Tuesday 20 December 2016

Blade Runner 2049 Announcement

The new patriotism

HA!

Agency:
So we're thinking either Pringle Bells, Kris Pringle, or Pringles all the Way?

Client:
Nah I've got a better idea.

Client: pic.twitter.com/hF7D0TizZF
— Zach Mander (@zachmander) December 18, 2016

Monday 19 December 2016

Australia’s Pirate Site Blockade Boosts Demand For VPNs

Sunday 18 December 2016

Tellus #23 - Paul Bowles
Tellus release curated by Claudia Gould and Stephen Frailey
Released 1989
Till the age of 40, Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was a composer and music critic, composing for Broadway musicals, Hollywood movie scores, incidental music for ballet. He once aknowledged to be a composer of ‘hotel music’, though his serious music calls to mind that of Copland, Virgil Thomson, Francis Poulenc or Satie. It is actually when he get tired of writing easy music that he turned to writing literature.
Curated by Claudia Gould and Stephen Frailey, ‘The Voices of Paul Bowles’ is an audio portrait combining some of the composer’s music with readings from his own texts, morrocan traditional music and location recordings from Tangier and Morroco where he lived from 1947. The most striking device is the handsome and warm voice of Bowles reading through his writings. Also notable are the lively field recordings of folk local music Bowles made himself in 1959 (tracks #01, 03, 06 & 09). The simoon (my conjecture) heard at the end of ‘The Garden’, track #08, is a short but evocative recording of a North Africa typical wind. Bowles own compositions are exquisite vignettes full of humour and wit.
A microcosm in itself, a day in the life of Paul Bowles, the tape starts with the muezzin’s morning call to prayer and ends with dogs barking at sunset, an amazing barking chorale recorded amid the rising desert wind. A poignant conclusion to an utterly beautiful tape
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Die Antwoord - Fat Faded Fuckface (NSFW)

Melbourne Drone Orchestra - Live @ Memo Music Hall St. Kilda Melbourne (17/12/16)

Daniel Tucceri

Photos above by TimN
Photos by Barry C. Douglas

Photo by Gelareh Pour

(Recorded by TimN on hand held Tascam DR40)
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Zippyshare is giving a malicious file warning with some browsers. I can assure you that this file only contains a recording of yesterday's gig.
My thanks also to Daniel for buying my spare Trump tee which meant I had the money to get a ticket

Melbourne Drone Orchestra's mighty wall of sound passes pain threshold

Friday 16 December 2016

Emma Swift - Shivers

Love this version of Rowland S. Howard's classic. I will be catching her with Robyn Hitchcock at the Nortchcote Social on Sunday arvo

Blocking access to illegal file-share websites won’t stop illegal downloading

23.disturbance.ninja

Thursday 15 December 2016

Patti Smith: How Does It Feel

How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler

VPN For Torrenting: The Ultimate VPN Torrent Guide for Australia

I will be selling some records, CD's and books here on Saturday in Fitzroy Melbourne

Wednesday 14 December 2016

A Brief History of U.S. Intervention in Foreign Elections

The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S

It just gets worse and worse...

Seriously? Read this and weep
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Aleppo’s Final Goodbyes

SUNN O))) - 青木ヶ原 Aokigahara/樹海 Jukai (Free Download)

SUNN O))) Hail our great fans.
As the Solstice season approaches, Sunn O))) thank all of you for your great support throughout 2016.
We offer you an exclusive track for you to download for free (and of course stream), until the end of 2016.
'青木ヶ原 // 樹海' (aka Aokigahara // Jukai) was released on a limited edition white flexi 7" along with some copies of SUNN O)))'s "KANNON" (2015) album. It features Attila Csihar, The Lord, SOMA, Tad, Randall Dunn, Brad Mowen
Chainsaws and motorcycles through Ampeg stacks.

Get it
HERE
Additionally, you can take 35% off everything discount code from our entire catalogue on Bandcamp, until the end of 2016.
Just type: solstice2016 into the discount code field at checkout.
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Bim Sherman - Solid As A Rock (French TV 19/02/97)

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Original promo video

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Southern Studio Session (1990)
Just Can't Stand It/Tribulation

Bewildered

Tuesday 13 December 2016

Russian Roulette

Monday 12 December 2016

Arnold Zable: Greek tale a chance to reflect upon immigration in Australia

Bianca 1 VS 0 Mick

Well, that is 7 years younger than Mick https://t.co/kO0YfQQiU2
— Bianca Jagger (@BiancaJagger) December 10, 2016

Sunday 11 December 2016

Melbourne Drone Orchestra Sat 17 Dec, Memo Music Hall St. Kilda 3:00pm

Info

Interview: Daniel Tucceri (Melbourne Drone Orchestra)

Patti Smith - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (2016 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony)

I Voted

Clay Bennett

Dylan's Nobel Prize Speech

Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming. From an early age, I've been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.
I don't know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It's probably buried so deep that they don't even know it's there.
If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn't anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was the question "Is this literature?"
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars, maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big, maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.
Well, I've been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now. I've made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it's my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I'm grateful for that.
But there's one thing I must say. As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
My best wishes to you all,

Bob Dylan
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Holly Throsby ft Mark Kozelek - What Do You Say?

Russia and the Threat to Liberal Democracy

Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America

'Sans Consent'

Introducing CASSIUS; It's an innovator, artist, musician, philosopher, visionary, social architect, force of nature, fire, and designer of New York's first and best chloroform based cologne 'Sans Consent'