D/R/U/G/S

in an attempt to re-start this blog of mine, i thought i'd start by sharing a new mix. since the last post, my life has turned crazy because the band i am in d/r/u/g/s has been achieving things.

here is a d/r/u/g/s mix i made for VICE magazine;

download here

tracklisting;

boredoms - ant 10
pantha du prince - walden 2
floating points - k&g beat
mosca - square one
teengirl fantasy - forever the feeling
pariah - railroad
d/r/u/g/s - love/lust
martin kemp - aztec
joy orbison - the shrew would have cushioned the blow
ikonika - psoriasis
untold - stop what your doing (james blake remix)
girl unit - irl
lorn - void II
scuba - three sided shape
silkie - spark
hudson mo - snapdragon
rustie - beast night
tokimonsta - a milli - lil wayne (forgetting numbers rmx)
craig mack - real raw
dr.dre - explosive
flying lotus - camel
b.lewis - morning yawn
bullion - are you the one?
spank rock - imc
guido - anidea
teebs - untitled (94bmp one)
hud mo - ooops!
oOoOO - hearts

let me off for the couple of scrappy mixes towards the end lol

i've had a pretty crazy summer,

got a few upcoming posts written,

george x

hoya:hoya

i could go on all day about how good manchester's monthly club night hoya:hoya is, but we better to tell you than the motherfucking gaslamp killer, or GLK? below is a two part interview, conducted by hoya hoya, taken from their tumblr

part 1


part 2


im just glad i live in manchester

x

Kidkanevil

you better enjoy this innit. souper. cheers rich james x

Always Treat Yourself Spring Mix

Here is da Spring Mix.

Playlist:

Jackhigh - Shadow Faces
Dexter - Deep in the JuJu
J Todd - 00antiskit00
Illum Sphere - Agent White
Take - Neon Beams
Nujabees - Think Different (feat, Substantial)
Paul White - My Guitar Whales (Extended Version)
Teebs - Untitled (94 bmp)
Hudson Mohawke - Ooops!
House Shoes - The Makings
Scuba - Three Sided Shape
Falty DL - Bravery
Mosca - Square One (Bok Bok remix)
Kuhn - Rear Window

Mix length - (24.24), hope ya enjoy.

Sun Ra Arkestra @ Cafe Oto, London (12.04.10) - Review Coming Soon



x

Ray Kurzweil on VBS

FlyLo and Strangeloop 'Heaven and Earth Magic' score

Flying Lotus and Dr. Strangeloop scored the avant garde Harry Everett Smith film Heaven and Earth Magic (wiki | imdb) for the Ann Arbor Film Festival on March 26th. Here are two videos and an interview posted by meadorni (via prefixmag)

Please take care to note that, right at the end of the interview, Strangeloop gets asked about the Singularity. The singularity could be the biggest treat of all, and it's pretty important that you get to know what it is:

• Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Near (wiki | twitter | homepage | TED talks)

• Various blogs and tech sites covering the singularity:

Singularity Hub

H+ Magazine

Institute for the Future

The Singularity Institute

Singularity University

Future Current

Alexander Kruel

Today and Tomorrow

Sapiens Anonymous

Centauri Dreams

Space Collective

In the aftermath of the Singularity, intelligence, derived from its biological origins in human brains and its technological origins in human ingenuity, will begin to saturate the matter and energy in its midst. It will achieve this by reorganizing matter and energy to provide an optimal level of computation to spread out from its origin on Earth.

We currently understand the speed of light as a bounding factor on the transfer of information. Circumventing this limit has to be regarded as highly speculative, but there are hints that this constraint may be able to be superseded. If there are even subtle deviations, we will ultimately harness this superluminal ability. Whether our civilization infuses the rest of the universe with its creativity and intelligence quickly or slowly depends on its immutability. In any event the "dumb" matter and mechanisms of the universe will be transformed into exquisitely sublime forms of intelligence, which will constitute the sixth epoch in the evolution of patterns of information.

This is the ultimate destiny of the Singularity and of the universe.

- Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near

Alice in Wonderland

Made in 1903, a little relic


click here to watch

the auteurs website is worth signing up to, a good source and medium to find out about films, and a good platform for forum discussions & reccomendations



for your ears: juj - heheh.

Just some straight ass soulful beats, straight from LA'a we did it collective which includes other dope guys including shlohmo and previously posted 0. aka 'zeroh'. The wedidit website has it's finger on the pulse, a useful bookmark to treat yourself to.


one more treat: Fatima's 'soul glo' vid / elgo records.
fairly new label, mostly famed for thier flotating points releases.



via spine tv

gotta get some of that soul glo, x

Dexter - Hi-Hat Club Vol.3 / The Jazz Files

Absolute. Gold.

Dexter - The Future / Sounds Great Les from MPMTV on Vimeo.

"The beat changes according to each persons conception of where to beat is, and how - in his phrasing he develops this particular approach to the beat"

TEEBS

however, TEEBS is on another level

CRUMBS

i don't know if it's just me, but i think this is some of the most incredible noise i've heard in a while. hits real deep

Pieces and Portions Volume 1 EP - FREE

Always Treat Yourself Mix 1

FIND IT HERE

Playlist;

Mr Dibiase - I Pity The Fool

Mount Kimbe - Sketch On Glass

Fantastic Mr Fox - Brickabrac

Illum Sphere - Better Late State

Martyn - Yet

Radiohead - Idioteque

Machine Drum - Concorcon

Mounte Kimbe - Serged

Annu - Thedeal

Kona Triangle - Fresh Flowers

Lunice - The Happening

Nosaj Thing - Lords

King Midas Sound - I Dub

Tokimonsta - Oddidles Remix

Portishead - Machine Gun

Flying Lotus - Parasian Goldfish

Mr Dibiase - I Pity The Fool (Boys in the hood)

My first ever mix! Novice in action!

