Basement Jaxx - Classic Essential Mix (1999)
2 hours ago
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Ad Break: HA!
After reading this story in the LA Times, we decided Apple Scotland needed their own commercial. http://lat.ms/z2w1Mj
Bonus:
(For Yotte!)
(Thanx Claudia &Son#2!)
AlanStrangeSky Alan Strange
Sentences handed down to Stephen Lawrence's killers won't be referred to Court of Appeal for a decision on whether they are "unduly lenient"
Canada: Changes to identity screening requirements
Last July, the Governor General of Canada made changes to the Aeronautics Act, (note: these changes were not subject to the Parliamentary process) which have the potential to adversely affect several groups of people.The specific clause which is of concern states that:
Sec 5.2(1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if
(a) the passenger presents a piece of photo identification and does not resemble the photograph;
(b) the passenger does not appear to be the age indicated by the date of birth on the identification he or she presents;
(c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents; or
(d) the passenger presents more than one form of identification and there is a major discrepancy between those forms of identification.
There is an exemption for any passenger whose appearance has changed as a result of medical reasons (and they have a letter from a healthcare professional confirming this), but in principle, the ruling gives the authorities the option to bar people with a mismatch between their gender presentation and "the identification he or she presents" (presumably this is most likely to be their passport) from entering the country. So if you were assigned one gender at birth but your presentation is at odds with the stereotypical appearance often associated with that gender, then you may be prevented from flying into, and within, Canada. It's fairly clear that this could have a significant impact on some TS/TG, intersex and other non-binary identified people.
The risk of being prevented from travelling because of a mismatch between one's gender presentation and legal documentation isn't a new thing and can be traced back, if I understand correctly, at least as far as the days after the 9/11 attacks when some male members of the bin Laden family were believed to have fled the US dressed in burqas. A longer-term outcome of this has been the steady introduction of body-scanning technology at all airports in the US and the UK wherein one's anatomy is clearly visible on-screen to airline employees (note: not security officials). In passing, this article by Victoria Cohen in The Observer last October points out that these scanners are also being introduced at some UK railway stations.
However TS/TG, intersex and non-binary identified people are not the only vulnerable group here: Canada has also recently introduced legislation to prevent Muslim women from covering their faces while taking the oath of citizenship and I can't help but wonder if these regulations could also be used against this group, too. The logic is that if a woman's face is not visible, then it's not possible for the Canadian authorities to assess if her appearance is congruent with her documents. I think that there is significant potential for Islamophobic discrimination and associated human rights breaches as a result.
Of course, many of the particular concerns of TS/TG, intersex and other non-binary identified people could, theoretically, be allayed by the removal of gender markers from passports, and by the delinking of one's legal documentation to one's gender presentation and medical/surgical status. As things stand, even if a TS/TG person has undergone surgical transition, there is no guarantee that they won't be tripped up by the requirement; for example, last year, Egypt refused entry to two TS women who had undergone surgery because their documents and physical bodies differed.
It seems to me that the questions of document mismatch and gender markers on passports could well benefit from further consideration by those with the power to legislate around human rights issues. But I doubt that's likely to happen as long as certain countries continue to view every air traveller as either a potential terrorist or in need of punishment for not complying with cultural stereotypes of what is meant by male and female.
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Cross-posted from The F-Word
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
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Simon_Cullen Simon Cullen
Fair Work Australia decision on equal pay test case is here: fwa.gov.au/sites/remunera… For some workers it will mean pay rises of up to $24K pa
♪♫ Kraftwerk - Rückstoss-Gondoliere (Beat Club 1971)
An early and very rare TV performance of Kraftwerk - the legendary and influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. From mid 70s to early 80s, the minimalistic and pure electronic combination of repetitive rhythms, catchy melodies and vocoder voices were revolutionary for its time. They strongly influenced Chicago's House Music and Detroit Techno and many artists from Depeche Mode to even Rammstein. The more Krautrock-orientated song "Rückstoss-Gondoliere", performed at the Beat Club TV show, features the early and short lived line-up of Florian Schneider-Esleben - later only Schneider as surname-, Michael Rother (guitar, keyboards) and Klaus Dinger (drums).
