Tuesday 31 May 2016

Swans - When Will I Return

“I wrote the song ‘When Will I Return?’ specifically for [my wife] Jennifer Gira to sing. It’s a tribute to her strength, courage, and resilience in the face of a deeply scarring experience she once endured, and that she continues to overcome daily.”

Bim Sherman - The Power (SnubTV 1989)

Headline o'the day

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Neal Cassady Raps (Flexi-disc 1973)

Released as a flexi-disc in the first printing of Hank Harrison's The Dead Book. Recorded in 1967 with the Grateful Dead...and NO that is not Hank's daughter Courtney Love on the cover of AOXOMOXOA
My fifteen year old self would have 'dug' all this but I'm a bit 'furthur' down the road myself now

Just received this beautiful package

With an enormous effort and the help of many friends we have put together this compilation, featuring the vast majority of the projects John Murphy was involved with – whether as a solo musician, contributor, full band member or session musician. Carefully curated and compiled, it follows the chronology of his career, starting with his high school band MANDRIX and following through all the way to his last studio recordings with LAST DOMINION LOST.
A major part of this compilation are tracks featuring John himself, a treasure of yet unreleased recordings with ASSOCIATES, SHINING VRIL, KRANG, KRANK, BROWNING MUMMERY, KNIFELADDER, SOOTERKIN FLESH, BLOOD AND IRON, WERTHAM, FORESTA DI FERRO and GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA, as well as rare collaborative tracks with LUSTMORD, NEWS, WHIRLYWIRLD, HUGO KLANG, MAA, ORCHESTRA OF SKIN AND BONE, SLUB, DUMB AND THE UGLY, VHRIL, BORDEL MILITAIRE and THE WALKING KORPSES. John Murphy’s performances can also be heard on exclusive live recordings of BLOOD AXIS, SPK, WHITEHOUSE, NAEVUS, NIKOLAS SCHRECK, MY FATHER OF SERPENTS & DISCIPLES OF NONE and MANDRIX, while newly recorded personal dedications (partially making use of John Murphy recordings) come from OF THE WAND AND THE MOON, DIE WEISSE ROSE, GENOCIDE ORGAN, ANDREW KING and DAVID E. WILLIAMS. Last but not least there are his last live and studio recordings from March & May 2015 with THE GRIMSEL PATH, ZEENA SCHRECK and his last main band LAST DOMINION LOST.
My thanks to Alan Bamford  for hand delivering this amazing package celebrating the life and work of old friend John.
A limited edition of 750 copies

Mary Ellen Mark


The 'lost' letter Jack Kerouac described as ‘The greatest piece of writing I ever saw’ up for auction

