CURRY & CHIPS

SHACKLETON - In The Void (Rupture Remix)

AND THE WINNER IS

Lifetime event spike lee joint starring fresh prince will i am cybermaps and projections first family mixed race black not only white songs of soul stirring multilateral talking don't sign up any of the republican guard for the wars.

PRINCE PAUL - And The Winner Is?

BIRTHDUB

The kinaesthetics of kung fu films are transducted via speakerboxx

Dubbling up the resonances, this side cuts through the medium like a shark's tail

PABLO'S ALL STARS - Tubb's Dub Song

'Cry tough, Don't you know you're getting old. Cry tough, And you know you're getting slower'.

Yep, it was my birthday yesterday and news came in that rocksteady singer Alton Ellis had died.

Alton & The Flames - Cry Tough (extended version)

These tunes are convenient distractions but also spaces to be made anew (again).

CAPITALISM ROCKS

May the CEO's expensive car rust. May he have a heart attack from all the rich food he has consumed. May his trophy wife's plastic surgery have terrible side effects. May his mansions be destroyed by cyclones and hurricanes.

CHAMPION DOUG VEITCH - Banks of Marble
THE COUP - George Bush is a Bank Manager
KRAFTWERK - Nummern
N.W.A. - Panic Zone
RIP, RIG & PANIC - Bob Hope Takes Risks
BARON ZEN - Broke Christmas In Brooklyn

TOMORROW

After Lord Quasimoto, Madlib says 'the meaning of the law' not 'the meaning of Allah', as I first thought.


MADVILLAIN - Light of the Past

FLYING LOTUS - Shadows

THE SMITHS - Well I Wonder


The rain on The Smiths song sounds like frying bacon, which is what Flying Lotus sounds like a lot of the time.


This is a San Diego sunset in July.

RAMADAN IN SPACE TIME

Bombs at Iftar in Islamabads. Kaafir haraamzaadaa, I'm told. Diners soon after dates have broken the fast. Marriott mayhem, fitnah, the metal logo on fire. Listening to Muslimgauze after 9/11. Fortune brought me to desert rest-stop called Shackleton in Ramadan time and Soundboy's Suicide Note. The Skull Disco music is just broken news, what was that they said, rumours, whispers of a plot, paranoid glitches and distant explosions, CCTV res frustrations and jihadi crash videos. Tuning in then tuning out and in again. Not quite sure if they should play at 33 and a third or 45. Where were you in 92? Never mind the haunting of rave and exhuming Burial mounds and Enya deep Ing-folk dead music. For Shackleton, It Dreadistan inna Inglan. Travelling travelling travelling to Ethiopia Nyabingi as Debra Keese and the Black Five with the interference of Flying Lotus. On 'Shortwave' it's panicking voices after the blast yammering in another tongue. By the time Pole arrives we are in the shrinking hours between iftar and sehri. Though the scene is still burning, it has been cleaned up, cordoned off and Pole has stripped away the cries to leave the bass line rattling the metal of that army vehicle.

SALAH RAGAB & THE CAIRO JAZZ BAND - Ramadan in Space Time
GUERILLA NEWS NETWORK - Happy Ramadan, Osama Bin Laden
SHACKLETON - Shortwave
SHACKLETON - Shortwave (Pole Remix)

CAPITAL, IT FAILS US NOW

THE KLEPTONES - Revolverlution

SUBJECTIVITY

Robert Wyatt - Free Will and Testament

This is the song I can think of that comes closest to the articulation of subjectivity beyond humanism. I'd say that's more of this subjectivity and this subjectivity than that subjectivity. Wyatt sounds like a lickle spider looking for a good spot to weave a web and then a little man working for the bosses. Let me off, please... A toast to bad subjects.







Free Will And Testament (Wyatt, Kramer)

Given free will but within certain limitations,
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,
I can only guess me.

So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
I have my senses and my sense of having senses.
Do I guide them? Or they me?

The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects.
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
Is there freedom to un-be?
Is there freedom from will-to-be?

Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way.
We just invent or just assume a motivation.
I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible?
What are soldiers without a foe?

Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air.
Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended.
Neither born nor left to die.

Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.
Let me off please, I am so tired.
Let me off please, I am so very tired.