Black Cab - Ender (Forces Remix)

Punishment Park (Peter Watkins 1971)

'Punishment Park' is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scene real tempers seem to flare as some of the 'acting' got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinema-veritie style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be able to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking - pushed some to the brink. The cast's emotions are clearly on the surface. Unfortunately this film has gone completely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating document of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the war peacefully
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Peter Watkins discusses his radical pseudo documentary Punishment Park in 2004

Martin Hannett's Jen SX 1000 synth for sale on eBay

One of the best examples of an 80's Jen SX1000 Analogue Synth you will ever see, fully working, Martin Hannett's Jen no 4. Complete with ALL the metallic coloured knob caps that almost always have some missing, and this comes with Martin Hannett's pro flightcase and his set of factory schematics. Hannett was of course an analogue synth pioneer owning these synths and the other late 70s synth the Transcendent for his first experiments before adding ARPs and Moogs to his collection. It was his use of early analogue synths such as this one on punk and post punk records that broke ground as he brought the industrial feel of Manchester into the music he produced with these synths.
It has a 3-octave, 37-note, (C-C) keyboard and a black front panel. Also called the "Synthetone", the SX-1000 features a single DCO (digitally controlled oscillator), with a four octave range (32', 16', 8', 4') and three available waveforms, sawtooth, square, and PWM (Pulse Width Modulation). White and pink noise are also available, as well as portamento/glide. The filter is 12dB/octave. There are two ADSR envelope generators and one LFO.
The SX-1000 is a Italian built monophonic analogue synthesizer sold between 1978 and 1982.
This model of Synth has been used extensively by artists such as Martin Hannett (synth musician and Joy Division's producer who owned six at one point ), LFO, Nexus 21, Altern 8, Eskimos & Egypt, Luke Vibert, Herb Legowicz of Gusgus, Future Sound of London, Fillmore, Man Machine, Tim Simenon, Broadcast, Plone, Ladytron and The Prodigy
This synth will come with provenance letter confirming it was one of Hannett's Jens
Details
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Naomi Klein: Capitalism and the Climate (Festival of Dangerous Ideas Sydney Opera House 5/9/015)

Is Capitalism now at war with our planet?
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All in all this was quite an eventful festival this year
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Q&A - Cheating, Climate, War & Democracy
w/ Naomi Klein, Author, This Changes Everything; Miroslav Volf, Christian theologian and author; Tariq Ali, British Pakistani author and political campaigner; Laurie Penny, Writer and journalist; and Tom Switzer, Host of Between the Lines

Gets a bit feisty at the half hour mark but Laurie Penny kills it

'Zero' - A Martin Hannett Mix

Buzzcocks: 'Breakdown' (1976)
John Cooper Clarke: 'Suspended Sentence' (1977)
The Durutti Column: 'Sketch For A Summer' (1979)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: 'Almost' (1979)
Joy Division: 'She's Lost Control' (1979)
Joy Division: 'Transmission' (1979)
Joy Division: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' (1980)
U2: '11 O'Clock Tick Tock' (1980)
Magazine: 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)' (1980)
ESG: 'You're No Good' (1981)
ESG: 'Moody' (1981)
New Order: 'Ceremony' (1981)
The Stone Roses: 'So Young' (1986)
Happy Mondays: 'Lazyitis' (1988)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils: 'Get Better' (1991)
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Miley Cyrus - Jolene (Backyard Session)

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Happy Together

Miley Cyrus & Ariana Grande - Don't Dream It's Over

Her Dead Petz Album


Please don't tell me that this woman can't sing.
It's a pity that a lot of people won't listen to this album because you know...it's Miley Cyrus (see also Kanye) but it's probably THE pop album of 2015

Syrian kids watching Tom & Jerry at a screening arranged by volunteers in Budapest

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WAR

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Vangelis' custom MIDI setup demonstration

Wu Tang Clan’s GZA Is Collaborating With Vangelis on New Album

Rico Rodriguez R.I.P.

A sad day. A beautiful man who produced some beautiful music

Truth

Time Zone - World Destruction

Good to hear this in the series finale of Mr Robot

Michael Gira says:

