Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013
Coldcut Meets The Orb (Solid Steel Radio Show 4/1/2013)
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Recorded on the anniversary of JFK's assassination and 21 years after their historic '92 New Year mix on Kiss 100 FM, Coldcut meets The Orb inna Uptown Youth House for the Return Trip. Matt Black and Jonathan More alongside studio accomplice Dor Wand got suitably enhanced with Dr LX Paterson and Youth for a multi-player late night jam session lasting over 3 hours. They then entrusted the multitracks of the set to DJ Food who heroically edited, condensed and massaged the sprawling swamp of sound into a tight - but also loose - 2 hour Solid Steel session.
Swimming through the mix are Lee Perry, Killing Joke, Sun Ra, William Burroughs, Teebs, Ry Cooder, Actress, Prince Jammy, Iggy Pop, Monty Python, Hank Williams and Hal 9000. Alongside unreleased dubs from the players themselves, remixes and versions of tunes old and new, the complete track listing for this marathon set may never be fullly disclosed. It's 2 hours, 10 minutes of sonic secrets to melt your mind, probably best listened to in headphones late at night with all suitable facilities for the full effect. Enjoy this trip.
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Part 1 + 2 - Coldcut meets The Orb - The Return Trip
The Orb – Hold Me (Interlude) (feat. Lee Scratch Perry) (Dub Temple Records)
OICHO - Buried (Workhousedigital)
Gaudi & The Orb feat. Lee Scratch Perry - I Start To Pray (unreleased)
Youth vs Brother Culture - Bubble Up (unreleased)
Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta (My Own Memory) (Mochilla)
Coldcut - Isotoke (unreleased)
Sun Ra - Astro Black (Impulse)
John Coltrane - So What solo (Columbia)
Arthur Russell - Lets Go Swimming (Logarhythm)
Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain (Decca)
Derek Scott - Sounds Unusual (Music De Wolfe)
Nitty Gritty - Use To Be My Dubber (Uptempo Records)
Yabby You - Heads A Roll Dub (Profit Records)
The Orb - Man In The Moon (Instrumental) (Cooking Vinyl)
Manuel Gottsching / Ash Ra Temple - Pluralis (Kosmiche Musik)
Moondog - Dance Rehearsal (Prestige)
Delta Uniform Bravo - A Stooges Lament (unreleased)
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Music (Virgin)
Killing Joke - Exorcism (Youth dub) (unreleased) + Delta Airlines Ebonics skit
William Burroughs - Ah Pook Is Here (Giorno Poetry Systems)
Delta Uniform Bravo - On & On (Skewed Version) (unreleased)
The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way (Alshire Records)
Bonnie Dobson - Bird of Space (Prestige)
Monty Python - The Rhubarb Tart Song (Charisma)
Ry Cooder - Paris Texas (Warner Bros)
The Amorphous Androgynous - Guru Song (Artful Records)
Overture - Orchestra (Varese Sarabande)
Killing Joke - European Super State (Youth dub remix) (unreleased)
Pole - Berlin (Kiff)
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Tainted Phenomena (Southern Records)
Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.
“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
Aaron Swartz
July 2008, Eremo, Italy
Commons man
Democratic Promise
♪♫ The Durutti Column - The Missing Boy (Domo Arigato)
Domo Arigato is the first live VHS release from The Durutti Column which
captures them at a brilliant point in their career performing a special
gig in Japan at the Gotanda Kanihoken Hall in Tokyo. It was recorded on
April 25th 1985 and featured trumpeter Tim Kellett and violaist John
Metcalfe alongside Durutti regulars guitarist Vini Reilly and drummer
Bruce Mitchell.
RE: Julie Burchill. An open letter to The Observer reader's editor
Dear readers' editor,
I am writing to you to express my anger, disappointment and sadness that Julie Burchill's piece 'Transsexuals should cut it out' was allowed to appear in The Observer today, and on The Guardian's Comment is Free website. I've never written to complain about an article in a newspaper or magazine before, and it's particularly dispiriting that I have to do so to the group that gave me my break in journalism, something they did for reasons which I thought were sound.
As you may know, I spent more than two years working on a rolling blog for The Guardian called 'A Transgender Journey', commissioned by Rachel Dixon and Kate Carter, and hosted at Life and Style. (If not, it's here.) I wrote a blog post elsewhere explaining why I did this, giving background on The Guardian and Observer's historical record on transgender issues, which is here - to condense the post, the newspapers had published a number of pieces over the years attacking transgender, and in particular transsexual people from an ostensibly ethical, socialist and 'radical feminist' position, and that the structure and ideology of the publications and the newspaper industry had allowed them to continue abusing positions of power to ridicule, mock and attack a historically marginalised group of people. (I've lectured on this, too - here.)
