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End of the day
The music squeezes
Happiness out
Resonance beyond now.

Accordianist at Night.

End of the day The music squeezes Happiness out Resonance beyond now.


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End of the day
The music squeezes
Happiness out
Resonance beyond now.

Accordianist at Night.

End of the day The music squeezes Happiness out Resonance beyond now.

Venus Iceberg X and the Ghe20 Goth1k Crew Call Out DJ Diplo for Musical and Cultural Imperialsm | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture


Around April Fool’s Day, I got this tip from friend of the blog Christina:

So, (queer) (Latina) DJ VenusxGG got in a Twitter fight last week with well-known but kinda slimey bass producer/DJ Diplo. Venus accused Diplo of being imperialist in his appropriation of musical forms (something he’s been accused of lots of times) and it ended up as a pretty entertaining/interesting public discourse for the bass community.

THEN today, XLR8R (another big bass magazine) decided to tap this for their April Fools joke…except they got Angela Davis involved. Kinda sloppy.

Venus Iceberg X and the Ghe20 Goth1k Crew Call Out DJ Diplo for Musical and Cultural Imperialsm | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

Venus Iceberg X and the Ghe20 Goth1k Crew Call Out DJ Diplo for Musical and Cultural Imperialsm | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture


Around April Fool’s Day, I got this tip from friend of the blog Christina:

So, (queer) (Latina) DJ VenusxGG got in a Twitter fight last week with well-known but kinda slimey bass producer/DJ Diplo. Venus accused Diplo of being imperialist in his appropriation of musical forms (something he’s been accused of lots of times) and it ended up as a pretty entertaining/interesting public discourse for the bass community.

THEN today, XLR8R (another big bass magazine) decided to tap this for their April Fools joke…except they got Angela Davis involved. Kinda sloppy.

Venus Iceberg X and the Ghe20 Goth1k Crew Call Out DJ Diplo for Musical and Cultural Imperialsm | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

What Do Lord Bertrand Russell and Samantha Fox Have in Common?


That’s right. They’ve both appeared in Bollywood movies. Go Bollywood.

Alas not the same movie but as cultural connections go it’s a pretty wonderful one.

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What Do Lord Bertrand Russell and Samantha Fox Have in Common?


That’s right. They’ve both appeared in Bollywood movies. Go Bollywood.

Alas not the same movie but as cultural connections go it’s a pretty wonderful one.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/wat…

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Culture of Illusion – What Do Lord Bertrand Russell and Samantha Fox Have in Common?


That’s right. They’ve both appeared in Bollywood movies. Go Bollywood.

Alas not the same movie but as cultural connections go it’s a pretty wonderful one.

Lord Russell is wearing amazing red slippers.

Also a stark reflection on how men are portrayed and how women are portrayed in film. Not just in Bollywood movies of course but clearly

Men = subject

Women = object.

Not even sure why I’m writing that as it’s so obvious and would that things were better today but alas, as we all know, they’re not really are they?

No, no they’re not.


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Listen/purchase: New Hampshire by Wozniak

Also a shameless plug.


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Listen/purchase: New Hampshire by Wozniak

Also a shameless plug.


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Listen/purchase: MFMB by Wozniak

Shameless Plug – 

my brother is in this band.

It’s damn good.


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Listen/purchase: MFMB by Wozniak

Shameless Plug – 

my brother is in this band.

It’s damn good.


http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/91542999/stream?client_id=N2eHz8D7GtXSl6fTtcGHdSJiS74xqOUI?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

From the EP ‘The Rip’

Somewhere in Scotland this music is being made. Let us welcome it to America. Just like illegal whiskey during The Prohibition.

Defeat The Silence – Mother Funning Music.


And it’s Friday again and things have happened and here is music and Jeremy Scahill:

https://soundcloud.com/thesleepcoatleague/sets/mother-funsters

And that is that.

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Defeat The Silence – Mother Funning Music.


And it’s Friday again and things have happened and here is music and Jeremy Scahill:

https://soundcloud.com/thesleepcoatleague/sets/mother-funsters

And that is that.

