.: A playable record made from ice

Its not easy to have the coolest record ever.. just ask the show-offs, in 'The Shout Out Louds'.

They have released 'Blue Ice' as a limited edition of latex moulds - designed to be filled with distilled water, then frozen and played immediately by earnest nordic hipsters.

Then, I guess you mop up - and presumably throw out your [now ruined] turntable.

“One of the biggest challenges was that the bubbles made the ice cloudy and messed up the tiny tracks, which made the needle jump.” Further trial and error revealed that using distilled water did the trick, giving the final product a nice clarity and even surface. Another insight? Time is not, in fact, on your side when working with a frozen substance; functionality and sound quality diminish immediately once the melting starts. A silicone cast allowed for quick and easy record removal, essential to ensuring it could be used straight out of the freezer."

- via boingboing / IO9

.: Dirtbox - The lost tapes: 02

02 | Dirtbox - Lost Tapes | Manson | 2SER FM - Late 1999 Broadcast by Djmanson on Mixclou

Download the show - here

This is an hour and a half of a show I did near the end of 1999.
Just me and two technics, cranking away in the 2SER studio.

Enjoy.
 -_-

* The short harsh sound indicates the edits where tape damage, needles skipping, station breaks etc occur.

.: Image Dump

.: G(O)OD + (D)EVIL

TWENTY6 Magazine / Issue 'G' / G(O)OD+(D)EVIL . A Film by Chris Turner from TWENTY6 Magazine on Vimeo.

.: Video - Plan B - ill Manors

Apologies if this old news but it's new to me.
Not the London Riots, but this clip explains more than those lip-flapping media c*nts could manage in the days following the LDN Uprising.



via thejuicemedia who liked it on youtube

.: The Vice Law of Cool: Square derivatives of the diminishing value of Cool. Socio-Thermodynamic Theory and Hipstanomic Application .

It's science time:

Science and Math. 

(ok - some satire)

The experiment in the following video was conducted by the cutting-edge social technicians at Vice. (Vice Institute of Cool Extraction - Hipstanomics Dept).

It predictably demonstrates one of the fundamental laws of Cool. 

(Cool being a value of social temperature). 

Study of the theoretical values of  social temperature is known as the field of Socio-thermodynamics. 

Its practical applications are known as Hipstanomics.

If  we say

Cool = C

then

C x C ≠ C²

Whenever the value of Cool is squared, the result will always be W

W = Wack

and as we know, 

Wack is the inverse of Cool, 

expressed here as

W = -C

therefore

C x C = W 

or

C² = W

or simply

C² = -C

so we have proven that Cool to the power of Cool, cannot be anything other than the inverse of Cool itself. expressed in the video below as:

lightsaber x segway = Wack 

[Nb: At the time of writing the cool value of a segway is negligible but measurable]

Vice lead the industry in deriving and extracting the value of Cool, and the huge amount of wealth involved, means only they can afford the technology required for this kind of research.
Therefore I propose we name this fundamental law of Socio-thermodynamics:

The Vice law of Diminishing Cool Values.

Bam!
Give me a fucking job.

.: Shut up about 9\11 .. unless you are KRS1

Video Link

In this video interview from WeAreChange, hip-hop legend KRS-1 expounds on 9/11, asking why the Zadroga Act isn’t providing more medical coverage for first responders, explaining how his South Bronx roots informed his experience and feelings about the day’s tragic events, and discussing his and other rappers’ skepticism of the mainstream media and its official take on the attacks. “I’ve been criticized in the past for not being as sensitive as I probably should be to the event itself, and that’s warranted,” he says. “I slept in the World Trade Center when I was homeless, back in ’83 to ’85…to the hood, the Trade Center looked like two horns in the sky. We didn’t have nothing to do with that building. We know that the wealth of the people was getting sucked into them two towers. That’s what we know”

Via AnimalNewYork 

.: Space as Culture - Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Video Link

.: Flock of LED Quadcopters

.: Infinite Stripper Pole

Diplo.
This boy can do no wrong!
It seems every project he has a hand in goes gold like Midas.
This is a bit NSFW, but a brilliant music video - good simple concept - and perfectly done.
Most importantly, big ups to all the strippers - all around the world.


