Live at Gondel Kino, Bremen, Germany, June 25 1971.
"There isn't any extra information about this unofficial release either in the liner notes or on the interweb thing - however, as you listen it becomes obvious that this is indeed a recording of the rather short-lived lineup of Kraftwerk that includes Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger in its ranks! That's right - Neu! as part of Kraftwerk!"
"It's plug'n'play as we look at the art and science of videogames. Kurt Andersen and his guest, Slate contributor Clive Thompson, talk about how this multi-billion dollar industry is changing the culture even for people who don't play games. We'll check out the prototype for Urban Resolve, the military's video game designed to teach soldiers how to wage urban warfare. We'll hear about a young multimedia artist, born in the age of Atari, for whom reprogrammed old games is just another color on the palette. Plus, Richard Linklater stops by to talk about A Scanner Darkly, his adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel about a drug war, and how he shed the mantle of the Gen-X Slacker director." Listen here
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Tangerine Dream “Sequent C” (1974) + Tony Conrad & Faust “The Pyre of Angus was in Kathmandu” (1971) Mozart “Adagio for Glass Harmonica” (1791) + Arabic Chant Chicago Underground Trio “O Sino” (1999) Matt Anders “Heathering Blues” (2004) Iannis Xenakis “Akrata” (1965) Keith Jarrett “I'm Through with Love” (1999) Penguin Cafe Orchestra “Harmonic Necklace” (1981) Cluster “Fur Die Katz” (1971) Steve Reich “Nagoya Marimbas” (1994) Alan R. Splet “Space Travel with Changing Choral Textures” (1983) Sylvie Courvoisier “Turoine” (2003) Bjork “Ambergris March” (2005) John Cage “Prepared Piano Concerto pt. III” (1951) Antonio Vivaldi “Double Concerto Largo G Minor” (1780s) Brian Eno “Lizard Point” (1982) Low “Untitled #2” (2001) Matthew Herbert “About This Time Each Day” (2001) Holger Czukay “Boat-Woman-Song” (1969) 23 Skidoo “Shrine” (1982) Einsturzende Neubauten “U-Haft Muzak” (1983) Bach “Air (for Organ), BWV 1068” (1731)
Afghan beats
"Music TV presenter Shakeeb Issar is arguably Afghanistan's most hated figure. The 21-year-old's westernised look and materialistic ideas have angered many people in his country. Shakeeb's been beaten by his critics and now gets daily death threats. His co-presenter was shot dead for being too westernised, so should Shakeeb stay and fight Afghanistan's new cultural war?" Listen here
Bob Marley
"Jamaica's most famous export would have been 60 on 6 February." Listen here
John Peel
"We remember the man by talking to the ordinary people whose lives he touched - the fans, the obscure record labels, and the struggling musicians." Listen here
Lady Sovereign
"London-born MC, aka 'ragga midget' Lady Sovereign, leaves the bright lights and big city behind to see whether Garage music can thrive in the countryside. From the highlands of Scotland to the valleys of Wales, the flats of East Anglia to the South West wash of Cornwall, Lady Sovereign goes off the underground map and deep into the countryside to meet the village-dwelling MCs hoping to make it in the garage scene." Listen here
"This year is the 70th birthday of the hugely influential experimental composer, Steve Reich. Always at the cutting edge, his music has in the past been remixed by the likes of Coldcut, Ken Ishi, D Note and DJ Spooky. As part of his birthday celebrations, three of his tracks will be remixed and re-released; Four Tet and Alex Smoke are doing the first two. The third remixer will be one of you. Download the track, Music For 18 Musicians, and email us your remix. Steve Reich will pick his favourite of the entries, and it will be released at the end of September on Nonesuch Records." Download here
sustain-release.co.uk: "Hypnotic, tidal blues. Memories of spiralling currents, driftwood and undertow. Fragments of acoustic guitar and piano swept along in choking streams of violin. Lost in shimmering waves of distortion and turbulent percussion." Download here
Radio ABC: "During the six years of World War Two, the New York Times published 1,186 stories about what was happening to the Jews of Europe .... or about 17 stories a month.
Sounds like a pretty good coverage, except that very few stories about the mass extermination of Jews by the Nazis, and the terrible events leading up to that tragedy, ever made it to the front page.
The reasons why this most influential of America's papers downplayed news of the Holocaust and Hitler's "Final Solution" are varied and complex.
In her acclaimed book Buried By The Times, Laurel Leff has analysed The New York Times's coverage of the Holocaust and reveals some of the motivations behind the way the newspaper covered the genocide." Listen here
"A blog devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people.
