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Many older people in Russia remember seeing and hearing strange vinyl type discs when they were young. The discs had partial images of skeletons on them, were called 'Bones' or 'Ribs' and originated in the Cold War years of the Soviet Union. In an era when the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the State, music-mad bootleggers had found an incredible alternative means of making illegal copies of forbidden recordings - they repurposed used X Ray plates obtained from local hospitals. The X-Ray Audio Project is telling this amazing story of forbidden music, cold war culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour with an online archive, a book, an award winning documentary, live events and a travelling exhibition. The project is supported by Arts Council England and has received a large amount of PRESS and media coverage.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, proposes that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication. The title derives from the phrase "the manufacture of consent," employed in the book Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). Chomsky credits the origin of the book to the impetus of Alex Carey, the Australian social psychologist, to whom he and co-author E. S. Herman dedicated the book. Four years after publication, Manufacturing Consent: The political Economy of the Mass Media was adapted to the cinema as Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992), a documentary presentation of the propaganda-model of co...

Back in October I went to see a Q&A with Amp Fiddler at Amsterdam Dance Event. He talked about introducing J Dilla to the MPC, and played some OG files he received from Dilla decades ago: deconstructing Dilla beats for the—shamelessly small—crowd of 30-ish people. And by way of the iconic Slum Village tracks “Players”, “The Look Of Love” & “Fall In Love”, Amp gave a Dilla for dummies crash course on why his beats sound so musical, warm and full of soul. This new video by Vox made me think of that lecture: J Dilla Beats 101. The video is a 10-minute introduction on how J Dilla humanized the MPC3000. It’s a basic yet good watch on how he didn’t quantize his beats, insights on sampling Gap Mangione, Giorgio Moroder & The Escorts, and extending samples, using track examples such as “E=MC2”, “Fall In Love”, “Lazer Gunne Funke” & The Pharcyde’s “Runnin'”. As drum machine pioneer Roger Linn puts it in the original MPC3000 manual: “(…) In this light,...

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker—all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less.

[Ed note – We are aware that there are playback issues with the audio when this is watched on a mobile device. We encourage you to watch this on your desktop computer, laptop or with headphones.] “Three things in Jamaica: Rasta, ganja and reggae music.” Late last year we accompanied Vivien Goldman on a trip to Jamaica to track down the remaining vestiges of the island’s failing record industry. As the documentary reveals, iconic record shops like Randy’s and Rockers International are now ghosts of their former selves, whilst Jamaica’s last pressing plant has been covered in dust for years (though a new deal should finally see the factory kick start operations again.) Through conversations with local legends like Earl “Chinna” Smith, Vivien pieces together a personal story of how a culture so rooted in records has found itself in helpless decline. “Jamaica had so many studios, outstanding studios, pressing plants, small producers and big producers, who were a...

Joseph Amos Milburn, Jr. (1 de Abril, 1927 – 3 de Enero, 1980) fue un cantante y pianista americano de rhythm and blues, popular durante los 1940s y 1950s. Nació y murió en Houston, Texas. El cantante y pianista tejano de boogie-woogie fue un importante intérprete de música blues durante los años inmediatamente anteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Milburn fue uno de los primeros intérpretes en cambiar de sofisticados arreglos de jazz a un más fuerte jump blues. Comenzó enfatizando el rtimo y cualidades técnicas de la voz para hacerlo luego con la instrumentación. Sus energéticas canciones, sobre temática de "ponerse a tono", fue admirado por sus colegas músicos, como Little Willie Littlefield, Floyd Dixon y su primer discípulo, Fats Domino. Tuvo éxito comercial durante once años e influenció a muchos intérpretes. Fast Domino acredita a Milburn insistentemente como una de sus máximas inlfuencias a nivel musical.

*El memorable debate entre Foucault y Chomsky* El encuentro entre dos figuras emblemáticas de la intelectualidad actual en la Universidad de Amsterdam, allá por 1971, dentro del International Philosophers Project. En los apenas 13 minutos de grabación que hemos encontrado, podemos observar lo mejor y lo peor de cada uno de los autores: En Foucault vemos el perfecto análisis de la violencia ejercida por instituciones aparentemente neutrales como la universidad o la familia, pero también la tendencia al inmovilismo propia del relativismo postmoderno que es incapaz de dar alternativas a la sociedad que critica. *El histórico debate Chomsky-Foucault* En Chomsky es de agradecer la llamada a la acción de uno de uno de esos raros intelectuales que no solo critica desde su torre de marfil sino que se convierte en activista social, pero también queda en evidencia la debilidad epistemológica de una visión idealista que parte de conceptos como “naturaleza humana”. El de...

From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings chronicles life during this era of gang rule, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted New York City and the world over. Shan Nicholson is an award winning filmmaker, DJ, music producer, and counter/pop culture storyteller. His work is unabashedly inspired by being a product of New York City’s culturally rich period of the 1980’s, which continues to influence the world over. Nicholson’s feature-length documentary, Rubble Kings, the story of New York City gang culture in the 1970’s and its influence on the birth of hip hop, is poised for nation...

Utilizing vinyl borrowed exclusively from Afrika Bambaataa's historic and genre-defining record collection, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's acclaimed Renegades Of Rhythm set touches down in Oakland, California in this professionally-documented film experience. You're there in the audience as the two DJ's unravel the evolution of Hip-Hop music and culture, using the same artifacts that helped create it. "Not just any records- the MASTER OF RECORDS' records."

This short film provides an exclusive look at the making of the most eagerly anticipated release in world music. This collaboration of the finest musicians from Cuba and Mali features Eliades Ochoa, Bassekou Kouyate, Djelimady Tounkara, and Toumani Diabate, and sees the realisation of the project that inadvertently became the Buena Vista Social Club. Members: Eliades Ochoa - acoustic guitar & vocals Djelimady Tounkara - electric guitar Bassekou Kouyaté - ngoni Toumani Diabaté - kora Kasse Mady Diabaté - vocals Lassana Diabaté - balafon Baba/Yacouba Sissoko - tama Jose A. Martinez - double bass Osnel Odit - acoustic guitar Jorge Maturell - congas and bongos Eglis Ochoa - maracas Lennis Lara - trumpet Alain A. Dragonit - trumpet Home Town: Mali / Cuba ELIADES OCHOA guitar and vocals (born Songo la Maya, Cuba 1946) With his trademark cowboy hat and penchant for wearing black, Eliades Ochoa has been dubbed 'Cuba's Johnny Cash'. There's more than a ...

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