BBc Radio 1: "Characters from the new folk movement spin yarns about the tales that have influenced their songs. Featuring Vashti Bunyan, Wayne from Flaming Lips, Coco Rosie, Silver Jews, 18th Day of May, Jolie Holland and many many more..." Listen here. Found via DJ Martin
Wo sich Schwarze in Berlin und Brandenburg nicht hintrauen. Siebenminütige ZEIT online-Reportage von Lennart Laberenz und Christoph Hartmann. Hier anschauen
allmusic.com: "Like so many British rock groups before them, Ikara Colt formed from a collection of art students at a Whitechapel university. [...] The group has performed with the Parkinsons, among others, and has been compared to Wire, Monochrome, and Sonic Youth."
matadorrecords.com: "The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast is the new record by San Francisco duo Matmos. It is a series of "sound portraits" of a pantheon of people that they admire. A musical attempt at biography, it’s loose in some places and very literal in others; taken as a suite of stylistically disparate songs, you get a kind of fractured family album, a historical pageant. It's at once Matmos’s most melodic and most conceptual record." Read on
Peeping Tom is the latest project of Mike Patton (Faith No More/Mr.Bungle/Lovage)which includes contributions from Amon Tobin, Bebel Gilberto, DubTrio, Kid Koala, Dale Crover, Rahzel and several others
southern.com: "Our inaugural Southern podcast comes to you from our London studio, "The Pod". Presenters Allison and Tony spin a selection of new releases interspersed with news and information. Featured artists include Carla Bozulich, Melvins, Barr, Hawnay Troof, Alias & Tarsier, Todd, Charlambides, Boris, The Paper Chase, Current 93, and Battle Of Mice." Download here
chaosradio.ccc.de "Tim Pritlove talks to Peter who is one of the maintainers and system administrators of The Pirate Bay system which has become the biggest BitTorrent tracker system in the world effectively generating half of Swedens Internet traffic. The system was recently raided by Swedish police after the US government complained about the site to the swedish government. This interview was done two days after this incident happened and while the Pirate Bay System was still offline.
Peter explains what exactly happened during the police raid and explains the history and philosophy behind the anti-copyright scene in Sweden and the technical details of the Pirate Bay system and the BitTorrent protocol in particular. He also explains what the technical difficulities are in maintaining the service and the amount private data the system stores and handles." Listen here
Deutschlandradio interviewte Tom Reynolds den Autor von "The 52 Most Depressing Songs". Unter depremierend versteht er eine Mischung aus "scheisse" und "nervig". Also so was wie Neuauflagen alter, schrottiger Songs vorgetragen von Celine Dyon. Seine Top 3 depremierender Künstler:
dradio.de: "Jedes Frühjahr werden die begehrten Grimme-Preise für besondere Leistungen im TV-Bereich verliehen. Nur ein einziger landete bei einem Privatsender. Eine Überraschung ist das nicht: Private Programmgestaltung verfolgt als oberstes Ziel, teure Werbezeiten in einem attraktiven Umfeld zu vermarkten. Allein danach richtet sich das Programmangebot. Manche nennen das Ergebnis Unterschichten-Fernsehen." Weiter
Aus dem Inhalt: Vom Niedergang der Radiokultur, Der kleine Plattenladen, Konstruktion von Pop-Stars, Kanon und Bestenlisten, Überlebensstrategie von Independent-Vertrieben, Internet-Labels, Krieg in der Mediengesellschaft, SPD und Pop-Politik, Musealisierung des Pop, TV-Polizeiserien und Disziplinierung, DVD-Boom und die Zukunft des Kinos, Video Games u.v.m.
Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth
npr.org: "The new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is about global warming -- and former Vice President Al Gore's long quest to raise awareness about the issue. Bob Mondello, NPR film critic, and Richard Harris, NPR science correspondent, talk to Michele Norris about their evaluation of the art and science of An Inconvenient Truth." Listen here
Al Gore Screens His Global Warming Message
npr.org: "For 17 years, former Vice President Al Gore has been on the forefront of warning against global warming. But in his new documentary, The Inconvenient Truth, he says that he failed to get the message out." Listen here
Al Gore Sounds Global Warming Alert
npr.org: "For 30 years, Al Gore has been a student of the climate crisis and an advocate for change in environmental policies. He brings his message to the big screen in a new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The film grew from a slideshow presentation about the problem of global warming that the former vice president has given over the years." Listen here
Pink is the latest release from Boris, a drone and guitar band from Japan. One of my favourite tracks of 2006.
Boris - Farewell from the album Pink
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"PayLoadz offers a service to sell intangible goods such as: software, eBooks, music, podcasts, movies, digital art, manuals, articles, certificates, forms, files, and more."
