NEW ON THE SITE THIS MONTH:
DUB SECTION
Bit of a major overhaul, with some random photoshop fuckery and a load of new links.
Plus an old Augustus Pablo interview, some stills and other stuff added to the section on the film Babylon and a new playlist. There's even a hint at the long awaited Irie AAA historification project if you look closely enough. Get to it this way.
PLUS:
mp3 of the month - some awesome archival audio from the Association of Autonomous Astronauts.
AND ELSEWHERE:
OV POWER
FOPI uncovers
the Madonna T.O.P.Y. connection:
http://www.fopi.net/gal/ptv/symbol/cross/madonna.htm
LUTHER BLISSETT SACKED!!!
A
sad say for Luther Blissetts everywhere:
http://www.watfordfc.com/
AGAINST
IDENTITY! AGAINST GENDER! THOSE PESKY PISKIES!
"The Cornish pisky stories are full of instances of contact between two "planes," brought about either accidentally or by incantations, magic eye-salve, or other means....But to dwell "in the beyond" is also to be part of imaginary time, a return to the present to redescribe our cultural contemporaneity - to reinscribe our human, historic commonality; to touch the future on its hither side.... The machinery of power focussed on this whole alien strain did not aim to suppress it, but rather give it an analytical, visible, and permanent reality: it was implanted in bodies, slipped in beneath modes of conduct, made into a principle of classification and intellibility, established as a raison d'etre and a natural disorder...."
http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/netnews/pisky.html
BOOMSHAKALACKA PRESENTS CLASSIC ORIGINAL DUBPLATE
A new article
by Russ D of the Disciples on the culture of dubplates in reggae soundsystems,
including mp3s of some fiercely rare tunes. A great read:
http://website.lineone.net/~disciples_russd/1dubplate.html
FROM THE DESK OF MERRICK GODHAVEN:
"Over the last 3 months I've been putting together 2 compilation CDs to raise funds for the new activist centre in Nottingham. At long bastard last they're out.
Called Moving On volumes 1 and 2, they're both over 70 mins long and only 6 quid each. Volume one ('Sing Songs') is guitarsy lyricsy songsy oriented, and has 21 tracks including Julian Cope, Tom Robinson and Seize The Day.
Volume two ('Electronica Exotica') is made of more instrumental, experimental, ambient and atmospheric stuff, and has an exclusive track by the Legendary Pink Dots as well as stuff from a dozen other artists including Foehn (ex-Third Eye Foundation) and Julian Cope.
The Godhaven crew are very much in evidence on the discs, with Volume One featuring Mahalia's song Pixie Work, Phagus' band Vehicle Derek, and a Radio Savage Houndy Beasty track too. Volume Two has a new madder mix of Trousers by The Botley & Dogdyke Veebic Warriors (ie Phagus and Jim from Spunkle).
Check out the website for more info about the albums, the bands (including links to site with MP3s of a lot of the tracks), where the money's going and how to order copies.
http://www.movingonmusic.org.uk
They're dead good and dead cheap and the money's going to a really god place. Please fork out for them if you can. Frolic wildly now summer is all around us, Merrick xx"
IN BRIEF:
Feuds corner - general weirdness and mudslinging concerning the academic pro-situ www.psychogeography.co.uk and the more counter-cultural www.psychogeographic.co.uk on the Nocturnal Emissions email discussion list.
Commodification
of sex in space:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_291078.html?menu=news.weirdworld.sexlife
The New
Fuck You:
http://www.versuspress.com/vsint_sh.htm
Give up
Pop:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4195316,00.html