Sunday 29 May 2016

30 Days Of The Dead Archive Download

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A series of tracks released for download on dead.net in November 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
2010
1. New Speedway Boogie 20 Sep 1970
2. Dark Star 5 Jun 1969
3. Althea 14 Mar 1981
4. Playing In The Band 13 May 1973
5. Easy Wind 16 Jan 1970
6. Sugaree 13 Oct 1980
7. He's Gone 26 Mar 1987
8. Estimated Prophet 7 Oct 1980
9. China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider 1 Feb 1970
10. Cream Puff War 18 Mar 1967
11. Saint Stephen 15 Oct 1983
12. The Music Never Stopped 24 Apr 1978
13. Truckin' 30 May 1971
14. New Minglewood Blues 26 Dec 1970
15. Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumtance 25 Oct 1980
16. New Potato Caboose 4 Aug 1967
17. Cold Rain And Snow 28 Dec 1970
18. So Many Roads 28 Mar 1993
19. Sugar Magnolia 24 Feb 1971
20. Alligator 5 Aug 1967
21. Cassidy>Don't Ease Me In 31 Aug 1983
22. Tennessee Jed>Let It Grow 23 Oct 1989
23. Dupree's Diamond Blues 25 Jan 1969
24. Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower 5 May 1991
25. My Brother Esau 14 Apr 1984
26. Shakedown Street 6 Apr 1982
27. Mason's Children 10 Jan 1970
28. Let It Grow 16 Jul 1990
29. Uncle John's Band 11 Feb 1970
30. Sugar Magnolia 4 Jun 1978
2011
1. New Potato Caboose 22 Oct 1967
2. Slipknot>Franklin's Tower 24 Sep 1976
3. Shakedown Street 20 Mar 1992
4. Sugar Magnolia 13 Aug 1979
5. The Music Never Stopped>Don't Ease Me In 3 Sep 1985
6. Estimated Prophet>He's Gone 19 Apr 1978
7. Dark Star 14 Feb 1970
8. Scarlet Begonias 3 Oct 1976
9. He Was A Friend Of Mine 3 Jul 1969
10. Bird Song 10 Jun 1973
11. Candyman>Cassidy 9 Dec 1981
12. Looks Like Rain>Might As Well 26 Jun 1984
13. Friend Of The Devil 7 Jun 1970
14. Mississippi Half-Step 26 Mar 1973
15. Uncle John's Band 28 Dec 1988
16. Ramble On Rose 21 Oct 1971
17. Just A Little Light 18 Mar 1990
18. Peggy-O 24 Nov 1979
19. Passenger 26 Feb 1981
20. Wharf Rat 29 Jul 1974
21. New Speedway Boogie 20 Dec 1969
22. Lazy Lightning>Supplication 12 Jun 1976
23. Let It Grow 23 Sep 1982
24. Weather Report Suite 8 Dec 1973
25. Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain 30 Aug 1980
26. Feel Like A Stranger 2 Apr 1990
27. Playing In The Band 15 Nov 1972
28. Samson And Delilah 6 May 1990
29. China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider 17 May 1974
30. Lazy Lightning>Supplication 25 May 1977
2012
1. Sugaree 17 Oct 1983
2. High Time 17 May 1977
3. Uncle John's Band 1 May 1970
4. Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance 11 Jul 1981
5. Jack Straw 4 Jun 1978
6. China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider 14 Apr 1971
7. Samson And Delilah 5 Apr 1988
8. Here Comes Sunshine 17 Nov 1973
9. Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain 31 Jul 1982
10. Estimated Prophet 20 Mar 1977
11. Jam 25 Mar 1991
12. Ramble On Rose 19 Dec 1973
13. Shakedown Street 31 Dec 1989
14. Black Peter 11 Feb 1970
15. The Music Never Stopped 21 Apr 1978
16. Dark Star 20 Oct 1968
17. Let It Grow>Deal 28 Feb 1981
18. The Wheel 29 Apr 1977
19. Bird Song 2 Oct 1972
20. Playing In The Band 30 Oct 1980
21. New Minglewood Blues 24 Feb 1971
22. Candyman 4 Feb 1978
23. Brokedown Palace 7 Dec 1971
24. The Other One 27 Sep 1976
25. Jam>Bass>Sugar Magnolia 24 Feb 1973
26. Franklin's Tower 9 May 1978
27. Cryptical Envelopment>The Other One>Cosmic Charlie 8 Jun 1969
28. Passenger 26 May 1977
29. Row Jimmy 14 May 1974
30. Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower 17 Jun 1976
2013
1. Shakedown Street 24 Mar 1981
2. New Minglewood Blues 24 Feb 1971
3. So Many Roads 1 Oct 1994
4. Sugaree 26 Aug 1980
5. Cream Puff War 3 Jul 1966
6. Playing In The Band 25 Nov 1973
7. West L.A. Fadeaway 27 Mar 1987
8. Uncle John's Band 11 Feb 1970
9. Passenger 7 May 1979
10. Tennessee Jed 10 Jul 1989
11. Black Peter 12 Nov 1971
12. The Music Never Stopped 12 Jun 1976
13. Loose Lucy 27 Mar 1993
14. Big Railroad Blues 22 Mar 1972
15. High Time 26 May 1977
16. Cryptical Envelopment>The Other One 23 Aug 1968
17. Let It Grow>Don't Ease Me In 16 Sep 1987
18. Candyman 29 Nov 1980
19. Feel Like A Stranger 31 Mar 1986
20. Stagger Lee 18 Nov 1978
21. I Need A Miracle>Bertha 10 Aug 1982
22. Corrina 23 Mar 1995
23. My Brother Esau 24 Jun 1985
24. China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider 21 Feb 1973
25. Space>Only A Fool 23 Apr 1984
26. Friend Of The Devil 18 May 1977
27. Alligator>Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 10 Nov 1967
28. Hell In A Bucket>Don't Ease Me In 27 Jun 1985
29. Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain 7 May 1978
30. Bird Song 10 Sep 1972
2014
1. Scarlet Begonias>Touch Of Gray>Fire On The Mountain 3 Jul 1984
2. China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider 20 Oct 1974
3. Doin' That Rag 22 Apr 1969
4. Estimated Prophet>Lady With A Fan>Terrapin Station 28 Jun 1985
5. Bird Song 24 Feb 1971
6. Dupree's Diamond Blues 19 Apr 1983
7. Candyman 1 May 1970
8. Row Jimmy 4 Feb 1978
9. Cream Puff War 3 Jul 1966
10. Lazy Lightning>Supplication 30 Sep 1976
11. Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower 1 Apr 1984
12. Cumberland Blues 31 Oct 1971
13. The Music Never Stopped 26 May 1977
14. Jack Straw 26 Mar 1983
15. Box Of Rain 16 Mar 1973
16. EAC Jam 29 Apr 1975
17. Comes A Time 10 Dec 1971
18. Victim Or The Crime>Foolish Heart 16 Oct 1988
19. Looks Like Rain 12 Jun 1976
20. To Lay Me Down 11 May 1981
21. Cryptical Envelopment>The Other One 7 Nov 1969
22. Ship Of Fools 12 May 1974
23. It Must Have Been The Roses 18 May 1977
24. Uncle John's Band 1 Mar 1970
25. My Brother Esau 31 Mar 1986
26. Passenger 24 Nov 1979
27. Mississippi Half Step 28 Mar 1973
28. Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance 23 Sep 1982
29. Playing In the Band 16 Sep 1972
30. Eyes Of The World 16 Oct 1974
2015
1. Sunrise 2 Nov 1977
2. Crazy Fingers 13 Jul 1976
3. Comes A Time 30 Oct 1971
4. Estimated Prophet 4 May 1977
5. Dupree's Diamond Blues 13 Oct 1994
6. Feel Like A Stranger 19 Apr 1986
7. Dark Star 20 Apr 1969
8. China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider 16 Mar 1973
9. The Music Never Stopped 7 May 1978
10. He's Gone>Jam 26 Feb 1981
11. Uncle John's Band>U.S.Blues 25 Jul 1974
12. Foolish Heart 10 Jul 1989
13. Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance 31 Oct 1979
14. My Brother Esau 14 Apr 1984
15. New Potato Caboose 8 Jun 1969
16. The Other One>Jam>I Know You Rider 31 Mar 1973
17. Saint Stephen 12 Oct 1968
18. Blow Away 27 May 1989
19. Ship Of Fools 8 Jul 1978
20. Hell In A Bucket 26 Jun 1994
21. Far From Me 13 Apr 1983
22. You Don't Have To Ask 25 Mar 1966
23. China Doll 23 June 1974
24. Black Throated Wind 23 Oct 1973
25. Operator 18 Sept 1970
26. Althea 9 Sept 1982
27. They Love Each Other 19 July 1990
28. Box Of Rain 31 Dec 1972
29. Lazy River Road 31 July 1994
30. Uncle John's Band 29 Sep 1977


