Wednesday 16 September 2015

Fun-Da-Mental - Ja Sha Taan/Mr Bubbleman (Recovery 1997)



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For Muslims living in the West the future lies not in the tinkering of theology but in the production of culture. But how is this process of cultural relevancy to take place? Is it taking place? What are its discernible forms? What are the challenges that need to be surmounted before a genuine cultural expression takes root? And what and who is to define what is 'genuine'? To that extent is cultural output in Islamic civilisation a utilitarian exercise? In the global village of specialised economies and shared global tastes where does the process of being consumers stop and that of being producers of culture begin? What needs to be done to convert Western society to associate Islam with the beauty of the Taj Mahal and the Majesty of the Dome of the Rock rather than with the blasted Twin Towers of New York or the shattered Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? Can we develop an agenda of cultural do's that would harness the energy of our young people -- to teach them that singing, creating, beautifying and being joyous are all part of the Islamic agenda?

The Badgermin


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Oneohtrix Point Never - I Bite Through It

Richard Hell & Johnny Thunders

SBS Studios, Yonkers. New York, 

Johnny Thunders: guitar & vocals
Richard Hell: bass & vocals
Walter Lure: guitar & vocals
Jerry Nolan: drums

01 Love Comes In Spurts
02 I Wanna Be Loved
03 Blank Generation
04 Chinese Rocks
05 Pirate Love
06 Can't Keep My Eyes On You
07 Flight
08 Hurt Me
09 You Gotta Lose
10 Goin' Steady

(Richard Hell's R.I.P. album gives the recording date of these tracks as 1975. 'Love Comes In Spurts', 'Can't Keep My Eyes On You' and 'Hurt Me' all appear on R.I.P.
There is also a possible recording date given of January 23, 1976)

Chinese Rocks/Pirate Love (NYC 1975)

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Richard Hell & Johnny Thunders

01 Ignore That Door
02 Lowest Common Denominator

(Studio recording date/location unknown but it has to surely be after 1982 when 'Destiny Street', where these songs originated from, was recorded and released)

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Tuesday 15 September 2015

Richard Hell: Go Now


Richard Hell reads chapters 1 and 2 of 'Go Now'
With guitar by Bob Quine

Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness and Charm (Marc 7/9/1977)

Essential Logic - Shabby Abbott

FILTH!

Regardless of where you stand on Corbyn, this is an utterly vile statement by Cameron, more worthy of Farage (or le Pen, or Putin) than the leader of a democracy. The PM has just used the exact same language to describe Labour as he does ISIS and al Qaeda. So the official political opposition to the government is now a "national security threat"? And what do we do with "national security threats" these days? We strip them of rights, treat them as enemies and terrorists. Is the PM saying that Labour -- and anyone who supports it -- is now a terrorist? Will he send Teresa May with flying squads to raid Labour meetings at the local church hall?
No, of course not. He is simply — and quite deliberately — using Faragian rhetoric to further poison the political culture, to sow division, hatred and fear among the electorate. Like the Tea Party in America, his Tories have nothing to offer but fear and demonization of all those who disagree with them or present the slightest alternative to their extremist cult of austerity and neoliberalism.
But oh, what a grand and noble figure the PM cuts, thundering down from his bully pulpit! Look at him there, with his well-tailored suit, his well-fed frame, his well-tanned face, as he denounces the mortal danger of opposing his enlightened rule and his holy cult. A man who sells arms in crooked deals to the misogynist, head-chopping religious extremists in Saudi Arabia. A man who sells arms to militant factions who force children into battle. A man who turned Libya into a terrorist-spawning chaos and did nothing to help restore it, who supports “moderate” Islamic extremists to keep the civil war churning in Syria, a man who sells off whole chunks of the nation’s security infrastructure to foreign powers … THIS is the man who denounces his opponents as a “national security threat.”
I knew the Tories and their string-pullers in the oh-so-patriotic right-wing media (a gaggle of non-doms, foreigners, porn merchants and tax-dodgers) would strike hard and low — no matter WHO Labour picked as leader. (Yes, we would have been seeing “Red Liz” or “Commie Cooper” or “Andy Anarchy in the UK” headlines this morning if the vote had gone another way. Don’t kid yourself.) But to see them go so low so quickly — with the Prime Minister himself regurgitating hysterical Tea Party bile in such a bald-faced fashion — is stunning.
I’ll say it again: this is vile. This goes beyond the rough-and-tumble of hardball partisan politics into the realm of hate speech and provocation. (If Corbyn is a “national security threat” — just like ISIS — shouldn’t he be “taken out”? If he — or the Labour Party in general — is a “threat to your family’s security,” shouldn’t some stalwart dad out there do “whatever it takes” to protect his little ones from this imminent danger? These are the sinister notions Cameron is feeding into the national psyche.)
Cameron — like Trump, whose followers are now beating up people who look like immigrants — is playing with fire here. And he knows it. And he doesn’t care. This message is a vile, shameful, morally putrid piece of filth
Chris Floyd