Diplo - Set It Off feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex from Pomp&Clout on Vimeo.

.: Crisis Tales - Curse Ov Dialect

That is all.

Link

.: Warrior Rituals EP

Arm yourselves with more of my unreleased techno tracks.
These were, pretty much, made by me - for me - to spin at outdoor techno parties, back in the day. [more about that soon - stay posted]

'Warrior Ritual', has been lying around in both it's forms for a while now, only seeing the light of day in Dj Manson sets, or on the occasional Cd I would burn to give away.

It sounds pretty good after 10 years of cellaring. -even if it was made using Fruity Loops 3, - and the remix is pretty much the same track 3 years later, just fed through my Micromoog - [in maximum tweakage mode]

The Micromoog is a raspy, brash analog mono-synth, like a meaner, black vinyl, trailer-trash cousin of the Minimoog .
I received as a gift, from a homeless man, who I met whilst sleeping out in a park - in Fitzroy, [This must have been around summer 95/96, on a Vibetribe 'road trip']
We got to talking about music. I think he used to do prog rock? He told me his bitch ex-wife had a garage full of his old synths. and if I came backto the park, the next day, same time - he would have something for me.
And he did. :]

True story.
Great synth.

Listen to a streaming version, - or download a FLAC
[Free Lossless Audio Compression]
Cd quality- 16bit 44kHz.

Link: Warrior Rituals Ep [Soundforge}

.: Warehouse Mentality - KetateK - [An open audiotool project]

Ok - sorry for lapse in updates. More coming soon.
I have moved house. I wll post more about that, but this article was lying around, ready to post.

This is nothing special, just some ye olde style warehouse tek - made in audiotool.com,
It took about 30 mins, over at a friends place.
All you need is a browser with flash and an internet connection.
Go there and open the actual track - you can see how i have used the different sound and fx. Then remix it if you feel like it.
Join the site - and post results below in the comments.. get a prize!




Audiotool is an online app / software environment, has a great array of effective and intuitive sound generators and access to a massive community library of samples other people have uploaded and made freely available with CC licences. If you can already sample and loop, then just upload away, and add your own loops to the Audiotool preset banks in the 'Cloud'.
Soon other people will be using your sounds in their tunes and you will get a contributing production credit, on the tracks they publish.
Like this amazing song below [not mine], somewhere it uses a little Juno sample I made.







-_-
Audiotool.com is due for an upgrade very soon.

 : audiotool.com, Update 2012:

.: Help Bubbles go to Outer Space

“Bubbles” (or rather Mike Smith, the actor who plays him) from the greatest Canadian television show of all time, Trailer Park Boys, wants to go to outer space. The Metro News in Toronto is holding a contest to put one of their readers into space and Smith wants to win.



VOTE HERE: Race for Space:
Send MIKE SMITH aka BUBBLES into SPACE!!!
And remember you can VOTE 10 times a day from any IP address.

Via Dangerous Minds

.: RIP - The Shuttle

This is what you would see if you tried to hitch a ride on the Space Shuttle's solid fuel booster.
The audio in this clip is incredible - actual sound from the footage.
Thanks for the good times NASA.

via IO9

.: Doc: The shape of things that hum.

The Shape of Things That Hum
is a synthesizer documentary series that first aired by Channel 4 in the UK during 2001.

The series focused on electronic instruments that helped shaped modern music, with every episode focusing on a specific instrument. The episodes were broadcast between 01.30am and 01.41am, and featured musicians talking about classic vintage synthesizers, including the DX7 that defined the sound of the 1980s.

Mini Moog (15-01-2001) - Cult electronic instruments that helped to shape modern music.

Vocoder (22-01-2001) - Developed as a scrambling device in World War II, includes interviews with Orbital and Rick Wakeman.

