Thursday, 15 August 2013

Tompall Glaser Dead At 79

Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America?

Dancing to The Giant Sounds of Little David

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The Reclusive Peeping Tom Photographer and his Cardboard Camera

Martin Hannett recordings of Joy Division, New Order ‘rescued’ from trash, up for grabs

Peanuts meets Morrissey

This Charming Charlie

Allen Lanier of Blue Oyster Cult Dead At 66

♪♫ Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination (La Edad de Oro, Madrid 1983)

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Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up


Emeka Ogboh: The distinctive sounds of Lagos

Google: Gmail users shouldn't expect email privacy

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Press Suckered By Anti-Google Group's Bogus Claim That Gmail Users Can't Expect Privacy

 

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We Danced In Narrow Spaces

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Selected for the Shuffle Festival, 2013 (as curated by Danny Boyle).
Inspired by 'Deep Water Blackout' (an original piece of music by The John Shelton Trio), We Danced In Narrow Spaces was shot in a derelict asylum on the outskirts of London on May 13th, 2013. The seven-minute film is a dream-like fable played out in a ruined landscape, and explores the ideas of personal, social and cultural memory - and how these are affected by and become entwined with place, and what happens to these memories once a specific site is erased or forgotten.
(Thanx Simon!)

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Ad Break

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Cabaret Voltaire: #8385 (Collected Works 1983-1985) Box Set Released 4 November


#8385 (Collected Works 1983 – 1985) collates four of Cabaret Voltaire’s classic mid-period releases – remastered – on CD and vinyl – The Crackdown (1983, on the 30th anniversary of its release), Micro-Phonies (1984), Drinking Gasoline (1985) and The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord (1985) alongside a CD of Cabaret Voltaire’s 12” tracks from the period and a CD of 12 unreleased tracks entitled Earthshaker.
DVD1, Cabaret Voltaire Live, collates two live shows, the Bedford Boys Club (18.08.84) and Hammersmith Palais (02.12.84) and DVD2 is the long awaited DVD release of Gasoline In Your Eye (1985), an experimental video showcase previously only available on VHS plus the four promotional videos from the time.
#8385 (Collected Works 1983 – 1985) also includes 40-page 12″ booklet, notes about Earthshaker, an essay by Phil Barnes and new sleeve notes by Richard H. Kirk.
The box set follows a recent vinyl release for Red Mecca, remastered by Pole’s Stefan Betke, and available on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Described by The Wire as “a striking piece of work”. Red Mecca was awarded 8/10 by Uncut and Vinyl Package of the Month by MOJO.
In early 2014 #7885 (Electro Punk to Techno Pop 1978 – 1985) will compile for the first time, both periods of Cabaret Voltaire together on one release.
Cabaret Voltaire, alongside Human League, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget and The Normal, were at the forefront of the UK Electronic Movement of the late ’70s. Way ahead of their time, Cabaret Voltaire’s blend of dance musictechnodubhouse and experimental made them, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts of the last 35 years.
More details HERE.
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♪♫ Kraftwerk - Live @Sónar 2013


CIA Refuses to Acknowledge Drone Targeted Killings

Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance

Google Maps Has An Incredible Doctor Who Easter Egg

How to Build an Ice Wall Around a Leaking Nuclear Reactor

♪♫ Black Cab - Games of the XXI Olympiad

A track from the upcoming Fourth album. Inspired by the Montreal Summer Olympics of 1976. Mixed by Tim Holmes. Mastered by Casey Rice.
From Go Slow, released 26 August 2012
Black Cab 2013
Also seven (?) upcoming gigs here in Melburn between now and the end of the year!!!

The Ballad of Donovan Drayton

Portrait of the General as a Not-So-Young Grad Student


George Orwell’s Letter on Why He Wrote ‘1984’

♪♫ John Zorn - Zorn@60/Warsaw Summer Jazz Days (2013)


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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

♪♫ Indradevi (ft Sophea Pel) - Step Away


Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

R.I.P. Jon Brookes


First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released

Darknet for Beginners: Nightweb, I2P, Tor over Meshnet, and More

David Sylvian & Ingrid Chavez: Time Spent (1999)


Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of 'SMiLE'


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Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution (1967)

Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution is a CBS News special, broadcast in April 1967. The show was hosted by Leonard Bernstein and is probably one of the first examples of pop music being examined as a "serious" art form. The film features many scenes shot in Los Angeles in late 1966, including interviews with Frank Zappa and Graham Nash, as well as the now-legendary Brian Wilson solo performance of "Surf's Up"

Everybody Street (Trailer)


The Daily Show covers the Australian election (starts at 2:53)


The United States of Gonzo/In Gonzo We Trust

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E. Jean Carroll: Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson 
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The Abramovic Method Practiced by Lady Gaga

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Pakistani Comic Turns Burka Into Symbol of Women's Lib

William S. Burroughs and baby at a Kansas City art opening

He reportedly asked "Do they want me to sign it?" (Photo by Jose Ferez)
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♪♫ Babyshambles - Nothing Comes To Nothing


Lucian Freud


Freud, Interrupted

Grey Lodge Archives

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Living For Kicks (1960)


The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet


How Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy learned to grow up and start firing his friends

The Book That Can't Be Read


The Voynich Manuscript

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Luigi Serafini: Codex Seraphinianus

DOWNLOAD PDF of Codex Seraphinianus (53.5 mb)
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