Sunday, 10 May 2015

Prince - Baltimore

Prince releases 'Baltimore' in peaceful protest at Paisley Park

Saturday, 9 May 2015

Aphex Twin's Soundcloud Uploads

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Echo Chamber - Around The World In Dub Vols 1 to 6 (Free Download)

Vol 1 & 2

Vol 3 & 4

Vol 5 & 6

Via Dan Dada Records

Friday, 8 May 2015

Uh? (Julian Cope/Ian McCullough) - Louie Louie /Jefferson Davis (fragment) (Kirklands Liverpool July 1978)

[Pete] Wylie had joined a Dolls/Heartbreakers group called Crash Course with a new scenehead called Andy Eastwood. While Mac [Ian McCulloch] and I took turns to slag off the name of his group, Wylie invited us to support them at Kirklands.
We agreed. Until the last moment, when Mac was close to shitting out. First he was really late. Then he wouldn’t sing, he’d only play melodica. Sod it, man, I’ll bloody sing.
We did ‘Jefferson Davis’, ‘Robert Mitchum’ and ‘Louie Louie’. Mac had on a coat that Mark Smith [of The Fall] had given him. My hair was all grown-out rootsy bleached and I had a shit anorak on. I thought I looked way hip. “No way,” said Mac. “You look like Justin Hayward.” He was right. Uncool.

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Labour haven’t just failed to win – it’s worse than that

Alex Garland Talks Robots, Consciousness and Jackson Pollock

First evolutionary history of 50 years of music charts using big data analysis of sounds

The researchers studied trends in style, the diversity of the charts, and the timing of musical revolutions. They find that, contrary to popular belief, the so-called "British Invasion" of US pop music by groups such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, did not start a rock revolution, but only followed existing trends. The greatest musical revolution in US pop history was also not 1964, but 1991when hip-hop arrived in the charts...