.: 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 

.: Flock of LED Quadcopters

.: 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

.: 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

.: You are listening to Los Angeles

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You are listening to Los Angeles:

.: 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?

.: 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

.: Operation Black March

via Zgeek

.: 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..

.: Tresor - A documentary

.: 2011 Mainstream Media Roundup

Yep.
That pretty much covers it.
.: source

.: Kill the Corporation!

Source

.: This is why swords are awesome

mind blown via Zgeek

.: JDilla - Last Donut [On eternal rotation]

J Dilla's "Last Donut of the Night" was originally released on Donuts, the last album he finished in his lifetime. Donuts was released February 6, 2006, three days before he passed away.

Some YouTube comments:

Dilla R.I.P. you changed my life :)

 who else got chills?

 This album is amazin'!! - I've never heard anythin' quite like it before. I dunno if it was because he was on his deathbed which gave him the superb inspiration but he managed to convey a story to his listeners just through beats!!! Beautiful Soul!!! Peace!!

 I couldnt imagine anyone's final goodbye being more beautiful or heartfelt. Dilla forever!

 J Dilla (Last Donut of the Night) is a thing of true beauty, unspoiled perfection installed within an instrumental

 if you dont know jdilla you dont know hip hop

 What is the shape of a donut, homie?

J Dilla made you feel things that you didn't know you could

 i could listen to this for years.

This is one of the most personal and greatest records that has ever been made. Produced whilst he knew he was going to die. You can hear both his pride in what he has achieved and the sadness that he has to leave this world. "Young man went out and made a name for himself." An autobiographical sample, and eerie because it's like he's imagining what'll be said at his own funeral . Then the track ends abruptly, just like his life.

.: Occupy - [How to] Defend against tear gas

.: Mound. a sublime claymation short

Via the almighty Laughing Squid