Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The Power Of The Situation
Discovering Psychology: The Power Of The Situation with Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D
First Listen: Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
Both his own music and the music of the artists on Ellison's Brainfeeder label have turned what started as instrumental hip-hop into a sound of his own. It's a wonky bundle of skittering beats, bass-heavy bottoms and delicate, melodic tops. Over the years, FlyLo has added to and refined this voice, and Until the Quiet Comes (out Oct. 2) plays like it comes from a tunesmith intimately familiar with his toolbox.
Ellison wends his way through a wide, dizzying canyon of sounds and sensations, all while keeping his cool. The result is intricate enough to make listeners scramble to dissect every little flourish in the mix, but it's also so sonically brash and powerful that it's hard not to let the whole body of sound wash over you. Until the Quiet Comes operates as a continuous thread of music, with a coherent flow of transitioning moods.
It starts off busy: "All In" is an introduction spun from bells, snares, shakers, harps, guitars, basses, kicks and a lilting voice in the background. The temperature cools as a voice wafts into the mix and seduces the ear into another barrage of thumping drum patterns. It's a method Ellison has mastered: lulling listeners with intoxicating melodies, then smacking them upside the head with a sobering bass kick.
This is far from the only trick in FlyLo's bag. Take, for example, "Sultan's Request": Forceful from the outset, the bending synths romp through the track as though they could rip holes through a dance floor. That is, until the low end comes in: an absurd drop of snaking bass that dwarfs the monster sounds preceding it. Then, Ellison jumps out of this low-frequency swamp back into the upper register, by bringing in helium-huffing samples that bounce beneath a steady string of hand claps. He moves from low to high, dense to sparse, mellow to frantic, dark to light, and almost always hits a sweet spot somewhere in between.
Ellison also possesses a knack for bringing in talent, whether as head of the exquisitely curated Brainfeeder or as an artist in search of featured guests. Featured on Until the Quiet Comes are past collaborators Erykah Badu and Thom Yorke. In "See Through to You," layers of Badu's voice are woven into loose, overlapping patterns that function as fibers in FlyLo's sonic quilt. Elsewhere, Yorke's voice haunts "Electric Candyman" with a reverb-thick roll. The Brainfeeder bassist Thundercat is here, too, making an appearance in "DMT Song," a swirling bag of vocals and plucked strings. Niki Randa and Laura Darlington's contributions exemplify Ellison's penchant for using vocals with a ghostly quality to them.
At just more than three-quarters of an hour, Flying Lotus' new album beats with a heart unique to its creator. With each release, FlyLo adds to his palette of sounds without cluttering his arrangements. Until the Quiet Comes is Ellison's most sonically adventurous and least muddled journey yet, as well as a trip worth taking over and over again — the quiet can come later.
Sami Yenigun @'npr'
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Anoushka Shankar - Festival Les Nuits de Fourvière 7/9/12 (Complete Concert)
Anoushka Shankar: A Sitar Player In Andalusia (Listen/Download)
♪♫ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Allah Hoo
Bonus:
One of THE greatest singers of all time. When this man opened his mouth to sing, angels came out...
New mix from King Midas Sound's Kiki Hitomi
1. Blondie (Rapture) cover
2. Zomby (Witch Hunt) x Neil Young (Old Man)
3. Evian Christ (Thrown like Jacks) x Velvet Underground (Venus in Furs)
4. Portishead (Machine Gun) x Sister Nancy ( Bam Bam) x Ras G
5. Actress (The Kettle Man) x Missy Elliott (She's A Bitch / Work It)
6. Mark Prichard (Elephant Dub) x Buju Banton (Murderer)
7. Modeselektor (Grillwalker) x Grace Jones (Pull Up To The Bumper)
8. Omar Souleyman (Li Raja Behawakom) x The Bug (Skeng)
Free download. Click on gold @ symbol to left HERE.
Earth - Fowlers Live, Adelaide (14/9/12)
Featuring a brand new song, Badger, this recording offers a good look into Earth doing what they do best.
Dylan Carlson - Guitar
Adrienne Davies - Percussion
Don McGreevy - Bass
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(Thanx Martin!)
Especially nice as I had to pass on the Melbourne gig due to my recent foot op...
Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B (2012)
Review in Jazzwise Magazine by Stephen Graham:
"Van Morrison (v, p, el g, as), Paul Moran
(Hammond Org, kys p, t), Alistair White (tb), Christopher White (ts,
ct), Dave Keary (g), Paul Moore (b) and Jeff Lardner (d). Rec. date not
stated
Van Morrison has jazz in his blood,
only a fool would think otherwise, and Born to Sing is the latest
proof although none is needed. His second for Blue Note, the first
What’s Wrong With This Picture? was notable for the poignant ‘Little
Village’, a song his fans immediately took to their hearts. Chances are
the title track ‘Born to Sing’ will be joining the pantheon of his
best songs of the last 25 years, up there with the wondrous ‘Fast
Train’, ‘Only a Dream’, and ‘Celtic New Year’. On this, his first
studio album since Keep it Simple, this time recorded unusually in his
home town of Belfast, Morrison has come up with the goods once again
after the commercial and critical success of Keep It Simple and the
huge interest shown when he followed it by releasing a live album based
on his great 1960s masterpiece, Astral Weeks.
Why
he delivers here is mainly because of the anthemic title track, with
its showband feel and rousing lyrics, although other tunes such as the
bluesy ‘Pagan Heart’ are among a string of strong songs. ‘Close Enough
For Jazz’, which adds words to an older instrumental version of the
song, is a grower, with some deep-down low singing from Morrison, who
turned 67 at the end of August, and a melody that recalls some of his
playful work with Georgie Fame on albums such as How Long Has This Been
Going On? ‘Educating Archie’ is the joker in the pack, recalling in its
title, but not in its lyrics, an old radio show, later on TV,
featuring a self willed ventriloquist’s dummy eventually ruling the
roost. The album, which also tackles issues facing society including
the relentless pursuit of money whatever the cost on the song ‘If In
Money We Trust’, has a stripped down small band backing with fine
trombone, good horn unisons and a stand-out electric guitar intro
cutting the air like a razor on ‘Pagan Heart’."
♪♫ Defunkt Millenium - Believing In Love (2012)
Defunkt Millenium plays Defunkt classic from 1982 "Believing in Love" at Grafelfing Festival (Munich) 2012
Joe Bowie- trombone/vocals,
Kim Clarke- bass/vocals,
Adam Klipple- keyboards/vocals,
Tobias Ralph- drums/vocals,
Vincent Brijs- baritone sax/vocals
Composers Janos Gat/Joe Bowie
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Daft Punk: Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
インターステラ5555
Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk
Sigur Rós 'Valtari' Mystery Film Experiment: Ekki múkk by Nick Abrahams
Taken from the "valtari mystery film experiment" - more details: sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/videos/
Taken from the "valtari mystery film experiment" - more details: sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/videos/
Scott Walker's Bish Bosch due December 3
Bosch, Hieronymous (c. 1450–1516), Dutch painter
Bish bosh (sl.), job done, sorted
“I was thinking about making the title refer to a mythological, all-encompassing, giant woman artist.” Scott Walker
A Hieronymous Bosch painting can’t be apprehended in a single blink of an eye. The Garden of Earthly Delights is made up of panels in parallel, with scores of tiny actions and allegorical representations teeming in every square inch of canvas. The painting is big enough to encompass heaven and hell.
Perhaps we should listen to Scott’s music in the same way we’d approach a Bosch canvas. You probably won’t understand it after one viewing, but you can become obsessed with one corner detail another until you eventually come to some understanding of how the different parts fit together and complement each other.
“It’s moving on a bit each time we go. Hopefully it’s getting nearer and nearer the kind of thing that’s in our heads. Little things are improving, a bit more focused. The style is improving.”
Since the 1960s, Scott Walker has scaled the heights of pop superstardom, produced some of the most revered solo albums of the late sixties, coasted on his laurels during the seventies, then metamorphosed into something very different. The music he has been making at his own pace since the early eighties might be utterly estranged from the songs that made him a household name, but they stem from the privacy he requires to write this complex and hugely inventive music.
Bish Bosch is the latest in Scott’s discography to pursue the line of enquiry he began back in 1978, with his four devastatingly original songs on the Walker Brothers’ swansong, Nite Flights, and continuing through Climate of Hunter (1984), Tilt (1995), The Drift (2006). He has continued to mature and develop in a late style utterly at odds with the music that made him a superstar, a lifetime ago, but which is totally honest, uncompromising and transcendent.
Scott began writing his new material around 2009, and recorded it sporadically over the following three years, while he was also involved in composing a work for the ROH2 ballet Duet for One Voice, chorographed by Aletta Collins. Unsurprisingly for a long-term exile from his native America, Bish Bosch is a great melting pot of clamouring voices and languages, swift scene-changes (the album’s geographic reach covers Denmark, the Alps, Hawaii, the ancient landscapes of Scythia, Greece and Rome, and Romania), time-travelling jump-cuts, and metaphors from medical science and molecular biology that seize you by the throat...
