Tracklist
1. Burial – Gutted – Hyperdub
2. Disjecta - Gyric - WARP
3. Shackleton – Blood on my hands – Skull disco
4. AFX - Sloth - Rephlex
5. Pangea – Coiled – Hessle Audio
6. Autechre - Stud - WARP
7. Blackdown - Crackle Blues - Keysound
8. Seefeel - Rupt - WARP
9. Kode 9 - Kingstown (dub) - Hyperdub
10. Autechre – Basscadet (Beaumont Hannant Womx) - WARP
11. Ramadanman – Blimey – Hessle Audio
12. Aphex Twin – D-Scape - WARP
13. Untold – Kingdom – Hessle Audio
14. Bola – Vespers - Skam
15. Pinch – Battered – Tectonic
16. Autechre - Krib – WARP
17. Revial - Untitled (Ambient edit) - Unreleased
18. Burial - Etched Headplate - Hyperdub

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“I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.” That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he’d noticed in villages across the continent.

Watch the video at Ted.com or below.

But now i found this guide on how to handle groups of angry children in a fight. It’s really funny, and so true.

Some snippets…

On the subject of mobility;

Unless you’re extremely lucky and find yourself fighting twenty infants, you’re going to be at a mobility disadvantage when fighting a large group of children. You must avoid becoming surrounded at all costs.

Techniques;

Your best bet is to stay on your feet and use striking techniques. Karate is one good choice - it was originally designed in the 1600’s for use by unarmed Japanese day care workers.

And weapons;

I’d suggest refraining from using weapons, [ .. ]. By bringing a weapon you might prompt the children to bring weapons as well. This kind of escalation plays against you.

All aspects of a battle against (at least) 20 children seems to be covered over at Cracked.com. Go check it out and laugh.

If you’re looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney’s record collection. At over 3 million records, it’s the largest in the world. He’s trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, “no one gives a damn.”

Paul’s been building his collection for most of his life. He used to run a record store, and while running it he never sold the last copy of any album or single, instead keeping it for his archives. Over the years, those really added up.

Now, at an advancing age, stricken with diabetes and legally blind, Paul wants to sell the collection. It’s been appraised at about $50 million, but Paul is asking a mere $3 million. He’s had no serious offers, and an eBay auction back in February fell through.

In a time when you can access pretty much whatever music you want online, hard copies of albums are declining in value, both monetary and sentimentally. But to see such a mindblowing collection as this sitting in a basement, unwanted, is really heartbreaking. This is historic, no matter that we live in the iPod era or not, and it belongs in a museum. If only one cared enough to buy it.

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Talk, its only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
Its only talk

Talk, its only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo
Its only talk
Back talk

Talk talk talk, its only talk
Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
Its only talk
Cheap talk

Talk, talk, its only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a d this time
Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe,
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk

Talk, talk, its all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, expugnations, exclamations, enfadulations
Its all talk
Elephant talk, elephant talk, elephant talk

I jumped in the river and what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
All the figures I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

I jumped into the river
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the things I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

“Hello, Dr. Richard Feynman? May I congratulate you on the Nobel Prize.”
- “Look, this is a heck of an hour–”
“But aren’t you pleased to hear that you’ve won the Prize?”
- “I could have found out later this morning.”
“Well, how do you feel now that you know that you’ve won it?”
- “Look, some other time…”

And so Richard P. Feynman, Ph.D., FRS, and Richard Chase Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, first sleepily learned that he was an awardee of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Robert Haigh is well known as the respected drum and bass producer Omni Trio. However during the 80s he produced experimental (modern classical) music and now he is returning to his roots. I wrote about his previous and equally wonderful album here (in Dutch).

In the words of Robert Haigh himself:

“[Written on Water] came out of the attempt to find a balance between two of my major interests: counterpoint and economy of structure.

Most music has some form of counterpoint, how one sound or tone relates to another is the key to evoking possibility; an E note paired with an Eb creates an openness where several potentialities of key and structure are suggested. Using too many tones or sounds can have the opposite effect and limit possibilities by over definition – this is where my second preoccupation; economy of structure, comes in.

Structurally instrumental in this is the use of gradual development and apparent repetition. I say ‘apparent’ because in reality no repetition can be found. Every note, tone, sound, etc. is always in a completely new space, unfolding as uncharted flow in the moment.

This quality of ‘always new’ was the inspiration for the title. Like writing on a surface that leaves no trace with every mark, music is the perfect expression (and metaphor) of how ever-fresh reality is when unmediated by the freeze framing of conceptual thought.”