DX7 (29-01-2001) - Synthesizer that defined the sound of the 1980s. Interviews with Vince Clarke and Nick Rhodes.

Fairlight (05-02-2001) - Computer based snthesizer offering sampling, digital recording, sequencing and editing. Includes Nick Rhodes.

Simmons (12-02-2001) - Includes producer Arthur Baker talking about making "Planet Rock".

Roland TB-303 (19-02-2001) - House innovators Coldcut and Orbital discuss the Roland 303 synthesizer.

Roland TB-808 (26-02-2001) - Includes producer Arthur Baker, plus Ray Keith talks about the importance of the bass.

Akai Sampler (05-03-2001) - Instrument that helped fuel the rave scene and the white label explosion

.: Revolt - Daniel Savio [music video]

DANIEL SAVIO - REVOLT (music video) from Måns Nyman on Vimeo

Daniel Savio 2012 on dodpop records

- The video portrays and lends space to those otherwise ostracized by society - the hunted and discriminated. Drug addicts, crazies, prowlers and prostitutes have no place in society and few sympathise with them. These people are the biggest losers in history.

- We depicted them as animals of equal standing - crows, rodents and raccoons and transformed them into beautiful and powerful survivors.

Check out www.danielsavio.com - for more info about Daniel and his music.

via Dangerous Minds

.: Arrival - Mantislord X

.:      Dj Kmart has entered a state of metamorphosis, induced by the effects of the gas leak, documented above. The human phase of Dj Kmart is now complete, freeing the artist\\artwork from human space-time.
Self /non-self division is fully resolved.
The inward focus of our selfish society neatly consumed the essence of Dj Kmart, the process has fed upon the very notion of of Kmart's being.
All remaining potential has been used as nutrition for an iterated hybrid that has/will have multiple existences..
What remains, forms the resources for the manifestation of an extra dimensional self/nonself/artwork/artist.
Arriving from here/not here, - the manifestation of the higher form, has/is/will be condensed into the dominant spacetime bandwidth.
From the cocoon, emerges
- Mantis Lord X

.: Electronic Countermeasures

Tomorrow's Thoughts Today are a a London thinktank and with Electronic Countermeasures are doing what the Pirate Bay have proposed creating an aerial network that uses autonomic swarm formation to create, disperse, and reform high-throughput temporary networks in the sky.

Thanks Cory at boingboing

Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 from liam young on Vimeo.

via torrentfreak

.: Art - Dain Fagerholm

Dain Fagerholm

.: Jeff Mills - Interview.

Jeff Mills talks to EQTV in a rare interview about music, his fears for modern technology, politics and more as he plays out at Pressure at the Arches in Glasgow

.: Doc - Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a label for a movement. A movement that wants change by sonic revolution. We urge you to join the resistance and help us combat the mediocre audio and visual programming that is being fed to the inhabitants of Earth, this programming is stagnating the minds of the people; building a wall between races and preventing world peace. It is this wall we are going to smash. By using the untapped energy potential of sound we are going to destroy this wall much the same as certain frequencies shatter glass. Techno is a music based in experimentation; it is music for the future of the human race. Without this music there will be no peace, no love, no vision. By simply communicating through sound, techno has brought people of all different nationalities together under one roof to enjoy themselves. Isn't it obvious that music and dance are the keys to the universe? So called primitive animals and tribal humans have known this for thousands of years! We urge all brothers and sisters of the underground to create and transmit their tones and frequencies no matter how so called primitive their equipment may be. Transmit these tones and wreak havoc on the programmers!

 underground resistance

.: Hollow Ribs - Dj Manson - Track & Video

.: Monthly Bootleg: RZA / AL Corrupt - HoodRat RMX [2004]

[Exclusive FLAC DL]
This is a limited release, I will switch it for another hiquality Download soon, so get it while its hot.
Much respect to the RZA, I mean no disrespect to the Abbot, but hey.
its ghetto tek baby. Many a party has popped off to this remix.
Wack Djs - you will need to mix quicker if you want to drop this one.

