Alison Goldfrapp - 6 Music Festive Takeover
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Saturday, 12 September 2015
Friday, 11 September 2015
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Various - Hit Run !2" Records A & B sides (1979)
A little over two hours worth of a small selection of 12" vinyl releases A & B sides from Adrian Sherwood's Hit Run record label.
Adrian licensed the tracks on these vinyl releases for the U.K reggae market from various Jamaican record labels, Scorpio, Cry Tuff etc in 1979
Hit Run records was a relatively short lived project that eventually wound down for the birth of Adrian's On U Sound record label.
For the new On U Sound project Adrian himself oversaw and engineered all recording the sessions in London Studios like Berry Street and Southern Studios. Adrian used some of the same musicians and artists that he had dealt with bringing reggae music to Hit Run records, Bim Sherman, Prince Far I, Roots Radics and Creation Rebel etc.
Track listing:
Errol Holt - Sweet Reggae Music
Prince Far I - Hairdressing Salon
Prince Hammer - Ten Thousand Lions
Prince Hammer - North London Thing
Bim Sherman / Jah Lion - Down In Jamdown
Teem All Stars - Version
Bobby Melody / Jah Lion - Hunger And Strife
Jah Lion - Jonnie Walker
Peter Broggs / Prince Far I - Higher Field Marshall
Prince Far I / Brigadier Jam Brown - Loved By Everyone
Carol Kalphat / Clint Eastwood - African Land
Doctor Pablo / Cry Tuff All Stars - African Melody
Bim Sherman / Jah Buzz - Love Jah Only
Cry Tuff All Stars - Dub From The Ghetto
Monday, 7 September 2015
Richard Di Natale eviscerates Andrew Bolt
The ultimate injustice one can commit to Aylan Kurdi and his family is to omit the parts of his story which explain why he ended up dead on the beach. The details matter. 1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000) 2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Alyan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant aerial bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown. 3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos. 4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms. 5) Kurdi had applied in June for refuge to Canada, but was rejected. After Aylan's photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But he doesn't want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has "nothing to live for."
Chunky Mark VS Dub Syndicate Part Two: Austerity Is A Scam
Style Scott, Skip MacDonald and Jennie Bellestar. Produced by Adrian Sherwood
Previously...Jeremy Corbyn is the most dangerous man in Britain
UrgentFM - On-U Sound Mix
1 - Got To Move Part 2 - Melting Pot
2 - Gary Clail - Beef (Future mix )
3 - Strange Parcels - Disconnection
4 - Beatmaster - LipService (instrumental)
5 - Fats Comet - O.K. BYE !
6 - Tackhead - The King Of The Beat
7 - Keith Le Blanc - You Drummers Listen Good
8 -Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat
9 - Gary Clail & On U Sound System - Peace Perfect Peace
10 - Tackhead - Stealing
11 - Mark Stewart - Hysteria (dub)
12 - Keith Le Blanc - Taxider
13 - New Age Steppers - Private Armies
14 - Barmy Army - Privatise The Air
15 - Singers & Players - Bedward The Flying Preacher
16 - African Head Charge - BeriBeri
17 - African Head Charge - Some Bizarre
18 - Primal Scream - The Big Man & The Scream Team Meet The Barmy Army Uptown
Sunday, 6 September 2015
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins 1971)
'Punishment Park' is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scene real tempers seem to flare as some of the 'acting' got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinema-veritie style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be able to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking - pushed some to the brink. The cast's emotions are clearly on the surface. Unfortunately this film has gone completely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating document of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the war peacefully
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Peter Watkins discusses his radical pseudo documentary Punishment Park in 2004
Martin Hannett's Jen SX 1000 synth for sale on eBay
One of the best examples of an 80's Jen SX1000 Analogue Synth you will ever see, fully working, Martin Hannett's Jen no 4. Complete with ALL the metallic coloured knob caps that almost always have some missing, and this comes with Martin Hannett's pro flightcase and his set of factory schematics. Hannett was of course an analogue synth pioneer owning these synths and the other late 70s synth the Transcendent for his first experiments before adding ARPs and Moogs to his collection. It was his use of early analogue synths such as this one on punk and post punk records that broke ground as he brought the industrial feel of Manchester into the music he produced with these synths.
It has a 3-octave, 37-note, (C-C) keyboard and a black front panel. Also called the "Synthetone", the SX-1000 features a single DCO (digitally controlled oscillator), with a four octave range (32', 16', 8', 4') and three available waveforms, sawtooth, square, and PWM (Pulse Width Modulation). White and pink noise are also available, as well as portamento/glide. The filter is 12dB/octave. There are two ADSR envelope generators and one LFO.
The SX-1000 is a Italian built monophonic analogue synthesizer sold between 1978 and 1982.
This model of Synth has been used extensively by artists such as Martin Hannett (synth musician and Joy Division's producer who owned six at one point ), LFO, Nexus 21, Altern 8, Eskimos & Egypt, Luke Vibert, Herb Legowicz of Gusgus, Future Sound of London, Fillmore, Man Machine, Tim Simenon, Broadcast, Plone, Ladytron and The Prodigy
This synth will come with provenance letter confirming it was one of Hannett's Jens
Details
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Thanks Stan!
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Naomi Klein: Capitalism and the Climate (Festival of Dangerous Ideas Sydney Opera House 5/9/015)
Is Capitalism now at war with our planet?
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All in all this was quite an eventful festival this year
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Q&A - Cheating, Climate, War & Democracy
w/ Naomi Klein, Author, This Changes Everything; Miroslav Volf, Christian theologian and author; Tariq Ali, British Pakistani author and political campaigner; Laurie Penny, Writer and journalist; and Tom Switzer, Host of Between the Lines
Gets a bit feisty at the half hour mark but Laurie Penny kills it
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