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Defeat The Silence – Mother Funning Music.


And it’s Friday again and things have happened and here is music and Jeremy Scahill:

And that is that.

Defeat The Silence – Rub A Fucking Dub.


Many years ago, at the back of an English class, listening to this on tiny earphones with a friend:

It was the coolest thing in the world then.

It is still the coolest thing.

And that…

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Defeat The Silence – Rub A Fucking Dub.


Many years ago, at the back of an English class, listening to this on tiny earphones with a friend:

It was the coolest thing in the world then.

It is still the coolest thing.

And that…

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Defeat The Silence – Rub A Fucking Dub.


Many years ago, at the back of an English class, listening to this on tiny earphones with a friend:

It was the coolest thing in the world then.

It is still the coolest thing.

And that drummer is All That.

Goodnight and Good morning.

Defeat The Silence – Things Could Be Worse.


They could be a lot worse than they are now.

 

Look at this music using your ears.

Hear it with your nose.

Smell it with your eyes.

Hello Friday, where have you been all week?

I missed you.

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Defeat The Silence – Things Could Be Worse.


They could be a lot worse than they are now.

 

Look at this music using your ears.

Hear it with your nose.

Smell it with your eyes.

Hello Friday, where have you been all week?

I missed you.

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Defeat The Silence – Things Could Be Worse.


They could be a lot worse than they are now, couldn’t they?

I think they could be a lot worse.

Enjoy this:

Look at this music using your ears.

Hear it with your nose.

Smell it with your eyes.

Hello Friday, where have you been all week?

I missed you.

Defeat The Silence – The Music Soothes The Terror of a Technocratic Dictatorship.


I don’t know why I’m worried by Google but I am.

 

Anyway, the music is great and that makes me forget about my paranoid worries.

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Defeat The Silence – The Music Soothes The Terror of a Technocratic Dictatorship.


I don’t know why I’m worried by Google but I am.

 

Anyway, the music is great and that makes me forget about my paranoid worries.

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Defeat The Silence – The Music Soothes The Terror of a Technocratic Dictatorship.


I don’t know why I’m worried by Google but I am.

 

 

Anyway, the music is great and that makes me forget about my paranoid worries.

Defeat The Silence – Ooh. Snap, Crackle and K-Pop.


There is a storm coming and I am stuck inside but that is no reason not to listen to some K-pop.

1. G-Dragon

2. GI (Global Icon)

3. Psy

 

Thank you Kpop for Noobcakes.

Defeat The Silence – You Turn If You Want To.


I feel that these songs go together.

See if you agree.

Immortal Technique –

The Pogues –

So there.

Defeat The Silence – For None And For All.


Here.

Just a mixtape.

Nothing More.

But what more could you possibly need right now?

Defeat The Silence – Monday, Hear Me Roar.


Bring it on, Week, give me everything you’ve got.

Everything.

I’m ready for you.

I Am Ready For You.

You Motherfucker.

Defeat The Silence – The Dawn Before The Night Before The Moon Before The Sun.


I just got back from The Dance Place where I watched a Bharata Natyam dance and then a recreation of Anna Sakalov’s Magritte Magritte. Earlier tonight I would not have been able to understand anything in that sentence.

There shall be thoughts etc at a later time

For now

this is how I feel:

There is one more performance on tomorrow. Go and see it if you can.

Defeat The Silence – Free Market Tyranny and Fairytales.


Baroness Thatcher and Billy Bragg.

I don’t know if they ever met, but if they did, I think it would have been similar to what would happen if matter and anti-matter met in an experiment in a science fiction b-movie.

Ka-blooey.

Defeat The Silence – Blank Slate


It has been a long day. Music. Talking. Music.

I don’t know if you have time in your busy schedule to listen to all of this but if you do I recommend that you do.

I hope that you found that worthwhile.

Defeat The Silence – Bring Out The Beast.


If you have a spare 38 minutes and 20 seconds I recommend you spending it with this album:

My Baroness Thatcher related post for the day.

Trying to keep everything as opaque as possible.

