Thursday 25 August 2016

'Lest we forget'

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The Bug presents Killing Sound Chapter 1: Dub Mutations

Serious Bass Business!
'I see Dub Mutations as an upgrade of the Macro Dub Infection (1/2/8) aesthetic, which I curated for Virgin Records many moons ago. Again, it gleefully departs from the traditional masters - Scientist, King Tubby etc - and revels in tearing up the rules, and exploring a sea of fx drenched sound. The past, present and future of dub is celebrated, befittingly through the mixing desk. As time travel, deep space and spectral visitations are magically probed, and bass, drum and noise are pushed mercilessly into the red. I guess I wanted to emulate the style of mix I made with King Midas Sound for FACT a couple of years ago, and create a non-linear narrative that‘s challenging and full of surprises, with added layers of sounds/effects, but most of all I wanted to create a mix that would be compellingly fresh. And as ever it’s a sketch of what dub was, is and can be, and how dub can act as a postmodern breakdown of sound - not just a smoker’s delight. Most of all, I wanted to just get lost in the sounds myself. Immerse yourself!'
- The Bug

Tracklist:
1/ Frankie Paul - ‘Worries in the Dance’ (Hit Bound)
2/ Version (Hit Bound)
3/ Johnny Osbourne - ‘Love Is Universal’ (Jah Guidance)
4/ Version (Jah Guidance)
5/ Dennis Brown - ‘Don’t Want To Be No General’ (Emmanuel Music)
6/ Version (Emmanuel Music)
7/ Ranking Dread - ‘Hard Times’ (Justice)
8/ Massive Attack ft Horace Andy - ‘Angel’(Blur Remix)(Wild Bunch/Virgin)
9/ Techno Animal ft Jon Hassell - ‘Needle Park’(Virgin)
10/ King Midas Sound - ‘Goodbye Girl’(Unreleased Dub Mix)
11/ Pole - ‘Silberfisch’(Kiff SM)
12/ Monoton - ‘Ein Wort’ (Desire)
13/ HTRK - ‘Chinatown Style’(Ghostly International)
14/ Andy Stott - ‘Violence’(Modern Love)
15/ Kode 9 & The Spaceape - ‘Glass’(Hyperdub)
16/ The Bug Vs Earth - ‘Don’t Walk These Streets’(Unreleased, forthcoming on Ninja Tune)
17/ The Bug - ‘Somnia Loop 1’(Unreleased, forthcoming on Ninja Tune)
18/ Fatal Microbes - ‘Violence Grows’(Small Wonder)
19/ Primal Scream - ‘Living Dub’(Creation)
20/ 23 Skidoo - ‘Gospel Comes To New Guinea’(Fetish)
21/ WE - ‘Secondhand Science’(Wordsound)
22/ Sofa Surfers ft Singing Bird - ‘Beans & Rice’(Klein)
23/ JK Flesh - ‘Conquered’(Electric Deluxe)
24/ Goth-Trad - ‘Grind’(Back To Chill)
25/ Experimental Audio Research - ‘Untitled’(Space Age)
26/ Little Dragon - ‘Only One’(Chopped & Screwed by The Chopstars ) (Adult Swim)
27/ Rhythm & Sound - ‘Imprint’(Rhythm & Sound)
28/ Ø aka Mika Vainio - ‘Taikisin’(Sahko Recordings)
29/ Lukid - ‘Wake Up’(Werk)
30/ Jacob Miller - ‘Baby I love you So’(Yard Music)
31/ Augustus Pablo - ‘King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown’(Yard Music)
32/ King Tubby ft Horace Andy - ‘A Better Version’(Jamaican Recordings)
33/ Michael Rose - ‘No Burial’(Manneseh Remix)(M Records)
34/ Equiknoxx - ‘Last of the Mohicans’(Dubbed & Screwed by The Bug)(DDS)
35/ Al Cisneros - ‘Jericho’(Dubbed & Screwed by The Bug)(Drag City)
36/ Kode 9 & The Spaceape - ‘Ghost Town’(Hyperdub)
37/ King Midas Sound - ‘Who’(Unreleased, forthcoming on Ninja Tune)

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Wednesday 24 August 2016

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J.G. Ballard on The End of The World

Everybody talks about the end of the world, but we've actually asked the big question: What will it be like?

Ballard replied...

I dream of: Dying in a car crash with Madonna. Having sex with Hillary Clinton. Appearing in Zapruder frame 313 with Jackie Kennedy. Being transformed into a TV channel. Detonating a nuclear weapon over Disneyland. Having all the whores in Moscow call me on their mobile phones. Seeing time make a new beginning. Persuading Neil Armstrong to return to Earth. Meeting my younger selves on the virtual-reality highways of tomorrow. Being buried under the main runway at London's Heathrow Airport

Apocalypse How? (Spin November 1995)
Illustration: Winston Smith
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Leonard Cohen: Steer Your Way

Steer your way through the ruins of the Altar and the Mall
Steer your way through the fables of Creation and the Fall 
Steer your way past the Palaces that rise above the rot 
Year by year
Month by month  
Day by day 
Thought by thought

Steer your heart past the Truth you believed in yesterday 
Such as Fundamental Goodness and the Wisdom of the Way
Steer your heart, precious heart, past the women whom you bought  
Year by year 
Month by month 
 Day by day 
Thought by thought

Steer your path through the pain that is far more real than you 
That has smashed the Cosmic Model, that has blinded every View  
And please don’t make me go there, though there be a God or not 
Year by year 
Month by month  
Day by day  
Thought by thought

They whisper still, the injured stones, the blunted mountains weep 
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap 
And say the Mea Culpa, which you’ve gradually forgot  
Year by year 
 Month by month  
Day by day  
Thought by thought

Steer your way, O my heart, though I have no right to ask  
To the one who was never never equal to the task  
Who knows he’s been convicted, who knows he will be shot 
Year by year  
Month by month  
Day by day  
Thought by thought 

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So Long, Marianne  (Oslo 1993)

Tuesday 23 August 2016

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Grafton

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