.: You are listening to Los Angeles

 "A "personal appeal" from site founder Eric Eberhardt: Hi! If you're digging all the music & ambience in your web browser & want to help me bring the site to iPhones and make a bunch of other updates, please consider making a donation to my Kickstarter Project that will be running till the end of February. (And you can always help support the site by sharing it with friends on Facebook & Twitter too!)"

You are listening to Los Angeles:

.: Dirtbox Radio - Lost tapes - 01

Plenty more to come... Stay tuned.

01 | Dirtbox - Lost Tapes | Manson & Speakafreaka | 2SER broadcasts.1998-2001 by Djmanson on Mixcloud

Download Link

.: Meanwhile: - Swarms of Nano Quadrotors

Yes, it has been all over the interweb this week -but people are giving me puzzled looks when I mention it.
So, just in case you have been holed up in a cave, check out the latest developments at Skynet.

via Youtube

So far: 41,332 people think these goddam nazi dragonflies are apparently 'Awesome!'

- and only 298 found them at all troubling?!

I can't help notice they are not bearing cool refreshing drinks, for us humans to sip, as we enjoy all that extra leisure time technology was supposed to provide us with.

We humans are working harder than ever - and we don't even have lame robot butlers like C3-PO to complain to.

And what about those hoverboards we were promised?

Thoughts?

.: Nehi - The Dave G Mixtape

Local rapper Nehi comes correct on 'Set Sail',
- the first cut from his full length release - 'The Dave G Mixtape'.
[Production by Complete Kit, Interlude by Maladroit]

   Download the full mixtape here.

     [41Mb zip]


Stay posted - There is lots more fresh local Hip Hop on the way.

.: LHF - Akashic Visions

Just looked in on Blackdown, [It's been one of my favourite blogs for a while now],
and this track and video instantly grabbed me, and I had to post.
It has a Detroit/to/London/via/Afghanistanfransico atmosphere that resonates across 20 years of culture [that I have witnessed], whilst sounding like the future.
Oh yeah, ..and then the beat drops.

 "Akashic Visions" is a cut taken from the forthcoming LHF début and double album,
 "Keepers of the Light" on Keysound Recordings. |   Video Directed by the mighty Skely Tor, a true Light Keeper.

Available as 2xCD with exclusive sleeve notes and artwork and as digital on April 2nd (2012).

Via Blackdown and Keysound Recordings

.: Warrior Rituals - [Unreleased]

Techno Warriors!

Arm yourselves with more of my unreleased techno tracks.
These were, pretty much, made by me -  for me - to spin at outdoor techno  parties, back in the day. [more about that soon - stay posted]

'Warrior Ritual', has been lying around in both it's forms for a while now, only seeing the light of day in Dj Manson sets, or on the occasional Cd I would burn to give away.

It sounds pretty good after 10 years of  cellaring. -even if it was made using Fruity Loops 3, - and the remix is pretty much the same track 3 years later, just fed through my Micromoog - [in maximum tweakage mode]

The Micromoog is a raspy, brash analog mono-synth, like a meaner, black vinyl, trailer-trash cousin of the much coveted Minimoog .
I received it as a gift, from a homeless man, who I met whilst sleeping out in a park - in Fitzroy,  [This must have been around summer 95/96, on a Vibetribe 'road trip']
We got to talking about music. I think he used to do prog rock? He told me his bitch ex-wife had a garage full of his old synths. and if I came backto the park, the next day, same time - he would have something for me.
And he did. :]

True story.
Great synth.

Listen to a streaming version, - or download a FLAC
[Free Lossless Audio Compression]
Cd quality- 16bit 44kHz.

Let me know [in the comments section] if you have any trouble playing any of my audio files on your system.   

.: Music after the page jump..

.: Tribal Punishment - Old School Junglepunks Mix 1999

Dj Manson | Tribal Punishment

Junglepunks Mixtape Catalog# JP-02

Mixed on 1200s 

Oct 1999 @ JunglePunks HQ, 

Upper Colo River, Australia

Listen to the mix after the page jump :........

