From Wikipedia:

He was considered by many to be a successor to the late Lenny Bruce and was described by Comedy Central as the second greatest stand-up comedian of all time behind Richard Pryor, and right before Lenny Bruce.

Now go and watch all his stuff at Google Video …

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From Dr. Who to The Dark Side of the Moon to modern day dance music, the pioneering members of the Electronic Music Studios radically changed the sound-scape of the 20th Century. ‘What the Future Sounded Like’ tells this fascinating story of British electronic music. ‘What The Future Sounded Like’ mixes experimental visual and sonic techniques with animation and never-seen-since archival footage. A sonic and visual collage, this documentary colors in a lost chapter in music history, uncovering a group of composers and music engineers who harnessed technology and new ideas to re-imagine the boundaries of music and sound.

You can ogle it here (Google Video, 27 min.) and if you’re interested you can find more info about this documentary at the official website as well as here.

Subtle Audio is een puik label die “deep / experimental drum & bass” uitbrengt. Nou is dit natuurlijk vinyl only, maar onlangs hebben ze een compilatie CD uitgebracht van oud en nieuw materiaal waar menig jungle-fanaat van gaat schuimbekken:

2xCD Version (cat # SUBTLE001CD)

CD 1 - Unmixed
1. Naibu - “Theme From Harajuku Station”
2. Sileni - “Bouncing Octagonal Fragments”
3. Amplicon - “Let Go Of The Release”
4. Dissident - “Imager”
5. Macc & Düffah - Messier 51 (Equinox Remix)
6. Alpha Omega vrs Nubian Minds - “Lost Pride”
7. Nebula - “Visions Of Paradise”
8. Senses - “All Over”
9. Macc & 0=0 - “Bridge Over Broken Water”
10. Bop - “Cogito Ergo Sum”

CD 2 - Mixed by Code (Subtle Audio)
1. Sub - “Skadi”
2. Jason oS - “What Do You Like?”
3. Macc & Düffah - “Messier 51″
4. Dissident - “Pleuromeia”
5. ASC - “Oceanography”
6. Cloak & Dagger - “Time Travelling”
7. Fanu - “I Play It Cooler”
8. Nebula - “Frame of Reference”
9. Polska - “Burning Sun”
10. Dissident - “Universe Eat Universe”
11. Alpha Omega - “Tribalist”
12. Sileni - “Failspan”
13. Soul Delay - “Ustad”
14. dgoHn - “Man Bith”
15. Fracture & Neptune - “Apollo”
16. Nebula - “Chords Of Sorrow”

Audio clips zijn hier te vinden. Hoe aan dit juweeltje te komen? Even paypallen naar CONOR_O_DWYER AT YAHOO.CO.UK. Kosten: EUR 11.50 plus verzending: EUR 4.85. Vinyl is ook beschikbaar (2×12″) voor EUR 12.50 plus EUR 4.85 verzending (1 item) of EUR 7.50 (2 of meer items (Europa))…

Bron voor meer informatie …

Na negentig rondjes om de zon is deze absolute grootheid naar de maan. Dit is zijn laatste boodschap aan de wereld.

Kort filmpje over ‘Tikuf’, de oorzaak van alle technische problemen.

Erg grappig gedaan, mooie rijm. Het filmpje duurt 6 minuten.

De betere kwaliteit .flv met Dumpert-tag staat hierrrr.

Count Basie - Booty’s Blues (versus ubermotherfucker Cleveland Eaton)

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We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

~ Carl Sagan (source, book)

Weer een mooie, ouwe mixtape van Droid (hier vandaan geplukt). Rustieke, relekste ambient techno. De tracklisting spreekt voor zichzelf…

(00:00) 1. The Irresistible Force – Snowstorm – Rising High
(06:00) 2. Beaumont Hannant – Crouton (Original Version) - GPR
(10:44) 3. T-Power – Reality Pants - SOUR
(15:16) 4. Drexciya - Davy Jones Locker - BMI
(18:06) 5. Autechre - Further - Warp
(24:15) 6. Push Button Objects - Maercs - Schematic
(28:36) 7. Autechre - Chiclisuite - Warp
(35:17) 8. Seefeel - Charlotte’s Mouth - Too Pure
(40:44) 9. µ-Ziq - The Wheel - Rephlex

[MP3] (192 kbps)

Can is a really good krautrock band from the seventies, respected by a lot of people including electronic artists like Carl Craig… This is a sort of introductory mix of their music, brought to you by ESB. Enjoy!

Tracklist
>>>Formication - Catastrophe In Blue - Subvert Central
01 - Can - Father Cannot Tell - Monster Movie
02 - Can - I’m So Green - Ege Bamyasi
03 - Can - Pekin O - Tago Mago
04 - Can - She Brings The Rain - Soundtracks
>>>Dak - Soundscape Biz
05 - Can - Come Sta, La Luna - Future Days
06 - Can - Mother Upduff - Incandescence
07 - Can - Halleluwa (Orbus 2 Remix) - Sacrilege
08 - Can - Oh Yeah - Tago Mago
09 - Can - Soul Desert - Soundtracks
10 - Can - Half Past One (Irmin Schmidt Remix - I Want More 12″)
11 - Can - Future Days (Carl Craig’s Blade Runner Mix) - Sacrilege
>>>Vainqueur - Solanus (Extracted) - Chain Reaction
12 - Can - Seven Days Awake - Out Of Reach
13 - Can - Bel Air - Future Days

[MP3] (128 kbps)