MIUC 280524: Eastmint Guest Curation
7 minutes ago
Thursday 25 August 2011
Funkystepz - Trouble EP
Out on Hyperdub on the 03/10/2011 the preview of the Funkystepz - Trouble EP. 3 Tracks are called Trouble, Dirty Dutch & John Wayne.
Chris Carter - Moonlight (NDB Remix)
Neurotic Drum Band remix of Chris Carter's 1985 track 'Moonlight', taken from the forthcoming release on Optimo Music. Other tracks include a remastered original version and a brooding Oneohtrix Point Never remix.
Please note that the tracks aren't remixes but rather reinterpretations as there were no parts to work with and they had to start from scratch.
PRESS RELEASE: Letter from Steve Jobs
August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Analog Vinyl Sampling
Barcelona-born, Copenhagen-based designer Ishac Bertran turns vinyl records into their own sampled mix tracks with 'vinyl analog sampling', a project in which he cuts out and reassembles segments of different records.
After much experimentation with the technique of cutting and appropriate size and shape of the pieces,
Bertran settled upon using a laser cutter to remove relatively large segments of the records (here, Paul Anka,
Supertramp, Lil Jon and Chicago discs, all of which had the same vinyl thickness of 1.2mm) in a common pattern.
He then chooses which pieces to swap into which records, snapping them in after first taping them to adjust
their height for the proper fit.
When played in a vinyl player the needle follows the grooves across these inserted segments, creating sampled tunes or loops.
As influences for the project, Bertran cites a drive to emulate the 'cut and paste' technique for audio tapes, used by early electronic musicians like Delia Derbyshire for looping tracks, alongside an interest in the relationship between the physical and the digital.
(Designboom)
Ishac Bertran's Blog
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Reuters Reuters Top News
Libyan rebels seen firing into air inside Gadhafi compound in celebration -Reuters reporters
Amy Winehouse: no 'illegal drugs found' says family
Toxicology results have shown "no illegal substances" in Amy Winehouse's system at the time of her death, according to her family.
They say tests indicate alcohol was present but it cannot yet be determined if it played a role in the singer's death last month.Winehouse's family thanked police and added that they await the outcome of an inquest on 26 October.
Winehouse, 27, was found dead at her home on 23 July.
A post-mortem took place two days after her death.
The star had a well-publicised struggle with drink and drugs.
Winehouse's father Mitch has since announced plans to launch a foundation in his daughter's name but this has been delayed because the name The Amy Winehouse Foundation has already been registered by someone else.
He said: "The plan is to help all children - not just rehabilitation, not just substance abuse. It's to help all children in need."
Shortly after her death, Mitch Winehouse met with senior politicians in parliament to discuss drugs policy and treatment services.
Winehouse's father told friends and family at the singer's funeral service that she had been her happiest "for years" in her final days.
A cremation in Golders Green followed a private service at Edgwarebury Cemetery in Edgware, north London, on 26 July.
The singer won widespread acclaim with her 2003 debut album Frank, which saw her nominated for the Mercury prize.
But it was 2006's Back to Black which brought her worldwide stardom, and won her five Grammy Awards in the US.
@'BBC'
Spotting the pirates
Since 2000, when the file-sharing service Napster first became popular, digital piracy has dogged the media industry. Over time piracy has become more diverse and sophisticated. In some countries, rather than swapping files on peer-to-peer networks, people now stash their loot in private “cyber-lockers”. As broadband speeds have increased, pirates have gone from downloading single songs to grabbing artists’ entire catalogues. Watching pirated television shows and films online has become more popular, too.
Yet piracy has not exactly swept the world. It is endemic in some countries but a niche activity in others. In some places the tide is flowing; in others it appears to be ebbing. In response, media firms are moving their resources from country to country, with potentially large consequences for the global flow of popular culture...
Continur reading
Tuesday 23 August 2011
♪♫ Bob Dylan - A Change Is Gonna Come
Dylan performs at the 70th Birthday of the Apollo theatre, bringing the song full circle from it's origins (Sam Cooke wrote it as a response to hearing Dylan's Blowing In The Wind for the first time)
The Informants
A 45-year-old Walmart stocker who'd adopted the name Abdul Rahman after converting to Islam during a prison stint for selling cocaine, Cromitie had lots of worries—convincing his wife he wasn't sleeping around, keeping up with the rent, finding a decent job despite his felony record. But he dreamed of making his mark. He confided as much in a middle-aged Pakistani he knew as Maqsood.
"I'm gonna run into something real big," he'd say. "I just feel it, I'm telling you. I feel it."
Maqsood and Cromitie had met at a mosque in Newburgh, a struggling former Air Force town about an hour north of New York City. They struck up a friendship, talking for hours about the world's problems and how the Jews were to blame.
It was all talk until November 2008, when Maqsood pressed his new friend.
"Do you think you are a better recruiter or a better action man?" Maqsood asked.
"I'm both," Cromitie bragged.
"My people would be very happy to know that, brother. Honestly."
"Who's your people?" Cromitie asked.
"Jaish-e-Mohammad."
Maqsood said he was an agent for the Pakistani terror group, tasked with assembling a team to wage jihad in the United States. He asked Cromitie what he would attack if he had the means. A bridge, Cromitie said.
