Month: April 2016
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RIP Howard Marks
Partly surprised he lasted this long given his lifestyle, but RIP Howard Marks! Obviously best known for his drug dealing then writing, and also inspiration and later work with Super Furry Animals who featured him on several of their covers, who saw him as a Welsh folk hero.
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GoldLink & Louie Lastic
Following on from Kaytranada, I was on the trail of rap that was cloudy, chilled and intelligent and stumbled across GoldLink and the productions of Louie Lastic (in fact GoldLink and Kaytra have worked and toured together). This track, Spectrum sampling Missy (she seems to have become a 90’s touchstone to this scene, along with…
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Kaytranada
Almost embarrassed to post this, since I’ve heard the name (Madonna tour) and seen him DJ (that Boiler Room appearance) but not really checked out Kaytranada’s productions yet I know he’s BIG and everywhere now. Yeah Two Thousand and Late, but hey, this is my musical journey, and I don’t do the latest thing purely…
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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers’ Charter
I’m hoping the genie is out of the bottle with encryption and even WhatsApp joining the end-to-end encryption battle, but there is no room for complacency. Certainly Teresa May and David Cameron want to spy on us, and already are. Like with Apple vs the FBI in the States it’s no longer something purely for…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…
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The Revolution May Be A Slider Away…
If Wordfence is correct, the whole Mossack Fonseca shit-show might have been caused by an outdated WordPress plugin, Slider Revolution! That’s if the data was indeed hacked, as MF asserts, and not handed over by a concerned party, as the ICIJ claimed. But it does reveal something I’ve been concerned about a lot, following Wordfence…