Tuesday 31 December 2013

McKenzie Wark: GAM3R 7H30RY
Anelka & the 'quenelle'

♪♫ Arthur Dent & Deeper Than Space - Drift

“Underneath all reason lies delirium, and drift.”
– Gilles Deleuze

Richard Mosse



Infra

Monday 30 December 2013

I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

Here's how data thieves have captured our lives on the internet

The NSA uses powerful toolbox in effort to spy on global networks

♪♫ The Flaming Lips - September 14, 1983 Demo

“The Flaming Lips Theme Song 1983″ and “The Future Is Gone”
“Underground Pharmacist” and “Real Fast Words”
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♪♫ Patti Smith - Capitol Letter (2013)


From "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" 2013

Friday 27 December 2013

Most Important Torrent Site in Years to Take the Internet by Storm

A brand new entrant to the torrent site market is set to take the Internet by storm. A P2P veteran, fresh from defeating the major recording labels in a 13 million euro lawsuit, has obtained 1.6 million euros from the Spanish Government to power his new dream – a 30 million torrent search engine. Throw in a brand new advert-free torrent client, a Free Software promise, plus a determination not to be bullied by corporations, and we have a very potent mix indeed. 
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An Open Letter to the Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself

Evgeny Morozov: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

In the near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society? What will happen when deeply political, moral, and irresolvable problems are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency? Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement--but only if we keep solutionism in check and learn to appreciate the imperfections of liberal democracy.
Arguing that we need a new, post-Internet way to debate the moral consequences of digital technologies, To Save Everything, Click Here warns against a world of seamless efficiency, where everyone is forced to wear Silicon Valley's digital straitjacket.
Evgeny Morozov
Contributing Editor, The New Republic
Author, To Save Everything, Click here
Christine Rosen
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Senior Editor, The New Atlantis
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Thursday 26 December 2013

A Christmas Message From Edward Snowden


Wednesday 25 December 2013


Happy Hexmass  

Tuesday 24 December 2013

The Story Of...Fairytale of New York












Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing receives royal pardon

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's prison letters to Slavoj Žižek

Moses Williams and His One-String Instrument


This video was directed and produced by Dwight DeVane in 1976.
Hear more of the music of Moses Williams on "Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980" http://www.dust-digital.com/florida/
Thx to Sir Edward Damocles for the hint!!

♪♫ Dennis Bovell, Mad Professor & Adrian Sherwood - 'The Legendary Moment In My Town' (Naples 23 March 2013)


Monday 23 December 2013

♪♫ Ripatti - Studio Mix (December 2013)

Mix of demos and sketches from Vladislav Delay
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Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova freed from Russian prison

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina slams release from jail under amnesty as publicity stunt

♪♫ Paul Kelly & Dan Kelly - Dumb Things/Careless/Little Aches & Pains (Tram Sessions)


♪♫ SUNN O))) & Ulver - Eternal Return (excerpt)


Vinyl Police with Edwyn Collins (Adam & Joe Show)


Sunday 22 December 2013

♪♫ Forest Swords - Thor's Stone (Lee 'Scratch' Perry remix)


Kate Simon: Lou Reed & John Cale (Christmas 1977)

Via

Shane MacGowan: My family values

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Saturday 21 December 2013

Happy Gravy Day!



How To Make Gravy: Australia’s only Christmas carol?

All the more poignant this year following Junior Murvin's death earlier this month


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Friday 20 December 2013

♪♫ FACT Mix 33: Pendle Coven

Interview

Thursday 19 December 2013

Keith by Ethan Russell

© Ethan Russell, Courtesy of the Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

'Is it signed in blood?'


Arctic 30 and Pussy Riot members may be freed in Russian amnesty

Wednesday 18 December 2013

♪♫ Irrational Advice - Elemental podcast

Heldon - excerpt from Heldon Third - Disjuncta
Shiver - Future World intro > Metro - Angel Of Mercy (Loop) - Nu-Groove
?? - Private Life remake- MASK 400
Ennio Morricone - Prayer (Conroy)
Dia Prometido - Ruisenor Persa - Philips
Random Library 1
Bernard Bonnier - Vero La Toto - Amaryllis
Mal Waldron - Thoughts - Japo
Demdike Stare - Unreleased
Gherkin Jerks - from Stomp The Beat - Gherkin Records
Fabio Fabor - Melos e Psiche > Julia Holter excerpt
Nate Young - Regression - NNA
Random Library 2
Random Library 3
Leila - How do you want it? - Rephlex
Atmo - Subaquatic - Orly
Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes - Leaving Records
Demdike Stare - Kommunion
Ian Carr & Don Rendell Quintet- Dusk Fire (Excerpt and edit)

Happy 70th Keef


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OffOn (Scott Bartlett)

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Scott Bartlett made this documentary in 1980 of a recreation of OffOn that he realized with a class he was teaching at UCLA

♪♫ Miles Whittaker (Demdike Stare) Live @Boiler Room (2 sets)


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♪♫ Demdike Stare Live @Boiler Room




Designer Dad Illustrates The Weirdest Things He Has Actually Said To His Kids