Blixa Bargeld: Mein Leben





Blixa Bargeld - Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel - Mein Leben
Directed by Birgit Herdlitschke
ZDF / ARTE
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Einstürzende Neubauten

Jackson Five Cartoon Series




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Truth

Al Green - I Love You With All Of My Heart

Monday 14 September 2015

Leunig


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Sunday 13 September 2015

John Balance and Peter Christopherson talking with John Giorno, Terence McKenna, Taylor Mead & William S. Burroughs


From Black Sun Magazine (1996)
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Jeremy Corbyn's Victory Speech


Jeremy Corbyn elected with huge mandate

From Bristol With Dub Vols 1 - 3


Tracklist:
01:Alpha/Rain
02:The Pop Group/Snowgirl
03:Restriction / Restriction
04:Smith & Mighty/Closer
05:Adrian Sherwood/Boogaloo
06:Mark Stewart/Pay It All Back
07:Glaxo Babies/Seven Days
08:Muximum Joy/Let It Take You There
09:Flynn+Flora/World Wide
10:3-D / Re-Arrange
11:Peverelist/Esperanto
12:Massive Attack/Blue Lines
13:Roni Size/Reprazent/Hi Potent
14:Pavement Grammar/Frenglish
15:Neneh Cherry/Naked
16:Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird/Black Coffee
17:Appleblim & Peverelist/Circling
18:Vessel/Aries
19:Black Roots/Move On
20:More Rockers/Rainbow
21:Rob Smith/Golden Vision
22:Young Echo/Blood Sugar
23:Rip Rig + Panic/Warm; To The If In Life
24:Pigbag/Brazil Nuts
25:Dubkasm/Sangue Brasileiro
26:Pinch feat Indi Kaur/Angels in the Rain
27:Moonflowers/Nopar King
28:Talisman/Culture
29:Tricky/Hell Is Round the Corner
30:Portishead/Glory Box
31:Pev & Kowton/End Point
32:Massive Attack/Inertia Creep
33:Howie B./How To Suckle


Tracklist:
01:Jabu / Flying
02:Black Roots / Bristol Rock
03:Dubkasm feat Tena Stelin / Spiritual Warrior
04:Peter D / Jah Pure & Clean
05:Rowl / Someone
06:Pigbag / Ubud
07:Talisman / Nitty Gritty
08:Peverelist / Not Yet Further Than
09:Kontext / Clinch
10:The Radicals / Nights Of Passion
11:Statik Sound System / Jack
12:Rip-Rig Panic / Through Nomad Eyeballs
13:Kahn feat Jabu / Snake Eyes
14:Pinch feat Rudey Lee / One Blood, One Source
15:Guido / Kalm
16:Massive Attack / Fake the Aroma
17:Tricky with DJ Muggs & Grease / She Said
18:Forsaken / Hypnotised
19:Appleblim / Vansan
20:Vessel / Stillborn Dub



Tracklist:
01:Kahn / Cover Me
02:Peverelist / Valves
03:Guido & Baobinga / Bumba
04:Smith & Mighty / Drawing
05:Dubkasm / There's a Love feat Christine Miller
06:Henry & Louis / Beulah [Unforsaken Land]
07:Pinch / Qawwali
08:Komonazmuk / Bad Apple
09:Rob Smith feat Alice Perera / Life's Edge
10:Roly Porter / Giant (Tricky / Overcome (Acapella))
11:Tricky / Abbaon Fat Tracks
12:Peter D Rose Feat. Felix / Stop Fighting
13:Massive Attack / Mezzanine
14:Mark Springer / Grüber Worms + The Kiss
15:Black Roots / Come And Sing
16:Maximum Joy / Temple Bomb Twist
17:Martina Topley-Bird / Ragga
18:Neneh Cherry / Across The Water
19:Vessel feat Lily Fannon / Jupiter Rise
20:Rip Rig + Panic / A Dog's Secret

Do check out other mixes from 35DH-1 HERE

Saturday 12 September 2015

Can - Inner Space Single Mix


Tracklist:
01:Kama Sutra
02:Sound Desert
03:She Brings The Rain
04:Spoon
05:Shikaku Maru Ten
06:Turtles Have Short Legs
07:Halleluwah
08:I'm So Green
09:Mushroom
10:Vitamin C
11:Moonshake
12:Future Days
13:Dizzy Dizzy
14:Splash
15:The Thief (long version from Electric Rock Sampler)
16:Chain Reaction (edit only on vinyl Cannibalism)
17:Hunters and Collctors
18:Vernal Equinox
19:Silent Night
20:Cascade Waltz
21:I Want More
22:...And More
23:Return