Bonus:
♪♫ Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freeky
*sigh*
Die Antwoord 2012 Tour Dates:
02/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
02/10 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
02/11 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
02/14 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
02/15 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
02/18 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
02/19 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
02/20 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox at the Market
02/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
02/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia
02/25 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
03/03 – Brisbane, AU @ Future Music Festival
03/04 – Perth, AU @ Future Music Festival
03/10 – Sydney, AU @ Future Music Festival
03/11 – Melbourne, AU @ Future Music Festival
03/12 – Adelaide, AU @ Future Music Festival
Ministry Of Sound Radio Presented By DJ Storm feat. Mikal studio mix
Tracklist:
1. The little Things - D - Bridge - Metalheadz .
2. Change on Me - Commix - Dust - Metalheadz.
3. Tear Down - Die + Break - Grand Funk Hustle EP - Digital Sound Boy.
4. Decimal Point - NFM - Zoltar.
5. They're Wrong - Break - Symmetry.
6. Arsenal - Saudade - Spy + Marky remix - Radar.
7. Play this Game - Break + Mikal - Metalheadz .
8. The Others - Octane , DLR + Survival - Dispatch.
9. Steady Eddy - Digital - DUB.
10. Wheel of Time - Subwave - Subwave - Metheadz .
11. Envy - Commix - Dust - Metalheadz .
12. Aeeh - Subwave - Subwave - Metalheadz .
13 . Cornered - D - Bridge - Metalheadz.
Mikal guest mix
1. Cracker - Enei - Jubei remix
2. Circle - Fierce + Vicious Circle - Section VIP.
3. Salvage - Break + Nico.
4. Contortion - Xtrah.
5. Headbanger - Mikal .
6. Project 1 - Jubei + SPY.
7. Behind Time - Alex Perez.
8. The Chant - Mikal.
9. Catch 22 - Skeptical.
10. Skip Rope - NFM.
11. Show You - Foreign Concept + Kasra .
12. Talk to Frank - Commix - Break remix .
13. Something New - Break.
14. Rohshach - Mute + Mako.
15. Just a Game - Mikal + Break.
16. Shackles - NFM.
17. Metropolis - Adam F.
Released by: Metalheadz
Release date: Jan 23, 2012
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*shucks*
billie_r_martin billie ray martin
@exilestreet did you know that exile on moan street is my favourite blog name in the world?
♪♫ The Opiates - Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)
billie_r_martinhere's the embed. you could put it up coupla hours before if you like. then it would be exclusive hehe. code coming up
(BIG thanx Billie XXX)
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
COMING SOONWorld premiere of The Opiates video for 'Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)'
This video was made for the Opiates live shows by Ceven Knowles.
The Opiates is the latest project from the "queen of electronic soul" Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. Already dubbed by the press as 'The Carpenters of Electro', their album 'Hollywood Under The Knife' explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, (not least Electribe 101), with the aim of taking things forward a step or two. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, The Opiates' unique brand of electronic music is not readily categorised. Theirs is a pursuit without compromise; a rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.
Buy Hollywood Under the Knife: http://www.billieraymartin.com/?page_id=20
More work from Ceven Knowles can be found at: http://cerusmedia.com
The new official video directed by Jörn Hartmann will be released at 18:00 Berlin time but thanks to Billie Ray Martin it will be available to see here on 'Exile' a couple of hours earlier...
David Hockney: 'I followed reaction to my show on Twitter'
David Hockney poses for photographers during the press view of his Royal Academy show, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
This afternoon I went down to the Royal College of Art in London, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary. David Hockney, who graduated 50 years ago, was there to show the students David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, a film made by Bruno Wollheim about his blockbuster Royal Academy show. (Incidentally, it only occurred to me when I was there that A Bigger Picture is a reference to A Bigger Splash – doh!)In the main gallery, students were putting the finishing touches to their installations. There was a table, set as if for a banquet, with models of fantastical buildings behind the place settings and vegetation including a cauliflower "growing" down the middle. Another featured a selection of posters based on the "Keep calm and carry on" meme, with slogans including "Post-human has no privacy settings" and "Would you invest in Slough?".