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Sound Of Creation: Adrian Sherwood's 13 Favourite Albums
'I know music means nothing to some people but for others it's like Bill Shankly and football and life and death. It's everything, it's all consuming. That's how growing up was for me. That was my upbringing'
Fired up in his pre-teens by the first great wave of reggae in the UK charts, Adrian Sherwood has been active in the music business since the age of 13 as a DJ, producer of Lee "Scratch" Perry among others, solo artist and label founder. In the mid-1970s, as co-founder of labels like Carib Gems and Pressure Sounds, he was instrumental in the distribution of some of Jamaica's most legendary massive recording and recording artists into Britain.
However, it's as the founder of On-U-Sound during the post-punk era that he is most famous, having applied his blistering dub treatments not just to artists on his own roster such as Bim Sherman, African Headcharge and Tackhead, but also to a range of sometimes unlikely artists that includes Mark Stewart, Sinead O' Connor, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy and Einstürzende Neubauten. He cut his first solo album, with the heartfelt title of Never Trust A Hippy, in 2003. Last month saw the release of his latest solo work, Survival & Resistance.
Sherwood met up with the Quietus to discuss 13 favourite albums, which range all the way from Ray Charles and BBC library music to Augustus Pablo and Burning Spear...
HERE
Nice to see that Adrian can't get his head around fugn Pink Floyd either!!!
However, it's as the founder of On-U-Sound during the post-punk era that he is most famous, having applied his blistering dub treatments not just to artists on his own roster such as Bim Sherman, African Headcharge and Tackhead, but also to a range of sometimes unlikely artists that includes Mark Stewart, Sinead O' Connor, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy and Einstürzende Neubauten. He cut his first solo album, with the heartfelt title of Never Trust A Hippy, in 2003. Last month saw the release of his latest solo work, Survival & Resistance.
Sherwood met up with the Quietus to discuss 13 favourite albums, which range all the way from Ray Charles and BBC library music to Augustus Pablo and Burning Spear...
HERE
Nice to see that Adrian can't get his head around fugn Pink Floyd either!!!
Monday, 24 September 2012
Romney Defends Tax Rate In '60 Minutes' Interview
ViaMitt Romney paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent in 2011, according to a tax return filed on Friday, a relatively low tax rate resulting from exotic deductions, the special tax treatment for his Bain Capital retirement package and the low tax rate on capital gains. Romney also opted not to deduct millions in charitable contributions from his tax bill in order to maintain a pledge from August that he has paid at least 13 percent in federal income taxes for each of the past 10 years.Romney's income was $13,696,951 in 2011, and he paid $1,935,708 in taxes. Romney's income for the year was more than 263 times larger than the U.S. median household income of $51,914.
Bear in mind that Romney can still reclaim those charitable contributions in an ammended tax return
'Trespassing scum'
HMRC boss Dave Hartnett is the man responsible for cutting dodgy deals with Vodafone, Goldman Sachs and other large corporations that have cost the taxpayer billions in lost revenue. When we discovered that he was making his retirement speech at an elite tax avoidance conference, we couldn't resist popping in. We donned our best Goldman Sachs and Vodafone costumes, bought some flowers and knocked up a fake award. This is what happened.
Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done
This quickly changed January this year when the U.S. Government took down the file-hosting service and had several key employees arrested including founder Kim Dotcom.
Abruptly, the focus of Megaupload’s team shifted from serving customers to defending itself in a high-profile criminal prosecution. While the criminal case is moving ahead very slowly, Megaupload’s founder does have some progress to report on another front.
Dotcom previously announced that he planned to bring Megaupload back to life, and new information suggests that this may happen rather quickly. In an update this weekend he tweets that most of the work on the second incarnation of the site is already done.
“Quick update on the new Mega: Code 90% done. Servers on the way. Lawyers, partners and investors are ready,” Dotcom teases.
“Be patient it’s coming,” he adds.
From the brief progress update it’s clear that the site is on schedule for launch later this year. In addition, it’s interesting to note that despite the ongoing criminal case, partners and investors are happy to be involved.
In recent weeks Dotcom has delivered several hints about the new Megaupload, which he says will be bigger and better than the file-hosting service that was taken down.
“We are building a massive global network. All non-US hosters will be able to connect servers & bandwidth,” he explained earlier.
According to Dotcom we can expect a Megaupload with an even greater range of applications than just file-sharing. While developers of file managers are being encouraged to get in touch for early API access, Dotcom is also calling out to those involved in email and fax tools, VOIP and video apps.
It’s clear that Dotcom doesn’t have the slightest urge to throw in the towel.
“They abused the wrong guy. I am going to turn this world upside down. Power to the people. Bye bye Echelon. Hello Freedom,” Dotcom added.
It will be at least a few more weeks before the new Megaupload appears online, but there are exciting times ahead. MEGA exciting.
