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This is quite intriguing, completely apart from any assessment of the artist in question. I'm unclear by how you mean "commodity" in relation to "claiming/being perceived as working class" you're saying, if I get you, that only some people have a legitimate right to this claiming/being. That...

yeah same for a lot of that 96-era dark+spooky stuff.. Twisted Anger etc.. only it's a bit too slow for dubstep unless you've got the Vestax decks you can pitch up extra. Repeater on Peace Off: "poor health bad constitution" at 33 is my favorite slowdown-to-dubstep.

I'll be there in spirit. Ah, London Fields..

http://libraryofvinyl.blogspot.com/2005/06/six-degrees-of-reggae-riddims.html Dj Pace at theLibrary of Vinyl Experience has posted a few images of his mapping of relationships between artists and riddims. The third paragraph from the bottom of the text is the most interesting - where he...

That definition removes the term "racist" from any context of power and social inequality. (yes indeed, this is a very old debate) It's useful to be able to distinguish between 1. acts that are prejudiced, and 2. acts that depend on, maintain and possibly encourage existing systematic...

One of the best distributors I know is in Paris: Toolbox. www.toolboxrecords.com 30 rue St. ambroise.. they used to be in the back of a recordstore that would carry some of their catalog.. heavy on the breakcore, noise, experimental.. also High Tone and other dub experiments. really knowledgable...

Nobody understands the legal issues relating to dub and copyright sufficiently well, because the law doesn't understand the creativity issues sufficiently well. the roles of authors, performers, songwriters, engineers, studio owners, and pre-existing culture and songs etc etc in creating a...

thanks for the quote, dominic. actually, Wayne Marshall has weighed in on this as well, saying loads of stuff, including everything, pretty much, I was planning to write as a follow-up when I finish touring. All read, please.. the entry for 5.24 He makes some points about junjo lawes that are...

I'm not sure about this binary setup. Because doesn't it risk denying the concept of a community that embraces, or even can honestly handle difference? I don't want to concede that difference in itself can only be divisive, that payting attention to difference is divisive - why can't it be...

heh, thanks for the implied compliment.. but we live in Oakland, California. And Kid K has never had dreads. if I still lived there, it's definitely the kind of bill I'd try to get on. man, I miss brooklyn.

"I am a sick man, I am an angry man, I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver." best opening line, ever. bilious indeed. I'm also down with the futurist manifestos(whee!), and more Russian absurdists - Daniil Kharms, especally "Pushkin and Gogol"

Bellow and Bloom are also the reason the Social Thought program (or department) doesn't have a sexual harassmet policy. In the years when every school was beginning to have one, they resisted it, co-writing a letter of protest about the "removal of eros" from the classroom. so, Dominic, I...

Simple statistical content analysis of Pitchfork music reviews, which the author then uses as guidelines to make songs. A nice write-up explaining the methods used, the theory behind it and the results, including a couple of mp3s of the songs. quite funny. I'd like it to go farther.. I'd...

Oh, man, the Moomin books! I read those so young that I thought I'd dreamt the stories. Which made me feel pretty weird in Finland when I came across a Moomin statue. I couldn't believe it at first and then the books came back to me. they hold up pretty well as an adult - quite weird and dark...

Just want to echo the concern for ethical practice in doing this. Especially if you are going to save the recordings, or are thinking of using them or making them accessible. Not even that I am sure what the ethical practice should be, but rather that you should think seriously about the issues...

Eastern Europe? Bogdan Racynski is pretty great (Poland) Chris Su in Hungary has some good tracks, I think. I like a lot of Roma/gypsy/whatchoucallit sounds (not all eastern-european, but pervasive and migratory) and many versions of Eastern European folk, up to and including Latcho Drom...

_Feminism: From Margin to Center_ by bell hooks. kicked my well-meaning women's-studies-major ass, as an undergrad about 14 years ago. _King_ by John Berger. This book was an action on me, not me on it. transformative. and it reconstituted my soul (as a mentioned in another thread), imperilled...

came late to this, but count me in as a blake fan. My parents were beatniks, and if I remember right they have a (record) album of Allan Ginsberg reading Blake. Dunno but I'd guess that was a big American -Blake connection. I don't remember what it sounded like, but I identified a tiger at the...

He's one of my favorite writers ever, but I've never seen his films. _King_ is one of the best arguments for the existence of art ever.. it kept me sane and grounded when I was studying economics. But just generally, I think he's genius. Please report back, I am wildly curious!

Definitely Beckett's "More Pricks than Kicks" - especially Dante and the Lobster. I hooted at the opening sentence of "Notes from Underground" by Dostoevsky, though I suspect that would depend on the translation. The same with "Master and Margarita" actually. And I think Gogol and especially...