Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it....Air is a little like my brain.

From The Joy of Tech I'll forgive them their Pro Mac Propaganda for cartoons like this :-)

Those that liked the depression just might like this - a journey through the life and times of the Bonzo Dog Band, specifically Viv Stanshall and Neil Innes.

And yes I finally made show 175! Woohoo! Only like, 2 months late...



Doo-dah, dada, dog. Radio Clash 175 is a special show which commemorates two great songwriters and performers - that original ginger geezah Vivian Stanshall and the Seventh Python (I bet he hates that term) Neil Innes, the former who sadly died in 1995, and their legacy of arty chaotic jazz/pop/psychedelic silliness and melancholy that probably only the English really get...as much rooted in the 20's than the 60's and 70's, but strange and insane in any timeframe.

The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Doo-Dah (92Mb, 2:05)

Tracklist here

Fucked up on Fox? WTF?

And he did Gender Studies? *candle for Damian just burns that little brighter*

Sometimes recently I think I've just fallen through some dimension warp and am in some Bizarroworld.

Something I missed probably because I was either in deepest Shropshire or deepest Surrey...but the only ever London pirate tv station Network21 transmitted in 1986 just under ITV for a year in 1986...and the program was arts based and they lobbied (unsuccessfully, although nighttime TV and cable/satellite probably answered some of those needs) for community access to TV, and even got city funding...remember this is a time where Kiss was a successful pirate, it could have been possible.

Genesis P even pops up at some point in Program 3, here it's "this vid has sound after 2 minutes Big Love by john maybury - The Fridge party-diamanda galas london concert - Margaret Thatcher talks about facelift - City Limits events listing - heatwave video jimmi fox & paul le chien - Rusty Eagan's pump it up video - einstürzende neubauten - punk body map rock fashion show - miles davis Decoy video-marguerite duras on lack" - make sense of that as you will, or just tune in and trip out to the mad cuts and visuals...and freak out by Diamandas.

TV COULD have been like this, instead we get the shit that is X-Factor and Big Brother. Sigh.

Sadly it got raided on it's first birthday.

Oh yeah and the pirate bit might be a hint, but it's slightly NSFW, although not terrible so - it's art darling!



(I would usually say thank you to Boing Boing for this, but weirdly their post about Mr Gysin doesn't even mention the amazing and very interesting source of the video, which I tracked down after a short hunt. Like hello? Maybe Pirate TV grows on trees in Cory's world? ;-) Or he can't receive it up in his balloon :-P)

I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch.

OK a lot of you may not even have heard of Radio Clash's shy sibling, the arts/experimental podcast digital debris.

Well finally got to the 3rd proper episode 'depression'.

Loads of classic Great Depression-themed 78rpm records (quite a few that everyone will have heard at some point, maybe not in the original versions here), readings from novels of the time, and maybe an inkling, crackly messages from '29, of ways of coping during the 2009 recession? Interspersed with bits from the 1935 novel by Horace McCoy and 1969 film, They Shoot Horses Don't They? to even up the happy happy sunshine score.

I can't say in words how much I love 1920s and 1930s music, a lot seems as current today as then, and I set up digital debris in part to play out of copyright 78's - so here is a show dedicated to them, at a time when economic uncertainty in the songs echoes through the years and resonates today. Or is that just the knitting needle stylus buzzing? I don't know...

Roll up! Roll up!

Newlink Firewire 400 PCMIA Cardbus adapter 2 x 6 pin

Echo Indigo DJ Laptop Sound Card boxed Mac or PC

Numark DJ IO USB 2 audio interface BOXED AS NEW+++

LaCie Firewire 800 PCI card, 3 ports BOXED UNUSED

Canon MD205 Mini DV Camcorder BOXED AS NEW manual etc (as seen in action here)

I have questions though:

1 - would anyone buy Spectrum boxed games in good condition? I have Apache AH64 by Microprose, Driller and Dark Side.
2 - I also have a lot of AD&AD sets and books in pretty good condition (don't ask - I'm not a gamer, I bought them when I thought I was!) from the late 80's early 90s - Drangolance and Monster manuals, games, and the original D&D red set with dice.
3 - Amiga manuals?
4. Elite manual - I seem to remember the game security in a lot of the different versions uses this, so I'm thinking someone might want it. it's a generic manual. I also have the novella
5. Future Music CDs 1-16 + more and The Mix CDs ?
6. Model railway trains - need to clean them, dunno if they are collectable - early 80's?

I guess generally seperating stuff rather than a job lot, although more work is actually more profitable?

Next - the synth, the two Amigas and the harddrive (dunno if they'll sell, hella-expensive P&P if so), and Yamaha DD-12.

