Monday, 5 March 2012

Costello covers Springsteen

Why the music industry as we know it must die...

(Thanx Paul!)

DJ Zhao - Punk In Africa Mix

Official Punk In Africa Mix by DJ Zhao (Ngoma Soundsystem, Berlin)
presented by www.punkinafrica.co.za / ngomasound.wordpress.com
In the era of branded lifestyle packaging, still sometimes something happens which makes us question our ideas of who makes/listens to what, what that means, how this informs the construction of social identity, whose values are projected by which aesthetic, and which “genres” are assigned to what class and ethnic group. I think the release of this film (www.punkinafrica.co.za) may be one of those times, and i hope this mix is one of those things, demonstrating the connectedness between Rock and Roll and its African roots, between power chords and dance beats, between decades past and today, between defiant youth in London and defiant youth in Zimbabwe – and that the same rhythmic blood and spirit of revolt runs in all of our veins.
This mix includes exclusive mashups and re-edits, and goes from Punk to heavily Africanized Rebel Rock to Post-Punk, Dance-Punk, Political Dub, Punk Step, 60s Afro-Garage Techno, Bass Music and beyond, features remixes of Congotronics and a couple of tunes not from the motherland, but surely in keeping with the Afro-Punk spirit.
01 [South Africa] National Wake – Black Punk Rockers
02 [South Africa] National Wake – Mercenaries
03 [South Africa] KOOS – Is Jy N Moegoe
04 [South Africa] National Wake – Dreams In My Head
05 [Zimbabwe] Chikwata 263 – Dudumduri
06 [South Africa] Dread Warriors – Xighangu Xamina
07 [South Africa] National Wake – Tchindi (live]
08 [UK] Andy Moor – From E to F + Pinch – Warlord
09 [South Africa] Kalahari Surfers – Don’t Dance (live) + Bass Boy – Stamp
10 [DR Congo] Docteur Nico & African Fiesta – Save Me
11 [Mozambique] 340ML – Shotgun (Zhao Fix)
12 [Zimbabwe] Evicted – Mapurisa (Remix)
13 [Zimbabwe] Chikwata 263 – In the Jungle
14 [South Africa] National Wake ft. Warrick Sony –Bolina (Kalahari Mix) + Cyrus – Manhatten Blues
15 [UK] Andy Moor – Ella Speed + Unknown
16 [DR Congo] Kasai Allstars – The Incident At Mbuji-Mayi (Bass Clef Remix)
17 [DR Congo] Kasai Allstars – Mukuba Special (Shackleton Remix)
18 [France / UK] DJ Rupture & Andy Moor – Broken Minded
19 [South Africa] Powerage – Waiting For the War
20 [South Africa] Powerage – Freedom + FilthyBeatz – Bounced
21 [Angola] Acromaniacos – unknown
22 [South Africa] KOOS – Ek Is My Dilemma
23 [South Africa] Fuzigish – Burn the Fucking House Down
24 [South Africa] Wild Youth – All Messed Up
25 [South Africa] Wild Youth – Wot About Me
26 [Tanzania] Jagwa Sound System – Watu na Maisha Yao
27 [South Africa] A-Cads – Down The Road
28 [South Africa] The Dynamics – Garlic Baloney
DJ Zhao:
http://listn.to/djzhao
djzhao
http://www.mixcloud.com/djzhao/
http://ngomasound.wordpress.com/
Punk In Africa:
http://www.punkinafrica.co.za
http://www.facebook.com/PunkInAfrica
(Thanx Jeff/Judy!)

Rush Limbaugh ‘Apologizes’ To Sandra Fluke

Sixth Seventh Eighth Advertiser Drops Limbaugh Despite His ‘Apology’ Because He’s Beyond The ‘Bounds Of Decency’

Stefan Abrahams: type face made from deconstructed camera

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Gang Of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets



'Gang of Souls' (1989) is Maria Beatty's engaging documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through candid interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Designed as a tribute to them and to their spirit of artistic freedom, Gang of Souls also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. The film seeks to truly capture the magic of the Beat generation and it's continuing legacy. It brilliantly expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired unprecedented social change.

Watch big cats get spooked by their own reflections

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Why the Rich Are Less Ethical: They See Greed as Good

(Thanx Dirk!)

"Israel’s own leaders understand the necessity of peace" may be one of the more absurd things Obama's said in office.

Miles Davis - Montreux July 8th 1973


Miles Davis (tp, org)
Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl)
Reggie Lucas (el-g)
Pete Cosey (el-g, per)
Michael Henderson (el-b)
Al Foster (d)
Mtume (per)
Directed by Jean Bovon

via Mark Stewart on FB

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Minimalistic Pixar Poster Series

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New Art by Christian Chapiron (AKA Kiki Picasso)

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BioMed Central

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology and medicine and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Retrovirology and BMC Genomics. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing charge to cover the cost of the publication process. Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+ Business Media, and also hosts the SpringerOpen platform.
Journals by subject
(Thanx GKB!)