You like attention
It’s proof to you you’re alive
Stop parading your angles
Confused?
You’ll know when you’re ripe

When you’re ripe you’ll
bleed out of control
You’ll bleed out of control

You’re pregnant with all this
space thick with honey
But I lost my taste
You’re into depression cause
it matches your eyes

Stop this faux to be famous
Confused?
You’ll know when you’re ripe

~ Deftones

“I’d say that I had the need to concentrate on every sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.”

~ Arvo Pärt.

Bjork interviews Arvo Pärt (part of the programme ‘Modern Minimalists’)

Arvo Pärt talks about his composition ‘Fur Alina’

Hundreds of insect species spend much of their time underwater, where food may be more plentiful. MIT mathematicians have now figured out exactly how those insects breathe underwater.

Read on…

When I read things like this I think of theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman and his theory of self-organizating biological systems which seems magnificently true.

“Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul. So, if you’re frightened of dying… and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.”

~ Louis (the chiropractic physician)

According to this page, the quotation is based on the writings of the philosopher Meister Eckhart. The lines in the movie reference the following actual quotations from the work of Eckhart. If you don’t like the word ‘God’, just replace it with something you do like. The core of the idea is what’s important.

“They ask, what burns in hell? Authorities [the Fathers] usually reply: “This is what happens to willfulness” [to individual will, self-interest]. But I say it is “Not” [it is the Nothing] that is burned out [that burns] in hell. For example: suppose a burning coal is placed in my hand. If I say the coal burns me I do it a great injustice. To say precisely what does the burning, it is the “Not”. The coal has something in it that my hand does not. Observe! It is just this “Not” that is burning me – for if my hand had in it what the coal has, and can do what the coal can do, it, too, would blaze with fire, in which case all the fire that ever burned might be spilled on this hand and I should not feel hurt.” (Speech 5b, DW Ι)

“Whatever state we find ourselves in, whether in strength or in weakness, in joy or in sorrow, whatever we find ourselves attached to, we must abandon. . . . You must give up yourself, altogether give up self, and then you have really given up … By renouncing yourself first, you then have renounced all things. … A man who loves God could give up the whole world as easily as an egg.” (Speech 30, DW II)

“What is the prayer of the detached heart? I answer that detachment and purity cannot pray. For if anyone prays he asks God that something may be given to him, or asks that God may take something away from him. But the detached heart does not ask for anything at all that it would like to be rid of. Therefore it is free from all prayer.” (On Detachment, DW V)

Who is Meister Eckhart? A fascinating guy if you ask me …

“You want to listen, you can’t hear; you want to speak, you are dumb; you want to call out, you cannot; you feel you are dying, dying; you want to run away. You piss with fear in your sleep.”

So I’ve been sleeping a little bit irregularly lately and I’ve been having some strange dreams because of that. The dreams feel like they’re real and they always end with me trying like hell to wake up but being unable to do so because I can’t move my limbs or open my eyes! Pretty strange and scary stuff. It’s like I’m a prisoner of my own body and I can’t do nothing about it. Hallucinations are a direct result of it and they’re scary but fascinating nonetheless. I’ve had this kind of dream (or extended hallucinations) before so I decided to google around for it. Pretty soon I stumbled on a phenomenon called ’sleep paralysis’ and it’s really interesting.

There’s people who write about it on their blogs and stuff, and ofcourse there’s a wikipedia article on it which was an eye-opener for me. It seems it’s closely related to lucid dreaming (another interesting kind of dream I’ve had before), out-of-body experiences and even alien abductions (which you can read about on this excellent page). Basically life makes a little more sense now.

I’ve looked around for some (popular) scientific writings on this subject and I’ve found a few, like ‘The Terror That Comes In The Night‘ by David Hufford and ‘Wrestling With Ghosts‘ by Jorge Conesa, excellent stuff if you’re into horror movies; there’s lots of scary folklore going round about it.

So if you’ve ever had the terrifying feeling that you can’t move your limbs or open your eyes, don’t sweat it. Although some people get it a little too often, it’s perfectly natural, a slight brain glitch which does no harm except scare the shit out of ya. Nothing supernatural or mystical about it, although a lot of people (used to) think so. I think it’s another interesting layer of reality which needs to be explored more; this specific area of research is still pretty young.

It might even be a nifty gateway to some serious lucid dream explorations… Wooo…

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

Make your eyes shine

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.

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”

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