Consequence Crossword: Guest Puzzle from Pete Muller
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Thursday 8 January 2015
Scarily Prescient: On Houellebecq's 'Submission' in December 2014
...So, Houellebecque’s forthcoming dystopia will deal with “a future France where a Muslim party wins the presidency”...According to the short description of the novel, the main character is a literature instructor at university specialising in the French fin-de-siècle writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. Well, interesting choice, as Huysmans not unlike Houellebecque had his fair share of provocation at the end of the 19th century with the publication of The Damned, a novel about Satanism rampaging in France with a shocking (for that time, of course) description of a black mess. I am not going to draw any hasty conclusions before Houellebecque’s novel is published, but I do hope that the inevitable scandal will not spiral into a Salman Rushdie or a Danish cartoon situation. Anyway, Huysman’s novel looks like a useful preliminary read for those waiting for the publication of SubmissionHouellebecq was also on the cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo
Wednesday 7 January 2015
Son Raw - Classic GRIME Riddims (2002-2008)
Tracklist:
Wiley – Igloo
Waifer (Slew Dem) – Yes I blunt
Maniac – K.O
Wiley – Avenger
Footsie – Showerman Time
Youngstarr – Pulse X
Alias – Gladiator
Terror Danjah – Zumpi Hunter
Wiley – Cable Street
Dizzee Rascal – Go
Plasticman – Safari
Alias – Warriors
Iron Soul – Summer 99
Geeneus – Dark Boy
Wonder – What
Wiley – Morgue
Kid D – All I need
Mike Jones – Still Tippin (Plasticman Remix)
Ruff Sqwad – Together
Dot Rotten – Demons
Wiley – Ice Rink
Dizzee Rascal – Girls
Mr Keys – SS Exclusive
Terror Danjah – Hyperphonix
Ruff Sqwad – I’m From a Place
Maniac – Thug
DJ Oddz – Strung UP VIP
Plasticman – The Lift
Dexplicit – Bullacake
Footsie – Back to 95
Iron Soul – Let Me
Dizzee Rascal – Stop Dat Riddim
Dot Rotten – Bazooka
Rebound X – Rhythm & Gash
JME – Dun No D Myspace
Davinche – Jenny (Remix)
Ruff Sqwad – Anna
Wonder – Chi Flute
Wiley – Ice Pole Remix
Davinche – Last Night Part 2
Waifer (Slew Dem) – Pool Party
Low Deep – Jedi
Spooky – Coolie Joyride
Maniac – Wah Da Rass
Dot Rotten – Bring Me Down
XTC (Ruff Sqwad) – Functions on the Low
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World without marketing: the hacker utopia of 31C3
Don’t get me wrong: I have many friends that work in marketing. I don’t mean to invoke a prejudice against the whole discipline. But, after the taste of a world without marketing in CCC, I wonder how, exactly, that discipline is contributing to the advancement of humanity, and if we would not be better without it
Syd Barrett: 'Fart Enjoy' (Hand Made Book 1964/65)
Fart Ejoy was a book made for a for a friend of Syd's- Andrew Rawlinson - and has only been on public display once: as part of the fascinating Interstellar exhibition held in Paris at the end of 2003 (an illustrated report of which can be read here). A scaled-down reproduction of Fart Enjoy was also included with the deluxe edition of the 40th anniversary release of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.
The book was sold on eBay in 2009 for £12,600 which benefitted The Syd Barrett Trust
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Floating Points & Four Tet - Final Plastic People (2/1/15)
Over the past 8 years or so we have had, along with Theo Parrish, the honour of playing the monthly residencies at a small basement club in Shoreditch, London with an impeccable sound system. After 20 years of operation, it was time to move on and close the doors on a place that has a lot to answer for in shaping modern club culture. To say this space along with the owner Ade’s singular vision was fundamental in our personal musical formation would be a complete understatement.
On the day of their closing, manager Charlotte asked us if we’d put the system through its paces for the last time that the club would be open to the public. We set about packing the anthems from our respective residencies and on the night once the people were through the doors played 2 records in turn for the rest of the dance. We included tracks of our own and of friends that were made with that place in mind. Records like Daphni - Ye Ye and Four Tet - Pinnacles were made to first be played at Kieran’s nights there, and the Floating Points - Vacuum EP was born out of the CD-R night at the club, and its launch party was the trigger for Sam’s monthly residency.
We set this recording up just before the start of the night and unfortunately it distorts in places, but we make no apology for how joyfully noisy people get! The vibe in the room this night was typical of the club on any given night and we hope this recording captures just a fraction of the spirit of a Plastic People night.
A massive thank you from us to everyone that has come down to the nights over the years and supported our music there. We are truly humbled to have shared the music we love with people at this place, and your energy in turn has influenced the way we make music on an unfathomable scale. We also thank the bosses Charlotte Kepel and Ade Fakile for inviting us to the club and having faith in us over these years! All the best for the future!
See you in the dance
Much Love
Sam & Kieran
MusicLoveDanceLive
Tracklist
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On the day of their closing, manager Charlotte asked us if we’d put the system through its paces for the last time that the club would be open to the public. We set about packing the anthems from our respective residencies and on the night once the people were through the doors played 2 records in turn for the rest of the dance. We included tracks of our own and of friends that were made with that place in mind. Records like Daphni - Ye Ye and Four Tet - Pinnacles were made to first be played at Kieran’s nights there, and the Floating Points - Vacuum EP was born out of the CD-R night at the club, and its launch party was the trigger for Sam’s monthly residency.
