Friday 29 January 2016

Some other things...

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Bowie: What I've learnt. Isolated vocals, acoustic guitar and bass from 'Rock'n'Roll Suicide'

Tony Visconti breaks down 'Heroes'. Bowie's lost year in L.A. and when he lived briefly in Kyoto. 'Diamond Dogs' TV adverts. Bowie's must have 25 records and his top 100 books. A thank you letter to David Bowie from a palliative care doctor. We could be antiheroes.

Here's a review and videos of James Chance's wonderful set at the Northcote Social Club the other week...and I thought Don had such impeccable taste. Woody Guthrie really didn't like Donald Trump's father. The monarch of the middlebrow. An oral history of  Wax Treatment. Jah Wobble. Bill Laswell. The early days of Jamaican dancehall. The ultimate Lee 'Scratch' Perry guide. The unsung genius of Dennis Bovell. Take The Power Back. Beyond Fela: A guide to early African electronic music.
Got to be honest that I think shame is more likely to lead to a relapse tbh. That time the US dropped four nukes on Spain. The threat of a dirty bomb. Who to blame for ISIL? Saddam's ISIL? The myth of the ISIL messaging app. So much blood-lust in their most recent video and the trouble is who gets locked out after them? Mind over martyr. The cult of the arsehole.
The other Paris. The big sleep. Russian bookjackets 1917-1942. Australia's 'abusive refugee policies'. Who let Trump get this far? The brawl begins. Insults. Burnt and the art of the dealThe Quisling establishment. I am the living example of what drones are. So how is capitalism working out for you? Good luck with that one. There is enough weirdo wildlife out here without adding exploding kangaroos to the mix
Finally, the thought of Kanye covering Bowie sounded good to me...oh well

Massive Attack (ft Tricky) - Take It There


Batuk (ft Nandi Ndlovu) - Daniel


Thursday 28 January 2016

24 Track Loop: The sound art of This Heat

In Search of Haruki Murakami

Discovering Electronic Music (1983)


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Wednesday 27 January 2016

Skintologists - Drowned World


Tuesday 26 January 2016

Briggs and Aamer Rahman Versus Australia Day


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It is beyond time for Britain to apologise to Australia's Indigenous people

The day I don’t feel Australian? That would be Australia Day

The Duel

A short comic gives the simplest, most perfect explanation of privilege

K-otic 1 Presents Idle No More (Invasion Day Mix)


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Prominent Medieval Scholar’s Blog on ‘Feminist Fog’ Sparks an Uproar

Inside Virginia’s Creepy White-Power Wolf Cult

Medeski Martin & Wood with Nels Cline - Live @Cully Jazz Festival (2014)


KiKu ft Blixa Bargeld - Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime



Send cask arsenic exterminate aborigines letter will follow (Broome 1907)

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Monday 25 January 2016


How to show solidarity with Indigenous Australians this Invasion Day

Stan Grant: Australia Day - what makes us great, and what that greatness demands of us

Lizzy Mercier Descloux and Jody Harris - Mission Impossible (Live @Hurrah 1980)


Debbie Harry with James White & The Blacks - I Feel Good / Good Times (Live @Hurrah 1980)



Film by Charles Libin & Paul Cameron

Snatch - Joey (Live @Hurrah 1980)


Pat Palladin & Judy Nylon
Film by Libin+Cameron

Suicide - Sweetheart / Touch Me (Live @Hurrah 1980)


Film by Libin+Cameron

Future Pilot AKA - The Slave's Lament


THE SLAVE’S LAMENT By Robert Burns
Performer : FUTURE PILOT AKA
LEAD VOCALS: Mairi Campbell
Credit: Trad. Arr. Sushil K Dade
Mairi Campbell/Iain MacInnes/David McGuinness
Descriptor: Dub version of Robert Burns poem previously performed with Sly & Robbie + Karine Polwart at Celtic Connections Festival

Sunday 24 January 2016

Can - Halleluhwah (Joe Mckechnie Re-Edit)


