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Flowdan spitting over Bug’s now classic sound. Most of you would know this from Warrior Queen’s verses on “Posion Dart”.
When it comes to the decline of the newspaper, I feel like it goes beyond simply the newspaper. It’s a reflection of our progressive move toward rejection of physical media.
Why would someone pay for information or art when they could get it for free?
Advertising, unfortunately is now the real business. Isn’t it? Isn’t that how websites start these days? Someone must have thought “Hmm, I bet I could get a lot of traffic if I made a website like this” (and therefore advertising revenue).
This is all too true throughout the arts as well. Music will never be able to be sold for the millions of dollars it once was, and neither will visual arts. Even performers are getting paid less and less. You can go to Trent Reznor’s twitter account for more on that.
Perhaps we should have seen it coming. It really is sad to me that some people will never read news when passing by like they might have used to. Then again, maybe its good that those who seek will be the ones who find. Kind of like news natural selection or something. Those who seek to be informed will go further in the future society with news distributed to only those with computer access and a will to learn.
Coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. For some reason, I’ve been running into a lot of my friends when they’re tripping on LSD recently, and I’ve made a point to show this to all of them. Super trippy, but not in the traditional sense whatsoever.
What’s happening in this video is this: in a dystopian future an artificial intelligence diety has become imprisoned within its own ego. Upon discovering transcendent information contained within an archaic laptop computer from thousands of years before, the diety undergoes spiritual transformation.
Intense, huh?
Dr. Strangeloop is a part of the Brainfeeder records family, and is very closely tied to Flying Lotus. When 2010 has been screened, what he actually does is perform the film live, mixing the hundreds of video loops that are a part of it while simultaneously performing the soundtrack. Its pretty raw, I have to say. Some real next level shit. This segment is an edit of the whole thing he made for Mary Anne Hobb’s show a week or two ago, although a DVD can be purchased for a limited time for $15 with all the money going to benefit the institute for cinema studies. It doesn’t hurt either that the dvds are limited to 300 and are all personally signed by Strangeloop himself! For $15 that sounds like getting hooked up pretty good to me.
Big ups to Brainfeeder, Radio One Experimental w/ Mary Anne Hobbs, and most of all Dr. Strangeloop!
Enjoy!
Interview with The Dove ➔
This is really fucking funny :)
This is some hard shit, no pun intended. Perfect bridge of the gap between grime and dub. Much in the same way “Midnight Request Line” is, but with a much more sinister feel. Sinister in that grime way, though, not quite like dubstep. Kinda like Newham Generals (the MC’s) are about to beat the fuck out of you.
Sure to be a summer crossover hit over here! Big ups go to Breakage, Newham Generals, David Rodigan, and Digital Soundboy Records!
“You’re Listening To The Real Queen Of England…”
Miss Mary Anne Hobbs (interview video below). How could I do a post about Annie without writing one about Mary? As much as I love that glowing personality that is Annie Mac emerging from her show, there can only be one mum of all things hard.
It starts with an affinity for rock and metal from a very young age. Mary got her start working as a print journalist for many years, writing for magazines such as Sounds, NME, and eventually being one in the group that created Loaded Magazine. Getting her radio start at BBC Greater London Radio, she made a quick foray into XM before finally being situated in the hot seat: BBC’s Radio One.
A champion to all electronic music that is hard, dark, and most of all fresh, Mary is one of the original people responsible for bringing music such as Dubstep, Grime, and a new sound of Drum N’ Bass to global attention. As such, she’s been looked at as a maternal figure within the worldwide electronic music community, some calling her “the godmother of Dubstep” (It was her 2 hour show “Dubstep Warz” that was the first widely available mix of the genre).
But does the buck stop at Dubstep? Hell no. The truly amazing thing about Mary is how hard she works striving to find what we as listeners know as “the next big thing”.”I’m always searching for that next producer, that next man who is going to come with some kind of fresh element… Some kind of incredible beat you’ve never heard before…” says Hobbs of her work.
Catch Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 1 Experimental from 2:00a.m. to 4:00a.m. on thursday mornings, or on the BBC Radio 1 website all week after! If you’re really lucky you can see her at the Sonar International Music Festival in Barcelona, ES. There she’ll have her own showcase stage with support from none other than such all stars as Flying Lotus, Joy Orbison, & Roska.
BIG BIG BIG ups to Mary and BBC Radio 1 as well as Planet Mu Records for bringing us here in America the comps!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wqb7
XLR8R TV Episode 99: Mary Anne Hobbs: West Coast Rocks from XLR8RTV on Vimeo.