We set this recording up just before the start of the night and unfortunately it distorts in places, but we make no apology for how joyfully noisy people get! The vibe in the room this night was typical of the club on any given night and we hope this recording captures just a fraction of the spirit of a Plastic People night.
A massive thank you from us to everyone that has come down to the nights over the years and supported our music there. We are truly humbled to have shared the music we love with people at this place, and your energy in turn has influenced the way we make music on an unfathomable scale. We also thank the bosses Charlotte Kepel and Ade Fakile for inviting us to the club and having faith in us over these years! All the best for the future!
See you in the dance
Much Love
Sam & Kieran
MusicLoveDanceLive
Tracklist
Download
'A blueprint for perfection’: Plastic People remembered
Tuesday 6 January 2015
Ghetto Priest - I Murder Hate
From the forthcoming album 'Slave State'
Produced by: Adrian Sherwood
Vocals: Ghetto Priest
Drums: Lincoln 'Style' Scott
Guitar: 'Renee' Rainford Bailey
Bass: Hughie 'Blood' Izaachar
Horns: Dave Fullwood & the Ital Horns
Doug Wimbish & Keith LeBlanc - Live Nancy France (9/89)
Includes: The Game, Mind At The End of The Tether, Airborne Ranger, Dangerous Sex and Stormy Weather
Afrikan Sciences - FACT Mix 477
Tracklist:
Afrikan Sciences- Reactionary Distractions
Two Thousand +1 Air Rhythm 2
Beat Spacek – Go Away
Afrikan Sciences- precious time
Georgia- Spirit House
Afrikan Sciences-Random events
“. “. Togetherness
Mitchmax
Why you think
Lan Sake
Old Shady Grady and the Neighborhood Characters-interlude
KMFH – Westside Kooth
Afrikan Sciences-Black Future Month
AYBEE- Human not Brand
Afrikan Sciences -Batala
Mark Force- Smoke It
Shokazulu – Sour Grapes
Rick Wilhite -all about you
Cosmic Rays- The Second Stop Is Jupiter
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Bvdub - RA449 Mix
Well yes, there's the whole "my life of 14 years" thing. I've been teaching for 16 years, with the last 14 being in China (with a couple years in the middle being back in the States, and coming back and forth). I have an admittedly very love-hate relationship with China (but who doesn't with any place, I guess), but the one thing I've always loved, and the only thing that's really kept me here, is my job as a university English professor. I rule my class with an iron fist and am undoubtedly the strictest, often cruelest, and most terrifying teacher in all of China, foreign or Chinese, but there is nothing I wouldn't do for my students, and they know it. I love them like my own family—even if only a fraction of them love me back in the same way. But that's the life of a teacher.Download/Interview
So to all of a sudden be told by the government that they weren't going to renew my visa anymore, and that it was "time for me to go home" was one of the most saddening, crushing, angering and frankly insulting things I could ever imagine—not to mention confusing, as last year I was awarded the title of the best foreign teacher in all of China by the same government that was now telling me my services would no longer be needed.
20.SV - The Great Sonic Wave
Hundreds of micro-samples of iron and steel objects were recorded, processed, cut, split and edited in multiple ways to form The Great Sonic Wave
Vocals/Voice FX recorded in The Haven Vault, Hoboken, NJ USA
(2012 - 2013) by Alan Dubin
Sounds sculpted and recorded in Tripoli - El Mina, Lebanon
(2008 - 2012) by Osman Arabi
I’ve featured the extreme work of Lebanese sound artist 20.SV before but I was delighted when the chance arose to feature him again. Named after the radiation-poisoning threshold beyond which humans cannot survive for longer than seven days, 20.SV is a master of bleak, austere and clinical electronic sound manipulation who has found an ideal sparring partner in vocalist Alan Dubin. For the uninitiated, Dubin fronted arguably the most harrowing band ever to exist, Khanate (also featuring Stephen O’Malley of SunnO)))), and is capable of issuing the kind of vocal techniques not otherwise heard outside extreme horror movies or amid the night terrors suffered by withdrawing drug addicts. On The Great Sonic Wave, Dubin vocalises at his most restrained, issuing clammy whispers, screeched orders and croaked entreaties. His singular voice, combined with 20.SV’s progressive, insectile, ambient industrial electronica, makes for a thrillingly tense, disturbing listen that builds in waves of unstoppable horror. Just superb.- John Doran
Monday 5 January 2015
Phil Battiekh - El Battiekhawya meets Islam Chipsy in the Diaspora of Sha3besque Rhythm (Sha3byton #6)
Track List:
1. Islam Chipsy live @ 100Copies Music Festival
2. مكس غندي - Ghandy & Amr 7a7a
3. ??? - ???
4. ??? - DJ Ezzayyed
5. Islam Chipsy live in France
6. Tra3byton - Phil Battiekh (using Hamou Husseins Loop)
7. A3kes Ah At7aresh La - Sadat w Fifty
8. ???
9. Mo7bat - Al Madfa3geya
10. Yala Ya Shbab - Ghandy + Al Madfa3geya
More from Phil HERE and I'd like to thank him for pointing me in the direction of a downloadable motherlode of electro chaabi HERE. Translate the page into English and search amongst those tagged 'festivals peoples'
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