Thursday 14 April 2011

Julian Cope presents DETROITROCKSAMPLER

Rationals (1968) Guitar Army (3.18)
MC5 (1970) Looking at You (3.05)
Alice Cooper (1970) Long Way to Go (3.05)
The Up (1970) Together (4.23)
Amboy Dukes (1967) Journey to the Centre of the Mind (3.14)
Don & the Wanderers (1968) On the Road (2.18)
Bob Seger System (1967) Heavy Music (2.39)
Mynah Birds (1967) I’ve Got You in My Soul (2.29)
Third Power (1970) Persecution (3.25)
Detroit (1971) Rock’n’roll (5.53)
Grand Funk Railroad (1969) Inside Looking Out (9.32)
Pleasure Seekers (1966) What a Way to Die (2.14)
Unrelated Segments (1967) Story of My Life (2.38)
Terry Knight & the Pack (1967) How Much More? (2.30)
Woolies (1966) Who Do You Love? (2.00)
Underdogs (1967) Love’s Gone Bad (2.27)
SRC (1968) Black Sheep (3.47)
Flaming Ember (1967) Gotta Get Away (4.20)
Frigid Pink (1970) House of the Rising Sun (4.39)
Stooges (1970) Down on the Street (2.47)
Savage Grace (1971) All Along the Watchtower (5.41)
The Frost (1971) Rock’n’roll Music (3.00)
MC5 (1968) Borderline (3.11)
Funkadelic (1973) Cosmic Slop (3.21)
Wayne Kramer (1975) Get Some (3.38)
The New Order (1975) Declaration of War (2.48)
Ascension (1973) Get Ready (8.54)
Destroy All Monsters (1977) You’re Gonna Die (2.52)
Sonic’s Rendezvous Band (1977) City Slang (5.15)
Southbound Freeway (1967) Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues (2.30)
Bob Seger System (1967) 2+2 (2.45)
Unrelated Segments (1967) Where You Gonna Go?
Terry Knight & the Pack (1966) Numbers (2.08)
Tidal Waves (1966) Farmer John (2.09)
The Früt (1971) Keep On Truckin’ (2.56)
? & the Mysterians (1966) Girl (2.18)
Iguanas (1965) Mona (2.39)
Stooges (1969) Asthma Attack (6.36)

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Third Power

The Pleasure Seekers

Don & the Wanderers

GZA, RZA, ODB 1991 Public Access

Crazy rare 1991 interview (and freestyle) featuring GZA (then doing business as the Genius), Ol' Dirty Bastard (then going by Ason Unique), and RZA (then known as Prince Rakeem) on short-lived, local Bronx public access program, Rhythm & Soul.
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Warner Music Group Has Lost $10 Billion In 10 Years...

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Well...

...is there?
(Thanx David!)
(...and that will teach me to marry a fellow co-worker at Dingwalls LOL!)

Jane's Addiction Work With Master Musicians of Joujouka

Jane's Addiction are back this August with a new album, which they showcased this week with new single 'End To The Lies' which, intriguingly boasts an appearance by the Master Musicians of Joujouka. You can download the track here.
Jane's Addiction, featuring original members - singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins - announced the collaboration on their website: "We wanted to add a sense of ancient ritual and some depth beyond normal instrumentation, getting off the typical path that rock bands use, etc,” said Perry Farrell. “And we wanted the music to cast a spell on the ‘lies.’”
New album The Great Escape Artist was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol), with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek. Costey said the Master Musicians of Joujouka’s parts weren’t recorded with the band or in a studio: “It was all recorded in the Master Musicians Madrassa [school house] which is out in the village of Joujouka in Morocco where they live. The drums were recorded in the kitchen and the rhiatas in the main room of the house."
Farrell added: "Lots of sounds were recorded with them so you may hear more of them on the record. You'll have to wait and see."
Master Musicians of Joujouka manager and sometimes producer Frank Rynne said: "I met Jane's Addiction in 1991 backstage at the Marquee in London. They are sublime rock & rollers, musicians and artists. I am proud of the Master Musicians performance for this record and the musicians worked hard and really listened hard before they did what they always do and blasted hard trance rhiatas and funky tribal beats."
The Master Musicians recordings for Jane’s featured a 14-man lineup, many of whom will be appearing at the festival held in their home village in June, with more plans to be announced soon. For more information about that, go go here.
Richie Troughton @'The Quietus'

Wire's Graham Lewis On Cupol & The Master Musicians Of Joujouka

I was at a couple of the Commonwealth Institute shows that Graeme Lewis talks about too and the freebie one they did in the park and I still have my copy of the programme from where the photo above comes from...