When I was young I wanted to be an artist. Or a journalist. When I was a little older and got more into music and video/print design, I wanted to work for Sheffield's Designer's Republic. Who wouldn't? Those PWEI 'Sample It, Loop It, Fuck It, Eat It' tshirts, the work for Warp, The Orb and Pulp, the videos and Wipeout video games.

Well sadly DR is no more. So long and thanks for all the artwork :-(

Really proud of this live mix - some good tunes in there, rather heavy in the first half on the Buffet Libre Rewind 2 (not a bad thing though), and only a few slightly dodge bits (I edited out where Traktor freezed, as that wasn't my fault, just something Traktor does sometimes, leaving lovely dead air...).

As I said in my previous post, I've stopped doing the Cruise Control sets in the Parkade in Second Life, which I'd been doing for over 2 years! I'll pop back from time to time, doing the odd special set, time/work allowing.

For those of you that missed it, I recorded the last set so here is more than 2 hours of continous mix as an example of what the Cruise Control sets and those 2 years pretty much every week was like.

And no you don't get to see a naked Cybill Shepherd...(123Mb, 2:25)

• The Rock Steady Crew - Hey You (Justin Faust Remix)
• Celebrity Murder Party - We Want Titties and a Robot Cucumber (P-Funk vs The Trucks vs Vampire Sound Inc vs Kraftwerk)
• S'Express - Blow Me Another Lollypop
• Funkytown Kiss (Lipps Inc vs Tom Jones)
• S'Express - Find'Em, Fool'Em, Forget'Em (Wondere(s)que mix)
• Gwen McRae - All This Love That I'm Giving (JoolsMF Remix)
• Ultra Nate - Free (Sidechains remix)
• Cubic 22 - Night in Motion
• Bonde Do Role - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag (Pigbag cover)
• The Prodigy - Everybody in the Place (AC Slater remix)
• Usura - Open Your Mind (Act of Dog Free Thinking mix)
• Deltawave - Lost In Music (Sister Sledge cover)
• Urban Shakedown - Some Justice (Super Mal remix)
• Robyn - Be Mine (Ocelot Mthrfckrs Remix)
• Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill ft Pos Plug Won (De La Edit)
• Kleptones - Controlled Revenge (blog version - Guns and Roses vs ?)
• Dunproofin - FU2
• Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (TMX Remix)
• Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (Hacker's Hardcore Inferno - Chemical Bros vs The Trammps)
• El Barto & Liam B - I Feel Control (Donna Summer vs Chemical Brothers)
• Cradle of Filth - Temptation
• P.O.D. - Bullet the Blue Sky
• Halloween - Lay all your Love on Me
• Instamatic - Brightside Slippy (Killers vs Underworld)
• Kraftwerk - The Robots (Dunproofin's Where were you in '92 mix)
• Meat Beat Manifesto - Where are you/Enuff
• Bonzo Dog Band - We Are Normal
• Roxy Music - Grey Lagoons
• Ivor Cutler - There's A Turtle In My Soup
• Instamatic - English Ghost (Dillinja & Lemon D vs The Clash)
• London Elektricity - Remember the Future
• High Contrast - Everything's Different
• London Elektricity - Different Drum
• London Elektricity - Rewind
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music for a Found Harmonium
• Apeboy - Enya vs Prodigy (Lenlow Edit)
• Gay Muppet Bastard - Phil n' Dog (Muppets vs Chemical Bros)
• Kermit and Fozzie Bear - Moving Right Along
• DJNoNo - Supercalibreakz (Julie Andrews vs Shy FX)
• DJ Lumpy - No Good (Start the Raam) (Lemonjelly vs Prodigy)
• Beatbox Saboteurs - Morecambe and Wise
• Specials - Enjoy Yourself

Yup it's a Playmobil security/TSA checkpoint!

Just right to teach your kids how racial profiling works and how fascistic and controlling the governments are becoming! They can add beards and pull them over for being too muslim for their 'random' checks! YAY! Hours of fun.

Can't wait for the Guantanamo Playmobil set...

The Amazon reviews are a major giggle. (via EFF)

Oh and following on from that we have:

Playmobile Police Checkpoint (good comments also - 'As an adjunct to this product, I would also recommend that you purchase the Playmobil Armed Standoff Playset, Fisher-Price Little People Battering Ram, and the Nerf Tear-Gas Canister Deployment Gun. ' ' LOL)
Playmobile 5-in-1 SWAT Team
Playmobile Police Van
Policeman / Crook Blister Pack (stereotype, much?)

And not Playmobile but similar Scan-It Operation Checkpoint Xray Toy


'colorful plastic method of indoctrination' indeed. Playmobil Fascist State?

And that's the song that's always in my head.

via lythandae 

I LOVE this esp. the Second Life and Assassin's Creed bits - don't know all the games but love the idea.

