Thursday, 19 March 2015
Robert Wyatt interviewed by George Galloway (RT Sputnik 20/2/15)
Start at 13:02 to avoid all the wank beforehand
Soft Machine - Poem For Hoppy (Live at UFO in 2/6/67)
This was the day after John Hopkins was sent down for 9 months. Arrested for cannabis possession, Hopkins elected for trial by jury. In court on 1 June 1967, Hopkins claimed that cannabis was harmless and that the law should be changed. The judge, describing him as "a pest to society", sentenced Hopkins to nine months in prison for keeping premises for the smoking of cannabis and possession of cannabis, although he served only six months. Hoppy started UFO with Joe Boyd whose voice is heard at the beginning saying to "cut the record"
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Terry Riley on Daevid Allen
...Daevid and I remained friends through that whole period in Paris. I got Daevid into tape loops. I played him this stuff I had done in San Francisco with Anna Halprin like “Mescaline Mix” and pieces like that. Daevid got really interested in that and started doing a lot of stuff with tape loops. We used to jam a lot together in Paris. I’d also hang out on his houseboat on the Seine. It was very funky. He probably got it for $50 or cheaper. It was tied up to a quai and was a very small, one-room space. He lived there the whole time I was in Paris. We had mutual friends down at The Beat Hotel in Paris. We’d go down there a lot. We’d meet people like Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs there. Our cultural life at the time involved going from the houseboat to The Beat Hotel. We ran into many interesting people.MORE
Picós: Colombian sound systems
At the end of the 60’s the afro population of the Colombian Atlantic Coast developed an alternative to enjoy, and in turn, locally spread their preferred music; they built hand-made sound systems capable of triggering a huge party. These sound systems are known in the Colombian Caribbean as Picós. These Colombian sound systems were known, among other things, for having their own name (El Timbalero, El Coreano, El Isleño) as well as for their over-the-top appearance, and for having audio components that magnified their sound power to the maximum.
The so-called Picós, as mobile stations, began in the 60’s to create the basis of an urban, popular and contemporary culture that expresses itself through these powerful sound machines. The sound systems became the center of social and economic networks of craftsmen DJs, owners, music sellers, producers and purchasers, which together, on a small scale, make up an informal economy generated specifically to build, transport and operate these "mobile cultural spaces" which were popularly baptized as Picós.
The PICÓ documentary aims to tell the story of the Maury family in Barranquilla, Colombia, who for 40 years have lived in a house in the La Magdalena neighborhood, which in turn they transformed into a place where people gather, known as "La isla del encanto (the Island of enchantment)."
PHOTOS
The Spaceape RSD 7"
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The Spaceape - Ghost Town (ft Kode 9)/At War With Time (ft The Bug) Hyperdub 7" Strictly Ltd RSD release
LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES ON GOLD VINYL - GOLD FOIL-BLOCKED SLEEVE WITH IN MEMORIAM CARD INSERT RELEASED IN TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN SAMUEL GORDON AKA THE SPACEAPE, 1970 - 2014, R.I.P.
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