Is it Tuesday already?

Defeat The Silence – Peace, Driven, Uplift.


Snoop Lion advocating for peace.

Big Black Delta with a glorious soundscape.

The Cat Empire being The Cat Empire.

Nothing could be better than these three pieces of music right now.

Defeat The Silence – Trumpet, Science, Dreams.


I had forgotten about The Cat Empire. I am glad that I remembered them.

Then I discovered the thumping bone-joy of Ta-ku and I want more of it vibrating the meat off my limbs.

It ended when I glanced over and saw Sam Jump playing When You Smile.

Soundcloud you are beautiful but you drive me insane because I only have one life and I must sleep but you keep dripping these glorious people down onto my soul, dripping their talent and their music everywhere.

Defeat The Silence – Arthur C. Clarke Remembered.


Goodnight and/or Good Morning:

Somebody somewhere is sleeping now.

If you are reading this then it isn’t you.

This has nothing to do with Arthur C. Clarke.

Defeat The Silence – Go To The Library.


Frank Zappa died in 1993.

Composer, iconoclast, mainstream counter-cultural icon.

From Beginnings to Endings he maintained a concrete sense of his public persona.

See here one of his first public appearances in which he plays the bicycle on national television. It’s a long clip but it’s worth watching in its entirety. There are many things to be enjoyed – The patronizing host Steve Allen, the charming Zappa taking the artifice of television in his stride and some excellent bicycle musicianship.

In the interview he mentions that his first job is the composer of the score to the film The World’s Greatest Sinner. I include, for the sake of completeness, the trailer and also a musical sequence for that film.

CLICK ME FOR THE TRAILER, SINNER!
CLICK ME FOR THE TRAILER, SINNER!

Here is some of the music:

We rejoin Mr. Zappa several years later when this, now successful artist, appears on What’s My Line? Not as surreal as Salvador Dali’s appearance because Zappa was as much a part of the pop culture that he often critiqued, yet still a wonderful collision between the nominally “dangerous” world of rock music and the formal structures and polite exchanges of a light entertainment show.

Years later, here we can see him owning the Arena when he appears on the discussion show Crossfire:

This next clip is the one that started me on this current Zappa Journey. A rare glimpse of the truth of the music industry from one who had the eloquence and the experience to talk about it. Still relevant today, even as the Industry struggles to remain afloat in a world of piracy and self-starters.

Then finally, his final interview, talking about the composer Nicolas Slonimsky and how well dressed he was:

How many millions of moments existed between the ones that I happened to pick, pretty much at random, where he loved, cried, sang, lived, laughed?

A lot of moments.

A human life is so many things.

Let us not end sadly though. Let us end gladly and with this upbeat sentiment:

I hope that this gives you a flavour of the man and a desire to explore his work further.

Defeat The Silence – Inappropriate for Sleeping.


It’s nearly bed time. Have you done anything worthwhile with your day?

Have you changed anything?

Do not worry. There is always tomorrow.

Tomorrow there will be opportunities for you to do what you want.

It’s not failure, it’s success delayed.

Defeat The Silence – Imagination Will Set You Free.


It’s Tuesday. You need a hamster battling foes in your life. You need a hamster battling foes as The Octopus Project provide a high energy burst of theramin fuelled music in your life.

Run to this music! Run far away and take your dreams with you! Nurture them as you rail against everything that spoils your day!

Too many exclamations!

Defeat The Silence – On Waking.


On waking, this silken honey repetition will bring you to full consciousness. It’s repetitive beats will get under your skin and energize. You will dance on the inside and then dance on the outside.

 

Then you find yourself flying in the clouds alone and free and this song lifts you on wings of electronica as you soar and dip and swerve in the endless sky even as the crush in the train to work seeks to remind you of the life you did not want to live. Why am I loving Electronic music so much recently? This is a reason:

It is a beautiful thing that a digital electronic noise can create such a sense of nature inside my soul. I don’t know how it does this but I hope it does it to you too.

Finally this piece is your escape into another world. It takes you and lifts you to a better place rising up and ever upwards.

