celebrates the Higgs boson - a sub-atomic particle that the LHC is designed to detect:

"Higgs, Higgs glorious Higgs," the tune goes, "the theory told them these thingamijigs, were so fundamental."

But this isn't Cern's first ode to particle physics. Staff members once wrote a rap song that was praised for its scientific accuracy - if little else.

"You see particles flying, in jets they spray. But you notice there ain't nothin', goin' the other way," they rap.

"You say: 'My law has just been violated - it don't make sense! There's gotta be another particle to make this balance'."

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, also released a rap song this year.

"Rocket Experience", recorded with some help from rap artist Snoop Dogg, commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

Crash landing?

In it, Buzz intones, "I am the space man", adding: "It's time to venture far, let's take a trip to Mars. Our destiny is to the stars."

The song was intended to convey the excitement of the Apollo era to a younger generation. But Andrew Harrison, associate editor of music magazine Word, is doubtful:

"I don't think we can call that a giant leap for hip-hop," he told BBC News. But he understands why Buzz and others turn to music in an attempt to convey the wonder of science.

"Scientists can feel a little unappreciated, in that there's this incredible stuff that they're discovering that is difficult to bring to popular attention. But what it does prove is that music is difficult," says Mr Harrison.

There are even songs dedicated to palaeontological discoveries. Jonathan Mann wrote a song about the discovery of a 4.4 million-year-old human-like creature called Ardipithecus ramidus, which might be a human ancestor.

The chorus goes: "Oh! Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus ramidus, She's related to all of us!"

Scientists are not just using music to inform the public, but also - in time-honoured fashion - to campaign.

'Don't take our dish'

The tune "Don't go messing with our Telescope" was released last year by The Astronomers to fight the closure of the famous Jodrell Bank Telescope in Cheshire, UK.

"And every day we live in hope, don't go messing with our telescope, don't take our dish, you'll leave a black hole," the verse implores.

A composition in an advert by Bio-Rad Laboratories set what was regarded as a high water mark in science music.

The video features a well-produced parody of "We are the World" with cameos from Willy Nelson, Bob Dylan and Bee Gees sound-alikes.

It is dedicated to a technique - called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - which enables researchers to make millions of copies of short sequences of genetic material.

It has transformed molecular biology. So, argue the scientists, why not celebrate science with the same gusto as one might celebrate sport in a football song?

"PCR when you need to detect mutation (detect mutation), PCR when you need to recombine (recombine), PCR when you need to find out who the daddy is (who's your daddy?), PCR when you need to solve a crime (solve a crime)," goes the refrain.

@'BBC'

Mungo's Hi Fi - Scotch Bonnet Mix (2007)

Mungo's Hi Fi

Scotch Bonnet Mix

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Flying the flag for reggae in Scotland, Mungo's Hi Fi lay down nuff fine riddims from their arsenal in this exclusive studio mix.

Since 2002, Mungo's Hi Fi Soundsystem have been showing big love for all things reggae, dub, ska and dancehall by releasing some seriously high-grade music — not to mention regularly shaking Glasgow's foundations with their lofty speaker stacks.

Following three outings on London's Dubhead label, the lads decided to set up their own imprint in 2005 — the wonderfully titled Scotch Bonnet Records. There's been a slew of 7"s and 10"s so far, all as hot as the label name suggests, with their unstoppable Belly Ska Riddim blazing its way across the UK, America, Germany and Poland. And there's no let up in pressure; next month sees their huge Mary Jane Riddim unleashed on a series of singles that feature vocals from Top Cat, Carl Meeks, Kenny Knots, Mikey Murka, Soom T and El Fata. There's also a Mungo's Hi Fi album on the way, due out on Scotch Bonnet in the not-to-distant future. In fact, they tell us they're sitting on so much new material that they don't know what to do with it all!

For those unable to catch Mungo's Hi Fi on their European travels in the coming months, they've kindly supplied Spannered with this killer studio mix, packed full of unreleased Scotch Bonnet goodness. As you can tell, they've been feeling the current dubstep flavours too — hold tight for releases later in the year!

Linkage

• Mungo's Hi Fi
• Mungo's Hi Fi on MySpace
• Scotch Bonnet Records 

@'Spannered'

Bonus Audio:

Joanna Newsom - Book of Right On (Mungo's Hi Fi Mix)

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Kristin Hersh remembers her late friend Vic Chesnutt: 'I miss him more than I've missed anybody ever'

To say this is a difficult day for those who knew and cared about Vic Chesnutt, the singer-songwriter who died yesterday at age 45, can only be an understatement. “I miss him more than I’ve missed anybody ever,” Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses and solo fame) tells EW.com’s The Music Mix today, her voice heavy with emotion. ”Fifteen years was not enough time to prepare for this. It’s just hard to imagine a world without Vic.”
Chesnutt became one of Hersh’s dearest friends in the mid-90s, when he was her opening act on a solo acoustic tour of Europe. “It’s hard not to get close with Vic,” she recalls. “He was wonderful. A lot of people don’t know that, because he liked to think of himself as an ornery character, but he wasn’t. He was a sweetheart, and hilarious, absolutely hilarious.” The two went on to collaborate and perform together often in subsequent years, most recently at an R.E.M. tribute concert at NYC’s Carnegie Hall this past March. “Vic and I were very, very much alike, and that’s part of why we were so close,” says Hersh. “I feel like the last of a species after he’s gone.”