As a result, I thought the Guardian Media Group were improving on trans issues - it published my comments pieces, people such as Roz Kaveney, Jane Fae, Paris Lees and Natacha Kennedy, and covered transgender and genderqueer artists such as EVA & ADELE. Also, your counterpart at the Guardian, Chris Elliott, contacted me for some advice when writing an open letter promising that the Guardian would improve its attitude towards trans people - so it's particularly embittering that these principles do not seem to have been adopted at The Observer. I have registered my feelings on a comment on Burchill's piece and on Twitter, and I am talking to other trans contributors to the Guardian/Observer, and to non-trans people I know who contribute, about the best course of action.
At the very least, I really feel that someone of seniority at The Observer should offer a full apology and an explanation of how this came to appear in the newspaper. The sooner the better, obviously - I'm very proud to have written for GMG, and of the specific pieces that I've contributed, but at the moment I'm trying hard not to feel that all of my work for you has been a waste of time.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Juliet Jacques
[EDIT] Have linked to a PDF of the article in question kindly supplied by Exile contrib Helen so as to not direct any traffic to the disgraceful article in question
I am writing to you to express my anger, disappointment and sadness that Julie Burchill's piece 'Transsexuals should cut it out' was allowed to appear in The Observer today, and on The Guardian's Comment is Free website. I've never written to complain about an article in a newspaper or magazine before, and it's particularly dispiriting that I have to do so to the group that gave me my break in journalism, something they did for reasons which I thought were sound.
As you may know, I spent more than two years working on a rolling blog for The Guardian called 'A Transgender Journey', commissioned by Rachel Dixon and Kate Carter, and hosted at Life and Style. (If not, it's here.) I wrote a blog post elsewhere explaining why I did this, giving background on The Guardian and Observer's historical record on transgender issues, which is here - to condense the post, the newspapers had published a number of pieces over the years attacking transgender, and in particular transsexual people from an ostensibly ethical, socialist and 'radical feminist' position, and that the structure and ideology of the publications and the newspaper industry had allowed them to continue abusing positions of power to ridicule, mock and attack a historically marginalised group of people. (I've lectured on this, too - here.)
As a result, I thought the Guardian Media Group were improving on trans issues - it published my comments pieces, people such as Roz Kaveney, Jane Fae, Paris Lees and Natacha Kennedy, and covered transgender and genderqueer artists such as EVA & ADELE. Also, your counterpart at the Guardian, Chris Elliott, contacted me for some advice when writing an open letter promising that the Guardian would improve its attitude towards trans people - so it's particularly embittering that these principles do not seem to have been adopted at The Observer. I have registered my feelings on a comment on Burchill's piece and on Twitter, and I am talking to other trans contributors to the Guardian/Observer, and to non-trans people I know who contribute, about the best course of action.
At the very least, I really feel that someone of seniority at The Observer should offer a full apology and an explanation of how this came to appear in the newspaper. The sooner the better, obviously - I'm very proud to have written for GMG, and of the specific pieces that I've contributed, but at the moment I'm trying hard not to feel that all of my work for you has been a waste of time.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Juliet Jacques
[EDIT] Have linked to a PDF of the article in question kindly supplied by Exile contrib Helen so as to not direct any traffic to the disgraceful article in question
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Last words for the night
The Void of Losing Someone You Don’t Know—in Memory of Aaron Swartz
Official Statement from the Family and Partner of Aaron Swartz
Our beloved brother, son, friend,
and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn
apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his
passing.
Aaron’s insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless love; his refusal to accept injustice as inevitable—these gifts made the world, and our lives, far brighter. We’re grateful for our time with him, to those who loved him and stood with him, and to all of those who continue his work for a better world.
Aaron’s commitment to social justice was profound, and defined his life. He was instrumental to the defeat of an Internet censorship bill; he fought for a more democratic, open, and accountable political system; and he helped to create, build, and preserve a dizzying range of scholarly projects that extended the scope and accessibility of human knowledge. He used his prodigious skills as a programmer and technologist not to enrich himself but to make the Internet and the world a fairer, better place. His deeply humane writing touched minds and hearts across generations and continents. He earned the friendship of thousands and the respect and support of millions more.
Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.
Today, we grieve for the extraordinary and irreplaceable man that we have lost.
_____
Aaron’s funeral will be held on Tuesday, January 15 at Central Avenue Synagogue, 874 Central Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois 60035. Further details, including the specific time, will be posted at http://rememberaaronsw.com, along with announcements about memorial services to be held in other cities in coming weeks.
Remembrances of Aaron, as well as donations in his memory, can be submitted at http://rememberaaronsw.com
Via
Aaron’s insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless love; his refusal to accept injustice as inevitable—these gifts made the world, and our lives, far brighter. We’re grateful for our time with him, to those who loved him and stood with him, and to all of those who continue his work for a better world.
Aaron’s commitment to social justice was profound, and defined his life. He was instrumental to the defeat of an Internet censorship bill; he fought for a more democratic, open, and accountable political system; and he helped to create, build, and preserve a dizzying range of scholarly projects that extended the scope and accessibility of human knowledge. He used his prodigious skills as a programmer and technologist not to enrich himself but to make the Internet and the world a fairer, better place. His deeply humane writing touched minds and hearts across generations and continents. He earned the friendship of thousands and the respect and support of millions more.
Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.
Today, we grieve for the extraordinary and irreplaceable man that we have lost.
_____
Aaron’s funeral will be held on Tuesday, January 15 at Central Avenue Synagogue, 874 Central Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois 60035. Further details, including the specific time, will be posted at http://rememberaaronsw.com, along with announcements about memorial services to be held in other cities in coming weeks.
Remembrances of Aaron, as well as donations in his memory, can be submitted at http://rememberaaronsw.com
Via
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Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an extraordinary hacker and activist
Yesterday
Aaron Swartz, a close friend and collaborator of ours, committed
suicide. This is a tragic end to a brief and extraordinary life.
Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and some of them were indispensable. When we asked him in late 2010 for help in stopping COICA, the predecessor to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills, he founded an organization called Demand Progress, which mobilized over a million online activists and proved to be an invaluable ally in winning that campaign.
Other projects Aaron worked on included the RSS specifications, web.py, tor2web, the Open Library, and the Chrome port of HTTPS Everywhere. Aaron helped launch the Creative Commons. He was a former co-founder at Reddit, and a member of the team that made the site successful. His blog was often a delight.
Aaron's eloquent brilliance was mixed with a complicated introversion. He communicated on his own schedule and needed a lot of space to himself, which frustrated some of his collaborators. He was fascinated by the social world around him, but often found it torturous to deal with.
For a long time, Aaron was more comfortable reading books than talking to humans (he once told me something like, "even talking to very smart people is hard, but if I just sit down and read their books, I get their most considered and insightful thoughts condensed in a beautiful and efficient form. I can learn from books faster than I can from talking to the authors."). His passion for the written word, for open knowledge, and his flair for self-promotion, sometimes produced spectacular results, even before the events that proved to be his undoing.
In 2011, Aaron used the MIT campus network to download millions of journal articles from the JSTOR database, allegedly changing his laptop's IP and MAC addresses when necessary to get around blocks put in place by JSTOR and MIT and sneaking into a closet to get a faster connection to the MIT network. For this purported crime, Aaron was facing criminal charges with penalties up to thirty-five years in prison, most seriously for "unauthorized access" to computers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
If we believe the prosecutor's allegations against him, Aaron had hoped to liberate the millions of scientific and scholarly articles he had downloaded from JSTOR, releasing them so that anyone could read them, or analyze them as a single giant dataset, something Aaron had done before. While his methods were provocative, the goal that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — is one that we should all support.
Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S. computer crime laws, and particularly their punishment regimes. Aaron's act was undoubtedly political activism, and taking such an act in the physical world would, at most, have a meant he faced light penalties akin to trespassing as part of a political protest. Because he used a computer, he instead faced long-term incarceration. This is a disparity that EFF has fought against for years. Yesterday, it had tragic consequences. Lawrence Lessig has called for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them. We agree.
Aaron, we will sorely miss your friendship, and your help in building a better world. May you read in peace.
Peter Eckersley @'EFF'
Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and some of them were indispensable. When we asked him in late 2010 for help in stopping COICA, the predecessor to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills, he founded an organization called Demand Progress, which mobilized over a million online activists and proved to be an invaluable ally in winning that campaign.
Aaron's eloquent brilliance was mixed with a complicated introversion. He communicated on his own schedule and needed a lot of space to himself, which frustrated some of his collaborators. He was fascinated by the social world around him, but often found it torturous to deal with.
For a long time, Aaron was more comfortable reading books than talking to humans (he once told me something like, "even talking to very smart people is hard, but if I just sit down and read their books, I get their most considered and insightful thoughts condensed in a beautiful and efficient form. I can learn from books faster than I can from talking to the authors."). His passion for the written word, for open knowledge, and his flair for self-promotion, sometimes produced spectacular results, even before the events that proved to be his undoing.
In 2011, Aaron used the MIT campus network to download millions of journal articles from the JSTOR database, allegedly changing his laptop's IP and MAC addresses when necessary to get around blocks put in place by JSTOR and MIT and sneaking into a closet to get a faster connection to the MIT network. For this purported crime, Aaron was facing criminal charges with penalties up to thirty-five years in prison, most seriously for "unauthorized access" to computers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
If we believe the prosecutor's allegations against him, Aaron had hoped to liberate the millions of scientific and scholarly articles he had downloaded from JSTOR, releasing them so that anyone could read them, or analyze them as a single giant dataset, something Aaron had done before. While his methods were provocative, the goal that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — is one that we should all support.
Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of U.S. computer crime laws, and particularly their punishment regimes. Aaron's act was undoubtedly political activism, and taking such an act in the physical world would, at most, have a meant he faced light penalties akin to trespassing as part of a political protest. Because he used a computer, he instead faced long-term incarceration. This is a disparity that EFF has fought against for years. Yesterday, it had tragic consequences. Lawrence Lessig has called for this tragedy to be a basis for reform of computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them. We agree.
Aaron, we will sorely miss your friendship, and your help in building a better world. May you read in peace.
Peter Eckersley @'EFF'
Saturday, 12 January 2013
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