Saturday 30 May 2015
Miley Cyrus & Melanie - Look What They've Done To My Song Ma
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Founded by Miley Cyrus, The Happy Hippie Foundation is a nonprofit organization that rallies young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations.
Click here to find out more: http://happyhippies.org
Friday 29 May 2015
23 Skidoo - Amfunkamine (Rehearsal 1981)
Fritz has just uploaded this excerpt from a rehearsal in the shed behind Honky Tonk Records in Kentish Town, London in 1981. Skidoo were Fritz, Sam, Thom, Alex & Johnny
I could well have been working in the shop at front at the very same time
A very powerful anti rape message from 2003
The pro bono ad was done by Lowe Bull Calvert Pace in 2003 for South Africa for POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse) and recieved a Cannes Lion Press Silver award
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In Memorium
Rocco Acerra (29)
Bruno Balli (50)
Alfons Bos
Giancarlo Bruschera (21)
Andrea Casula (11)
Giovanni Casula (44)
Nino Cerrullo (24)
Willy Chielens
Giuseppina Conto (17)
Dirk Daenicky
Dionisio Fabbro (51)
Jaques Francois
Eugenio Gagliano (35)
Francesco Galli (25)
Giancarlo Gonnelli (20)
Alberto Guarini (21)
Giavacchino Landinni (50)
Roberto Lorenzini (31)
Barbara in Margiotta Lusci (58)
Franco Martelli (46)
Loris Massore (28)
Gianni Mastroiaca (20)
Sergio Bastino Mazzino (38)
Luciano Rocco Papaluca (38)
Bento Pistalato (50)
Patrick Radcliffe
Demenico Ragazzi (44)
Antonio Ragnanese (29)
Claude Robert
Mario Ronchi (43)
Domencio Russo (28)
Tarcisio Salvi (49)
Gianfranco Sarto (47)
Mario Spanu (41)
Amedeo Giuseppe Spolaore (55)
Tarcisio Venturin (23)
Jean Michel Walla
Claudio Zavaroni (28)
Luigi Pidone (31)
I was born in Liverpool and am a lifelong Liverpool supporter. Thirty years ago I spent the day travelling from Amsterdam to Liverpool via Belgium and then watched the Huysel tragedy unfold on my Nan's TV.
My love for the 'beautiful game' has never been the same since
Thursday 28 May 2015
Future Sound of Mzansi (Part 2)
Part two of Spoek Mathambo and Lebogang Rasethaba's 'Future Sound of Mzansi' explores questions of race and authenticity in South African electronic music. Featuring a colorful cast of producers, singers, and dancers, this episode looks at the long shadow that apartheid has cast on South African music and social politics
Part 1 HERE
Wednesday 27 May 2015
The Electric Knife Orchestra Presents 'Stayin' Alive'
Sixteen knives and one meat cleaver brought to life to perform the Bee Gee’s hit Stayin’ Alive
neilmendoza.com
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ROUND TWO: Ramzan Kadyrov VS 'The Family'
Soon on the screens of your television sets and movie theaters you will see a film 'WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WILL GET IT.'This is an extremely topical picture, in which after extended negotiations, I agreed to play the role of the main hero. Some scenes have already been filmed. The director is the author of famous Hollywood films. Also appearing in the film are world-famous first-class stars. The authors are confident that the film will have enormous success.Via
Tuesday 26 May 2015
John Lydon and Miranda Sawyer QandA (100 Club April 26 2015)
The 100 Club has changed somewhat since I worked there
Boris - Pink / Statement
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Damn! I wish I'd had the money to get a ticket to see them at The Corner this coming Saturday
Algiers - Algiers (Albumstream)
Tracklist:
Remains
Claudette
And When You Fall
Blood
Old Girl
Irony, Utility, Pretext
But She Was Not Flying
Black Eunuch
Games
In Parallax
Untitled
(Released June 2 on Matador)
LISTEN
By far and away my most eagerly awaited release of the year. Absolutely superb. The fourth member is drummer Matt Tong (of Bloc Party)
The Secret History of the Vocoder
‘What’s more human than wanting to be something else?’
The transhuman sounds of the vocoder are familiar to anyone who’s listened to chart-topping albums from the likes of Daft Punk, Coldplay, The Beastie Boys and Kanye West. But before the speech synthesis technology reached a wide public, it had already lived three full lives: first, as an experimental technology created to cut the cost of transcontinental phone calls, then as an encrypted communication system of the US military during the Second World War and Vietnam, and then as a re-purposed instrument used by influential counterculture musicians such as Laurie Anderson, Afrika Bambaataa and Kraftwerk.
With interviews from military, communication and music experts, The Secret History of the Vocoder traces the technology through the course of the 20th century, from its birth at Bell Labs in 1928, to its transformation into an instrument with a distinctive sound that exists in the grey area between human and machine.
For more on digital art and the tools we use to create it, read Tom Uglow’s essay ‘The Arts Electric’
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Monday 25 May 2015
Sunday 24 May 2015
Tabla Beat Science - Talamanam Sound Clash
Filmed June 21, 2002 with 12 cameras at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco, this DVD documents a Tabla Beat Science performance that features founders Zakir Hussein (Tablas) and Bill Laswell (Bass), along with Ustad Sultan Khan (Sarangi and Vocals), Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw (Vocals), Karsh Kale (Drums), DJ Disk (Turntable) and MIDIval PunditZ (Electronics). Directed by Alex Winter
Spoek Mathambo presents 'Future Sound Of Mzansi' (Part 1)
'Future Sound of Mzansi' is Spoek Mathambo and Lebogang Rasethaba's powerful new documentary about South African electronic music. Part one introduces the new sounds coming out of the townships and urban areas of cities like Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. It becomes abundantly clear that regionalism is extremely important in the development of genres like broken beats, qgom, Shangaan electro, and kwaito. Or, as a producer puts it, it's about the need to "own our shit, own who we are, then bring that out to the world."
We also get to meet the film's colorful cast of characters, which includes Black Coffee, Okmalumkoolkat, Culoe De Song, the owners of Cape Town record label African Dope, and broken beats originators NakedBoys, among many others. The producers discuss the ways the Internet has both helped and hurt their scenes, while dancers show off the sneaker-shredding moves that bring the music to life.
One of this segment's most powerful moments comes from Nozinja, who delivers a passionate speech about using Shangaan electro—the genre he pretty much created—to represent the marginalized Shangaan people. "For me to be known and seen all over, representing that same marginalized and abused nation, I feel proud," he says, eyes twinkling. That same pride resonates with everyone else in the film.
Spoek Mathambo's "Future Sound of Mzansi" Credits:
Directed by: Nthato Mokgata and Lebo Rasethaba
Produced by: Black Major
Featuring: Black Coffee, DJ Spoko, Mujava, Culoe De Song, Christian Tiger School, Felix Laband, Aero Manyelo, Okmalumkoolkat, Saki Ibrahim and others.
Website: www.futuresoundofmzansi.com
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/futuresoundo...
Twitter: #futuresoundofmzansi
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check back for parts two and three
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Fantasma - Cat & Mouse
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