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Sunday, 5 June 2011
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What's the name of that YA novel where the two girls get their father drunk & have sex with him? Oh, wait, that was Genesis 19.
The Beach Boys vs J Dilla - Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee
1. Pet Sounds
2. Sloop Jay D
3. Let's Go Away For a While
4. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
5. Here Today
6. Caroline, No
7. God Only Knows
8. You Still Believe in Dee
9. I Know There's an Answer
10. Wouldn't it Be Nice
11. That's Not Dee
12. I'm Waiting For the Day
13. Don't Talk (Close Your Eyes)
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The Roots - Dilla Joints
J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop
'His music is full of subtle things' … J Dilla. Photograph: Johnny Tergo/AP
The classically trained virtuoso Miguel Atwood-Ferguson grew up listening to Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. He started playing the violin when he was four, began composing orchestral music at 10 and took up the viola at 12. The first musician he truly loved was Bach, but Atwood-Ferguson knows precisely what drew him to the music of James Yancey, aka Jay Dee, aka J Dilla."Dilla is a modern genius," he says. "Everyone has genius within them, but not everyone, for whatever reason, manifests it. But Dilla did. He stood for taking a great risk on different levels, for continuous hard work and for courage. He is a modern genius because he captured and represented the spirit of a particular time. What he did was so deep that he has influenced a huge amount of modern music. In an age when many of his peers are still more interested in vanity, Dilla was more interested in exploration through music. And that is why he is a modern genius."
Born in 1973, James Yancey grew up in the Conant Gardens neighbourhood of Detroit and began making beats at home when he was just 11 years old. His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home. By the time he was in his early 20s Dilla's music – full of rich, utterly unique drum sounds, warm, muzzy instrumentation and endlessly inventive melodies – was so popular he was getting called at home by A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and Busta Rhymes. In 1996, Tribe were Grammy-nominated for their Dilla-produced album Beats, Rhymes and Life – but he had to be strongly persuaded to even attend the ceremony. "He didn't really want to fuck with none of that," Tribe rapper Q-Tip told Vibe magazine a few years later. "And I don't blame him."
Dilla died from a lupus-related illness nearly five years ago in February 2006. In 2007, on what would have been Dilla's 33rd birthday, Atwood-Ferguson and independent hip-hop champion and producer Carlos Niño released their brass, strings and woodwind version of Dilla and Common's Nag Champa for free download. They created the track in Niño's LA apartment with just one microphone, recording one instrument at a time. An EP that featured more of Dilla's works – Antiquity, Nag Champa, his old group Slum Village's Fall in Love and A Tribe Called Quest's Find a Way – followed a few months later.
In February last year, Atwood-Ferguson put a 60-piece orchestra together to play a special tribute concert for Dilla at an arts centre in LA. Dilla's mother, Maureen, was a special guest and the night, Suite for Ma Dukes, was named in her honour. The CD and DVD recorded that night show Dilla's music to be, by turns, fantastically complex and head-noddingly simple, while Atwood-Ferguson's orchestrations are overpoweringly alive with the possibilities of where this brilliant musician, someone who made startling records with De La Soul, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu and Common, among a wealth of others, could have gone next.
"There is a depth and honesty in his music, in the way his beats meld together," Atwood-Ferguson says. "His music is full of subtle things that most people aren't aware of – and they shouldn't have to be. People should just enjoy it..."
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Sun Ra: Viscosity And Thermonuclear Breakdown...