Motoi Yamamoto's Incredibly Intricate Salt Mazes

Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto creates incredibly intricate mazes made entirely out of salt! Currently showing at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan is one of his newest works entitled "Forest of Beyond."
The story about why Yamamoto started down this path is a sad and tragic one. He was a third-year student at the Kanazawa College of Art in 1996 when his younger sister died at the young age of 24 — two years after being diagnosed with brain cancer. To ease his grief and to honor her memory, he starting working on these installations. Salt has a special place in the death rituals of Japan, and is often handed out to people at the end of funerals, so they can sprinkle it on themselves to ward off evil. Since 2001, he's been creating these amazing floor installations by filling a plastic bottle, usually used for machine oil, with white salt and then sprinkling it on the floor.
The Hakone installation (seen above and immediately below) looks like a giant tree with visible branches. Working 14 hours a day, it took him two weeks to complete.
As he told Japan Times, "I draw with a wish that, through each line, I am led to a memory of my sister. That is always at the bottom of my work. Each cell-like part, to me, is a memory of her that I call up, like a tiff I had with her over a pudding cake she took from the fridge. My wish is to put such tiny episodes together."
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♪♫ Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller (9/11/1980 Paris)

The Fire This Time (Resist Injustice! Fuck Babylon!) (1995)

New Ways Of Looking At Power
(Keyboards by Augustus Pablo)
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Basslines & Ballistics
(This is Track 1 of the ground-breaking, border-crossing "Dancing on John Wayne's Head" by the Fire This Time. It features the voices of Harry Allen (affiliated with Public Enemy,) Don Patrick Martin, Krystal Cook and Eagleheart Singers. Recorded in Jamaica, and also at KCRK FM Kahnawake Radio Station, Kahnawake Territory, and also in Toronto.)
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Prayer To Jah
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The Fire This Time
If anyone has this album released on 'Extreme' here in Melbourne or the follow up 'Still Dancing on John Wayne's Head' could they get in touch...thanx!

The internet and the canal

The above chart is from a very cool graph made by the Guardian showing major internet cables across the world. This highlights how Egypt, or to be more specific the Suez Canal, is one of the world's major choke points for data traffic between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. I remember a decade ago talking to Egyptian IT types about the potential for Egypt becoming a major data-caching hub (to make internet access between east and west faster by caching content so that data requests would only have to travel half the distance). Yet to my knowledge there are no major data centers in the canal zone — surely a missed opportunity.
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CloudFlare Speaks Out About Their Experience Hosting LulzSec

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Unfugnbelievable!!!

Coldcut & X-MIX-4 - Top DJ Mag (8/1995)


27:28 - K7 Studios

Dear Rush Limbaugh: Birth Control Doesn't Work Like Viagra

HA!

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One of THOSE days...

(Thanx Dray!)
Knowarraimeangzr?

AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web

♪♫ Lost Animal - Say No To Thugs

Roger Waters says The Malvinas should be Argentine, attacks Cameron's 'bullshit'

The Malvinas belong to you, Morrissey tells Argentinian fans

evron19 - Classical Techno Functions mix

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1. David Holmes - Johnny Favourite (EPI Mix)
2. Planetary Assault System - Booster
3. Jeff Mills - Solid Sleep
4. Outline - Untitled
5. Morgan - Flowerchild
6. Thomas Krome - Wood Carver
7. Adam Beyer - Drumcode 2
8. Adam Beyer - Drumcode 9
9. Pancake - See The Stars
10. Dave Clarke - Red 2
11. Fix - Dope Computer
12. JB3 - Forklift, Luke Slater's Filtered Remix
13. Reese - Funky Funky Funk
14. LSG - Fragile
15. Joey Beltram - Caliber
16. Jeff Mills - i9
17. Jeff Mills - Casa
18. Sunshower - Seven
19. DJ HMC - 6 AM
20. Jeff Mills - The Bells
21. LA Synthesis - Agraphobia, Kenny Larkin Remix
22. Sven Vath - Ballet Fusion, Belfast Fusion
23. The Advent - Overseeya, Mark Bell Remix
24. Surgeon - Scorn
25. Joey Beltram - Game Form
26. Green Velvet - Flash
27. Love Inc - Respect
28. Underground Resistance - Final Frontier

Google and Privacy

...Its dossier of information on users also proves a source of concern to online activists. The company, whose headquarters is in California, is subject to search orders from the US government for any user, regardless of their nationality. Like other online businesses, Google complies with orders from governments. This was seen in a high-profile subpoeana for the email records of the WikiLeaks supporter Jacob Applebaum. If a subpoena is sealed, a user may never even be told their details have been handed over. Google is, however, transparent in revealing how many information requests it gets. Between January and June 2011, it was asked by governments for data on 25,000 of its users worldwide, and complied in handing over the information in around 19,000 of the cases. The US government asked for details on 11,057 users, while the UK asked for 1,444.
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Google's privacy settings – controlling your information

Tree sculptures in a North Yorkshire wood

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Identity of mystery North Yorkshire woodsman revealed as Consett chainsaw sculptor

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Santorum and the Sexual Revolution

Chinese company to build world's third largest mosque in Algeria


Bob Stanley: The Monkees - Why I'm a believer in their perfect pop

Robert Forster: Sunshine On My Brain - The pop genius of The Monkees


Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'

Music Stars (Now &Then)

(Thanx Sander!)