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Thursday 26 May 2016

I could watch this for hours...

...oh is that the time?

Cabane ft. Kate Stables and Bonnie Prince Billy - Wooden Home

Tuesday 24 May 2016

The Libertines - Live @L'Olympia Paris (9/3/16)


Tracklist:
Barbarians
The Delaney
Heart of the Matter
Horrorshow
Fame and Fortune
Boys in the Band
The Milkman's Horse
What Katie Did
Anthem for Doomed Youth
The Man Who Would Be King
You're My Waterloo
Gunga Din
Can't Stand Me Now
Death on the Stairs
Time for Heroes
The Good Old Days
Encore:
La Marseillaise
(Claude-Joseph Rouget de l'Isle cover) (accapella)
Music When the Lights Go Out
Up the Bracket
What a Waster
Don't Look Back Into the Sun / Tell the King

Monday 23 May 2016

Skepta - Man

Nicolas Winding Refn: society has become necrophiliac as the internet merges death and beauty

Drone Bomb Me

No. Not a Rough Trade signing circa 82

Erich Consemüller, Marcel Breuer and his "harem" (from left to right: Marta Erps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Consemüller), ca. 1927
Weimar Classics Foundation
The photo, taken by Consemüller, a student and photographer at the Bauhaus, captures the junior master Marcel Breuer around 1927. The title of the picture refers to the women standing next to him as Breuer’s ‘harem’. The women appear self-confident, with cool gazes and tousled shocks of short hair, and in modern dress. Marcel Breuer is looking at his companions sceptically, with his arms crossed. These are ‘my’ women?!
The title expresses the precise opposite of what the photo itself shows – the modernity, emancipation, equality, or even superiority, of the women in it. The actual date of the photo is hard to judge from their haircuts and clothing. It could just as well have been made in the 1980s, when women’s emancipation was reaching new heights.
Marcel Breuer is looking at the Bauhaus women disconcertedly, with a distanced gaze and a dismissive posture. From 1925 to 1928, Breuer headed the carpentry workshop at the Bauhaus as a junior master. The women shown include Breuer’s wife Martha Erps (left) and Ruth Hollós, the wife of the photographer. The architect Katt Both is standing in the middle. The viewer is caught by the penetrating gazes of Both and Erp. Ruth Hollós-Consemüller, by contrast, seems to be suppressing laughter as she looks towards the photographer (her husband). The photo’s title may possibly have been given to it when they were examining the final product later and someone jokingly remarked that the women were apparently Breuer’s ‘harem’. But what is the role played by Marcel Breuer in the harem? Is he its sultan/patriarch or eunuch/superintendent? In the role-play, Breuer seems to be looking at the women to check that they are properly spruced up. Erich Consemüller’s photo once again reflects the modern basic feeling and relaxed fun that were characteristic of the Bauhaus.
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Marcel Breur & the Women of  Bauhaus