When I first heard the universal truth of Sun Ra's message, I was a very young man in attendance at the Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Festival, an interplanetary landing strip where the Sun Ra Mythic Science Arkestra touched down late one night to became a frequent and welcomed return visitor. I myself was a reluctant product of the times, but I nevertheless became enthralled with the far reaching tones that emanated from the stage --- sounds and circumstances that seemingly originated from somewhere far away in another galaxy. I also enjoyed the rush and surprise of untold stories from deepest space. But as my jazz education continued to flourish, my focus then began to shift more towards Sun Ra's earlier (and dare I say, more conventional) dispatches that reflected his admiration for the Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson big bands that once roamed the hiways of this planet. Obviously before his arrival from Saturn, Ra had studied our ways and our musical pioneers in preparation for sharing his own knowledge and sounds with us earthly beings who happen to occupy this third stone from the sun. It was then that I became convinced that the Ra and his Arkestra were among the finest (and most swinging) of dance bands in the entire solar system...
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The Last Poets - Jazzoetry
DJ Hudson presents Wild Bunch Sound – Massive Attack Samples (1988-98)
“This is a collection of records sampled or covered by Massive Attack from their first three LPs and the singles of that time. Shout out to Tony Hosey who used to bring all the Massive Attack records round to my house way back when.” – DJ Hudson
You Know, You Know – Mahvishnu Orchestra (One Love – Blue Lines)
Isaac Hayes – Ike’s Mood I (One Love – Blue Lines)
So Glad You’re Mine – Al Green (FIve Man Army – Blue Lines)
Five Man Army Dub (Five Man Army – Blue Lines)
Les McCann – Sometimes I Cry (Teardrop – Mezzanine)
James Brown – Never Can Say Goodbye (Better Things – Protection)
En Melody – Serge Gainsbourg (Karmacoma [Portishead Experience])
Funkadelic – Good Old Music (Safe From Harm – Blue Lines)
Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks (Man Next Door – Mezzanine)
Quincy Jones – Summer In The City (Exchange – Mezzanine)
Man Next Door – John Holt (Man Next Door – Mezzanine)
Lowrell – Mellow Mellow (Lately – Blue Lines)
Pieces of a Dream (Weather Storm – Protection)
Isaac Hayes – Joy (Lately – Blue Lines)
Billy Cobham – Stratus (Safe From Harm – Blue Lines)
James Brown – The Payback (Protection)
Be Thankful (Be Thankful – Blue Lines)
Sade – Siempre Hay Esperanza (Be Thankful – Blue Lines)
Mambo – Wally Badarou (Daydreaming – Blue Lines)
Tom Scott – Sneakin In The Back (Blue Lines)
Do the Funky Penguin – Rufus Thomas (Any Love)
Blind Alley – The Emotions (Any Love Remix)
Funk You Up – The Sequence (Any Love)
Daisy Lady (Any Love)
Planetary Citizen – Mahvishnu Orchestra (Unfinished Sympathy – Blue Lines)
Rock Creek Park – The Blackbyrds (Blue Lines)
JJ Johnson – Parade Strutt (Unfinished Sympathy – Blue Lines)
Young-Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire (Light My Fire – Protection)
Isaac Hayes – Our Day Will Come (Exchange – Mezzanine)
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Paris DJs Soul Soundsystem - For Ever Gil Scott-Heron!
Tracklisting :
01. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Three Miles Down
(from 'Secrets' album, 1978 / Arista)
02. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Angel Dust
(from 'Secrets' album, 1978 / Arista)
03. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
(from 'Pieces Of A Man' album, 1971 / Flying Dutchman)
04. Gil Scott-Heron - Home is Where the Hatred Is
(from 'Pieces Of A Man' album, 1971 / Flying Dutchman)
05. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Summer Of '42
(from 'From South Africa to South Carolina' album, 1976 / Arista)
06. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Willing
(from '1980' album, 1980 / Arista)
07. Gil Scott-Heron - The Klan
(from 'Real Eyes' album, 1980 / Arista)
08. Gil Scott-Heron - Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?
(from 'Small Talk at 125th & Lenox' album, 1970 / Flying Dutchman)
09. Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day & John Coltrane
(from 'Pieces Of A Man' album, 1971 / Flying Dutchman)
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Q&A: Lee 'Scratch' Perry
'My biggest disappointment? I have a very nagging wife.' Photograph: Getty Images
Lee "Scratch" Perry, 75, was born in Jamaica. In 1968 he formed a label, Upsetter Records, to record his own music; his first single was People Funny Boy. In 1969, he had his first British hit with Return Of Django. The same year he began to produce Bob Marley & The Wailers, beginning a long association that led to the popularisation of reggae and dub music. Perry went on to work with the Clash, Paul McCartney and the Beastie Boys. In 2003, he won a Grammy award for Best Reggae Album for his record Jamaican ET. He is the special guest at this weekend's We, The People festival in Bristol. He is married for the second time, and lives in Switzerland.