So the theme today is metaphysical flying via electronic music.

You are welcome to your Monday.

Defeat the Silence – 1234 1234


This is a lovely song. A simple guitar accompanied by Feists beautiful voice. The original video is imaginative and because it’s not necessarily what I would have expected to accompany the song makes me enjoy it even more. Every one should have a place for choreography in their lives:

However here is proof, if any were ever needed, that adapting the lyrics a little and adding muppets to a thing increases its entertainment value many-fold.

It brings me great joy that the Sesame Street version has 7 times as many hits. This is not because I dislike the original – it’s lovely. I just enjoy the fact that it is possible that most people in the world who are familiar with this song think it’s about counting monsters and chickens.

Defeat The Silence – General Zod Playlist.


This:

And This:

Inspired this:

Sort of.

Thank you Alex.

There is only one person in the world for whom this makes any sense.

Regardless of this exclusive club of two, to which none of you belong, I hope that enjoyment will be found in the seemingly random juxtaposition of these short clips from Superman II and this fine playlist.

Yes, I wrote “seemingly”.

Ponder on the myriad levels as you end your work week.

So many levels.

Enjoy Friday and the weekend.

Appetite for Distraction – Friday Morning Playlist.


Here are three songs that share nothing more in common than that they appeared on my Soundcloud playlist this morning and I enjoyed listening to them with my ears.

I hope that you enjoy them too:

 

 

So much talent in the world. So many different ways of expressing human desire and yearning through the medium of music.

Good morning to all.

Culture of Illusion – Ying/Yang.


I just couldn’t resist putting this song:

Next to this song:

Which one is better?

Who cares!

What I do know is that I am getting an immeasurable amount of joy from placing Wham! (don’t forget the exclamation mark) and Leonard Cohen in the same post.

Tee hee.

I’m Your Man.

Culture of Illusion – Take Comfort.


I don’t know if it’s because I used to be involved with a beautiful woman who loved Depeche Mode then lost her because I did not treat her as she deserved that this song is getting to me.

But this song is getting to me.

More new songs from Depeche Mode please.

Enjoy.

Culture of Illusion – We Are Not Free.


Let’s forget the depressing sentiment of the title of this post for a while and embrace  the idea we are free by listening to this song by The Soup Dragons:

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Freedom.

Culture of Illusion – Armageddon or Bust.


Ignore the awful yellow backdrop and the garish red font and enjoy this great song.

The Pilgrim Travellers were a Texas based gospel group who found fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

This is the only song of theirs that I know. I had it on a compilation of Atomic themed songs that I bought from a record store a few years ago. Yes. We used to buy records from record stores. Now we sit in our beds wearing only our shame clicking on buttons to fill our hard drives with data. Ahem.

Great song.

There are definitely not enough Jesus/Atomic themed songs in the current hit parade.

Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift really need to step their game up.

They could easily rerecord some of their current hits:

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Because Jesus is Riding an Atom Bomb Straight into our Living Room.

As  Long As You Love Me Because Jesus Has The Launch Codes And He’s Not Afraid To Use Them.

See how easy it is?

Culture of Illusion – Hungry for Love.


Samantha Fox, the British pin-up girl of the 1980’s and, therefore, of my burgeoning sexuality, had a very short lived musical career.

She is mainly famous for this:

Samantha-Fox-23

I have tried to make this picture family suitable. I apologize to all who have to witness this photograph but I wanted to show those who were not familiar with Sam Fox where her fame stemmed from.

It was not her love of rubber ducks.

Her biggest hit was this:

Once you have enjoyed that beautiful piece of pop I recommend that you then listen to this beautiful cover version by The Lost Fingers.

I am not not sure whether I created this post to show the weird picture of Sam Fox holding two rubber ducks or to introduce everyone to a lovely cover version of her one hit pop song.

That is all.

Goodnight all of the people.

Appetite for Distraction – One Way To Spend Your Time…


Is to take a break from whatever you are doing and listen to this:

Go on.

You know you deserve a break.

Appetite for Distraction – Just Because.