This article in Technology Review includes a interview with me - it sprang out of the anti-Girl Talk post I made on Radio Clash where I posted examples that were far better that don't get Pitchfork's tongue up their arse (bitter? me? why yes when it's so meh!).

It also has interviews with several other people that have been featured or played on Radio Clash - the ever-lovely DJ Earworm (as interviewed on the podcast in 2005, and regularly played on the show and I made the approved video for the Reckoner Lockdown mash mentioned in the piece) and Lenlow who's mashes I've played many times on the show.

The interview - well I had a great 1-2 hour chat with Larry Hardesty, lovely journalist who had done his homework (so many journos don't - it's why I wanted to make sure he had all the info - a lot of the stuff in the article is stuff we talked about, like the acapella sources but I didn't want to go into proper print saying 'Yeah Tim told me how to get acapellas from video games' - err nope. I may be punker than Girl Talk - not hard - but I'm not stupid ;-).

And nice to see he agrees with me about Stairway to Bootleg Heaven - it is the best mashup, ever as I told him :-)

B3TA honours Tony Hart in the way it only knows how...yup mainly taking the piss, and some are sick/rude/NSFW but some of them are rather touching and time intensive (some of the morph anim spoofs must've taken ages). (via holy13nation )

And Thanks For All the Fish Laughs

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For those into Joy Division and New Order, until Friday, see the 2007 Grant Gee documentary 'Joy Division' online. You know the one were Annik Honnore is interviewed (this is why Deborah Curtis unusually refused to take part) and interviews with all the band members, Peter Saville, Paul Morley and Tony Wilson - even Genesis P. turns up at one point...and loads of stuff I've never seen nor heard of Joy Division.



I don't think I've ever really explained the connection with Joy Division and New Order that well; maybe it's the roots (I was born in Greater Manchester in the 70's) and the fact I can remember that atmosphere, that place, that feeling - what Tony Wilson talks about and others about the feel of Manchester in the 70's is very true, people think it's exaggeration but concrete and rain is the best thing I can say about it. Grim.

Maybe it's the time of my life in my 20's when I revisited and found out more about them, already being a fan of New Order, and for the first time appreciating their darkness as saying something about me.

Or maybe I'll never know. Certainly I find it hard to hear Closer, partly because of the obvious state of Ian'smind but partly because it is a such a dark album that takes me back to a dark time of my life. Weirdly I see Unknown Pleasures as being quite upbeat and poppy LOL - I own a copy of that. Never owned a copy of Closer; even though I have Love Will Tear Us Apart on 7". It's not an album I can love, although I really respect it.

Anyway what this gets over better than Control is the otherworldliness of Ian Curtis and Martin Hannett's production - the weird noises, the clangs, the echoing squeaks and the wails. It is a little bit like Sci-fi on the Manchester Ship Canal, really. And the ending is far less bleak.

Nice to also see the band and others saying how angry they were at Ian's suicide, it wasn't something that was said but everyone just thought 'you prick' rather than putting him on a pedestal, which unlike Kurt or Richey shows the fans weren't buying a brand personality but a person, well four people in fact, someone who broke that barrier - that front - and genuinely, distressingly and destructively meant everything he sang.

After over 2 years (OMG has it been that long?) I've stopped the weekly DJ sets at the Parkade in Second Life.

No bad reason, no drama, just need to spend time on other stuff (like: finding work, career, photography). I'll probably pop back time to time to DJ for the odd special set ;-)

I recorded the last set, at some point it'll be on Radio Clash. Sad to leave 'Cruise Control' behind, but after 2 years it's time to focus on career and paying gigs. I'm clamping down on creating free stuff, it's great and all, but it doesn't pay the bills - and the bills are the real problem at the moment.

To see some of the great times we had there, you can view the silliness here.

via arthole this wonderful funny 70's kids TV style animation for the Yazoo sampling Bubblicious by Rex the Dog, apparently out on Feb 23rd.

Tony Hart would've been proud (RIP)

Not a Metallica fan; but it's weird what some would think is a parody cover (as far as I can tell Iron Horse seem to be covering this respectfully and genuinely) hits me hard - I've always heard and assumed that Metallica was churning out fairly sub-teenage 'woe is me' fare, but the lyrics to 'Fade to Black' when you can actually hear them as here are actually intelligent and not what you expect at all.

This was taken during the Christopher Day Parade back in July - can't believe I never added these pictures to my Flickr?

Starting a photo blog for my street/urban related photography - Streetise

At the moment I'm popping in stuff you might have seen - although a few recent photos you probably haven't, but I'm planning to do more street photography (esp of shop fronts and surreal objects that get thrown out around here)  and post it there.