Month: June 2020
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Art In The Age Of Viral Replication
Dubset are at it again – in another clickbaity scare article, this time from Mixmag. Those of us in the DIY remix, mashup and DJ communities have seen these systems come and go, the same hype and fear cycle. And like so many times before we are waiting for the ‘end of the world’ –…
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Saturday Night is Disco Night: Live DJ set Tonight
Saturday night fever! Tonight myself as Fingertrouble, PomDeter and Oki are donning the silver lamé suits, medallions and switching on the shiny disco balls from 5pm at https://www.twitch.tv/okiokinl. I will be on later at 9pm on my Twitch. I’m planning a set around Pride, both LGBTQ* and BAME/black Pride with maybe a few nods to…
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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The Tripping Forecast
Back to lighter and less serious times (although I suspect now that was just a freak pause), this mix from Rob Manuel as l_o_n_g_w_a_v_e is indeed a radiophonic trip. Very hauntological and nostalgic in the vein of The Focus Group and others recreating library music and ‘logotones’ and radio idents for the teens..Given that this…
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White Privilege and Systemic Racism
I’ve been looking for a resource for my white friends to explain how systemic racism and micro-aggressions are different from the big-R ‘Racism’ in their heads. I have struggled to explain that as a group, white people are racist. There is a difference between systemic racism and individual acts – the big-R racists with their…
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…