Wednesday 4 January 2017

A response to 'screen based lifestyle harms children’s health'

On Malcolm McLaren’s reading list: Nik Cohn, Frederick’s Of Hollywood and Giorgio Morandi catalogues, Wilhelm Reich, Tom Wolfe and the folk art and magic studies which inspired fashion adventures with Vivienne Westwood

Surprised?

How Rauschenberg Elevated Tiffany’s Window Displays Into an Art Form

The Art of the Second Avenue Subway

Tuesday 3 January 2017

John Berger: Ways of Seeing

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John Berger or The Art of Looking

About Time

Face To Face

John Berger and Susan Sontag: To Tell A Story

John Berger R.I.P.

Anya Phillips and New York's 1970s Punk Scene

Holly Bowling - Plays The Grateful Dead Live at Terrapin Crossroads San Rafael California (07/12/16)

Thanks Reinhard

'We’re Gonna Tell You Exactly What The Fuck Is Up': A.B. Original On ‘January 26’ & Calling Out Racism For What It Is

Robyn Hitchcock Plays The Soft Boys - The Tote Melbourne (20/12/16)

Photo: Greg Hughes

Tracklist:
Do the Chisel
Tonight
Kingdom Of Love
I Wanna Destroy You
The Pigworker
Human Music
Where are the Prawns?
He's a Reptile
Underwater Moonlight
Only The Stones Remain
Leppo and the Jooves
Positive Vibrations
Queen of Eyes
Insanely Jealous
Astronomy Domine (Syd Barrett)
Cold Turkey (John Lennon)
Give it to the Soft Boys // cuts out

Robyn Hitchcock - vocals, guitar
Davey Lane - guitar
Jake Robertson - bass
Alex McFarlane - drums

A Tascam Tim recording tweaked by Bobo
Recorded on hand held Tascam DR-40

America Becomes a Stan

Monday 2 January 2017

I'm Not in Love: The Story of 10cc

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery

Terrible Transformation (1450-1750)

Revolution (1750-1805)

Brotherly Love (1791-1831)

Judgment Day (1831-1865)

Prince & Miles Davis - Paisley Park Studios, Soundstage (31/12/87)

Tracklist:
Hot Thing
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Let's Go Crazy / Land Of 1000 Dances
When Doves Cry
Purple Rain / Ault Lang Syne
1999
U Got The Look
It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

NASA Goddard’s 2016 Mixtape

Xylouris White - Live Northcote Social Club Melbourne (NYE 2016)

Photos: Jesse Ting

Probably about three quarters of the night recorded due to new year's eve shenanigans

New Years 2017 On-U Sound Sunday Roast

Mix #2 from David Asher

Sunday 1 January 2017

The Complete Anti-Fascist Reading List

America’s democracy has become illiberal

Obama, Trump and the Settlers

No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988 to 1999

Trump, fascism, and the construction of "the people": An interview with Judith Butler

What does depression feel like? Trust me - you really don’t want to know

Saturday 31 December 2016

2016? You can fuck off right now!

'Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s' Explores a Vital Chapter in Downtown NY History

Friday 30 December 2016

Take a stroll with The Bastard Son of Fats (A Bernard Fowler Mix)

Bernard Fowler 1983 - 2015
Bill Laswell, Hal Willner, Adrian Sherwood, with Herbie Hancock & Lenny White, Africa Bambaataa, Sly & Robbie, Phillip Glass & Paul Simon, Charles Mingus & The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Fats Comet, Tackhead, Bomb The Bass, Living Colour & Herb Alpert, Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish & Keith Leblanc

Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe

The writer and broadcaster takes a satirical look back at the events of the past 12 months, a year that has seen the deaths of countless cultural icons, Donald Trump being voted into the White House and the BBC losing the rights to Great British Bake Off. Charlie is joined by the ever-insightful Philomena Cunk, who faces her most challenging interview yet as she tries to get some sense out of Professor Brian Cox