"Yokomono consists of 10 small car-shaped record players, a corresponding set of FM radios and two mixing desks. The cars, known as "vinyl killers," have been customised with wireless FM transmitters. As they spin around the vinyl, they transmit their signal to the FM radios tuned to a special Yokomono frequency. This transmission is then mixed, edited and manipulated in real-time by members of the Staalplaat Soundsystem." Read on. Found via vvork.com
npr.org: "The new documentary Baghdad ER goes inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq, the Army's premier medical facility in Iraq. Shot over two months in 2005, the film tells the stories of the hospital's doctors and wounded soldiers. The film debuted on HBO last week. Filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill discuss their project with Terry Gross." Listen here. More info here
hwylnofio.com: "hwyl nofio is an evolving ensemble based around its originator Steve Parry, who had previously worked with Matt Johnson of the the and Colin Potter of Nurse With Wound. “Steve Parry explores and exploits an ongoing collision between harmony and disharmony. Largely built around Parry’s abstract guitar patterns the music shifts between drone, embryonic melody and crackling elemental noise, replacing rock's normal linear dynamic with a series of fractured dialogues in which disfigured musical elements collide and merge with abstract blocks of sound” "
wnyc.org: "On this edition of New Sounds, John Schaefer welcomes Dutch ten-string Renaissance lute player Josef van Wissem, along with guitarist Gary Lucas, the NYC-based musician well known from his days with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Together, on their unusual combination of instruments, they perform quirky original works live in the WNYC studio. "
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Über Tauschbörsen, Raubkopien und freie Netze
dradio.de:" Man könnte behaupten, dass die Weitergabe von Dateien zu den ursprünglichsten Aufgaben des Internets gehört. Warum sonst sollte man Rechner miteinander vernetzen, wenn man nicht Programme, Texte oder andere Daten von einem auf den anderen Computer bewegen möchte. Was der amerikanische Student Shawn Fanning im Jahr 2000 erfand, glich dennoch einer Revolution: Mit Napster wurde das Tauschen von Dateien so einfach wie E-Mails schreiben und damit gefährlich." Weiter Über Tauschbörsen, Raubkopien und freie Netze
Die digitale Kopie - International
dradio.de:" Der Nachfolger des analogen Kassettenmitschnitts ist die digitale Kopie - identisch mit dem Original und bester Qualität. Dies und die Verbreitung schneller Internetanschlüsse öffneten dem illegalen Tausch von Musiktiteln Tür und Tor. Gesetzgeber und Industrie setzen jedoch zum Gegenschlag an." Weiter Die digitale Kopie - International
Frankreich ringt um Neuregelung des Urheberrechts
dradio.de:" Während weltweit gegen Filesharing Front gemacht wird, stand der Dateitausch in Frankreich kurz vor der Legalisierung. In Frankreich gelten Informationen als frei - sie dürfen nicht einmal verschlüsselt werden. Doch auch hier könnte die Lage kippen." Weiter Frankreich ringt um Neuregelung des Urheberrechts
googlesystem.blogspot.com offers a handy bookmarklet to directly download Google videos as a .avi file which can be watched with every media player. Get the bookmarklet here
Usually Google videos can be downloaded as GVI files, but in order to watch them, one needs the google video player.
highpointlowlife.com: "Izu, known to his parents as Ronnie MacPherson, was brought up on the remote Hebridean island of South Uist, a galaxy away from the darkened clubs and smoggy streets of his current hometown Glasgow. The Izu sound can be traced through his early love of Black Dog, the Orb, FSOL and early 90s rave, filtered through more recent obsessions with Shadetek, Lusine, Dabrye and the burgeoning Glasgow electronic scene." More
Deutschlandradio interviewte Tom Reynolds den Autor von "The 52 Most Depressing Songs". Unter depremierend versteht er eine Mischung aus "scheisse" und "nervig". Also so was wie Neuauflagen alter, schrottiger Songs vorgetragen von Celine Dyon. Seine Top 3 depremierender Künstler:
Aus dem Inhalt: Vom Niedergang der Radiokultur, Der kleine Plattenladen, Konstruktion von Pop-Stars, Kanon und Bestenlisten, Überlebensstrategie von Independent-Vertrieben, Internet-Labels, Krieg in der Mediengesellschaft, SPD und Pop-Politik, Musealisierung des Pop, TV-Polizeiserien und Disziplinierung, DVD-Boom und die Zukunft des Kinos, Video Games u.v.m. 
Pink is the latest release from Boris, a drone and guitar band from Japan. One of my favourite tracks of 2006.
Marcel Duchamp Speaks