Trevor Jackson Presents On - U Sound Science Fiction Dancehall Classics Megamix


Science fiction dancehall classics with Trevor Jackson

A curated selection of classics, rarities and unreleased tracks from the On-U Sound vaults by DJ & Audio Visual artist Trevor Jackson (aka Playgroup / Underdog), renowned for his Metal Dance compilations of industrial-dance on Strut Records, having worked with the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Four Tet via his Output Recordings Label, and a recently released acclaimed multi edition album of his own music (FORMAT) via the vinyl factory.
This is the electro-fried avant-garde side of On-U Sound. Whilst still containing the dub DNA that define Adrian Sherwood’s productions, these tracks document a period when this sonic vision was realised through saturated sheets of electronics, reverberating drum machines and extreme chopped-up tape edits.
Fully annotated with sleevenotes that tell the story behind each track. Features 3 completely unreleased tracks (inc. a crucial early cut by Neneh Cherry) and 6 tracks that have never been reissued on CD or digital (inc. the amazing debut recording by a pre-Massive Attack Shara Nelson)

Adrian Sherwood really was ahead of his time back then. Ten years to be exact. Albums released in 1981, for example, bore the imprint 'another 1991 on-u sound production'
Singers & Players - War of Words
Singers & Players - Staggering Heights

Tea with Björk

Kraftwerk: The Singles

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UK Labour leadership election: live results coverage (LIVE VIDEO FEED)

Killing Joke - I Am The Virus

Friday 11 September 2015

Unity HiFi Dubplates

Tuesday 8 September 2015

Various - Hit Run !2" Records A & B sides (1979)


A little over two hours worth of a small selection of 12" vinyl releases A & B sides from Adrian Sherwood's Hit Run record label.
Adrian licensed the tracks on these vinyl releases for the U.K reggae market from various Jamaican record labels, Scorpio, Cry Tuff etc in 1979
Hit Run records was a relatively short lived project that eventually wound down for the birth of Adrian's On U Sound record label.
For the new On U Sound project Adrian himself oversaw and engineered all recording the sessions in London Studios like Berry Street and Southern Studios. Adrian used some of the same musicians and artists that he had dealt with bringing reggae music to Hit Run records, Bim Sherman, Prince Far I, Roots Radics and Creation Rebel etc.
Track listing:
Errol Holt - Sweet Reggae Music
Prince Far I - Hairdressing Salon
Prince Hammer - Ten Thousand Lions
Prince Hammer - North London Thing
Bim Sherman / Jah Lion - Down In Jamdown
Teem All Stars - Version
Bobby Melody / Jah Lion - Hunger And Strife
Jah Lion - Jonnie Walker
Peter Broggs / Prince Far I - Higher Field Marshall
Prince Far I / Brigadier Jam Brown - Loved By Everyone
Carol Kalphat / Clint Eastwood - African Land
Doctor Pablo / Cry Tuff All Stars - African Melody
Bim Sherman / Jah Buzz - Love Jah Only
Cry Tuff All Stars - Dub From The Ghetto

Islamic State has killed many Syrians, but Assad’s forces have killed more

Monday 7 September 2015

Richard Di Natale eviscerates Andrew Bolt


The ultimate injustice one can commit to Aylan Kurdi and his family is to omit the parts of his story which explain why he ended up dead on the beach. The details matter. 1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000) 2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Alyan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant aerial bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown. 3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos. 4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms. 5) Kurdi had applied in June for refuge to Canada, but was rejected. After Aylan's photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But he doesn't want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has "nothing to live for."

Chunky Mark VS Dub Syndicate Part Two: Austerity Is A Scam


Style Scott, Skip MacDonald and Jennie Bellestar. Produced by Adrian Sherwood
Previously...Jeremy Corbyn is the most dangerous man in Britain

AC Grayling on Humanism


Looking forward to AC Grayling tonight at the Wheeler Centre

UrgentFM - On-U Sound Mix


1 - Got To Move Part 2 - Melting Pot
2 - Gary Clail - Beef (Future mix )
3 - Strange Parcels - Disconnection
4 - Beatmaster - LipService (instrumental)
5 - Fats Comet - O.K. BYE !
6 - Tackhead - The King Of The Beat
7 - Keith Le Blanc - You Drummers Listen Good
8 -Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat
9 - Gary Clail & On U Sound System - Peace Perfect Peace
10 - Tackhead - Stealing
11 - Mark Stewart - Hysteria (dub)
12 - Keith Le Blanc - Taxider
13 - New Age Steppers - Private Armies
14 - Barmy Army - Privatise The Air
15 - Singers & Players - Bedward The Flying Preacher
16 - African Head Charge - BeriBeri
17 - African Head Charge - Some Bizarre
18 - Primal Scream - The Big Man & The Scream Team Meet The Barmy Army Uptown

Sunday 6 September 2015

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
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Saturday 5 September 2015

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