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Inspired partly by Barty's Migos thread and partly by a mate sending me this compelling Eek A Mouse impression last night: What are people's favourite examples of songs where the voice breaks down, escapes the suffocating cage of meaning and does something else entirely? Vocal textures...

I'm lecturing on Wilhelm Reich in London on 9th June if any of you lot want to come down. It's free! The blurb runs: This talk is an introduction to the life and work of radical psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Reich has been christened the founder of the 'sexual revolution' (he coined the term)...

Those of you who know me well will know I am a big fan of Wilhelm Reich. Reich was a student of Freud's who single-handedly bought the body into psychotherapy, was the first person to apply the insights of psychoanalysis to mass movements (in The Mass Psychology of Fascism), adventured into a...

This is happening tomorrow, please come along if you can. Venue: The Common House Unit 5E Pundersons Gardens Bethnal Green, London E2 9QG, 6-12 PM **EMERGENCY FUNDRAISING GIG FOR GAZA** A rebel rousing night of live music and DJs to help raise urgently needed funds for Medical Aid for...

I'm on the radio! Playing ethnographic recordings from the French Ocora label on my friend Elenore's show, L'alternative, on Resonance this afternoon at 3-30pm. You can listen online at http://resonancefm.com/listen or you can tune in on 104.4 FM. It's repeated next Tuesday at 6pm. I will up a...

This is a quick hip hop "mix" or rather selection of MP3s - that I've just done for a download swap on VG+. January is mixswap month which is why I've been banging 'em out. Forgive the spamwich. It's a by no means definitive stumble through some tunes from last year and a bit before. To those...

I did another mix, inspired by the pleasures of finding random records. I hope people like it, feedback or questions welcome. Bit of blurb - "The best records are those that you don't know you need until you find them. I like analogue, physical formats because of their ability to surprise you...

Volume 1 was one of my favourite mixes EVER. So, here's Vol. 2 - http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=8231 "Further investigation into the futuristic spaces in Japanese ambient and pop music from the 1980s…" Hope you enjoy...

Hey all 'Scuse self-pimpin' but some of you might dig this. It's my VG+ mix, all 80s influenced stuff. Lots of discordant post-punk basslines and cold-hearted synths. Can be found here: Download link here for the whole thing as an MP3 (60mg)...

Tomorrow night, at The Castle, 44 Commercial Street. Eclectic blend of post-punk, soul, garage, surf and other danceable goodies from Idle Rich, Lizatron, DJ Lo-tek (moi) Maxwell Pastor and Blenda Jaxxon, If you're in East London, please come down (in fact, if you're not in East London, please...

I saw Prometheus last night. Absolute shit, don't waste your time. Me and my film-going accomplice just laughed at it's ludicrous pretensions for the last hour or so. I like SF, more in novels than cinema, but this is one of those films that makes the genre less defensible, and more like the...

A friend asked me to knock him up a comp for his holiday and the following mix is the result. I left it till the last minute so I only did it from unfiled stuff sitting around my living room in various piles, as I couldn't be bothered to dig around, thus the title. It's an eclectic blend of...

Is anyone else following this? It's giving me a major sense of schadenfreude. She's now quit as Chair of the company, following quitting as Cameron's "Families Tsar" (hate that phrase). Speculation suggests this is because some major shit is about to hit the fan, when the fraud investigations...

I love this sound. I suppose what I'm looking for is strip club anthems which horrifies me a little bit. I like the southern drawl with the slowed down funk of the productions. Quality rapping, some synth licks and killer hooks don't do any harm either. Maybe I should spend my time digging into...

This is a kinda Hip Hop 2011 mix I've just done. I did it for a non-hip hop audience, partly trying to show the range and diversity of the music these days. It's not anywhere near definitive or even aspiring to be - my game aint that deep - but I'm pretty happy with it. Good reflection of my...

I've been listening to loads of hip hop again lately after a long time off. Really enjoying rediscovering it all again and being impressed by Lil B, Kendrick Lamar, the new e40 and the like. Am really feeling it, but have to ask where's the homegrown talent at? The last UK MCs who blew me away...

Just thought I'd hip people here to this reissue which is one of the best things I've bought all year. It's basically a demo LP recorded by a guy who played in a few garage bands in the mid-60s and was later institutionalised. This was cut in '71 and the music is a kind of lo-fi ravaged, weary...

What's a nice, easy to use mixing package - the equivalent to two decks? Me and Rich were ripping some of his tunes from vinyl last night and want to line them up in a mix - they won't require beatmatching, as it's not house/dance derieved just the odd bit of crossfading and ability to...

I don’t know enough about evolutionary science to really write that much informed about it, but this story is blowing my mind: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/19/evolution-darwin-natural-selection-genes-wrong Particularly this bit: “But Lamarck was scorned for a much more general...

Quite amusing 80s parody video comissioned by TalkTalk (the ISP, not the band) to publicise it's campaigh against the draconian Digital Economy Bill. The comments are worth reading - I had no idea that this backwards step was so close to becoming law. Can't imagine it will really go through -...