Wednesday, 22 June 2011
'Seroxat Taken On Trust' (Panorama BBC)
Seroxat is one of the world’s biggest selling and [we are told] most successful anti-depressants. But this Panorama investigation discovers the drug may have a darker side – the programme reports that people can get hooked on it, suffering serious withdrawal symptoms when they try to come off it.
For some it can lead to self harm and even suicide. But little warning of these possible side effects accompanies the drug.
These are accusations that the drug’s maker GlaxoSmithKline denies.
The programme follows one Seroxat user and charts her nine month struggle to wean herself off it.
Panorama also spoke to Dr David Healy, an expert on the drug who has had access to confidential Seroxat studies in the GlaxoSmithKline archives.
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The Curse of the Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug
Irina Pavlova, a recovering krokodil addict, at the Chichevo rehab center in Russia, rocking Artiom Tiomkin — the baby of another resident — on June 13, 2011
Mae Ryan for TIME
The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village that is a two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without chores to recover from the nausea, pain and sleeplessness of withdrawal. After that, between Bible study and prayer (the center is run by Pentecostals), they have to start chopping firewood, hauling water from the village well or otherwise helping around the old wooden house. But a lot more leeway was allowed in the case of Irina Pavlova, the only resident at the center who is addicted to krokodil, or crocodile, Russia's deadliest new designer drug.
There is no good medical explanation for why Pavlova survived her addiction. The average user of krokodil, a dirty cousin of morphine that is spreading like a virus among Russian youth, does not live longer than two or three years, and the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured. But Pavlova says she injected the drug nearly every day for six years, having learned to cook it in her brother's kitchen. "God must have protected me," she says. But the addiction still left some of its trademark scars. She developed a speech impediment, and her pale blue eyes have something of a lobotomy patient's vacant gaze. "Her motor skills are shot from the brain damage," says Andrei Yatsenko, the house manager, who was addicted to heroin for seven years. "She'll try to walk forward and instead jolts back into something. So we try to be gentle with her."
As typically happens in Russia, Pavlova began her drug use as a teenager shooting a substance called khanka, a tarlike opiate cooked from poppy bulbs, then graduated to heroin and finally, at the age of 27, switched to krokodil, because it has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make. The active component is codeine, a widely sold over-the-counter painkiller that is not toxic on its own. But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes. In 2010, between a few hundred thousand and a million people, according to various official estimates, were injecting the resulting substance into their veins in Russia, so far the only country in the world to see the drug grow into an epidemic...
There is no good medical explanation for why Pavlova survived her addiction. The average user of krokodil, a dirty cousin of morphine that is spreading like a virus among Russian youth, does not live longer than two or three years, and the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured. But Pavlova says she injected the drug nearly every day for six years, having learned to cook it in her brother's kitchen. "God must have protected me," she says. But the addiction still left some of its trademark scars. She developed a speech impediment, and her pale blue eyes have something of a lobotomy patient's vacant gaze. "Her motor skills are shot from the brain damage," says Andrei Yatsenko, the house manager, who was addicted to heroin for seven years. "She'll try to walk forward and instead jolts back into something. So we try to be gentle with her."
As typically happens in Russia, Pavlova began her drug use as a teenager shooting a substance called khanka, a tarlike opiate cooked from poppy bulbs, then graduated to heroin and finally, at the age of 27, switched to krokodil, because it has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make. The active component is codeine, a widely sold over-the-counter painkiller that is not toxic on its own. But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes. In 2010, between a few hundred thousand and a million people, according to various official estimates, were injecting the resulting substance into their veins in Russia, so far the only country in the world to see the drug grow into an epidemic...
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Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
The Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented by the BBC’s Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church.
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Portishead - ATP I'll Be Your Mirror London Mixtape
00.00 "...They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach..." / Monheim - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13.19 We Carry On - Portishead