2016. Me at the start of the year VS me at the end

Thursday 29 December 2016

The Bug presents Killing Sound Chapter 5: Radio Voodoo

This mix is dedicated to the memory of Paul Bowles, an incredible writer, music curator and itinerant traveller.
It is for those that seek to keep borders open, when so many, with a vested interest in population control, are trying so hard to shut doors, and limit freedom of thought and movement. When Julian, at RBMA Radio, asked me to put a show together that featured my tracks of the year in 2016, my step off was an incredible 10” by Mark Ernestus where he remixed Nigerian band Obadikah, and set adrift his Rhythm & Sound-past into a seductive, afrodelic future. And that record, together with three jaw-dropping performances I witnessed by Senyawa in solo mode, or together with Rabih Beaini as KAFR, triggered memories of rhythmic fire and bliss, from all four corners of the globe, that I had immersed myself in heavily down the years. I knew I didn’t want to rehash another subjective year end list on radio – I chose instead to centre this show around a coupla personal highlights of ’16, and how those tunes opened up percussive paths, backwards and forwards simultaneously for me.
I remember many years ago, being graciously invited to visit the Jajouka village, deep in the Rif mountains of Morocco by the tribe’s internationally recognized musical leader Bachir Attar, and how, on my first night there, I had been woken by the distant, swirling, magical tones and drones of pipes and drums, sounding like an intense soundtrack to an unforgettable fever dream…
When I later asked Bachir about the music which had greeted the dawn light, he told me that the Jajouka musicians had been playing for a mentally disturbed villager who had been chained to the main village tree, whilst the music was being administered as hypnotic therapy, to cure him of his schizophrenia. That tribal cure for madness had resonated deeply with me, as a fully willing member of McLuhan’s “Global Village,” where digitized tribes amplify cross cultural raids, perpetually morphing electronic nomads ride on phrase shifting alien rhythms, and transgressive 4th world voyagers transform surreal geographical conjunctions into unforgettably fresh mental landscapes.
I remember also, when I finally tracked down Brian Jones’s (Rolling Stones) infamous album of Jajouka field recordings, which he had mixed down thru a wall of phasers, delays and reverbs, how the album had completely washed me away, with its genuinely dreamlike results. And I recall previously, how my first polyrhythmic baptism had bizarrely come c/o Adam & the Ants/Bow Wow Wow shamelessly stealing the infectious stomp of African Burundi drummers, or how 23 Skidoo had eclipsed the legions of goths with their brilliantly exotic melting pot of hand drums, tape looped voodoo, and furious industrial ethno-funk, inspired by gamelan and dub at the ‘Futurama’ festival. Those formulative sonic encounters with mutant wayfarers would lead to me hiring two drummers, and eventually inviting Nana Tsiboe’s phenomenal Ghanian percussionists into the band I formed and led, called GOD.
Transmitting from the echo chamber, deep in a reverb tank, I chose to submerge this mix in a wall of delays, reverberations and filters… it’s a celebration of the joy of movement, so I hope you enjoy the excursion. Hail percussion power.

- The Bug

Tracklist:

1 Master Musicians Of Jajouka – ’55 (Hamsa Oua Hamsine) (Point)

2 Unknown Artist – Burundi - Musiques Traditionnelles: Chant Avec Cithare (Ocora)

3 Mark Ernestus vs Obidakah – April DubHonest Jon’s

4 Tapes meets The Drums Of Wareika Hill Sounds – Datura Mystic (Honest Jon’s)

5 The Sidewinder – Scarification Dub (Mille Plateaux)

6 Mala – Hunter (DMZ)

7 The Spaceape – On The Run (Self-Released)

8 Master Musicians Of Jajouka – Memories Of My Father feat. Bachir Attar (Axiom)

9 Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Skull Disco)

10 Cabaret Voltaire – Sluggin’ Fer Jesus (Rough Trade)

11 Beatrice Dillon – Can I Change My Mind? (Boomkat Editions)