THE SWEETEST TABOO

23 SKIDOO - Quiet Pillage

COW & CALF

Melle Mel - 81

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)