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the Iranian regime has been holding 3 American kids (well, late 20s-ish) in a Tehran prison for the last 10 months. they were originally in Syria, as English teachers I think, and during a week off they went hiking in Kurdistan and, apparently, accidentally crossed into Iran via an unmarked...

inspired by this utterly astounding steel band take on "Transmission". something else isn't it? famous covers, youtube jobs with an acoustic guitar or a dinky keyboard, whatever. not counting tribute acts, though. but counting update versions of old tunes, I'd think, provided they're not...

I know the War In Pakistan thread was kind of a default AfPak thing but since they are after all, despite the contiguous Pashtun belt on both sides of the border, different countries...and since there's been a big push going on (USMC!) for a while now and since it's effectively Obama's war and I...

sorry to start yet another thread, but... Holy Shit! I mean, it's a big deal. great that the 2 journalists were released, of course, tho I suspect that was more a means to the end of opening up a dialogue on terms both sides could live with, no one looking like they're giving up something for...

which ones do you like? which don't you like? why? what do you like & dislike about them? what makes a war movie "good"? war movies or movies that are about War (i.e., Apocalypse Now etc.)? exploitation or art or (more likely) both? Is it even possible to make a war movie that isn't...

just in case you forgot. (which it's surprisingly easy to do, at least in the States where it seems to be pretty far off the table right now) Exhibit A - Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles - great went to see The Hurt Locker w/my folks the other day. it is, not to put too fine a...

yeah I know it all defaults to Crass - but - "best" doesn't have to equal "most influential". keep in mind too that the peacepunk scene was way more diverse than just teenagers yelling about the ALF & cruise missiles. The Mob & Zounds both came from that (decidedly woolier, 70s holdover) free...

feelings-wise I'm pro-both, generally. ningún ser humano es ilegal, after all. but talking in practical IR/political/& especially economic terms. don't intend this to be solely U.S./Mexico, but in general. after all it perhaps even a bigger/more contentious issue in Europe, even if you guys...

right, so - the time to have one was a few months ago but, still. I met a Sri Lankan Tamil kid at school today & he was duly impressed that I knew the difference between Sinhalese & Tamils. turned out his mum & dad had been "encouraged" to leave by the Tigers back in the early 80s (I think cos...

How do songs about machines make you feel about the techno-organic interface? Jeff Mills, assembly lines, container ships, the Singularity, 90s bs about fractals & Chaos Theory, etc ad infinitum...oh who am I kidding it's a Youtube dump. Kraftwerk = cheating. Machines Cybotron - Cosmic...

transcript video ~55 minutes (I just read the transcript) so, what do people think?

right, so, I realize that many Dissensus regulars are may be aghast at the very idea of exercise. and there is also an old general exercise thread but as the title states this is what music, if any, you fancy while you work out, what works best for you, etc. when I'm running sometimes I...

this was put into my head a few weeks ago by another thread (I think the DHR one?) by Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth (aka DJ Scud) - "Kill Or Be Killed"...it is quite an interesting concept I think...one that can take several different tacks... There are some tracks that are so sonically alien that...

oh yes I'm aware, it was all SCENIUS...no lone visionaries here...but nonetheless... I had to cut the options down cos you can only have 15...I tried to focus on producers or crews that 1) really created their own distinct sound/oeuvre & 2) had the greatest "impact"(a nebulous judgement...

Lately I’ve been listening to a ton of Alec Empire (& associates) & enjoying it rather immensely. It quite surprised me how great a lot of both the DHR catalogue & Empire’s other solo work is – tbc he feel off hard around the turn of the millennium – we’re talking about say ’92-’97 here but...

or Post-WWII Classical really. I know next to nothing about classical. I would like know more. The one area I am familiar with is avant-garde/New Music types (Riley, Reich, Cage, Xenakis, Parmegiani, Stockhausen and so on) though even there, outside of Music For 18 Musicians, I pretty much...

Are people up on this? I was initially wary b/c of the whole Diplo connection/Fader hype thing but it turns out my fears were unfounded. The rapping is, admittedly pretty average for the most part, but the production is amazing. The choice of samples is pretty much immaculate ("Born...

his darkside/jungle records ca. 93-94 kill it, no? I've kind of a developed an addiction to them, and I had a few questions. I thought this would be a good place to ask them. were Skanna's records big at the time, or are they obscure classics? why did he stop making jungle records and start...