While I am here, get your tickets for Brainfeeder London 2010, unmissable.

x

dEbruit - Heart Beats 4 Haiti

if you haven't donated to haiti yet, this is EP is a perfect way to do so. treat yourself and others;

donate here

+ yall should know that the below EP is also incredible + you should probably for that too via his site:

AND a free track from dEbruit here (lovely man)

also, a third installment from Zeroh (0.) - ennui (3)...

here.

via here.

peace x

happy birthday

Tripping The Light Fantastic

I'm a bit for the idea that the internet is 'ultimate communication', however at the same time I find it pretty sobering to visualise each individual user's path through the internet and think that no other has or will ever replicate it. Sharing your favourite things on the internet is the closest you can come to 'taking someone wit

h you', I think.

In my next few posts, I'll be coming clean about the deep dark recesses of the internet where I get my juicy fixes. Could easily just bosh links off Twitter all day, but a sneaky feeling tells me it will be more treat-worthy to administer a little structure to the process. As such, areas to be covered will include futurism & post-humanism, science & technology, 'neurotheology', audio & visual arts and Africa! It's gonna be a trip!

When I'm pouncing on internet treats like a hungry Bandicoot on a Wumpa fruit, I think of the above scene from You Know What. I also think about this phrase, 'Trip the light fantastic', which, time and again, pops up in the most unlikely places.

Zeroh - Ennui (1) & (2)

Two free EPs of indescribable.

ennui (1)

ennui (2)

From this guy. Don't sleep.

Also, this is literally making my eyes water. 8 piece live dubstep ensemble from Leeds, UK.

Slice of Pie

This is Marshall McLuhan. He wrote The Medium is the Massage in 1967.

This is Norman Mailer. He wrote The White Negro in 1957.

Beats are from a middle-class background and have been downwardly mobile. Negroes are more likely to be from a working-class background and to have been upwardly mobile. Beats avoid employment while middle-class Negroes seek it. For the black bourgeoisie jobs are seen as an important means of obtaining status and a means to bigger and better conspicuous consumption. A French sociologist has even called this group "colored babbits." Popular mythology suggests that beats will not work, and statements like the following support this: "Me earn money? Never. All you earn the government takes and what you got left? I'll tell you. What the little boy urinated at, that's what. The hole in the fence, man, that's what you got left."

In 1968, they had a live discussion on American national television.

Edit: Google Video wants to come between you and your treats. Don't let it.

No matter what you conclude after you have encountered to these two brains, you will have learned important lessons. Knowledge is a treat! Go get yourself some Pie, bo!

mixtape

i've ordered a hercules steel controller, with the intention of starting a clubnight in manc and to try to weedle into djing circuits. this is what the beast looks like..



while thinking about this, n what sort of shit i'd be doing, i prepared a mixtape, but of the un-mixed variety:

Violent/Soulful/Fresh Beats Vol.1 Download Here

maybe vol.2 will have some of my own beats on it, and mixed like a mother on the hercules. sweeeeeet.


Hip Hop + Jazz

in the meenwhile, have a listen to this crazy thing, Antipop Consortium v Mathew Shipp. (i ain't gunna link this album, but i'm gunna help you find it here )



it is pure pudding to show jazz and hip hop, together. obv the two genres are seperate entities in some respects, but the middle ground/cross over zone is rly interesting.

i'll be posting more about this area. stuff about Ras G, Sex Mob, Gang Starr and about the general movement in the late 80's which led to hip hop as we know it.

(did you know; miles davis was one of the first people to have scracthing on a record)

bye 4 now x

peshwari naan

living on a budget is a burden. but i splashed out on some peshwari naan bread and i'm happy for it. why did i splash out? to treat myself.

currently compiling thoughts and evidence to write a blog about how hip hop and jazz do and should feed off each other

a quickie

Nosaj Thing Remix of the xx - Islands

+

House Shoes + Flying Lotus. The Do Over EP

two lovely treats, x

joy fantastic

two important things i feel have happened in my slice of music,

1) she dressed in her best, a new song from everyones favourite and highly hyped man joy orbison, has revealed itself. i had doubts about him, wondered if he was 'hot air' or just 'an accessible burial', but this is a pure slice of confirmation cake that a) he is good and b) he is here to stay for longer than hyph mngo would allow.

here is the pudding, proof;



"that's a bad tune. that is emotional electronic music for the dance floor"
- some goon saying it how it is, ruining it for us all.

2) hudson mowhawke, warp's glaswegian king has been announced to play at manchester's fine hoya:hoya clubnight, for five pounds. this has me excited, as does hoya:hoya in general, it's pretty much the idyllic ideal. deal.


FILMS

i got my filthy mitts on this fine dvd;


read all about it

the medium of 'short film' is underrated i think. it seems to be an area where the creative control of directors is still the main purpose. these aint products for sure. abstractions, bits of dialog, normal story narrative, visually pleasing, think pieces. they all highlight different aspects of film. i recommend it yall

happytwentyten x