This is hard to write because it’s about an end to something I love very much. My friends and I in this newest incarnation of Swans have been going at it relentlessly for over 5 years now. We’ve either been in the studio or on tour (endlessly, it seems) since I decided to reconvene the band. We are still very much in love with each other, I assure you, and musically our time together has been one of the most fruitful periods of my own long career, due in no small part to the intuitive rapport we’ve developed together. For some reason, God has been kind to us. We had no idea it would work out so well when we first got together, so long ago now it seems. And crucially, that rapport still exists, and it’s a magic I love and crave, and we still love making the sounds we do together, even when it’s a struggle and even if we sometimes find ourselves walking through an airport and realizing we’re asleep while walking and nor do we realize what city or country we’re in at the moment. But my intuition tells me that at this point in our fruitful congress, we are approaching an end. Though there’s still much to be said and new landscapes to explore on the new album and final (but yes, anticipated to be endless) tour, it’s time that we… what’s the word here… dissolve. By this I mean that each of us will continue on our own glorious diamond-strewn path - well, my 5 friends will, anyway – and I intend to keep the name and ongoing project of Swans active in a different form, drawing sporadically on the myriad list of musical cohorts I’m met along the way over the last 30 plus years (including I hope, at times, if they’ll consent, my 5 friends mentioned above) , but the creature, the beast, the monster, the liberating vortex of light and sound that is the 6 of us working in close quarters together over extended periods of time, will cease to exist. Most likely, Swans albums will not appear so fast and furious. And who knows how future albums will sound? One part of me wants more sound in the future, more orchestration, complete sonic overload, and another side wants to pare things down and try at last to write the extended sort of narratives I’ve always thought lurked somewhere inside me but I never quite found. But I do know that Swans shows and tours will be decidedly less frequent and more sporadic after this last extended push we’re planning after the upcoming new record… Or I maybe I’ll just give up music and try to write fiction. In any event, we’ll see! But at this point, in this important present moment I’m subsumed in the process of making what I view as this pinnacle statement in sound with this essential Swans version, with my friends Norman, Kristof, Thor, Phil, and Christopher, and I sincerely hope that with your generous help we can achieve what I hope to be the best, most fully realized, most sonically diverse and nuanced, most urgently performed and best produced album yet associated with the name I picked at random from a list on a scrap of paper at a kitchen table in New York City’s East Village a century ago. And here I thank sincerely and with deep emotion my friends in Swans for having had the patience and dedication to endure my less than silky personality and to persist doggedly in the face of brutal tour schedules, in the pursuit of an elusive and probably unobtainable sonic epiphany. And here I thank you for making this (perhaps) quixotic pursuit possible, in recorded form. Thank you for your support and faith in this project! … As to The Gate itself, it was recorded in Berlin at Berghain, night 2, for the most part, in 2014, and as usual, finds the material in a state of flux. The music’s always changing, but this is a good representation of the experience in 2014 / 15, even if some of the material ended up in a different place by the end of the touring cycle. In this vein is a perhaps interesting event on CD1, regarding the piece Apos/Cloud of Unforming - this was the very night that our rendition of the song The Apostate morphed through improvisation into what has since become, through the usual trials, The Cloud of Unknowing. Needless to say, the eventual form that the new songs on these recordings will take in the studio is likely to change considerably as well. …The demos included here are very rough sketches. They’re basically what I play to the band and other musicians when we begin to develop arrangements for them in the studio. In most cases, though I have plans, in truth I have no real idea where they’ll end up! … Once again, we’re recording the basic performances and with overdubs by the core band, at Sonic Ranch (www.sonicranch.com), outside El Paso, Texas, and looking forward to it. It’s the best recording environment I’ve ever had the privilege to work in, and I highly recommend it. The recording will be engineered by the esteemed John Congleton. After these recordings are finished John and I will be going directly to his studio in Dallas to record more vocals and a host of additional musicians. After a short break, I’ll be going out to Seattle to record my friend (and as always, Honorary Swan) Bill Rieflin, who will play a wide assortment of instruments. Then, I’ll fly directly to Berlin, where I’ll record more overdubs by assorted musicians, and then Doug Henderson of Micro-Moose Berlin and I will mix the record. I have no idea when it will be finished. I intend to strangle it until it submits, or vice versa. Whoever wins, roughly 4 - 5 months after it’s completed, my friends and I will embark on our final tour together… And speaking of live performances, thank you for attending our shows and sharing the experience of the sound with us. As I’ve said before, at certain moments the sound can become a living entity in itself, “playing” all of us, and it’s been a pleasure to watch you levitate – if ever so slightly – along with us. I can’t think of a greater joy than being subsumed in the sound during a live performance. Speaking with some of you after the shows has also been a pleasure, and it’s deeply gratifying that the music has meant something real and true to many of you. That is my most profound reward after working for so many years in the service of this music. God bless you!

New release The Gate.
CD1: 1. Frankie M. 2. A Little God in My Hands 3. Apos/Cloud of Unforming
CD2: 1. Just a Little Boy 2. Cloud of Forgetting 3. Bring the Sun/Black-Eyed Man 4. When Will I Return (demo) 5. New Rhythm Thing (demo) 6. People Like Us (demo) 7. Red Rhythm Thing (demo) 8. Finally, Peace (demo)
Details HERE

I've ordered my copy. You should too

King Midas Sound/Fennesz - Lighthouse

The Velvet Underground - A Closer Look

There are times I hate record companies

Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dubs EP

Privatised London: the Thames Path walk that resembles a prison corridor

Error

Dog of Wisdom

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Squeaky Fromme on Genesis P-Orridge (1983)

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This is hilariously brilliant

Alison Parker and Adam Ward R.I.P.

Serious question America: WHAT does it take for you to realise that your gun laws are INSANE?

Beauty in Blood

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Scatter, Matter, Shatter, Shock: Brixton's Black Cultural Archives

Tahir Faridi Qawwal - Alif Allah (Temple Step Remix)

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Imaginary London: An Interview With Darran Anderson

Penelope Spheeris: I sold out and took the money

The Triffids - The Night of The Triffids (Live at Paddington Town Hall 1984)

The Data Journalism That Wasn't

Jeremy Corbyn the Most Dangerous Man in Britain

Produced by Adrian Sherwood
with Chunky Mark, Jennie Bellestar and Skip MacDonald

Indiana Queen - With You

The South Bank Show: Iggy & The Stooges

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest (1997)

With Nick Cave, Ewen Bremner and John Cale who also supplied the score
IMDb

The Teardop Explodes - Live Video Sounds (1981) / Live OGWT (1982)

Books
Passionate Friend
Ha Ha I’m Drowning
Like Leila Khaled Said
Poppies in the Field
Suffocate
Treason

Live @OGWT (1/4/82)

Colours Fly Away
Falling Down Around Me
You Disappear From View
Seven Views of Jerusalem
Log Cabin
Tiny Children
Screaming Secrets
Suffocate
The Culture Bunker
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live @Club Zoo Liverpool (1981)

Falling Down Around Me
And The Fighting Takes Over
Seven Views of Jerusalem (cut)

How We Made 'Reward'

Great Australian Albums: The Saints - (I'm) Stranded / The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional / The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

21st Century Schizoid Spam

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