The links section of this site is badly in need of updating, but I have at least managed to get the new addresses for Datacide and Expletive Undeleted right. The latter includes an interesting interview with Piers Sanderson, who has made High on Hope - what promises to be an excellent film about the Hardcore Uproar acid house warehouse parties in and around Blackburn in the late 1980s/early 90s. There's more about the film at the High on Hope website.
Here's the trailer for the film, which will be released once funds for use of music on the soundtrack have been sorted out. Look out for the great bit at the end where someone shouts 'listen, the old bill have took the fuckin' desks, the bastards'. Someone should sample that.
International Reggae Poster Contest
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Unser Freund Chema Skandal hat es beim International Reggae Poster Contest,
von dem ich heute ehrlichgesagt zum ersten Mal höre, mit zwei Entwürfen
unter d...
We Demand Better
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Set to 'Friends of Father', this video was displayed during the final
minutes of the Ad·ver·sary + Antigen Shift performance at Festival Kinetik
5.0.
London dives into Games-related trouble
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Of course it's not the Games itself that's the problem (well no more than any other capitalist-realist entertainment vehicle), it's the massive, £9bn-plus in...
Amen Ra v RA
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"Letting dubstep go was important though, it was the last scene that I felt properly "involved" in, if you know what I mean. Now I listen to and am involved ...
The Stockwell Hole week to May 22nd 2012
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Here is the latest instalment of this ongoing series.
Since the last post I was given some more information on Urban75 by someone
involved in the London Mur...
Wu Ming 4, «Estrella del alba»
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El desierto es su casa, las rocas su comida… Stella del mattino – the old
blog Frozen in 2010. Textos en castellano Antigua pagina en html estático,
2000 –...
Several New Updates
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Lots of never before seen pictures have been uploaded for the following
bands:
-Rubella Ballet
-Hagar The Womb
-Chumbawamba
-Instigators
-Andy T.
-Antisect...
Upcoming Talks
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*Controversial.*
I'll be talking at a couple of events over the next month:
23rd May, London: Sonic Radicalism Seminar
Centre for Cultural Studies Research
S...
KLEER: New single out now. Hype Hype
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Yeah. New single out now which I’m really excited about. It’s KLEER backed
with my remix of J Beatz’ Subwoofer. So two slices heavy 130 uk funky – one
a ha...
Incident on Wall Street
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Harley Filben reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball (2012). If you have
a certain sort of father, it’s a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen is part of
you...
What I Will by Suheir Hammad
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I was intrigued by the words in Erykah Badu’s twitter profile, so I looked
them up and found the following poem. I find the words inspiring on both a
daily...
New Praxis Web Site to Replace this Blog!
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In the summer of 1992, in a squat in North Peckham, just off the Old Kent
Road, Praxis was born and at the end of November this year it will be 20
years si...
The History Making Future
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The history I learnt from books at school was mostly about power and
control. The history of rulers: their victories, their champions, their
empires. Those...
retirement
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This year has been extraordinary, with such a vicious roll between high
points and low (and way too many of the latter) that it threatened to come
unstuc...
Pull the Units Down
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Despite earlier gripes I'm going to be giving several talks about *Uncommon
*over the next month or so; one at the Architectural Association in London
(o...
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL BABIES BORN YESTERDAY
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*Dear Shithawks,
Congratulations! Not only have you arrived pissing and screaming on Planet
Earth, wriggling around like peeled slugs in a bag of salt - yo...
Here's what Media can be like
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Speaking of autonomism, and as an example of what post-populist media can
achieve .... here's Federico Campagna giving an absolutely enthralling
history of...
'People have always come together to move to music. In the process communities have been created, social divisions challenged, pleasure exalted over work and a billion relationships have blossomed. At the same time dancing bodies have often been subject to regulation – rules about when, where and how they can move, rules about who is allowed to dance with who, rules about what dancers can wear and put inside their bodies… That, in essence, is the 'politics of dancing'.
Musicking
'musicking... is an activity in which all those present are involved and for whose nature and quality, success or failure, everyone present bears some responsibility. It is not just a matter of composers, or even performers, actively doing something to, or for, passive listeners. Whatever it is we are doing, we are all doing it together—performers, listeners... dancers, ticket collectors, piano movers, roadies, cleaners and all' (Christopher Small).
Dancing Questionnaire
The aim of the 'dancing questionnaire' is to get a sense of the diversity of people's experiences of dancing and musicking. If you want to contribute, please answer the following questions yourself and send to transpontine@btinternet.com.
1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? / 2.
What’s the most interesting/significant thing that has happened to you while out dancing? / 3. You. Dancing. The best of times… / 4. You. Dancing. The worst of times… / 5.
Can you give a quick tour of the different dancing scenes/times/places you’ve frequented? / 6. When and where did you last dance? / 7. You’re on your death bed. What piece of music would make your leap up for one final dance? (Previous Questionnaires)
Photo policy
I spend a lot of time trying to find evocative images to go with some of the text on this site. I always fully credit and link to where photos were sourced from. If though I have used one of your images in a way you are not happy with, email me and I will remove it.
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