Amid this bustling activity, I had a quick chat with the great man, who had just enjoyed a fag (you may have seen his latest fervently pro-smoking letter to the Guardian at the weekend) and was, as usual, immaculately turned-out. He had a lovely spotted scarf on and his gold molars glinted as he spoke. His passionate engagement with the modern world, he told me, has now extended to Twitter.
"I watched the reactions to my show on Twitter – I read the reviews on Twitter," he told me. Not that he tweets, alas: "I follow it, I'm an observer on it, but I don't want to tweet because it's too time-consuming, but it's a very fascinating new space.
"The press don't quite describe it right," he added. "It isn't just about a little comment of 140 characters, it's much more than that because it's noticeboards: people post something, it takes you to another person, it moves along. It's very, very new and fascinating. They'll pick it up here," he said – "they" meaning the students.
"I'm fascinated following it all," he added, "and you can follow it in Bridlington. It's isolated physically, which we like, but it's not isolated in any other way now, and it's a more interesting place to follow things, I think. Often stepping back you see more, don't you?"
You do – especially when the pictures are the size of Hockney's latest mammoth canvases. Unsurprisingly, the artist seemed thrilled with the reaction to his show, which has been a massive hit with both the public and his fellow artists, though some critics have been less enthusiastic. "I knew it would get a good reaction," he smiled, tapping my arm. "The show is one actually – one enormous piece, and people who don't get that pick out bits and little points. Not very smart, really.
"Especially for a landscape show, if people are queueing for it it tells you something. I daren't go in now, I'm too deaf to be able to deal with it" – he meant being mobbed by fans – "but we're very, very pleased with the response to it – and I'm not complaining about the press, either. Of course not. It doesn't matter what they say, either."
Hockney said that he didn't have any memories of the current RCA building (next to the Albert Hall) since the college moved the year he graduated. He studied at a building behind the V&A. "All the painters used to just come in and walk round – there's too much security now, so you don't get that. Security kills so much, doesn't it? They don't realise."
He was also displeased when the RCA gave up the studios he used to work in as student: "They had wonderful painting studios with big north light and they built the studio here with windows facing east which was mad. Drawing and painting was the centre of the old college and I don't know whether it is now, but I always think the phrase 'back to the drawing board' tells you something, doesn't it? Drawing – it's still there. Nothing's altered in that way."
I asked what advice he'd give to today's students: "Follow your instincts," he said. "Don't believe that painting's dead, it's photography that's dying or changing anyway, because of technology, just as painting changes because of technology.
"I'll also point out – I mean, I don't want to plug the iPad but they're cheap for what they can do. Some people might think it's a novelty but after a while you realise how you can use it – I mean, it's a camera and video camera all for £450, it's unbelievably cheap actually." But not quite as good value as six minutes with David Hockney.
Charlotte Higgins @'The Guardian'
Nick Cave on The Pop Group
I remember being on the same London tube with Gareth Sager, Sean Oliver and Nick Cave after Gareth and Sean had invaded a Birthday Party gig by jumping up on stage and sitting down on the drum riser and just staring out at the audience. Cave was not pleased to say the least...anyway on the underground heading home Nick Cave was doing his best to ignore them and started reading a newspaper at which point Gareth set fire to it...(you had to be there :)
As a certain well known improv musician (who was nameless in the article then and shall remain so now) said in the NME about Gareth 'he could be the sort of person that you wanted to put across your knee and give a good slapping to' or words to that effect...
Bonus:
Bonus:
David Rat : Happy Ending
'Miss- Anthropy' an audio chapter from the book HAPPY ENDING. Featuring David Ratt, John Myers, Michael Giblin, Lose Kiebler, Chad Divel.
jeeezelouise alrightythen
They only gave us the Internet because it was a newer, faster way to sell us shit. Instead, we found each other.
They only gave us the Internet because it was a newer, faster way to sell us shit. Instead, we found each other.
Robert Fripp on 'Ethical Bootlegging' (August 1979)
RF: Yes.
RG: ...your performances?