PJ Crowley Criticizes Pentagon for Denying UN Visit to Bradley Manning

Former State Department spokesman PJ Crowley isn’t stepping back his criticism of the Pentagon’s treatment of Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. Crowley was fired last month after calling Manning’s treatment – which includes being stripped nude nightly and existing in almost complete isolation – “ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid.”
On Twitter last night, Crowley renewed his campaign against the Pentagon’s torture of Manning. In two tweets, Crowley contrasted the State Department’s push for human rights for an American held by North Korea with the Pentagon’s decision to “play by its own rules” in denying the UN Special Rappoteur on Torture an official visit with Bradley Manning.
While Crowley seeks to contrast State vs. DOD, both are to blame. It’s clear from the State Department briefing with Crowley’s acting replacement that the United States is having a hard time differentiating itself from China with regards to human rights and detention policies. State claims to be completely forthcoming about UN visits to Manning, yet it still hides behind the Bush-era defense of “ongoing legal proceedings” to not discuss why it’s complicit in denying the UN an official visit to Manning.
It’s hard to imagine Crowley continuing to go rogue in contrasting State with the Pentagon; clearly, the State Department wants to Pentagon to take the blame for Manning’s torture, and it’s open warfare in the media right now.
That said, Marine rules clearly state that “official visits” are allowed to prisoners at Quantico brig. The Pentagon and Quantico should follow its own rules and allow official visits to Manning.
Sign our letter to Quantico and Pentagon leaders: follow your own rules and allow official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning. Click here to add your name.
Michael Whitney @'FDL'

ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald

Bradley Manning currently in 8th place in TIME 100 poll - vote here: http://is.gd/J0goh5

HA! (For Longy!)

"Hello IT Support"

"I've lost access to the net"

"Ok can I ask your name please sir?"

"Fernando Torres"

Danger

Billie Ray Martin - Sold Life (Luke Solomon Remix)

♪♫ Señor Coconut - We Are The Robots/Man Machine

Wednesday 13 April 2011

cybfor Cyber Informer

Five U.S. nuclear plants in #earthquake_zones: [homelandsecuritynewswire] active U.S. #nuclear_reactors the... http://cybfor.tk/NMdx8

Networks of Power, Degrees of Freedom

Thomas Wuil Joo - A Contrarian View of Copyright: Hip-Hop, Sampling, and Semiotic Democracy
(PDF)

Never trust a banker..... ever!

Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill?

I ♥ Japan

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A Plague Of Soars - Warps In The Fabric Of Pop

Kompakt Benefit Compilation for Japan

From German label Kompakt comes another benefit compilation that is meant to help the victims of the recent Tsunami in Japan. It is filled with music from 30 labels, including prestigious names such as Raster-Noton, Dial Records, Bpitch Control, Ostgut Ton and -of course- Kompakt.
To get you convinced, a mere look at the tracklist might be enough. Otherwise you can stream the entire compilation below.

01. Marsen Jules Trio – OEillet Parfait
02. Ezekiel Honig – Past Tense Kitchen Movement
03. Jahcoozi – Lost In The Bass
04. Space System – Petik
05. Greie Gut Fraktion – Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt (Wolfgang Voigt Remix)
06. Manaboo – Unhuh
07. Efdemin – Time
08. Antonelli – Waiting For You
09. André Lodemann Feat. Nathalie Claude – Searchin’
10. Lawrence – Dwelling On The Drums
11. Michael Mayer – Picanha Frenesi
12. Nhar – Megumi
13. Xaver von Treyer – Lunar Rover (The Wolf Song)
14. Cosmic Kids – Reginald’s Groove
15. My Favorite Robot – The Future Will Judge Us
16. Kaito – Open My Window
17. Audision – Red Sky
18. Monkey Maffia – Yo Baby Yo
19. Nick Höppner – Makeover
20. Gowentgone – Love & Respect
21. Glitterbug – Parted
22. SCSI-9 – Electric Flowers
23. Dusty Kid – America
24. Tassilo – Petite Patate
25. Davenport & Deutschmann – Trump
26. Mr. Statik – Smoothest Cat On The Block!
27. Someone Else – Funny Day Elsewhere
28. Ana Helder – El Groove De Tu Corazón
29. Anne – James Chaton – Vendredi 26 Juin 2009 – Événement N°23
30. Borngräber & Strüver – People Crying
31. Metaboman – Stony
32. Maya Jane Coles – You
33. Dj Olive – Kokanee’s Drop
34. Out Of Plato’s Cave – Rainbow For Dawn Shane Berry’s Rainbow for Japan
You can get yourself the download for only €7.99 over at Bandcamp
@'nutriot'

Is Fukushima really as bad as Chernobyl?

Robyn Hitchcock - Light Blue Afternoon / Dismal City (2011)

Light Blue Afternoon

Dismal City

Both tracks taken from "Tromsø, Kaptein" - Robyn Hitchcock's forthcoming album on Hype City. To be released in Norway April 8th on LP and CD. Produced by Paul Noble, the "Tromsø, Kaptein" features 8 new RH compositions as well as a re-recording of 'Raining Twilight Coast' from EYE and a new Norwegian language version of Goodnight Oslo.