19.44 A Cold Freezin' Night - The Books
23.04 Gazzillion Ear - Doom
27.15 You Fucking People Make Me Sick - Swans
32.20 Yang Yang - Anika
35.11 Real Love - Factory Floor
42.32 Infinity Skull Cube - DD/MM/YYYY
45.51 Untilted - Helen Money
51.42 "Four Spirits In A Room" Excerpt - Alan Moore & Stephen O'Malley
56.50 Plaster Casts Of Everything - Liars
60.43 8 Steps To Perfection - Company Flow
65.23 Written On The Forehead - PJ Harvey
68.49 Arabic Emotions - The London Snorkeling Team
71.27 Wulfstan - BEAK>
77.28 When My Baby Comes - Grinderman
84.09 Paris Signals - S.C.U.M.
88.30 Lovers With Iraqis - Foot Village
92.18 Gratitude - Acoustic Ladyland
96.29 Violence - The Telescopes
100.01 Hannibal - Caribou
106.15 Walk In The Park - Beach House
13.19 We Carry On - Portishead
19.44 A Cold Freezin' Night - The Books
23.04 Gazzillion Ear - Doom
27.15 You Fucking People Make Me Sick - Swans
32.20 Yang Yang - Anika
35.11 Real Love - Factory Floor
42.32 Infinity Skull Cube - DD/MM/YYYY
45.51 Untilted - Helen Money
51.42 "Four Spirits In A Room" Excerpt - Alan Moore & Stephen O'Malley
56.50 Plaster Casts Of Everything - Liars
60.43 8 Steps To Perfection - Company Flow
65.23 Written On The Forehead - PJ Harvey
68.49 Arabic Emotions - The London Snorkeling Team
71.27 Wulfstan - BEAK>
77.28 When My Baby Comes - Grinderman
84.09 Paris Signals - S.C.U.M.
88.30 Lovers With Iraqis - Foot Village
92.18 Gratitude - Acoustic Ladyland
96.29 Violence - The Telescopes
100.01 Hannibal - Caribou
106.15 Walk In The Park - Beach House
Zomby - A Devil Lay Here (Free Download)
The next single 4AD are releasing from Zomby's upcoming album is "A Devil Lay Here", which is available as a free download (MP3 or WAV) via the 4AD site. It's also being released as a limited 7", which carries B side "Basquiat". "A Devil Lay Here" is the second single to be released from the album, Dedication, which is due for release on 4AD on 11 July. Get it here.
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011
SBTRKT – SBTRKT (2011 - Albumstream)
SBTRKT made his name hiding behind a mask, remixing the likes of M.I.A., Basement Jaxx and Modeselektor. And here, he’s kept the veneer while doing somewhat of a showy back-flip – by bringing in an A-grade line-up of guest vocalists, he’s given his own music the stage and produced a debut album almost unbelievably bursting with ground-zero moments, unexpected side-turns and slinky promises. This set packs the kind of hustle biologically required to (hopefully) scale the charts and explode into new places.
It’s a both timeless and timely album, for the mix of right-now production – a haughty brew of clean-but-intricate beats, squeaks and wobbles – with chart-ready choruses. On headphones, it’s fixated on the image of a desolate figure lugging their emotional haul through the dancefloor while the night goes on around them, free of fluff and full of power. Through the right PA, its mini-breakbeats fly across open space like strobe-lit ping-pong balls. Each trick is as impressive.
Sampha’s vocals are striking, frequently courting the edge of tears – especially on Hold On where he pleads, “You’re giving me the coldest stare / Like you don’t even know I’m here”. And so it continues, with other such imagery, of “ghostly enemies” on Trials of the Past and breaking down the blockade of “Pharoah’s guards, Kings and Queens” on Pharoahs, featuring the blindingly impermeable vocals of Roses Gabor. On Right Thing to Do, Jessie Ware comes through even stronger than the twisted bass and thumping 808s, mournfully purring “Let me eat all these lies up / Let me hide, let me hide them”. It’s simple heartbreak, unusually matched with such an upbeat arrangement.
But as the pace drops and the cycle restarts, sobriety creeps back in. This album is paced like a perfect DJ set – it reads the listener with incredible insight, combining the immediate and familiar with intense passages of warm-up, breaking to allow for moments of blank space and reflection. The mix of shiny vocals with tight, accelerated textures is steeped deep in a glorious combination of two-step, UK funky, dubstep, US RnB and Chicago house. Add that to the compendium of a killer pop sensibility, infectious bubbling rhythms, unbridled energy and astounding curation from the man in the mask, and what we have here is the promise of this decade’s Timbaland.
(BBC Reviews)
It’s a both timeless and timely album, for the mix of right-now production – a haughty brew of clean-but-intricate beats, squeaks and wobbles – with chart-ready choruses. On headphones, it’s fixated on the image of a desolate figure lugging their emotional haul through the dancefloor while the night goes on around them, free of fluff and full of power. Through the right PA, its mini-breakbeats fly across open space like strobe-lit ping-pong balls. Each trick is as impressive.
Sampha’s vocals are striking, frequently courting the edge of tears – especially on Hold On where he pleads, “You’re giving me the coldest stare / Like you don’t even know I’m here”. And so it continues, with other such imagery, of “ghostly enemies” on Trials of the Past and breaking down the blockade of “Pharoah’s guards, Kings and Queens” on Pharoahs, featuring the blindingly impermeable vocals of Roses Gabor. On Right Thing to Do, Jessie Ware comes through even stronger than the twisted bass and thumping 808s, mournfully purring “Let me eat all these lies up / Let me hide, let me hide them”. It’s simple heartbreak, unusually matched with such an upbeat arrangement.
