Saturday 31 March 2012

More Than Human? The Ethics Of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers

Hardware Trauma Plagues Robot Soldiers in Iraq

(Thanx SJX!)

VISA, MasterCard suffer 'massive' US data breach

Telemegaphone

Land (Featuring David Sylvian) - Nothing Is Happening Everywhere

Nothing Is Happening Everywhere is being released on the upcoming album Night Within by the London duo Land (Daniel Lea and Matthew Waters). The album is released on July 10th 2012.
(Thanx JA!)

Labour Councillor Announces That He Is An Alien From Outer Space

Town councillor Simon Parkes has claimed his mother is a green alien and extra-terrestrials abducted him as a child. Parkes believes a 2.7m (9ft) lifeform stood next to his cot when he was a baby and ‘two green stick things’ appeared. ‘I thought “they’re not mummy’s hands, mummy’s are pink,’ Mr Parkes said in a YouTube video.

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Now don't forget Spaceboy...

...that I am relying on you to get up at 3 AM to put the clock back an hour so that you can wake me in the morning :) XXX

Jacking Up

William S. Burroughs on September Songs

Bonus:

Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive?

Mark 4:22

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Johnny Dowd playing 'One Way' from 'Searching For The Wrong Eyed Jesus'

World Party - 70 unreleased tracks on ‘Arkeology’ box set

Oh! THIS always works...

Can Music (NYC 17/04/12)

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OH! I would SO love one of those posters...

We Can No Longer Say No (Demo Mix 3)

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HT: Vox/TX7/Electribe/DSI Tetra
JP: DSI Tetra
The Unknown Solderer: Spoken word Text

I received this in the postal intertoobs inspired by this piece from 'Exile' written by The Unknown Solderer...
(BIG thanx Anon!)

Last Exit - Live Frankfurt Jazz Festival (1986)

Sonny Sharrock: guitar
Peter Brotzmann: tenor saxophone, tenor clarinet
Bill Laswell: 6-string bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson: drums, voice

'A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart'

Created by D. W. Kellogg circa 1833–1842
Subtitle - 'Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers therein'

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(Thanx Claudia!)

'The Open Country of Woman's Heart': Illustration From the 1800s

Friday 30 March 2012

♪♫ The Flaming Lips/Bon Iver - Ashes In The Air

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Wayne Coyne's hand written lyrics

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Bonus:

At 'This Land Is Your Land' - A Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert on March 10th in Tulsa - The Flaming Lips re imagined Guthrie's songs with iPads. This is the first song they played, the folk standard 'Vigilante Man'

The Flaming Lips' Record Store Day Release Will Contain Collaborators' Blood in Packaging

Capa’s ‘Falling Soldier’: The Modest Birth of an Iconic Picture

It’s a rare picture that encompasses an era; even the most justly famous photographs very rarely manage the feat. Eisenstaedt’s “V-J Day in Times Square,” for instance, perfectly illustrated the rapturous mood of a nation - and much of the world - at the end of the Second World War, but no one would argue that the image somehow captured the five-year war itself. Bill Eppridge’s haunting picture of Robert Kennedy’s assassination in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen in June 1968 distilled the darkest, most murderous currents of the Age of Aquarius, but no one says of that one photograph, “That was the Sixties.”
So, yes, it’s phenomenally rare for a single photo to evoke both a discrete moment, and an entire epoch. But that is exactly what Robert Capa’s now-iconic “Falling Soldier” manages to do; there, in one frame, made at the very moment a Loyalist fighter in Spain is shot and killed, one encounters a distillation of the Fascist violence and the brutally extinguished Republican sense of hope - hope for a new, free, egalitarian society - that ultimately came to define the Spanish Civil War...
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William S. Burroughs in 'Twister' (1989)

'Twister' (1989) directed by: Michael Almereyda. Starring Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan McDermott.

♪♫ Screen - Just Outside Your Comfort Zone

Screen NOT The Orb
'If you don’t like our style, fine, just fuck off & leave us alone. We are Screen.'
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Harry Crews RIP

Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76

I think you're losing it Rupester...

'Enemies many different agendas, but worst old toffs and right wingers who still want last century's status quo with their monoplies.'

Speed Neighboring: One Way To Repel The Attack On Sharing

Black Cab - Rescue (live at 3RRR Aug 2009)

Call Signs track 'Rescue' from the 2009 Radio 3RRR live to air we did on Karen Leng's excellent, world famous Kinky Afro show. We've mixed these for the bonus disk of the US release of Call Signs coming out in the US in May on Parasol/Hidden Agenda. Features Rich Andrew on drums, Anthony Paine on bass, Alex Jarvis on guitar, Steve Law on weird electronics, Coates on vox and James Lee on lead guitar (pre-order it here http://www.parasol.com/index.php/artists/black-cab)
This was a pretty frenetic version, amped up by the almost no-show of Steve Law who's car broke down that arvo on a major highway. He made it with seconds to spare just as the red 'on air' light flicked on and 300 punters in the performance space looked on...
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Thundercat - Daylight (Ras G ASP EDIT)

Can to Release Box Set of Unreleased Material

A collection of previously unreleased recordings from the seminal krautrock band Can will be released via Mute on June 19 in the U.S. and June 18 in Europe. The Lost Tapes is a 3xCD box set of studio and live recordings as well as soundtrack works for films that never saw release. Check out the opening cut, "Millionenspiel".
The box set was compiled from over 30 hours of music found at Can's studio in Weilerswist, Germany, as the space was disassembled and moved to the German Rock N Pop Museum in Gronau, Germany. The tracks range from 1968-1977 and feature Holger Czukay (bass), Michael Karoli (guitar), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), and vocals by both Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.
The release was curated by Schmidt and Mute's Daniel Miller, and compiled by Schmidt and collaborator Jono Podmore, who also edited the collection.
An event celebrating Can's Lost Tapes will take place on April 17 at the New York venue Le Poisson Rouge, at which Schmidt and Podmore will perform and discuss material from the release.

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Icon Eye (Trailer)

The Uniting Music of The Congos & Sun Araw

♪♫ Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart

Taken from the new album 'The Bravest Man In The Universe' to be released on 11th June (UK) and 12th June (US) 2012 on XL Recordings.
Produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell.

I say 'yes' to 'socilism'!!!

(Thanx Carolyn!)

Prince - Live @Paisley Park (Dec 31 1987)

The Situation of the Situationists: A Cultural Left in France in the 1950s and 60s

♪♫ Gary Clail - Privatise The Air

In celebration of the fact that Gary Clail has a new album coming out...here's a song for all you tory khunts and those who thought they would be different this time around. More relevant than ever...

Thursday 29 March 2012

Ten thousand Australians face web blackout

[...]The malicious software, or malware, changes a user's Domain Name System (DNS) settings on their computer, diverting all web requests through servers the FBI seized in November but has been temporarily maintaining to ensure internet services were not disrupted. This maintenance will finish on July 9, meaning computers still infected will face internet troubles...

Hmmm!!!