Limited time .WAV download

James Brown 1970's videos


Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Mike Douglas Show) 1970
Georgia On My Mind (Playboy After Dark) 1970
Sex Machine (Italian TV Show) 1971
Soul Power (Italian TV Show) 1971
It's A New Day (Olympia Theater, Paris, France) 1971
Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Olympia Theater, Paris, France) 1971
Ain't It Funky Now (Olympia Theater, Paris, France) 1971
World (Dinah Shore Show) 1971
Sex Machine (Mike Douglas Show) 1971
Superbad (Soul Train) 1973
Get On The Good Foot (Soul Train) 1973
Soul Power (Soul Train) 1973
Escapism/Make It Funky (Soul Train) 1973
Sex Machine (Soul Train) 1973
Try Me (Soul Train) 1973
Papa Don't Take No Mess (Soul Train) 1974
My Thang (Soul Train) 1974
Cold Sweat (Soul Train) 1974
Can't Stand It (Soul Train) 1974
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Soul Train) 1974
The Payback (Soul Train) 1974
Damn Right I Am Somebody (Soul Train) 1974
The Payback (Zaire festival concert) 1974
Cold Sweat (Zaire festival concert) 1974
Get Up Offa That Thing (Mexico concert) 1978
Get On The Good Foot (Mexico concert) 1978
Doing It To Death (Mexico concert) 1978
It's A Man's World (Mexico concert) 1978
Sex Machine (Mexico concert) 1978
Eyesight (Santa Cruz concert) 1979
It's Too Funky In Here (Toronto concert) 1979
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James Brown - Olympia 1971

Higher Authorities - Neptune (Version)


Produced by Adrian Sherwood

Saturday 23 January 2016

Slow Low (Bowie's Low: All tracks played simultaneously and stretched to three hours)


IQ2 Racism Debate: Stan Grant


A powerful, powerful speech. Watch the full debate 'Racism Is Destroying The Australian Dream'. Murdoch columnist Rita Panahi really is way out of her depth up there.

Kamasi Washington's 'The Epic' in Concert

Saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington, 34, has been working on releasing his now three-CD, nearly three-hour, choir-and-strings-assisted album The Epic for the better part of five years now. Even longer, if you consider how long his 10-piece working band has known each other: Most of its members, known collectively as The Next Step or The West Coast Get Down, have known each other since at least high school decades ago in South Central Los Angeles, and in some instances well before that. Even as their diverse careers have made it difficult to focus exclusively on this band — Washington is, for instance, the saxophone player heard on the new Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar albums — they've all continually committed to experimenting with a brand of jazz that resonates with their own generation's lived experience.
Jazz Night In America features Kamasi Washington and the music of The Epic at its release party, and in its full glory. From the Regent Theater in Downtown L.A., Washington presents his new album with his working band, a choir, a string section and plenty of special guests.
SETLIST
5:45 - "Askim"
27:25 - "Change of the Guard"
47:00 - "Leroy and Lanisha"
1:02:01 - "Henrietta Our Hero"
1:15:10 - "Re Run"
1:44:00 - "The Message"
MUSICIANS
Kamasi Washington, Tony Austin, Ronald Bruner, Stephen Bruner, Brandon Coleman, Cameron Graves, Miles Mosley, Ryan Porter, Patrice Quinn, Battlecat, Munyungo Jackson, The Gaslamp Killer, Terrace Martin, Leon Mobley, Ras G, Dwight Trible, Rickey Washington, Dontae Winslow, Miguel Atwood:Ferguson, Paul Cartwright, Yvette Devereauz, Atryom Manukyan, Ginger Murphy, Tylana Renga, Molly Rogers, Jim Simone, Andrea Witt, Nia Andrews, Trenyce Cobbins, Thalma de Freitas, Taylor Graves, Charles Jones, Dawn Norsleet, Steven Wayne, Mashica Winslow

What's Mo Tucker up to these days?

Still posting her right wing posts on Facebook

Friday 22 January 2016

Grant Hart to play Old Bar in Melbourne on March 5th

No advance tickets on sale unfortunately but a mere twelve bucks on the night. 
Here's a video of  Grant performing '2541' at the Northcote Social Club on his last visit out here...and was that really SIX years ago?

Photos & video: TimN

RSWX presents Dave


Download the RADIO SOULWAX app for iphone / ipad / android or watch online at radiosoulwax.com
Our homage to the man whose ability to change whilst remaining himself has been a massive influence on us. There are many legends in the music industry but for us, there is no greater than the mighty Dave. We've included all things Bowie, whether that is original songs, covers, backing vocals, production work or reworks we made, to attempt to give you the full scope of the man's genius.
For the visual side to this mix our friend Wim Reygaert (who also made the amazing film for Into The Vortex) came up with the most ambitious film for RSWX, taking us on a fever dream time travel through the man's career starring the amazing Hannelore Knuts as Dave. We've got to extend a special thank you to the cast and crew and everyone involved for putting so much time and energy and heart and soul into this amazing film, it is a pure labour of love for the phenomenon that is Bowie.
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Thursday 21 January 2016

David Bowie - America / Heroes (The Concert for New York City 20/10/01)


Or as some would call it, "taxes."

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The Junior Militiaman Anti-Government Playset

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Andy Johnson R.I.P.

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