When were you happiest?
When I wake in the morning and go to the bathroom and go pee pee.
Which living person do you most admire?
Me.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
The most embarrassing moment anyone can have is when you run out of cash and have to ask for a loan. That happened to me in Jamaica 25 years ago. That's why I left.
What is your most treasured possession?
My music.
Where would you like to live?
I believe in Hell and Heaven. I'd prefer to live in Heaven than in Hell.
What would your super power be?
I'd fly from my enemies and turn invisible so they can't see me.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
All the fishes in the sea, all the birds in the air and all the animals in the jungle.
Cat or dog?
One day I had some birds in my house – I think birds are angels – and the cat ate one. I don't like cats any more.
What is your most unappealing habit?
Angels showed me how to live and what to eat, not to drink alcohol, not to smoke. Now I eat marijuana: I make curry and tea with it. If I had carried on drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, I am sure I would not be talking to you now.
What is your favourite smell?
Cherry blossom and Chanel No 5.
What would you most like to wear to a costume party?
A George V gown, boots and crown.
To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
God. God sees everything we do.
What was the best kiss of your life?
I refuse to kiss human beings as I am scared of getting a virus from things people eat. I prefer to kiss a tree, a rose, a bird or an animal. I used to kiss my cat until the cat ate my bird.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
I have a very nagging wife.
When did you last cry, and why?
When my mother died.
How often do you have sex?
My needs is not dead and my thing is still alive.
What is the closest you've come to death?
The last time I had a spliff, I made an extra big one and it knocked me out for a day, a night and another day.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
I don't think I will have a funeral but if I do, the song I would like to hear is my first hit, People Funny Boy.
Where would you most like to be right now?
In Buckingham Palace, on the throne with the Queen's crown on my head.
Tell us a secret
Before I was a human being, I used to be a kingfish.
Rosanna Greenstreet @'The Guardian'
When were you happiest?
When I wake in the morning and go to the bathroom and go pee pee.
Which living person do you most admire?
Me.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
The most embarrassing moment anyone can have is when you run out of cash and have to ask for a loan. That happened to me in Jamaica 25 years ago. That's why I left.
What is your most treasured possession?
My music.
Where would you like to live?
I believe in Hell and Heaven. I'd prefer to live in Heaven than in Hell.
What would your super power be?
I'd fly from my enemies and turn invisible so they can't see me.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
All the fishes in the sea, all the birds in the air and all the animals in the jungle.
Cat or dog?
One day I had some birds in my house – I think birds are angels – and the cat ate one. I don't like cats any more.
What is your most unappealing habit?
Angels showed me how to live and what to eat, not to drink alcohol, not to smoke. Now I eat marijuana: I make curry and tea with it. If I had carried on drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, I am sure I would not be talking to you now.
What is your favourite smell?
Cherry blossom and Chanel No 5.
What would you most like to wear to a costume party?
A George V gown, boots and crown.
To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?
God. God sees everything we do.
What was the best kiss of your life?
I refuse to kiss human beings as I am scared of getting a virus from things people eat. I prefer to kiss a tree, a rose, a bird or an animal. I used to kiss my cat until the cat ate my bird.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
I have a very nagging wife.
When did you last cry, and why?
When my mother died.
How often do you have sex?
My needs is not dead and my thing is still alive.
What is the closest you've come to death?
