Thursday 3 November 2016

Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch On Their New Documentary 'Gimme Danger'

Underground Resistance discuss Donald Trump and Detroit’s future

These DJs use techno to reflect discrimination in a city devastated by recession. As Election Day nears they worry about Detroit's future. pic.twitter.com/rEeyYzD9pP
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 1, 2016

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Jim White: When we rob our children of their childhood by relegating them to atmospheres of fear and distrust nothing in the world gets better

So, last night Sadie was invited to Trick or Treat in the Boulevard neighborhood of Athens. It's an upwardly mobile enclave where a large percentage of the most successful professional artists and movers and shakers in town reside (i.e. Michael Stipe has a house there).
As you can see in the picture Sadie got all dressed up and seeing the work she put into her costume I realized that me fellowing her around in drab street clothes might not be much fun for her, so I dug into my closet and---lo and behold---found an actual Pinkerton Security Guard outfit that I bought at the flea market a long time ago. I put it on, I grabbed a big Maglite flashlight and a matching ball cap and looked very official as we headed out into the huge throng of kids and parents.
I looked so official that several times parents stopped me, asking, "Is that a costume or are you REALLY a security guard??" Staying in character I replied by flashing my light in their eyes and barking out some security guard jargon, like, "I'll ask the questions here. ID please." or "Move along, move along."
The kids enjoyed the bit of theater and all was well until right near the end of the night a pretty young girl aged ten or so and her family approached me. It was a bottleneck on the sidewalk and so she didn't notice me until we were right beside each other. When she saw me she jumped slightly, as if startled, then stopped in her tracks and asked if I was a real police man or if that was a costume.
So I did the ID thing, but instead of laughing like the other kids she looked scared, replying, "I don't have any ID sir." Her voice trembled slightly as she said it, and I could tell she was actually frightened, so, trying to think of a way to calm her fears, I said, "What do you have in the bag young lady?" As she showed me her knapsack full of candy, I noticed her hands were trembling, at which point I said, "That's all the ID you need. Happy Halloween!"
The girl still looked scared.
Confused? Did I mention that in this sea of white kids in this predominantly white neighborhood, this beautiful young human being was dark skinned? And apparently she was okay with the cavalcade of gruesome zombies and horror movie impersonators but was stone cold terrified at that possibility that she was standing face to face with a real cop and that subsequently bad things were about to happen to her and her family.
That's heartbreaking. And that little girl deserves better. When we rob our children of their childhood by relegating them to atmospheres of fear and distrust nothing in the world gets better. Nothing.
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How Do You Get David Duke to Leave Your Party?

Don Cherry

Directors: Jean-Noël Delamare, Nathalie Perrey, Philippe Gras (France 1973)

Lambchop Is A Band

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How To Live A Normal Life

Gone Tomorrow/Young Americans (Cologne 02/08/15)

Live at XX Merge

Kurt Wagner: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

FLOTUS

Kurt Wagner: FLOTUS or For Love Often Turns Us Still

Wednesday 2 November 2016

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Trump, Putin, and the Alt-Right International

Japanese journalist detained in Kurdistan for suspected ISIS links

The Pop Group's Mark Stewart gives a track-by-track insight into what inspired 'Honeymoon On Mars'

The Avalanches - Because I'm Me

A Floating Leaf in November Mix

Tracklist:
1 Netherworld - Crystallized Words
2 Lustmord - Part 1 (Heresy)
3 Hector Zazou Featuring Kilabuk & Nooveya - Song of The Water
4 Jon Hassell - Toucan Ocean
5 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone
6 Lambchop - JFK
7 Mari Boine - Cinjat (The Knife Remix)
8 Harmonic 313 - Köln
9 Kuedo - Floating Forest
10 Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub)

Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?

Monday 31 October 2016

Drexciya - Megamixes

Drexciya Research Lab Mix

This weeks Drexciya themed mix comes from visual artist Stephen Rennicks. Stephen founded his Drexciya Research Lab website in 2005, cited by Fact magazine as the largest Drexciya archive on the net. Included are some of his favourite tracks produced by James Stinson and Gerald Donald under some of their many aliases. Stephen also writes about music at Abstract Analogue.
http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.ie/
http://abstractanalogue.tumblr.com/
http://www.stephenrennicks.webs.com/
Tracklist:
1. Arpanet - The Analyst
2. Dopplereffekt - Scientist
3. Arpanet - Infinite Density
4. Drexciya - Hydro Theory
5. Abstract Thought - Bermuda Triangle
6. Elecktroids - Silicon Valley
7. Lab Rat XL - Lab Rat 1
8. Transllusion - Transmission of Life
9. Drexciya - Journey Home
10. Dopplereffekt - Infophysix
11. The Other People Place - Sunrays
12. NRSB 11 - Market Forces
13. Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler
14. Black Replica - Black Feathers

The Art of Drexciya

Variant - Vortexual [Element Seven] bvdub's Ghosts of a Broken October

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Jon Snow for Underground Resistance

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Inside Detroit’s secret techno museum

Oh man! I need one of those caps

Alec Empire - The Man With The Golden Ear DJ Mix @ Sound Edit Festival 2016

Alec Empire receives "The Man With The Golden Ear" Music Award at Sound Edit Festival 2016.
This is a recording of his DJ mix from the after party - a journey through the history of Polish electronic music

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Thanks Stan

Loser

Barbara Kroger

The Saxophone by Peter Gordon (VF Mix 70)

Tracklist:
01. Bernard Hermann – Theme from ‘Taxi Driver’
02. King Curtis – ‘Ode to Billie Joe’
03. The Champs – ‘Tequila’
04. Jr. Walker & The All-Stars – ‘Cleo’s Back’
05. Rockin’ Rebels – ‘Wild Weekend’
06. Candy Dulfer – ‘Lily Was Here’
07. Sam Butera – ‘Night Train’
08. Big Jay McNeely – ‘Deacon’s Hop’
09. David Murray/Jamaladeen Tecuma – ‘Theme on A Dream 2: 80’s Downtown’
10. Earl Bostic – ‘Harlem Nocturne’
11. Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd – ‘Desafinado’
12. Henry Mancini – ‘Pink Panther Theme’
13. Bill Doggett – ‘Honky Tonk, Pt 2’
14. Vernard Johnson – ‘What Is This?’
15. Peter Gordon – ‘Waiting for the Dawn’
16. Sonny Rollins – ‘Alfie’s Theme’
17. Mr. Acker Bilk – ‘Stranger on the Shore’
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Steve McCurry, who famously photographed the green-eyed Afghan girl in the 1980s, speaks to Al Jazeera about her plight

Sunday 30 October 2016

How Donald Trump changed the dating world

Alabama 3 - Lost & Found (Joe Mckechnie Brixton Bongo Remix 2016)

Vic Godard, Johny Brown and James Stephen Finn pay tribute to a woman called George

The Photography of Lux Interior

It’s of no surprise that Lux Interior of The Cramps directed his artistic abilities towards other areas besides music, mostly in the form of photography. Poison Ivy and Lux met in “art school” in the early 1970s and fell into a chaotic and beautiful romance that lasted up until Lux’s death in 2009. His photography almost always included Ivy – his eternal muse – as the subject of his work, with his provocative and fetishistic photographs of her used as Cramps album covers throughout the years.

Perhaps even most interestingly was his interest in 3-D cameras and this insert from Asymptote Magazine from 1992 featuring 'Crosseyed Photos by Lux Interior'...