Ernesto @'TorrentFreak'
Government Spies Illegally Bugged Dotcom, New Zealand Prime Minister Admits
James Williamson 'busks' on the streets of Paris
Bonus:
James Williamson teaches 'Search and Destroy' to the Rochester MI School of Rock!
Always made me laugh when the musos said the punks couldn't play!
Into the night with Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noé
A night in Nashville with native son Harmony Korine and the French filmmaker Gaspar Noé. Directed by Bruce LaBruce.
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Let's Get Lost (1988)
Bonus:
I used to go and see Chet Baker live a lot around this time in Am*dam. I think erratic would be the politest description of him then.
Water sports?
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Let's just hope that over 50% of the voters piss on Mitt come November 6
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris/Fallen Angels - Live Liberty Hall Houston Texas 1973
Bonus:
Emmylou on Gram
Fallen Angel
On September 19, 1973, the musician and heir to a million-dollar fortune died under the influence of drugs and alcohol near his favourite place - the Joshua Tree National Monument in the Californian desert. As the founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, a member of the hit-making, legendary Byrds, an important influence on the Rolling Stones and the man who catapulted Emmylou Harris to fame, Gram Parsons made music history in only a few years. The film was made on location by director and musician Gandulf Hennig and American music journalist, musician and biographer Sid Griffin. Friends, contemporaries and devotees of Gram Parsons talk about the importance of his work and the bizarre circumstances of his early death. Rare footage of his performances shows why Gram Parsons has become a legend. Interviewees include Gram's wife Gretchen, his sister and his daughter, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris, Chris Hillman and "Road Manager" Phil Kaufman.
OK I am biased as 26 years ago I named my first born Ingram after Mr. Parsons but when is he going to get voted into the country music hall of fame?
Pussy Riot's Russian Attorneys at NYU Law School (21/9/12)
PUNKCAST2072 "Pussy Riot and Protest: The Future of Dissent in Putin's
Russia and Beyond—A Conversation with Pussy Riot's Russian Attorneys" at
NYU School of Law on September 21 2012.
(Thanx Joly!)
(Thanx Joly!)
Rhythm & Sound reissues seven essential records
Only releasing seven 12″ EPs from 1997 to 2002, the label’s influence continues to ripple across the electronic music world. As press materials remind us, the “vapour trail of melody and a reverberating bass echo” that Rhythm & Sound pioneered is timeless.
Head over to Boomkat now to purchase the series.
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Saturday, 22 September 2012
The Ghostvillage Project
The Ghostvillage Project was created over 3 days on the west coast of Scotland. 6 artists - Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126, Derm - were given free reign to paint in an abandoned 1970s village. Working together on huge collaborative walls and individually in hidden nooks and crannies all over the site the artists realised long held dreams and were inspired by the bleakness and remoteness of the site. Drawing on the history of the village the artists' stated intent on completion of the project was to populate the ghostvillage with the art and characters that it deserved.
♪♫ Mark Stewart (ft. Factory Floor) - Stereotype
Released: Oct 1, 2012
Digital & Double 12" with remixes from Hype Williams, Daniel B. 'Front 242', Perc, Chrissy Murderbot, Italoconnection.
Directed by Orla Fokdal
Starring: Sebastian Bartz & Cara Cherie Emmanuel-Risch.
Listen to the Hype Williams remix of 'Stereotype' HERE and keep an ear out for the forthcoming dub version of the Politics Of Envy.
Digital & Double 12" with remixes from Hype Williams, Daniel B. 'Front 242', Perc, Chrissy Murderbot, Italoconnection.
Directed by Orla Fokdal
Starring: Sebastian Bartz & Cara Cherie Emmanuel-Risch.
Listen to the Hype Williams remix of 'Stereotype' HERE and keep an ear out for the forthcoming dub version of the Politics Of Envy.
Caricuao Sound System (19/9/12)
2-Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hooligan
3-Hepcat - The Secret Dub
4-Hepcat - Live On Dub
5-Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - At The Border,Guy
6-Bad Brains - Natty Dredlocks Pon The Mountain Top
7-Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - I'm In Dancin Mood (Espiando en los 80's)
8-The Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls (Espiando en los 80's)
9-Gangsters - Cardboard City
10-Sinead O' Connors - 4th and Vine
11-UB40- The Key (Live From Hammersmith 83')
12-The Starlites - Rocksteady Train
13-Blundetto - Treat me Like That
14-Easy Star AllStars - Pretty Young Thing
15-Ann Reid - Remember When
16-Natty King - No Guns To Town
17-Barrington Levy - Shine Eye Girl
18-Sugar Minott - Nah Follow Nuh Fashion
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Friday, 21 September 2012
'I don't really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don't give a shit. If you don't like it, don't come down my street.'
- Bud Johnson
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