The last time I had a spliff, I made an extra big one and it knocked me out for a day, a night and another day.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
I don't think I will have a funeral but if I do, the song I would like to hear is my first hit, People Funny Boy.
Where would you most like to be right now?
In Buckingham Palace, on the throne with the Queen's crown on my head.
Tell us a secret
Before I was a human being, I used to be a kingfish.
Rosanna Greenstreet @'The Guardian'
Saturday, 4 June 2011
A Brief Survey of Ridiculous Anti-Drug Propaganda
Yesterday, the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a high-level group that’s been studying drug usage and policing around the world, came to the somewhat unshocking conclusion that the war on drugs has utterly failed “with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.” Not only has the decades-long war cost world governments untold trillions of dollars, it has taken the lives of countless people, innocent and guilty alike, all while doing nothing to stop the global spread of illegal drugs. The comission, which includes former international presidents, U.S. Secretaries of State and Federal Chiefs, recommended that we simply stop fighting, legalize marijuana at the very least, and experiment with the legalization and regulation of other drugs.
In celebration of this news, we present you with a some of the best (and worst) anti-drug propaganda the media has to offer. We hope that future drug education takes on a tone that is less about fear-mongering and more about providing real facts, but while we wait for that to happen, we may as well laugh at the absurdity of these campaigns.
The 1960s was a wonderful time for anti-drug propaganda. The establishment, losing the deathgrip of conformity that was easily maintained in the ’50s, felt seriously threatened by the rising tide of counterculture, and they prepared plenty of PSAs to prove what kind of threats it posed. This one is especially convincing. It tells the tale of a woman tragically seduced into trying LSD, who now has to live forever with the guilt of murdering the father of a family of hot dogs.
In celebration of this news, we present you with a some of the best (and worst) anti-drug propaganda the media has to offer. We hope that future drug education takes on a tone that is less about fear-mongering and more about providing real facts, but while we wait for that to happen, we may as well laugh at the absurdity of these campaigns.
The 1960s was a wonderful time for anti-drug propaganda. The establishment, losing the deathgrip of conformity that was easily maintained in the ’50s, felt seriously threatened by the rising tide of counterculture, and they prepared plenty of PSAs to prove what kind of threats it posed. This one is especially convincing. It tells the tale of a woman tragically seduced into trying LSD, who now has to live forever with the guilt of murdering the father of a family of hot dogs.
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The Sun Ra Arkestra @Fed Square (Melbourne) earlier today
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Photos:TimN
We travel the spaceways...
Don't forget for all your intergalactic needs - visit .Adventure Equation.
The Outer Worlds of Sun Ra
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Incoming...
Beaming messages from Saturn... Marshall Allen at the Sun Ra Arkestra gig @Fed Square this afternoon.
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Hetherington Doctrine
Last week at the First Presbyterian Church of New York my friends and colleagues and I said good-bye to photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed in combat in Misrata, Libya, a month earlier. My wife and I sat behind Tim’s parents and siblings and watched their shoulders shudder with quiet sobs as people spoke. Tim grew up in England and the family had flown over for the service. Behind us were three journalists who had been in Misrata and miraculously survived the mortar that had landed in their midst killing not only Tim but an American photographer named Chris Hondros and several Libyan rebels. Across the aisle was Idil, Tim’s girlfriend of one year whose parents had emigrated from Somalia.
Tim had been schooled by Jesuits and perhaps as a result had gone through his life profoundly unreligious, so the service was secular. Following a rendition of Schubert’s heartbreaking Trio #2 in E Flat, two reggae musicians played Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and “One Love” between eulogies. I watched the pastor’s eyebrow arch in concern and then appreciation as Marley’s message of human understanding filled the church. Finally four American vets stood up, men from Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne who had been under fire with Tim and me many times in eastern Afghanistan. They filed out of their pew carrying two folded American flags that had been sent by Senator John McCain, himself a veteran of Vietnam. The young men presented my country’s flag to the Hetherington family and then to Idil.