Through those years, friends couldn’t help but be aware of Chesnutt’s struggles with depression. “Vic was a real songwriter. Unlike 99 percent of the musicians out there, who suck for money, he was in it, living the songs. That’s a hard way of life….I don’t know how this minute was different from all the other ones, that it took Vic away. But you could see it in his eyes. I didn’t think [a tragic death] was inevitable, but it was definitely always there.”
Up until recently, Hersh and Chesnutt were planning to record a new album and tour together this year. Now that he’s gone, she’s set up a website to raise funds for his widow, Tina. Fans have already donated thousands of dollars. “Vic’s medical bills were astronomical. Like most musicians, he didn’t have insurance for a long time, and then when he got insurance, they wouldn’t pay his bills. I know that he was about 50 grand in debt just for medical bills….[Fans'] generosity is unbelievable.”
Asked about the possibility of a posthumous tribute to Chesnutt’s work, Hersh laughs through the tears. “I imagine he would think that was goofy. He’s also a difficult musician to cover…That’s part of what was so beautiful about his playing, the fluid timing. That’s what was truly inimitable about him. You can’t be Vic. I don’t recommend covering his songs, even though it’s been done before and I’ve done it myself. Vic played his own music, and that’s the way it should have been played, not by us peasants.”
Right now, though, the tragedy of his death is still too fresh for her to listen to his music. “There are hardly any of his songs that were not my favorites,” Hersh says. “All week, I couldn’t take [Chesnutt's 1998 album] The Salesman and Bernadette off. I had it on repeat over and over and over again. And then when I heard he was gone, I decided I wouldn’t be able to listen to it again.” Hersh pauses for a moment. “I hate the idea of him being in the past, but I don’t see how I can sit through one of his songs. There are so many memories — stupid memories, just hundreds and hundreds all at once. At least right now, I can’t really handle that.”
@'Entertainment Weekly'

kristinhersh someone just shared this w/me...vic & me doing "panic pure" live - http://is.gd/5CIVE 18 minutes ago from web