It’s night time where I am and A Tribe Called Quest popped into my mind.

Here:

After this has got you in the mood there is the splendid documentary about these fine gentlemen directed by Michael Rapaport. He is better known as an actor. He is a good director of this documentary.

He is also a fan of The Tribe.

The A Tribe?

A Tribe?

I have provided the official link. You know the internet well if you want to do something illegal but I warned you. I warned you something bad would happen!

I also told the police that you’re downloading it illegally.

Enjoy everything.

Appetite for Distraction – Black Hole Fun.


I have just heard of these gentlemen on, of all places, the English language version of the news channel France24.

Thank you France24.

Merci beacoup.

They Rock.

Culture of Illusion – Jon Bon Goat.


“The creatures outside looked from goat to Jovi, and from Jovi to goat, and from goat to Jovi again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Culture of Illusion (UK Remix) – At 8 minutes and 50 seconds the soul can be seen to leave the body.


Ian McNabb was relatively famous in the UK in the 80s. Here is the song that he is most famous for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HmPW2kTJao?feature=oembed&w=540&h=405]

But what happens after the light has dimmed, and the fans stop chanting…

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Culture of Illusion (UK Remix) – At 8 minutes and 50 seconds the soul can be seen to leave the body.


Ian McNabb was relatively famous in the UK in the 80s. Here is the song that he is most famous for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HmPW2kTJao?feature=oembed&w=540&h=405]

But what happens after the light has dimmed, and the fans stop chanting…

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Culture of Illusion (UK Remix) – At 8 minutes and 50 seconds the soul can be seen to leave the body.


Ian McNabb was relatively famous in the UK in the 80s. Here is the song that he is most famous for:

But what happens after the light has dimmed, and the fans stop chanting your name, as you wait in the wings to jump up onto the stage?

This, this is what happens. So it will go for us all. Boiled slowly like a frog in a bowl and smiling and accepting it as we get made into soup at the service of the machine that has forgotten us long ago:

 

This is a brilliant piece of film-making about the nature of celebrity and what happens after the people forget their gods.

Culture of Illusion – The High Priestess of Soul


Ooh! Look! Music and politics! Together! Who would have thought that would be possible in this day and age? Oh, wait a minute, this was recorded in Paris in 1968. Well I’m sure it’s still possible. I’m sure.

Go here for more greatness – Nina Simone Music and also here to her official website.

That is all for now.

Culture of Illusion – A Thing to Say.


A Thing to Say.
Click on the Picture

It is not Christmas in Hawaii but sometimes to imagine experiencing both Christmas and Hawaii is the only way to make it through they long dark days. As the last of The Andrews Sisters dies listen to this song and capture, for a moment, some of their magic.

Appetite for Distraction – The Best Version of Things.


It’s always delightful to find new and different versions of songs that you love. Even if the new and different versions of the songs that you find are not new and different to the rest of the world, or indeed, to those who have always been lovers of particular songs by particular musicians. I just heard this version of Anything But Love by Ella Fitzgerald on Hot Jazz Saturday Night on NPR. It is, at this moment in time, to me, perfect, so I thought that I would share it with whoever is out there right now.


https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/13911347/stream?client_id=N2eHz8D7GtXSl6fTtcGHdSJiS74xqOUI?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

Who was John Henry? Did he exist? Was he a myth? 

The Human Voice, for a brief moment, affording freedom to men who have none.


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Who was John Henry? Did he exist? Was he a myth? 

The Human Voice, for a brief moment, affording freedom to men who have none.


https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/28176256/stream?client_id=N2eHz8D7GtXSl6fTtcGHdSJiS74xqOUI?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio

I love this song first because of the power of the mysterious woman who is staring out from the yellow jungle scene. What is she going to use that spear for? Where did she get her lovely outfit. Has she hunted or is she about to hunt? Has she finished composing this piece of music on some kind of jungle computer made from vines and bark? Robots meet nature meet anthropology meet electronica.


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This song is spies and gangsters and dark rain-wet streets in the neon lit 1980s hunting for a briefcase that has been accidentally left with a child who has magical powers.