Gene Chandler - Does She Have A Friend (Zimmer Edit)

HA! (Check Billie Ray Martin's comment @ 0:44)

SF to Paris in Two Minutes

HA! ('...when I were a lad')

At Last The 1948 Show

南三陸町志津川高校から見た津波の様子

♪♫ Vince Taylor - Shakin' All Over

Heroin overdose antidote should be given to prisoners, ministers told

♪♫ Bim Sherman - The Power (SnubTV 1989)

Villalobos and Loderbauer rework the ECM catalogue: full details

Ricardo Villalobos [above] and Max Loderbauer will rework legendary jazz and classical label ECM’s back catalogue across a full album.

This project has been in the works for a while now, but we now have some more concrete information: it will be a double-CD release spanning 17 tracks, and includes reworks of Arvo Pärt, Christian Wallumrød, Alexander Knaifel and more. Release date is penciled in for June 20. No artwork is available as yet.
ECM was formed by Manfred Eicher in 1969, and has released over a thousand albums in its time. Villalobos is a famed fame of the label, and DJed at their 40th anniversary party in 2008. Loderbauer, meanwhile, will be familiar to many for his work with Sun Electric, NSI. and the Moritz Von Oswald Trio.
Tracklist:
Title – Composer
1 Reblop – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
2 Recat – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
3 Resvete – Knaifel
4 Retimeless – Abercrombie/Villalobos/Loderbauer
5 Reemergence – Vitous/Villalobos/Loderbauer
6 Reblazhenstva – Knaifel
7 Reannounce – Sclavis/Villalobos/Loderbauer
8 Recurrence – Brederode
9 Requote – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
Title – Composer
1 Replob – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
2 Reshadub – Giger/Villalobos/Loderbauer
3 Rebird – Motian/Villalobos/Loderbauer
4 Retikhiy – Knaifel arr. Villalobos/Loderbauer
5 Rekondakion – Pärt
6 Rensenada – Maupin/Villalobos/Loderbauer
7 Resole – Knaifel
8 Redetach – Wallumrød/Orning/Henriksen/Larsen//Villalobos/Loderbauer
@'FACT'

John Pilger: The War You Don’t See

A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.

As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?

John Pilger says in the film: “We journalists… have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else’s country… That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is.

For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home… In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us… Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.”

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Sexy ducks, semen quality and a tenuous link to Alan Moore http://bit.ly/eClJyL

The Real Housewives of Wall Street

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fighters, DEA agents, wheat subsidies and Medicare, plus pensions and bennies for that great untamed socialist menace called a unionized public-sector workforce that Republicans are always complaining about. According to popular legend, we're broke and in so much debt that 40 years from now our granddaughters will still be hooking on weekends to pay the medical bills of this year's retirees from the IRS, the SEC and the Department of Energy. Most Americans know about that budget. What they don't know is that there is another budget of roughly equal heft, traditionally maintained in complete secrecy. After the financial crash of 2008, it grew to monstrous dimensions, as the government attempted to unfreeze the credit markets by handing out trillions to banks and hedge funds. And thanks to a whole galaxy of obscure, acronym-laden bailout programs, it eventually rivaled the "official" budget in size — a huge roaring river of cash flowing out of the Federal Reserve to destinations neither chosen by the president nor reviewed by Congress, but instead handed out by fiat by unelected Fed officials using a seemingly nonsensical and apparently unknowable methodology.
Now, following an act of Congress that has forced the Fed to open its books from the bailout era, this unofficial budget is for the first time becoming at least partially a matter of public record. Staffers in the Senate and the House, whose queries about Fed spending have been rebuffed for nearly a century, are now poring over 21,000 transactions and discovering a host of outrages and lunacies in the "other" budget. It is as though someone sat down and made a list of every individual on earth who actually did not need emergency financial assistance from the United States government, and then handed them the keys to the public treasure. The Fed sent billions in bailout aid to banks in places like Mexico, Bahrain and Bavaria, billions more to a spate of Japanese car companies, more than $2 trillion in loans each to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, and billions more to a string of lesser millionaires and billionaires with Cayman Islands addresses. "Our jaws are literally dropping as we're reading this," says Warren Gunnels, an aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. "Every one of these transactions is outrageous..."

