Sunday, 8 January 2012

Streaming Dreams

Fuxake!!! Oakland Police at it again...

OakFoSho Spencer: For Hire

Interview w/Leela inside OPD kettle after being assaulted by OPD bit.ly/zHBEuR #OccupyOakland #OO #FTP #OWS #p21 @OccupyOakland

Norway to deport a young Hazara asylum seeker to danger

(Thanx GKB!)

Controversial Hammered Music Festival for neo-Nazis to be held in Brisbane in 2012

Podcast #41: Tripmastermonk - Zencast Vol. 2 - Ninja Funk & Gangster Ballads

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Part 2 of the Zencast series from tripmastermonk. An ode to the brotherland. A collection of rare grooves and breaks all from original Japanese vinyl.

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♪♫ Skintologists - On that Number

(Check out the early 80's footage of 23 Skidoo!!!)
Bonus:

Raymond Antrobus Dropping a poem at Studio 52
Drums/keys Fritz, Bass Sketch

(Thanx Fritz!)

Paul Mason: Why It's All Kicking Off

“It really is THE revolution, it’s not a by-product of say Egypt or Facebook. The problem we’ve got is the systems that were constructed before this knowledge revolution took place are all creaky, and I don’t just mean banking, politics is falling apart. I see the revolutions of 2011 as part of humanity trying to just set it right.”
A year ago, shortly after the British student protests and in the middle of the Egyptian revolution, intrepid BBC journalist Paul Mason took a group of activists to the pub to thrash out the reasons behind this sudden upsurge in revolt. His subsequent, slightly hungover, blog post ’20 Reasons Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’ went viral: “I was asking myself what is it that has flipped this generation over? I sat there with a bunch of activists and had a long discussion; we went to a pub and carried on the discussion,” he says as we sit down to discuss his forthcoming book, which follows on from that initial post to investigate the causes of this new wave of global struggle. “We tried to work it out, what’s causing it? I just published it on the blog, went to a party, came back, switched on the computer and there was something like 83,000 retweets...”
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Vladislav Delay live visuals by AGF

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Smoking # 119

Patricia Highsmith

Mystery Chinese blogger scores a hit with Cultural Revolution novel

So fugn true!!!

'Get rid of all cleaners, rubbish collecters, bus drivers, supermarket checkout staff and secreteries, for example, and society would quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private equity directors had disappeared, society would go on as much as it did before: in a lot of cases, probably a lot better.'
Owen Jones: 'CHAVS: The Demonization of the Working Class'

(Thanx Alan!)

Our dears, New Year is one of the most important and most beautiful holidays with lots of joy, belief and sincerity. Therefore on this occasion we have prepared you a gift – our first release: LEAVING ELEVEN (LVS001), various artists compilation of 17 great quality IDM, Ambient, Drone, Glitch, Electronic tracks, is out now!
Seventeen different artists with different visions on electronics from all over the world: Digitonal, Hobo Cubes, IJO, Joel Tammik, Krill.Minima, Maps And Diagrams, Mind Over Midi, Ninestein, Pawn, Pleq, Sense, Sleppy Town Manufacture, Sonmi451, Sraunus, The Green Kingdom, The New Honey Shade, Yvat. We would like to thank all the artists involved in this release for their good work, and all the people who support us.
17 tracks © 2011 Leaves
Style: Electronic
Compiled: Egidijus Kausylas (Egg)
Design: Tomas Toleikis
Mastered: Emery
01 Pleq – Someone Like Comes Into Your Life (feat. Fraqsea)
02 Sonmi451 – Tohoku
03 Sense – Mysoul Transition
04 Krill.Minima – Sonnenbad
05 Ninestein – Papa November
06 Yvat – Equant Mirror
07 The New Honey Shade – Human Energy
08 Maps And Diagrams – We Are Not Here To Protect You
09 Joel Tammik – Maa Lugu
10 Mind Over Midi – What On Earth
11 Pawn – Discolored Photograph Out-Take
12 The Green Kingdom – The Largest Creature (dub)
13 Digitonal – Polaris
14 Sraunus – Begales
15 Sleepy Town Manufacture – Pinqwyj
16 IJO – 3001 Feets Under
17 Hobo Cubes – Systems Expired
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Pig City

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In the late 1970s Brisbane was known to the rest of Australia as a big country town, and on the surface it was a citadel of conservative rural Australian values.
The Country Party had been in power for nearly two decades, and the premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, ruled the state with an iron fist, never hesitating to use the Queensland police force to stamp out any resistance to his notoriously corrupt regime.
It was in this context that a smouldering culture of rebellion was born among the students and other residents in the city's inner suburbs, which manifest in public protests, acts of civil disobedience, and -- in defiance of a legislated ban against them -- in sometimes violent street marches. This growing wave of dissent also found expression in the energetic and distinctive music which began to emerge from Brisbane at this time, and which kick-started Australia's wider punk and alternative rock scenes.
The Saints, the Go Betweens and the Riptides, the Laughing Clowns, the Hoodoo Gurus and Gangajang all had their roots in the Brisbane punk scene of the 1970s, and would go on to have a huge influence on Australian music, paving the way for some of Australia's most successful later acts, including Savage Garden, Powderfinger, Screamfeeder and Regurgertator.
The 2004 book Pig City by Andrew Stafford was the first serious attempt to tell the story of Brisbane's coming of age through this potent mix of music and politics. The opening of the city's first community radio station, 4zzz, in 1975, became a vehicle for the emergence of this powerful nexus between music and politics in Brisbane during this era. It's been argued that, at the time, 4zzz offered the only alternative and articulated voice of opposition to the prevailing state government of the day in Queensland.
Tony Collins recalls his own experience of Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland, during the years that he spent living in Brisbane, working as a young broadcaster at 4zzz.
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Don't forget to visit Bob's wonderful 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' for a lot of the music from the time discussed in the programme...
(Thanx Chuck!)

Caveat: Ed Kuepper, one of the key players in the above doco has just remarked on Facebook

'I could be a bit pedantic about aspects of the time line in this documentary because it blurrs things that happened almost a decade apart but maybe some other time...'