DMC Best Of Diva Mixes (Vol 4) (CDR)
5 minutes ago
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Arthur Montford Experience - Krung Thep
First in the 'Skald' series. A collection of music from both the Arthur Montford and Airfix Twin stables, featuring music written in a number of Asian cities over a 3 month period.
(Thanx to Iain - whose Asian jaunt seems to be going well...so far!)
Margaret Attwood with Dreamachine (11/10/12 Toronto)
Dreamachines can be bought via
Sales http://brianjonesjoujoukafestival.blogspot.fr/2012/08/buy-brion-gysins-dreamachine-direct.html
priced at $399 plus postage $50 USA and Canada $150 rest of world. Sales from this outlet will aid The Master Musicians of Joujouka.
Master Musicians of Joujouka performing live at their festival in the village of Joujouka in 2012. Recorded by Heinrich Deisl. Booking for Festival 7-9 June 2013 www.joujouka.net email Frank at joujouka@gmail.com for info
Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard...
...but I say:
The Bobbyteens - Hot City Boy
Anyone know from which year this is?
The Bobbyteens - Hot City Boy
Anyone know from which year this is?
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Friday, 12 October 2012
'Anonymous' VS WikiLeaks
(Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET )
Tweets are not a good way to explain why we are angry about the recent developments in Wikileaks, so here is a summary of the situation and an explanation why we are so appalled.
Since yesterday visitors of the Wikileaks site are presented a red overlay banner that asks them to donate money. This banner cannot be closed and unless a donation is made, the content like GIFiles and the Syria emails are not displayed.
We are aware that the donation advertisment can be circumvented by disabling Javascript. However, this is not the point. Neither that Wikileaks is asking for donations. However, we do see a serious problem in the way Wikileaks is implementing this for several reasons. First of all, the casual user (which is the majority) usually has Javascript enabled and thus will be blocked by the donation banner and denied the content. Additionally, the casual user does not know that he needs to disable javascript to get to the content without paying - sorry, donating. He may not even know what javascript is, let alone how to disable it. Lastly, regardless of any workarounds, the fact remains that a meretricious banner is placed for the majority of visitors that cannot be closed. The obvious intention is to increase donations.
We have been worried about the direction Wikileaks is going for a while. In the recent month the focus moved away from actual leaks and the fight for freedom of information further and further while it concentrated more and more on Julian Assange. It goes without saying that we oppose any plans of extraditing Julian to the USA. He is a content provider and publisher, not a criminal.
But Wikileaks is not - or should not be - about Julian Assange alone. The idea behind Wikileaks was to provide the public with information that would otherwise being kept secret by industries and governments. Information we strongly believe the public has a right to know. But this has been pushed more and more into the background, instead we only hear about Julian Assange, like he had dinner last night with Lady Gaga. That's great for him but not much of our interest. We are more interested in transparent governments and bringing out documents and information they want to hide from the public.
As far as money is concerned, we understand that Wikileaks lives from donations. And it is fine to ask for them as long as this is done in an unostentatious manner. This is clearly not the case anymore, even though the overall situation cannot be that bad: According to the Transparency Report of the Wau Holland Stiftung**[1], Julian received 72.000 Euros only for project coordination in 2011 - this does not include travel costs. And 265.000 Euros were spent on "campaigns". (Note that the 139.000 Euro in donations only accounts for the funds that went through the Wau Holland Stiftung, it does not include any donation to Wikileaks directly).
The conclusion for us is that we cannot support anymore what Wikileaks has become - the One Man Julian Assange show. But we also want to make clear that we still support the original idea behind Wikileaks: Freedom of information and transparent governments. Sadly we realize that Wikileaks does not stand for this idea anymore.
We also like to point out that of course we cannot speak in the name of Anonymous. This is merely one of many twitter accounts, albeit an established one over the recent years. But we know that we are certainly not alone within the Anonymous collective with this assessment of the situation. We have talked with many people on twitter, IRC and other communication platforms and the vast majority was appalled by this intrusive form of solicitation.
We will continue to fight for free information and support anyone who pursues the same ideal.
~~ Anonymous
[1] http://wauland.de/files/2011_Transparenzbericht-Projekt04_en.pdf
Via
Anonymous turns its back on Wikileaks after paywall dispute
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
“A thing a lot of people got wrong about us—when we did it the first time, a whole lot of what we were about was joy. We tried to make heavy music, joyously. Times were heavy but the party line was everything was OK. There were a lot of bands that reacted to that by making moaning ‘heavy’ music that rang false. We hated that music, we hated that privileging of individual angst, we wanted to make music like Ornette’s Friends and Neighbours, a joyous, difficult noise that acknowledged the current predicament but dismissed it at the same time. A music about all of us together or not at all. We hated that we got characterised as a bummer thing. But we knew that was other people's baggage. For us every tune started with the blues but pointed to heaven near the end, because how could you find heaven without acknowledging the current blues, right?”
@The Guardian
Donnie & Joe Emerson
Baby’ has been a staple on just about every playlist/mixtape I’ve assembled in the past 3 years. It is nothing short of sublime. - Ariel Pink
Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Baker speaks
HERE
Pic above shows Johnny Green and Baker filming the 'Bankrobber' video, and yes the London plods questioned them that day thinking they were real bank robbers!!!
♪♫ The Rolling Stones - Doom & Gloom
'Doom And Gloom' marks the first time that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have been in the studio together for seven years. The single was recorded in Paris and produced by longtime Rolling Stones producer Don Was.
Liquid Sky (1982)
Info
Hmmm! I saw this film numerous times after vists to the LysergicLongue when I lived in Am*dam. To be honest I think a head full of acid would help...
♪♫ Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do
1982 live vocal performance of 'It Ain't What You Do' on OTT
1982 live vocal TV performance of 'It Ain't What You Do'. Not sure what show this was on
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