Smoking # 42

Soledad Miranda

Vic Chesnutt: Left to his own devices

Vic was our Keats, our Nina Simone. There will never be another like him. - Guy Picciotto, Fugazi
It’s funny the things we tend to remember, or I should say, the things I tend to remember. The minutiae. The first time I heard the name Vic Chesnutt was in the Fall of 1995; I was 20 years old and a sophomore at the University of Georgia in Athens. Having recently been turned on to Jack Logan, via the University radio station, I walked downtown to Wuxtry Records to pick up his 2-disc debut, Bulk. Paying for it at the counter the clerk, noting my purchase, asked if I  also liked Vic Chesnutt. No, I replied–I had never heard of him. That was 15 years ago. Chesnutt’s music has been with me ever since.
On Christmas day I heard the news that Vic Chestnutt was gone, dead at 45 from an overdose of muscle relaxants. Shocking as the news was, it was made even more surreal as I had just been shopping for Chesnutt vinyl a couple of days prior, had just seen him and his new (excellent) band December 1st here in L.A., and we had just listed At The Cut as not only one of our favorite albums of 2009, but deemed it “Chesnutt’s finest hour yet.” All appeared to be on the up and up for Chesnutt, at least from an outside perspective. In reality Chesnutt had apparently been struggling with deep depression, continued health issues, and stress and anxiety due to monster lawsuit from unpaid hospital bills in the tune of 50 thousand dollars. Tragic and sad.
Chesnutt was my kind of songwriter. There was no artifice, no bullshit. And while his music wasn’t pretty, and could be very grim at times, there was almost always a humor in it. How could there not be from the guy who wrote “Good Morning Mr. Hard On.” Like fellow Athenian Daniel Hutchens, he walked that fine line between the light and the dark. That magic lyrical twilight that you can’t quite put your finger on, but one that makes all the difference. Read Chesnutt’s lyrics; listen to his songs. A musician, he tread in the Southern Gothic literary tradition of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, but in the vein of contemporaries Harry Crews, Larry Brown and William Gay. Chesnutt wrote about what he knew; the new South, one struggling with its identity – half rooted in the present and half in the past.
Following a pair of critically well-received albums for New West Records, Silver Lake and Ghetto Bells, Chesnutt resurfaced in 2007 with the type of late-period album that not only revitalizes long-time listeners, but draws in new ones as well. North Star Deserter was the result of Chesnutt collaborating with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi, Thee Silver Mt. Zion and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It was a dark, challenging record that truly gave Chesnutt’s lyrics a powerful backdrop unlike any previous recording. He would take time to record another collaboration, the more light-hearted and whimsical Dark Developments with Elf Power in 2008, but would return to his North Star Deserter collaborators for 2009’s astounding At the Cut.
Every bit its predecessor’s equal, if not its better, At The Cut found Chesnutt in rare lyrical form – dissecting his usual themes of mortality and existence with amazing precision. From opener “Coward” and its powerful sonics while Chesnutt dictates about “the courage of the coward,” to closer “Granny” and its short vignettes of actual interactions between Chesnutt and his late grandmother based on a dream that he had, the album is a sonic and thematic triumph. Now, in the wake of Chesnutt’s suicide, one of the album’s best songs has also taken on a different tone. “Flirted With You All My Life” was, as Vic explained it in an interview we conducted earlier this year, “about being a suicide. I’ve attempted suicide a couple of times and I think about things such as that. [People who attempt suicide] have a kind of love/hate relationship with death. I do, in some ways. That’s what I say in the song – ‘tease me with your sweet relief.’ The song is about realizing that I don’t want to die. I want to live.” A song that seemed to point to a triumph over Death’s call, instead now reads like a lost promise.
Vic’s last tour before his death was with the North Star Deserter/At The Cut studio band promoting the At the Cut album. On numerous nights of the tour, they brought an amazing and jaw-dropping set of songs to bear on the audience. Again in the interview he described working with the band as “one of the most incredible experiences, musically, I’ve ever had. The power is like a locomotive or something.” Seeing the band live, he wasn’t kidding. It was one of the best concert experiences of 2009 to go along with one of its finest albums. Talking with Vic was always a pleasure, too. In interviews, he was genuine and forthright in the way he spoke of his turbulent life – in person, he was a kind and friendly man who was approachable to his fans. He will be greatly missed. words/ j gage & j neas
+ Musician Kristin Hersh has set up a donation website on behalf of Chesnutt’s family in tribute to the artist. 100% of all funds raised will go to Vic’s family.
MP3: Vic Chesnutt :: Degenerate
MP3: Vic Chesnutt :: Flirted With You All My Life

@'Aquarium Drunkard'

Flying soon? Have fun

In the wake of 9/11, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article on the history of hijackings (PDF), concluding:

Can we close the loopholes that led to the September 11th attack? Logistically, an all-encompassing security system is probably impossible. A new safety protocol that adds thirty seconds to the check-in time of every passenger would add more than three hours to the preparation time for a 747, assuming that there are no additional checkpoints. Reforms that further encumber the country's already overstressed air-traffic system are hardly reforms; they are self-inflicted wounds.

The history Gladwell had detailed is one in which, repeatedly, security procedures on air travel had addressed the most recent crime or attempted crime, always looking backward and always being evaded by the next round of hijackers.

And, despite all the improvements in airport security, the percentage of terrorist hijackings foiled by airport security in the years between 1987 and 1996 was at its lowest point in thirty years. Airport-security measures have simply chased out the amateurs and left the clever and the audacious. "A look at the history of attacks on commercial aviation reveals that new terrorist methods of attack have virtually never been foreseen by security authorities," the Israeli terrorism expert Ariel Merari writes, in the recent book "Aviation Terrorism and Security."

In the wake of Christmas Day's failed terrorism attempt, the TSA is self-inflicting a few more wounds. The upshot is that air travel is getting a whole lot more miserable for those who are still willing to endure it.

According to a statement posted Saturday morning on Air Canada’s Web site, the Transportation Security Administration will severely limit the behavior of both passengers and crew during flights in United States airspace — restricting movement in the final hour of flight. Late Saturday morning, the T.S.A. had not yet included this new information on its own Web site.

"Among other things," the statement in Air Canada’s Web site read, "during the final hour of flight customers must remain seated, will not be allowed to access carry-on baggage, or have personal belongings or other items on their laps."

Also, only one carry-on item may be allowed, it's reported.

So, to recap. Improvements in airport security have historically not worked. Yet, in response to a failed terrorism attempt, a struggling industry in a struggling economy, and the poor saps stuck as its customers, will have to deal with more restrictions imposed not because there's any empirical support for their effectiveness, but so the TSA can appear to be Vigilant and Responsive.

If some terrorist organization wanted to change its stated goals to killing the US airline industry, they could probably declare victory relatively soon.

@'Daily Kos'