.: Until AM - Soundcloud Dj Interface

If you like Soundcloud -  you need to check this out.

Yes. Now! [link]..

Until.AM is the brain child of two Helsinki based developers / music lovers Aaro Väänänen and Tuomas Karhu.
It is still in the early beta stage - and lacks a cue monitor or nudge buttons, but it is very fun to play around with and it works well, even if beatmixing is a challenge.
Simple but effective, Until.AM looks like a very promising project, all in all.
The application is cloud-based.& it runs in your browser [it can also play files from your HDD].
There is nothing to install, and you don't even need to log into Soundcloud.
Just click this link...
Mix.Until.Am
Too easy, 

Now you're a Dj

...and so is your Nan.

Tip: If you want to find all your uploaded Soundcloud tracks easily, search your "user name" in quotation marks.

.: Operation Black March

via Zgeek

.: From the vault: Monocycle - Restless

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) or Willis-Ekbom disease is a neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move one's body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensations.[1] It most commonly affects the legs, but can affect the arms, torso, and even phantom limbs.[2] Moving the affected body part modulates the sensations, providing temporary relief.

From the Monocycle CD

.: Aidex '91

Over the last week, I am ashamed to say, I have been working on an international arms trade fair.

Right here in the middle of Sydney - at Darling Harbour.
Called the Pacific Maritime Expo, it didn't even seem to raise an eyebrow.

I wanted to walk out on the first day,

- walk out of an event that offends every one of the principles I so readily espouse.

But I found, in Sydney 2012, those principles are too expensive for people like me.
Living week to week, it seems I can no longer afford them.

Part of my soul has died.

It seemed none of my friends shared my outrage, as I ranted about the injustice, after my first day there.

Don't get passionate about something anymore, -you could be mistaken for a fanatic.

A terrorist.

Too gutless to try and sabotage the event when I had the chance.., as if I could..

Even if I knew how to make a bomb belt without killing myself [hard],

-and got it into the set up [easy],

I wouldn't come near to taking out any of the real scumbags,

I would have only taken out the contractors, working poor like me.

The whole thing was done low key, and at first we thought it was just a boat show,

But it soon became clear, this was a full on Naval Military Expo.

Drones, missiles, and surviellance bugs that look like jellyfish,

- the future is inhuman.

When I told the people around me what this event was really about
..all I got was blank stares.

Source:  engagemedia.org

No-one, it seemed, remembered AIDEX.
Over 20 years ago now.

I wasn't there, but I remember the response in the community.

This video was produced for CAT TV by John Jacobs,

a true hero and a creative inspiration.

Watch his video after the link....

.: Death Grips - Exmilitary

Call me out of touch, but I just heard Death Grips for the first time.

I won't try and describe it, you should just listen, if you haven't already.

The album, 'Exmilitary' is available as a free download at thirdworlds - or you can listen to a stream from Soundcloud after the page jump..

.: Sydney Graffiti on Flickr

photo by godotcab on Flickr.

photo by baddogwhiskas on Flickr.

photo by baddogwhiskas on Flickr.

This photo pool delivers.
28,000 photos strong and counting....

.: Monthly Bootleg - January 2012

Every month I will post an unreleased track I have made, of dubious copyright status, as a limited download.
Get it now because before the end of Feb, this CD quality wav file will be replaced with a dead link.
Next month: Al Corrupt vs Rza - Hoodrat Mashup

.: Slow Gas Leak in Temple

.: Kuduro Fever Dj Mix - DjManson

Kuduro Fever Minimix - Promo by Djmanson on Mixcloud

.: Settlers - Al Corrupt feat Ibojah

Best Australia Day Ever.

.: Tresor - A documentary

.: Fire Water Herb

.: Harvest Ritual - ketatek

.: Nasty Bitch

.: Spare Cycles

.: The Hunt

.: Droner Jihad