I missed most of that beautiful moment because I was crying too hard, but later I did savor one comforting thought: this may be one of the few countries in the world where a senator would see fit to present the national flag to a woman of Somali origin in honor of an Englishman killed in Libya. Whatever criticisms one might level at our county, we are sometimes capable of including the entire world in our embrace. In the midst of our painful debate about immigration, about war, and about our responsibility to other countries, it is an important thing to remember. It was perhaps one of the reasons that Tim had moved here—to escape what he felt to be the stultifying atmosphere of London.
Tim was 40 years old when he died and had devoted most of his professional life to documenting the human cost of war. On April 20, in a bombed-out section of Misrata, a single mortar shell made him part of the cost. He was hit in the groin with shrapnel and bled out in the back of a pickup truck while a photojournalist he had just met held his hand and tried to keep him awake. Hours earlier, amidst fierce shelling by Qaddafi forces, Tim had sent what was to be his last message on Twitter: In besieged Libyan city of Misurata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO...
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Sebastian Junger @'Vanity Fair'
Hard-Core Online Drug Bazaar Thumbs its Nose at The Law
Let’s say you want to sell drugs on the Internet. Not black-market prescription drugs, but illegal drugs, all kinds, all sizes. A digital dream market, where a portion of the day’s specials on sale might read like: “A gram of Afghani hash; 1/8 ounce of “sour 13″ weed; 14 grams of ecstasy; .1 gram tar heroin.” An Internet drugstore this wide open must be either a DEA sting or the dumbest idea in web history, you say to yourself. But maybe not. An investigation by Gawker found enough satisfied customers to give us pause. The site uses a reputation-based rating system for keeping track of seller performance, a setup familiar to anyone who has made purchases on Amazon or eBay. One customer wrote of his purchase of psychedelic drugs: “Excellent quality, packing and communication. Arrived exactly as described.” Five stars for that one. "It's Amazon," wrote Adrian Chen at Gawker, "if Amazon sold mind-altering chemicals."
Well, how do they get away with it? For now, they seem to be getting away with it using the same digital cryptographic tools that enabled the great digital music download era. An encryption algorithm disguises users, courtesy of the anonymous network TOR. Buyers then use a proprietary form of money—Bitcoins—made possible by the same technology that brought us the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol known as Bittorrent. Bitcoins are a form of peer-to-peer money which can be purchased with regular money at other obscure sites, and then deposited in an account at Silk Road as cyber-currency.
So, to recap: The DEA probably can’t ID Silk Road purchasers, due to the TOR anonymizer, and they can’t follow the money because there isn’t any. Gawker managed to communicate with the Silk Road overlords, who wrote back: “Stop funding the state with your tax dollars and direct your productive energies into the black market.” Which gives us a pretty good idea where they stand, politically. Libertarian anarchists, rejoice! This site’s for you.
Dirk Henson @'The Fix'
Bitcoin, Silk Road, and LulzSec oh my!
Underwear - What does it really take to turn him off?
Her: Only if they're crotchless!
Him: They could be in the wrapped up in a plastic bag in the trunk of the car and I'd still think he'd be staring at me.
Her: Guys like Radiohead. Music and sex go together!
Him: He's still staring at me.
Her: Maybe he's not staring. Maybe he's just sad.
Him: Sad Thom Yorke is not sexy.
Her: What if they were crotchless?
Him: (silence)
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Friday, 3 June 2011
Unbelievable!
Fury over advert claiming Egypt revolution as Vodafone's
abubanda Darryl Li أبو باندا
@zunguzungu I hear the same ad agency is working on a vid for Dow on how Agent Orange liberated Vietnam http://youtu.be/ihvtjqNbyos
@zunguzungu I hear the same ad agency is working on a vid for Dow on how Agent Orange liberated Vietnam http://youtu.be/ihvtjqNbyos
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