Sunday 22 May 2016

Lee Perry - Live @Vivid (Sydney Opera House 11/6/09) *Live Mix by Adrian Sherwood

Roast Fish & Cornbread/Exodus

The other day I found this excellent recording on an old hard drive with absolutely no recollection of ever hearing it before or indeed where I got it from.
I remember at the time being somewhat pissed off that Scratch and Adrian were only doing the one show in Sydney and not coming down here to Melbourne as I think Adrian's previous working visit was the Audio Active/Tackhead/Mark Stewart & The Maffia 'Out of Control' tour that Mambo promoted in the mid nineties.
I recorded the Melbourne Zu-Zu's gig which I must try and grab out of storage one day.
This is a couple of hours well spent
Review
Photographs
Get the full recording
HERE

Adrian Sherwood - On-U Sound Radio Show (Carhartt WIP Radio 5/16)


This month Carhartt WIP Radio is bringing you a show by Adrian Sherwood and his legendary label On-U Sound. During a career of more than 30 years, Sherwood produced and remixed artists such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, Primal Scream, Depeche Mode or Einstürzende Neubauten amongst others. His label On-U Sound, formed in 1980, is worldwide known for cutting edge releases that are rooted somewhere between dub, experimental, Reggae, Post-punk and electronica. Furthermore many On-U Sound releases greatly influenced the sounds of today like ambient and techno. Recently many On-U Sound records of artists and collectives like African Head Charge, Singers & Players or Bim Sherman got re-released and Sherwood himself produced, dubbed and released contemporary bands like the Japanese trio Nisennenmondai. For Carhartt WIP Radio Adrian Sherwood tuned in a mix that grooves between the past, present and future of On-U Sound.
Tracklist:
Ghetto Priest - Slave State (feat. Junior Delgado) [from forthcoming album "Slave State"]
Mark Stewart - Awidk [unreleased]
Nisennenmondai - 3 [from the newly released album "#N/A"]
Ital Horns with Dub Syndicate - Metropolis [from unreleased album "Blow The Man Down"]
Cha Cha - Dub No Frontiers (Excerpt) [unreleased]
Roots Manuva - Hit It (Alternative Version) [from current album "Bleeds"]
Dub Syndicate - Wadada (feat. Prince Far I) [from the 1991 album "Stoned Immaculate"]
Congo Natty - UK Allstars In Dub (Adrian Sherwood Remix) [from current album "Jungle Revolution In Dub"]
Coldcut/Adrian Sherwood feat. Junior Reid, Elan & Lee Perry [forthcoming project] - Divide And Rule
L.S.K. - Way Of The World [unreleased]
Denise Sherwood - Ghost Heart [unreleased]
Junior Delgado - None Shall Escape [unreleased classic version on "Masters of Deception" rhythm]
Missing Brazilians - Quicksand Beach Party [1981 original from the album "Warzone" reissue and also available on the Trevor Jackson compiled "Science Fiction Dancehall Classics"
Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia [from the album "Survival and Resistance"]
Adrian Sherwood Interview

Saturday 21 May 2016

And the worst remix of the year award goes to...


...Anton Newcombe bastardising Primal Scream's '100% or Nothing'

Friday 20 May 2016

HA!