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Matt Taibbi @'Rolling Stone'

US government debt $14 trillion and still needs to borrow more

New Zealand Government Rushes Through Controversial Anti-Piracy Law

The New Zealand government has surprised the public and even some MPs by moving to rush through its controversial 3 strikes-style legislation today. The new measures will allow for users to be disconnected from the Internet for up to 6 months, based on infringement claims from copyright holders.
In a surprise development, during the next few hours New Zealand’s government is to rush through legislation that will target Internet users who share copyrighted material online without rightsholder permission.
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which unanimously passed its first reading in Parliament in April 2010, will put in place a 3 strikes-style regime, whereby Internet service providers will be initially required to send warning letters to alleged infringers at the behest of rights holders.
New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal will be empowered to rule on cases of alleged repeat infringement and will be given the authority to hand down fines up to a maximum of $15,000 ($11,733 US).
For repeat offenders, a six month period of Internet disconnection may be applied, a measure too far for Green MP Gareth Hughes who wasn’t even aware the Bill was coming up today.
”It really surprised me because we haven’t debated it since November,” he said.
Hughes later confirmed he would request an amendment to remove the suspension clause but a spokesperson for Commerce Minister Simon Power said it would be opposed. While the Greens are against disconnections, they supports the Bill in principle.
Today’s second reading of the Bill is being accompanied by a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) which in part is aimed at clarifying burden of proof issues in a current clause.
According to intellectual property lawyer Rick Shera, the clause created a presumption in favour of copyright owners and the changes being considered remove the reference to the presumption of guilt being “conclusive”.
“I do act for a number of copyright owners, I can’t see why there is a need for a presumption, I mean if copyright owners are sure of their evidence then they would simply submit that evidence to the copyright tribunal,” Shera told NBR. “The tribunal is perfectly capable of weighing up whose evidence is better, that’s what tribunals do all the time.”
The Bill is expected to pass its third and final stage during the next few hours. The news is already causing protests on Twitter, where users are calling for a repeat of last year’s demonstrations.
enigmax @'Torrent Freak'

Michael Prescott - Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer: Ayn Rand and William Hickman
(Thanx Linda!)

Beastie Boys - Tadlock's Glasses (2011)

the second song from their forthcoming album (not embeddable)

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The Winklevoss twins are only the beginning of Zuckerberg's problems

Mark Zuckerberg may have vanquished the Winklevoss twins but Paul Ceglia says he should be entitled to the lion's share of Facebook. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

Mark Zuckerberg might have to create a "Don't like" button for people claiming they own all or a fraction of Facebook. Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them, Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
Paul Ceglia, from Wellsville, New York, said Zuckerberg signed a contract with him that shows he should be entitled to the lion's share of the business – and late on Monday night released, through his lawyers in the US, a tranche of emails that purport to show him and the Facebook chief executive discussing, between July 2003 and July 2004, various matters relating to "thefacebook" – as the site was known in its early days.
The case will be heard in federal court, following a ruling at the end of March that Ceglia and Zuckerberg live in different states – though the latter grew up in New York before going to Harvard, and then to California where he turned the company into the world-spanning social network, with about 600 million members.
Ceglia claims that in 2003 he hired Zuckerberg, then an 18-year-old first-year undergraduate at Harvard, to do some coding for a site called Streetfax (later Streetdelivery) that he was planning. Zuckerberg was paid $1,000 on a "work for hire" contract, Ceglia has contended in court, and then put to work on a project called "The Face Book" or "The Page Book" in which Ceglia invested $1,000.
Certainly, when Facebook first launched, it was called "thefacebook" – but the other details are disputed by Facebook and Zuckerberg's lawyers.
Among the emails released by Ceglia through his lawyers, DLA Piper, is one in which Zuckerberg apparently tells Ceglia he is thinking of shutting the site down because it is having so little success, despite the payment made by Ceglia to keep it going.
In response Facebook has said the emails, and the contract on which Ceglia claims to have Zuckerberg's signature, are fakes – and point to Ceglia's convictions on counts of fraud and past arrests.
Ceglia was arrested and charged with criminal fraud and grand larceny in 2009, after the wood pellet company he and his wife run failed to deliver $200,000 worth of orders to customers in four states. A lawyer for the Ceglias then said the money had been invested in machinery, labour and subcontractors for the pellets.
Ironically, Ceglia has also said that fraud charge was the reason he discovered his claim to Facebook – that it was only when looking through papers relating to those cases that he discovered the old contract with Zuckerberg.
Ceglia first filed suit last summer, and has now added extra evidence in the form of the emails. DLA Piper has said it performed "weeks" of due diligence on Ceglia's claims to show that they stood up – including an "electronic analysis" of the contract where Ceglia signed up Zuckerberg.
But the case is even more complicated. Andrew Logan, founder and chief executive of a company called StreetDelivery, claims that in 2003 Ceglia was working for him at the time he claims to have hired Zuckerberg to code Streetfax.
That could mean that Ceglia's hiring of Zuckerberg – and any intellectual property created there – actually reverts to Logan. For Ceglia, even if he wins he might lose.
For Zuckerberg, though, it's just another day proving that while failure is an orphan, success definitely has many, many parents.
Charles Arthur @'The Guardian'