"But bridges are too hard to be hit," Maqsood pleaded, "because they're made of steel."
"Of course they're made of steel," Cromitie replied. "But the same way they can be put up, they can be brought down."
Maqsood coaxed Cromitie toward a more realistic plan. The Mumbai attacks were all over the news, and he pointed out how those gunmen targeted hotels, cafés, and a Jewish community center.
"With your intelligence, I know you can manipulate someone," Cromitie told his friend. "But not me, because I'm intelligent." The pair settled on a plot to bomb synagogues in the Bronx, and then fire Stinger missiles at airplanes taking off from Stewart International Airport in the southern Hudson Valley. Maqsood would provide all the explosives and weapons, even the vehicles. "We have two missiles, okay?" he offered. "Two Stingers, rocket missiles."
Maqsood was an undercover operative; that much was true. But not for Jaish-e-Mohammad. His real name was Shahed Hussain, and he was a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Continue reading
Trevor Aaronson @'Mother Jones'
Marwan Bishara analyses the fight for Tripoli
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, interprets what the fall of Tripoli means for Libya.
After Uprising, Rebels Face a Struggle for Unity
Beating the Odds So Far
UK riots were product of consumerism and will hit economy, says City broker
A masked man in Hackney during the early August riots. The report by Tim Morgan, of Tullett Prebon, says our country's consumerist ethos has 'extremely damaging consequences. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
The recent riots in London and other big cities were the product of an "out-of-control consumerist ethos" which will have profound impacts for the UK economy, a leading City broker has said.
The report by the global head of research at Tullett Prebon, Tim Morgan, is part of a series in which the brokerage analyses bigger issues for the UK. It details recommendations to resolve what it sees as a political and economic malaise: new role models, policies to encourage savings, the channelling of private investment into creating rather than inflating assets, and greater public investment.
It warns: "We conclude that the rioting reflects a deeply flawed economic and social ethos… recklessly borrowed consumption, the breakdown both of top-end accountability and of trust in institutions, and severe failings by governments over more than two decades."
The note pinpoints the philosophy behind the riots as consumerism.
A typical internet user sees a hundred adverts an hour, the report says, and the underlying message many receive is: "Here's the ideal. You can't have it." Accompanying this is an inflation of government and private debt, a key theme of Morgan's other work.
"The economy has been subjected to repeated 'boom and bust' cycles, above all in property. The overall pattern has been that an over-consuming west has borrowed and spent the surpluses of the increasingly productive and under-consuming East.
"The dominant ethos of 'I buy, therefore I am' needs to be challenged by a shift of emphasis from material to non-material values. David Cameron's 'big society' project may contribute to the inculcation of more socially-oriented values, but much more will need to be done to challenge the out-of-control consumerist ethos.
"The government, too, needs to consume less, and invest more. Government spending has increased by more than 50% in real terms over the last decade, but public investment has languished. Saving needs to be encouraged, and private investment needs to be channelled into asset creation, not asset inflation."
Morgan adds: "A young person who tries to become the next Alan Sugar or James Dyson is as likely to fall short as if he or she sets out to become the next global football star.
"But… failure to become the next Alan Sugar can still leave a person well equipped for a career in management, finance or accountancy. Failure to emulate James Dyson will leave the aspirant with useful engineering or technological skills."
Alex Hawkes @'The Guardian'
The recent riots in London and other big cities were the product of an "out-of-control consumerist ethos" which will have profound impacts for the UK economy, a leading City broker has said.
The report by the global head of research at Tullett Prebon, Tim Morgan, is part of a series in which the brokerage analyses bigger issues for the UK. It details recommendations to resolve what it sees as a political and economic malaise: new role models, policies to encourage savings, the channelling of private investment into creating rather than inflating assets, and greater public investment.
It warns: "We conclude that the rioting reflects a deeply flawed economic and social ethos… recklessly borrowed consumption, the breakdown both of top-end accountability and of trust in institutions, and severe failings by governments over more than two decades."
The note pinpoints the philosophy behind the riots as consumerism.
A typical internet user sees a hundred adverts an hour, the report says, and the underlying message many receive is: "Here's the ideal. You can't have it." Accompanying this is an inflation of government and private debt, a key theme of Morgan's other work.
"The economy has been subjected to repeated 'boom and bust' cycles, above all in property. The overall pattern has been that an over-consuming west has borrowed and spent the surpluses of the increasingly productive and under-consuming East.
"The dominant ethos of 'I buy, therefore I am' needs to be challenged by a shift of emphasis from material to non-material values. David Cameron's 'big society' project may contribute to the inculcation of more socially-oriented values, but much more will need to be done to challenge the out-of-control consumerist ethos.
"The government, too, needs to consume less, and invest more. Government spending has increased by more than 50% in real terms over the last decade, but public investment has languished. Saving needs to be encouraged, and private investment needs to be channelled into asset creation, not asset inflation."
Morgan adds: "A young person who tries to become the next Alan Sugar or James Dyson is as likely to fall short as if he or she sets out to become the next global football star.
"But… failure to become the next Alan Sugar can still leave a person well equipped for a career in management, finance or accountancy. Failure to emulate James Dyson will leave the aspirant with useful engineering or technological skills."
Alex Hawkes @'The Guardian'
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