RF: Yes. People who turn up to Frippertronics concerts need only bring their ears. They need have responsibility to nothing else but their ears. If they're not prepared to get involved in the spirit of what is trying to be created there, they really shouldn't come, and I don't say that in any callous way at all. If the idea is to come along to take photographs, this is not the idea of a music concert. This is a peculiar custom that one should listen to music through the lense of a camera and I don't like being put in a situation where the sound, the atmosphere is being punctured by theft. I understand that on the subject of bootlegging there is this notion that it's preserving music which is perhaps of some value to other people and all those other vague notions. When I recieve the traditional proportion of royalties which a record makes from all the different bootlegs and notice that the ... whoever wrote the music is getting their proportion as well, I shall perhaps look on bootlegging, the... if you like...the so-called public-spirited bootlegging, in a different way. Were I a bootlegger, I would deduct a portion of the royalties for the artist and the writer and send them off anonymously. That's what I should do. I know of no one yet who does that so my suspicions of bootleggers and their motives remain. In fact I've just obtained the address of a man who, against all my requests, bootlegged the Kitchen concert in New York and I'm considering exactly what to do. You see, the traditional approach is that three very large burly men go around and inflict a considerable amount of muscular and organic damage upon the body of the person who's bootlegged this and destroy a lot of material objects. That's not my approach. But I don't like having the idea of working through the traditional dinosaur structure of copyright law and so on but I sense that I may have to do it because in a situation where normal requests from one human being to another in a very straightforeward way, where this isn't met by a decent and honorable response, one is violated and that situation simply can't go on. And it's such a pity that a very, very small proportion of people have led, for example, to increased security at airports throughout the world which make traveling now, for me, personally, almost intolerableand in terms of performance situations the point is that within two and a half years, we shall all be frisked when we go to a rock 'n' roll event...
Via
(Thanx Fred!)
:))
IseeScott Irene Scott
this site makes me want to wash my hands...then wash my hands...then dust for approximately the rest of my life thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com
this site makes me want to wash my hands...then wash my hands...then dust for approximately the rest of my life thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com
OakFoSho Spencer: For Hire
.@JeanQuan says she'll call national #OWS leaders. bit.ly/xeX5Wk Umm what leaders? #OccupyOakland #OWS #p21
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Leonard Cohen - Songs From The Road
(Photo by TimN)
THE BAND
Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboard.
Roscoe Beck - bass, double bass, background vocals
Neil Larsen - keyboards, Hammond B3, accordion
Bob Metzger - guitar, steel guitar, background vocals
Javier Mas - bandurria, laud, archilaud
Rafael Bernardo Gayol - drums, percussion
Dino Soldo - keyboard, saxophone, wind instruments, dobro, background vocals
Sharon Robinson - vocals, shaker
Hattie Webb - vocals, harp
Charley Webb - vocals, guitar
What can you say? The re-emergence of Leonard Cohen and the respect that has been shown to him is to me one of the greatest things to have happened in music in recent times, even if it was due to very sad circumstances.
I was lucky enough to catch him twice in recent years and they were two of the most joyous gigs I have ever been to.
His new album 'Old Ideas' starts with the lines:
I love to speak with Leonard
He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
He’s a lazy bastard
Living in a suit
But he does say what I tell him
Even though it isn’t welcome
He will never have the freedom
To refuse...
...and to be honest I cannot make up my mind as to whether this is a subtle reference that perhaps he is telling us that this will be his last album or not.
I can hope that it isn't but if there was ever a man entitled to enjoy his remaining years (and may there be many more) then it is Mr. Cohen. Having said that boy does he enjoy performing as you will see for yourself in the video above.
Also please take time to visit 'Dangerous Minds' where Marc has posted an amazing documentary of the five years that Leonard Cohen spent at the Mt Baldy Zen Centre.Bonus:
Leonard Cohen: Live at The Isle of Wight (1970)
urihoresh Uri Horesh
NYTimes: A Police Training Film About Muslims: 2 Views // So the NYPD film was produced in Jerusalem. I'll say no more. nyti.ms/woU7xA
NYTimes: A Police Training Film About Muslims: 2 Views // So the NYPD film was produced in Jerusalem. I'll say no more. nyti.ms/woU7xA
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