Tuesday, 21 February 2012

How Dangerous Does the Government Want the Internet to Be?

Monday, 20 February 2012

Flou - Shed Mix

1. STP : the fall (Subsolo)
2. Shed : flat axe (Ostgut Ton)
3. Taho : energy fields - Shed’s ride disturbance mix (Delsin)
4. Shed : boom room (Ostgut Ton)
5. Wax : 30003 A (Wax)
6. Shed : another wedged chicken (Ostgut Ton)
7. Shed : selection one (Soloaction)
8. Wax : 40004 A (Wax)
9. Head High : it’s a love thing – piano invasion (H2 Recordings)
10. Equalized : 3 A (Equalized)
11. Equalized : 4 B (Equalized)
12. Shed : hidden (Soloaction)
13. Wax : 10001 B (Wax)
14. Shed : selection two (Soloaction)
15. Shed : well done 033472 edit (Soloaction)
16. Wax : 10001 A (Wax)
17. Shed : egotism (Soloaction)
18. Wax : 40004 B (Wax)
19. WK7 : higher power - hardcore PCK mix (Power House)
20. Shed : red planet express (Soloaction)
21. Shed : kinky dudes (Soloaction)
22. Wax : 30003 B (Wax)
23. Shed : digin in the dirt (Styrax Leaves)
24. Shed : stars (Soloaction)
25. Shed : balance (Soloaction)
26. Shed : that beats everything! (Ostgut Ton)
27. Shed : atmo - action (Ostgut Ton)
28. Shed : opulence 11 (Soloaction)
29. Shed : sweep dreams (Ostgut Ton)
30. Shed : well done 030 edit (Soloaction)
31. Equalized : 2 A (Equalized)
32. Deuce : guttering (Ostgut Ton)
33. Substance : relish - Shed remix (Scion Versions)
34. Deuce : cue ed (Ostgut Ton)
35. Equalized : 3 B (Equalized)
36. Shed : opulence 22 (Soloaction)
37. Shed : unvisible (Soloaction)
38. Wax : 20002 A (Wax)
39. Planetary Assault Systems : hold it - Deuce remix (Ostgut Ton)
40. Shed : guile (Delsin)
41. Shed : smooth kicks (Soloaction)
42. D-Bridge : ZX 81 - Shed remix (Fat City Recordings)
43. Shed : push the button (Soloaction)
44. Shed : solitude straight (Soloaction)
45. WK7 : the avalanche (Power House)
46. Equalized : 4 A (Equalized)
47. WK7 : higher power (Power House)
48. Equalized : 1 A (Equalized)
49. Radio Slave : tantakatan - the drunken Shed mix (Rekids)
50. Steve Lawler : kalimba - Shed turtle shield mix (R & S Records)
51. Shed : my R-Class (Ostgut Ton)
52. Shed : 728 (Delsin)
53. Shed : with bag and baggage (Monkeytown Records)
54. Shed : TK001 (Styrax Leaves)
55. Shed : stale (Delsin)
56. Equalized : 2 B (Equalized)

First Listen: Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun

For a band with no lyrics, Melbourne's Dirty Three evokes a broad and complex array of human emotions. Violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White each carry equal weight in the group's music, and each lends a distinct personality: As Dirty Three's most gregarious figure, Ellis plays the instrument most conducive to showy flourishes and displays of heartsick emotion, but Turner and White provide the bones and sinew that keep him standing. White's drum patterns skitter around the edges of rhythms, lending the band's music a portentous air of uncertainty, while Turner's guitar flows around him like blood. All are crucial: Each is capable of functioning as an instantly identifiable lead voice (even when performing outside the band), but when the three play together, the emotions they conjure can be overwhelming.
Toward the Low Sun, out Feb. 28, is Dirty Three's first album in seven years — Ellis has been working with Nick Cave and Turner has put out some marvelous solo work, while White made a brilliant 2007 record with Nina Nastasia, among other projects — and it sounds more haunting and haunted than many of its predecessors. Right off the top, "Furnace Skies" forgoes the soaring beauty of Dirty Three's ballads in favor of a kind of low, foreboding, vaguely ugly rumble. From there, Toward the Low Sun works for its moments of cathartic beauty instead of letting them come easily in each track. But when they do arrive, as in the gorgeous pairing of "The Pier" and "Rain Song," they hit harder for the troubled-sounding textures that surround them. Ellis and Turner each lend a bit of piano work, in "Ashen Snow" and elsewhere, and it only adds to the moody beauty throughout.
Any band playing wordless music with such emotion is bound to find its thematic intentions open to interpretation, but each Dirty Three song title expresses a tiny universe of context — "Sometimes I Forget You've Gone," "You Greet Her Ghost" — to help chart an inevitably nonlinear course. But that's what Dirty Three's music is all about: functioning as the moody, conflicted soundtrack for a storm-swept journey where getting lost is part of the plan.
Stephen Thompson @'npr'

Listen To 'Toward The Low Sun' In Its Entirety

Shed (René Pawlowitz) Wax Treatment Podcasts

Wax Treatment Podcast #003 - Shed

18.10.09 - Tracklist:

01. Cornel Campbell: Natural Fact - Attack Gold 015
02. Earl Sixteen: Gold Of Sheba - Merge 10-04
03. Elemental: Talk - Runtime LP 001
04. Aardvarck: A1 - Bloom 03
05. Neil Landstrumm: 6 At Le Mans - Planet µ 246
06. Kryptic Minds: 768 - Tectonic 032
07. Hyetal: Pixel Rainbow Sequence (Peverelist Remix) - RDCTN 003
08. Zomby: Godzilla - Ramp Recordings 022
09. Joy Orbison: Hyph Mngo - Hotflush HFT 009
10. 2562 - Flashback - Tectonic 034
11. ID: Nine Tree Hill - Mata-Syn 005
12. RSD: Green Hill - Punch Drunk 012
13. Distance: V (Pinch Remix) - Chestplate 007
14. F & Headhunter: Dedale - Transistor 001

Wax Treatment Podcast #030 - Shed

23.01.2012 - Tracklist:

01. Ras G: Discipline09-1 - Leaving 004
02. Tokimonsta: Line To Dot - Ramp 030
03. Flying Lotus: Tea Leaf Dancers - Warp 228
04. Ras G: Discipline09-2 - Leaving 004
05. Dro Carey: Velvet Mouth - Ramp 047
06. Anstam: Say My Name - 50Weapons LP04
07. Aphex Twin: Flim - Warp 094
08. Martyn: I Saw You At Tule Lake - Brainfeeder 025
09. Objekt: Porcupine - Hessle Audio 019
10. Roly Porter: Hessra - Subtext LP 002
11. Stay+: Dandelion - Ramp 053
12. Skeptical: Another World - Exit LP 005
13. Shed: Sonar Intro
14. Shed: RQ170 - 50Weapons 047
15. Shed: DREFX120
16. GonjaSufi: Nikels And Dimes - Warp LP 223
17. King Midas Sound: Lost (Lost (Flying Lotus Rework) - Hyperdub CD 009

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Bradley L. Garrett : Urban Explorers - Quests for Myth, Mystery and Meaning

This video is a 30-minute introduction to the practice of urban exploration. Constructed as a video article for the journal Geography Compass, the article uses footage from the author's own explorations in California, Las Vegas and London to visually depict a theoretical unpacking of the practice by 5 academic geographers.
You can find the article that goes with the video at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00389.x/abstract