Tag: Morality
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Aphex Twin and the morals of sampling
I didn’t know Aphex Twin‘s XTAL from the seminal electronic album Selected Ambient Works Vol 1 is based off samples from a track from Steve Jefferies, Mary Carewe & Donald Greig called Evil At Play…but in a very cool way. But the original writer says it is ‘morally wrong’ and Richard D. James just lifted…
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Uncle Carl came out at Xmas
Gosh darn that made me cry…now this is how country should be, talking about real things and real situations. Aaron LaCombe made an Xmas song I can get behind – annoyingly I have just finished recording the non-mashup Xmas podcast otherwise this would be in it. More about this song, and the weird push-back he’s…
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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Russell Brand and tax havens
John mentioned this to me, and thus I googled what it was about – so Russell is a hypocrite because his LANDLORD uses a tax haven? What is that to do with him? I didn’t know you could choose how your landlords invest their money? It’d be great if you could, especially mine. His response…