Tom Chasteen – Magic Marijuana Megamix

Dub Club selector Tom Chasteen presents an all ganja tune, all vinyl mix…in honor of 4:20 and the herb for the healing of the nation, that was found on the grave of King Solomon.
Jah Woosh – Marijuana World Tour – Marijuana World Tour -Original Music LP
Two Bad Card – Weed Specialist – Pay It All Back Vol 5 – On U Sound LP
Sugar Minott – International Herb – Dougies 10″
Lee Scratch Perry – De Devil Dead -Time Boom X De Devil Dead – On U Sound LP
U-Roy – Chalice In The Palace – Dread In A Babylon – Virgin LP
Desi Roots – Weed Fields – Hawkeye 7″
Eek-A-Mouse – Ganja Smuggling – Volcano 7″
Triston Palma – Spliff Tail – Black Solidarity 7″
Horace Andy – Sitting On The Hillside – Earthquake 12″
General Trees – Bring The Herb Come – Midnight Rock 7″
The Reggae Crusaders – Bring The Couchie Come – Bring The Couchie – Trojan LP
Jacob Miller – Healing Of The Nation – Blank 7″
Joseph Cotton – Ali Baba – Dancehall Days – Moll Selekta LP
Michael Palmer – Don’t Smoke The Seed – Channel One 121″
Brigadier Jerry – Ishen – Freedom Street – VP LP
I Roy – Quarter Pound Of Ishen – The General – Virgin LP
Chronicle – Chronic Man – Massive B 7″
Barry Brown – Pass Up The Chalice – Rich Man Poor Man – Moll Selekta LP
Johnny P – Telephone Chalawa – Cornerstone 7″
Josey Wales – It Have Fe Burn – The Outlaw – Arrival LP
Earl Anthony – Sensi Man Rock – Look To Afrika 7″
Top Cat – Bun De Sensi – Necessary Mayhem 7″
Triston Palma – Joker Smoker – Reggae Goldmine 12″
Screwdriver – Ganja Killer – 220 Drive 7″
Sugar Minott – Indeca – Youth Promotion 12″
King Kong – Legalize It – Massive B 7″
Sylford Walker – Lambsbread – Pantomine 7″
Welton Irie – Lambsgread International – Lambsbread International – Blood And Fire LP
Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana – Thompson Sound 7″
Turbulence and Spectacular – High Grade – Irie Ites 7″
Shinehead – Collie Weed – Smoke The Herb – VP LP
Culture – International Herb – International Herb – High Note LP
Martinez and Don Wayne – Light It Up – Crucial Sounds 10″
Carlton Livingston – Trodding Through The Jungle – Trodding Throught The Jungle – Sonic Sounds LP
Carlton Livingston – 100 Lbs of Collie Weed – Jah Life 7″
Cornell Campbell and Papa Tullo – 100 Lbs of Collie – Black Joy 12″
Sugar Minott – Oh Mr DC – Studio One 7″
King General – They Say – Lovedub Music 10″
Michael Rose – Rush On The Tonic – Maximum Sound 12″
Starkey Banton – Ganja Baby – Maximum Sound 12″
Macka B – Ganja – Ariwa 7″
Busy Signal – Spliff Tail – Jukeboxx 7″
Spiderman and Superman – Sensimilla Posse – Education 7″
Jacob Miller – Tired Fe Lick weed Inna Bush – Neville King 7″
Sylford Walker – Burn Babylon – Blood Lines – One Stop Records LP
Lizard – Satta I – Roots Rhythm 7″
Horace Ferguson – Sensimilla Addict – Ujama 7″
Ranking Joe – Natty The Collie Smoker – Weakheart Fadeaway – Greensleeves LP
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(Thanx Gordon!)

Can Engelbert Humperdinck free Azerbaijan?

It may only be March but headline of the year award surely...

Saturday, 3 March 2012

The Stone Roses - The Flower Show Manchester (20th July 1985)



01 Heart On The Staves
02 Fall
03 So Young
04 I Wanna Be Adored - 12:18
05 Here It Comes
06 Tradjic Roundabout
07 Open My Eyes (Nazz Cover)
08 Getting Plenty
09 Tell Me

Friday, 2 March 2012

David Lynch: Alphabet 1-3 (1968)