But as the pace drops and the cycle restarts, sobriety creeps back in. This album is paced like a perfect DJ set – it reads the listener with incredible insight, combining the immediate and familiar with intense passages of warm-up, breaking to allow for moments of blank space and reflection. The mix of shiny vocals with tight, accelerated textures is steeped deep in a glorious combination of two-step, UK funky, dubstep, US RnB and Chicago house. Add that to the compendium of a killer pop sensibility, infectious bubbling rhythms, unbridled energy and astounding curation from the man in the mask, and what we have here is the promise of this decade’s Timbaland.
(BBC Reviews)
Monday, 20 June 2011
Psychic TV - B.K. Scum (Free Download)
The B.K. Scum mix traces the musical history of Psychic TV, showcasing hits and rarities in equal measure with exclusive vocals from Genesis. Released in conjuction with the 3/4/11 Mishka Psychic Tv clothing launch.
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G20 death Pc sent for trial at Old Bailey
A police officer accused of killing newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in London in 2009 is to stand trial at the Old Bailey.
Scotland Yard Pc Simon Harwood appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with manslaughter. He was bailed until 17 October. Last month, an inquest jury found 47-year-old Mr Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed on 1 April 2009.
He collapsed and died on the fringes of the G20 protests in central London.
Mr Tomlinson's widow, Julia, was in the public gallery of the court for the two-minute hearing on Monday.
Pc Harwood, 44, of Carshalton, Surrey, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address. Wearing a black suit and grey tie, he had his right arm in a sling.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer decided to charge Pc Harwood after the conclusion of the inquest into Mr Tomlinson's death.
The Crown Prosecution Service had previously decided against bringing a prosecution.
But, following the inquest, Mr Starmer said: "The difficulties that would now confront any prosecution have changed in nature and scale from last year when a decision was taken not to prosecute, although it is clear that real difficulties remain."
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Ricardo Villalobos, Max Loderbauer - Re: ECM (2011 - Albumstream)
This June, German avant-garde label ECM will release a double album of remixes byRicardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer (of nsi., Sun Electric and the Moritz von Oswald Trio), entitled Re: ECM.
Described by one magazine as “the most beautiful sound next to silence,” ECM has been at the vanguard of contemporary jazz and classical music for nearly half a century. Villalobos and Loderbauer are among the many electronic artists who consider the label an essential influence. “Immersing oneself in the productions of ECM, one learns a lot about the optimum sound experience,” they say. “We too have the paramount rule of making no compromises where sound is concerned.”
The upcoming release shows Villalobos and Loderbauer channeling their love of ECM into a batch of new productions. All of the 17 tracks use ECM’s catalog as source material, drawing from pieces by Arvo Pärt, Christian Wallumrød, Miroslav Vitous and Louis Sclavis among others. The result carries the organic feel of the originals, while also bearing the distinct mark of two electronic artists at work.
Re: ECM is by no means the first time Villalobos worked with this kind of material–ECM productions have long been fodder for his DJ sets. “It started with Arvo Pärt’sTabula Rasa and went on with music of Alexander Knaifel and others,” he says. “If one combines the functionality of reduced electronic structures with the living textures of ECM productions, it ignites new passions on a subliminal level… The most important thing is to harmonize these two worlds, without them aspiring to mutually deactivate each other, to keep both–the organic and the electronic–in balance.” (from Resident Advisor)
Tracklist
CD1
01. Reblop (from Christian Wollumrød’s Fabula Suite Lugano)
02. Recat (from Christian Wallumrød Ensemble’s The Zoo is Far)
03. Resvete (from Alexander Knaifel’s Svete Tikhiy)
04. Retimeless (from John Abercrombie’s Timeless)
05. Reemergence (from Miroslav Vitous’ Emergence)
06. Reblazhenstva (from Alexander Knaifel’s Blazhenstva)
07. Reannounce (from Louis Sclavis’ L’imperfait des Langues)
08. Recurrence (from Wolfert Brederode’s Currents)
09. Requote (from Christian Wallumrød’s Fabula Suite Lugano)
ALBUMSTREAM DISC 1
CD2
01. Replob (from Christian Wollumrød’s Fabula Suite Lugano)
02. Reshadub (from Paul Giger’s Ignis)
03. Rebird (from Paul Motian’s Tati)
04. Retikhiy (from Alexander Knaifel’s Svete Tikhiy)
05. Rekondakion (from Arvo Pärt’s Kanon Pokajanen)
06. Rensenada (from Bennie Maupin’s The Jewel in the Lotus)
07. Resole (from Alexander Knaifel’s Svete Tikhiy)
08. Redetach (from Christian Wallumrød Ensemble’s The Zoo is Far)
ALBUMSTREAM DISC 2
ECM has released Re: ECM on June 17th, 2011.
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In a landmark new documentary produced for YouTube, Adam Curtis has not examined his career and laid bare his style in the light of some confused academic papers he stumbled across on the internet. Instead, I have plundered various video archives and ripped him off, up, down, left, right and back again.
(For DJ Pigg!)
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