Through the Electronic Frontier Foundation we and our firm have undertaken to represent people in our area who have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for having computers whose internet accounts were used to open up peer-to-peer file sharing accounts."
afropunk.com: "Afro-Punk, a 66-minute documentary, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical "black history month" documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power. We follow the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community." More info
Afro-Punk Festival, Year Two
LaRonda Davis and Darrell McNeill talk with James Spooner, director of the indie film phenom Afro-Punk, in anticipation of the second annual Afro-Punk Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The festival will feature five days (June 30 - July 4, 2006) of cutting edge films and music throughout Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Spooner brings in music from several of the bands who will be performing in the festival. (57 minutes)Listen here Scroll down to Edition #22
Edition #14: Afro-Punk, the Movie
Earl Douglas, LaRonda Davis and Darrell McNeill interview and play choice tracks selected by James Spooner, director of the underground hit indie film Afro-Punk, which takes viewers through the Black punk and hardcore scenes." Listen here Scroll down to Edition #14
radiobremen.de: "In den letzten Jahren ist Sven Regener vor allem als Autor der Bestseller "Herr Lehmann" und "Neue Vahr Süd" im Gespräch gewesen. Doch der gebürtige Bremer ist seit 20 Jahren erfolgreich mit seiner Band "Element of Crime" unterwegs. Gefühlvoll und melancholisch waren die Lieder der Berliner Band mit Bremer Wurzeln ja schon immer. Gut beobachtet, treffend und manchmal auch von einem rauen Charme. Früher als andere Bands haben sie angefangen in ihrer Muttersprache zu singen, haben Chanson-Elemente in ihre Musik integriert, wurden der Liebe zum Schlager verdächtigt und sind dennoch im Herzen eine Rockband, die immer wieder überrascht. Auf ihrer Deutschland-Tournee kamen sie auch nach Bremen und standen am 24. März 2006 im ausverkauften Pier 2 auf der Bühne." Hier anhören
freemuse: "Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the discussion concerning the long-term impact on free expression and personal privacy became heated and intense.
Musicians have participated (directly and indirectly) in the public discourse, both through word and song. As a result of their outspoken actions, many musicians have experienced strong resistance, sometimes resulting in censorship." Dowload the report as a pdf file here
"Techno hören, Spaß haben, tanzen, die ganze Nacht und wenn möglich das ganze Wochenende. Dem Alltag mit all seinen Zwängen, seiner Normalität und Spießigkeit Goodbye sagen. Und Politik? Jetzt nicht! Aber ist das die ganze Geschichte? Mitnichten. Längst haben Rechte ihren Spaß am Techno entdeckt." Hier anhören
npr.org: ""Tom Verlaine and his band Television helped establish the punk rock music scene in the mid-1970s, influencing music for years to come with the records Marquee Moon and Adventure." Listen here
npr.org: "A photo essay featuring Afghan men and their young brides will appear in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair, who captured the stunning images of the men with brides as young as 11 years old, talks with Alex Chadwick talks about the global issue of child brides." Listen here
wnyc.org: "Norah Vincent wanted to know how men really acted when they weren’t around women. So she cut her hair, donned a suit, and lived disguised as a man for over a year and a half. In Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back, she reveals what she learned by going on undercover dates with women, joining a men's bowling league, and attending a men's therapy group." Listen here
wps1.org: "To satisfy our collective curiosity for inside views of moviemaking, the Film and Media Department of the Museum of Modern Art happily put together "Great Collaborations," a series of programs exploring the dynamics of artistic collaborations in film. In the first of these, focusing on the actor/director partnership, Quentin Tarantino and his "Marlene Dietrich," Uma Thurman, discuss films they have made together ("Pulp Fiction," the "Kill Bill" movies) in a conversation moderated by New Yorker writer Larissa McFarquahar. Mary Lee Bandy, chief curator of MoMA's Film and Media department, introduces the program; department manager Natalie Hirniak organized the series. Recorded January 10, 2005." Listen here
wps1.org: "Selections from the self-published double CD (SYR4, Musical Perspectives) featuring the band playing some of the more challenging scores of late 20th century composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Pauline Oliveros." Listen here
01 Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Orange Title (Soundtrack)
02 Dick Hyman - Kolumbo (The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman)
03 Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (The Mix)
04 Perrey & Kingsley - Spooks in Space (The Essential Perrey & Kingsley)
05 Sun Ra - The Wind Speaks (My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2)
06 Wendy Carlos - Bach Cantata #208 (Switched-On Bach II)
07 Perrey & Kingsley - The Unidentified Flying Object
08 Dick Hyman - Total Bells and Tony
09 Wendy Carlos - Timesteps (Clockwork Orange Soundtrack)
10 Sun Ra - The Design/Cosmos II
11 Perrey & Kingsley - Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Michel Le Grand
12 Wendy Carlos - Bach 2-Part Invention in A Major
13 Dick Hyman - Time Is Tight, Booker T
14 Kraftwerk - Abzug/Metal on Metal
15 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
16 Wendy Carlos - March from Clockwork Orange (Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Fourth Mov't)
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wnyc.org: "Norah Vincent wanted to know how men really acted when they weren’t around women. So she cut her hair, donned a suit, and lived disguised as a man for over a year and a half. In 