Laurence Jenkins
Nobody Likes Reverse Centaur

I Am The Upsetter

LSP poster and slipmat and more available HERE

Black Ark in Lego: Lee 'Scratch' Perry’s Famed Studio Recreated


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The Unlimited Destruction

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LSP designs by New Analog
HERE & HERE

Queen of Parts


Hmmm

Thursday 19 May 2016

Black Cab - Howler Melbourne (6/5/16) REMASTERED






Tracklist
Closing Ceremomy
Supermädchen
Combat Boots
Kornelia Ender
Uniforms
Victorious
Untitled
Sexy Polizei
Untitled
Isolation
Download
Photos: Gennady Revzin
Tapetweaking from my original handheld Tascam recording by Andrew from the band

Un-Australian


Australia's disgraceful inhumanity to people seeking asylum

Journey into an Invisible War


The story of how Israeli settlements continue to spread into Palestinian territory despite international opposition
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Wednesday 18 May 2016

Fred Giannelli - Hotel Chelsea Atmosphere

36 Bloody Years Ago


Sunday 15 May 2016

Hillsborough

Hillsborough is an in-depth, moving account of Britain's worst sporting disaster, in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. Beginning with that fateful day, 15 April 1989, the film details the horror of the tragedy, told through the experiences of those directly involved: fans, survivors, family members and police officers. Many speak publicly for the first time.
It captures the horror of the crush on the terraces, revealing the prejudices held by the police towards football fans. It exposes the police commanders' abject failure in leadership as the tragedy unfolded, and their deceit and determination to deflect responsibility for their failures in crowd management onto those who survived.
The documentary exposes the lack of dignity shown to bereaved families as they arrived in Sheffield to identify their loved ones laid out in body bags on a gymnasium floor. It considers the impact of the orchestrated vilification of fans in the media and, as a consequence, their public condemnation. By interviewing those involved, it recounts the 27-year campaign for justice fought on behalf of the 96 who died

Saturday 14 May 2016

New Autechre

Thursday 12 May 2016

Death by GPS

Wednesday 11 May 2016

Empathy For The Devil


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Tuesday 10 May 2016

Planting Seeds: Back To The Ballroom

Dirtmusic - Black Gravity


Hugo Race: The Storm Breaking
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Dirtmusic - Red Dust

Hugo Race in conversation with Mark Mordue (Wheeler Centre Melbourne 31/3/16)

Here's Mark's review of 'Road Series'. More of Hugo's writing can be found here.
It's funny I used to go and see The Wreckery when I first came out to Australia in the mid eighties but I never really followed his career. Got to say I am very impressed with his writing and in fact even went down to my local bookshop to order Road Series after reading the review

Monday 9 May 2016

True Testimonial

Sunday 8 May 2016

Sunday Morning Coming Down Mix


Tracklist:
1. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Dying
2. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Investigation
3. Tom Cora - Hibou Perdu (Lost Owl)
4. Alfred Schnittke - 'Sabran' Je Pesen Sikh, Gde Karhdyj Stikhby
5. Martin Duffy - Hymn
6. St. Kilda - You Are In Every Dream
7. Hamlet Gonashvili - Berikatsi Var
8. The Tsinandali Choir - Kaxuri Mravaljamieri
9. John Martyn - Small Hours (Instrumental)

Saturday 7 May 2016

Black Cab - Live @Howler Melbourne (6/5/16)


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An absolutely magnificent gig last night which totally made up for Thursday night's technical difficulties. Tedious? Not when it works...

HA!

Thursday 5 May 2016

Two nights of Black Cab at Howler tonight and tomorrow


Friday is sold out but there are still a few tickets left for tonight

Taking Black Cab from Shepparton to Europe

Prince and Kendrick Lamar Live @Paisley Park (2015)

Let Me Take You To The Empty Place: An Incomplete Story of Peter Laughner and Television (Slight Return)

Blue Can Doo Mix


1. Anne Briggs - Highlodge Hare
2. Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions
3. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
4. Dot Allison - Montague Terrace (In Blue)
5. Judee Sill - The Kiss
6. Gillian Welch - I Dream A Highway
7. Kendra Smith - She Brings The Rain
8. Glissando - Floods
9. Freida Abtan - Creeping Ivy
10. Ruby Throat - My Head
11. Rosa Yemen - Herpes Simplex
12. Geraldine Fibbers - You Doo Right
An early morning all female vocal mix as daybreak hits Melbourne

Wednesday 4 May 2016

Radiohead - Burn The Witch

Tuesday 3 May 2016

The Mutant Zoo - Lovebirds

Grey Day Mix


Tracklist:
1. Conemelt - Dronemelt
2. Lokai - Taora Atoll
3. Daryl Hall - Urban Landscape
4. Ollie Olsen - Scum Moon
5. Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Halo
6. Demdike Stare - Forest of Evil (Dawn)
7. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - A Bad Trip/A Place For Fantasies/Murder Amongst Mannequins
8. Nadja/Black Boned Angel - I
9. Mokira - Ode To The Ode To The Street Hassle

Sunday 1 May 2016


RIP Phil Ryan