Month: September 2011
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Automatic, push button, remote control…
Always wondered where M/A/R/R/S got that ‘Automatic, push button, remote control…’ chant from – turns out it was those proto-rappers and agitators Last Poets on a track called Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine which is pretty futuristic sounding for 1970 – but it turns out that in 1984 one of the founding Poets worked with Grandmixer…
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Blood in your wires
Everyone knows that phones and the electronic devices might be made in some sweatshop in China (if you don’t google Foxconn for some really shocking stories)…what you mignt not know is your mobile and other devices share more than you think with blood diamonds – that blood has probably been shed in relation to the…
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Sitting on the Fence
Was listening to the 6Music show about King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Diamond Mine’ (well worth listening to both the show and the album, fave of this year so far) and I still think they wuz robbed of the Mercury Prize. Yes ‘Let England Shake’ is good, but PJ’s squawking gets irritating after a while,…
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You Should Have Sex With A Bearded Man
Good advice from The Beards, in a cheesy 80’s movie metal stylee. Everyone should have sex with a bearded man, at least once 😉 I Am Bearded And I Support This Message: (via Rob Manuel) Bonus: If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums…
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Marco Brambilla
I’d seen the amazing Kanye – Power video but didn’t know anything of Marco Brambilla, the director behind it. Turns out there are more adventurous and amazing videos out there using existing films in a massive mashup painterly patchwork, that links back to epic genre paintings and even the likes of Dadd, Bosch and Breughel.…