January 2011
36 posts
Adviruz - ‘A Place To Hide’ free album - electro pop http://ping.fm/frEYR
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Adviruz - 'A Place To Hide' free album - electro...
Adviruz is an electronic music project started by Pýnar Gürcan in 2009. Adviruz, combining her tracks composed over the years and the technical knowledge she acquired and giving them form in a computer, published online albums and recruited successful engineers and musicians Erhan Kabakçý and Barýþ Gökçer Akbay.Amplify’d from www.makeahistory.comAdviruz is an electronic music project started by...
Egypt Ministry of Interior: Plan to fight back against popular demonstrations + How to follow a 21st century revolution http://ping.fm/khNN8
Egypt Ministry of Interior: Plan to fight back against popular demonstrations + How to follow a 21st century revolution http://ping.fm/4GbCn
The Gibbets -‘Playground’ free album - progressive lava rock http://ping.fm/Oluvc
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The Gibbets -'Playground' free album - progressive...
The Gibbets claim to make lava rock, whatever that means. The members are: Antoine Gibbet: singer and lyricist, Fat Baby Ralph: guitars, Poplar Gibbet: drums, programming, and synthetics… Playground is their first set of recordings as a unit of collaboration. Please enjoy!Amplify’d from www.makeahistory.comThe Gibbets claim to make lava rock, whatever that means. The members are: Antoine...
Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people – they isolate them from reality + The hidden influence of social networks http://ping.fm/MNBTo
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Twitter and Facebook don't connect people – they...
We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.Amplify’d from www.makeahistory.comThe way in which people frantically...
Amy Hiller - glitched-out experimental trip-hop sounds - 2 free CDs http://ping.fm/WUcN4
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Amy Hiller - glitched-out experimental trip-hop...
This EPs brings together more of the collaged sounds – both organic and synthetic – beautifully crafted lyrics, whirling strings and woodwinds. But don’t expect more of exactly the same. The song writing shows craftsmanship and pop-sensibility.”… pop, lofi, experimental with nice female vocalAmplify’d from www.makeahistory.comgs together more of the collaged sounds – both organic and synthetic –...
KATARRHAKTES - a blend of harsh noise and industrial percussion with wavering moments of beauty - 3 free CDs http://ping.fm/koVNP
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KATARRHAKTES - a blend of harsh noise and...
Katarrhaktes is a solo project of London-based visual and sonic artist Malcolm James McLean, and was conceived of and formed in mid-late 2007. Its aims are to explore the unexplained, what we choose to believe in, the boundaries of truth, the meaning of a linear perceptive existence, and other discourses via conceptual pieces of music which range from a confusion of destructive sonic anarchy that...
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KATARRHAKTES - a blend of harsh noise and...
Katarrhaktes is a solo project of London-based visual and sonic artist Malcolm James McLean, and was conceived of and formed in mid-late 2007. Its aims are to explore the unexplained, what we choose to believe in, the boundaries of truth, the meaning of a linear perceptive existence, and other discourses via conceptual pieces of music which range from a confusion of destructive sonic anarchy that...
Jello Biafra - OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA + speech videos http://ping.fm/BJ7fD
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Jello Biafra - OPEN LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA +...
My Friends (couldn’t resist, I had to say it),…….. Here, by semi-popular demand, are the suggestions I sent to Obama’s Change.gov site for citizen input. It veers from writing to Obama himself to writing for the people who may actually read this. A lot of these ideas may be familiar from my albums and spoken word shows. For the most part I stayed away from the big...
China’s dark side: Body fishing job http://ping.fm/vInul
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China's dark side: Body fishing job
Wei Jinpeng is a fisher of dead people. He scans the river about 18 miles from Lanzhou, China, for cadavers, drags them to shore with a small boat and then charges grieving families to recover their relatives’ corpses. It is a thriving business. From his perch on an overhang above the Yellow River, Wei Jinpeng pointed to a fisherman’s cove below and began counting his latest catch. He...
Bertrand Russell - Why I Am Not A Christian http://ping.fm/SzDrI
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Bertrand Russell - Why I Am Not A Christian
A speech given by Bertrand Russell, March 6, 1927, National Secular Society, South London branch, Battersea Town Hall ………… “As your chairman has told you, the subject about which I am to speak tonight is “Why I Am Not a Christian.” Perhaps it would be as well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word “Christian.” It is used...
The Oldest Written Melody in History c.1400 BC http://ping.fm/FWwac
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The Oldest Written Melody in History c.1400 BC
This unique video, features my arrangement of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6”, which was discovered in Ugarit ,ancient northern Canaan (now modern Syria) in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language - it is THE oldest written song yet known! Respect, to the amazing ancient culture of...
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2012 - Zemlja bi mogla imati 2 sunca?
Dr. Brad Carter, viši predavač fizike na University of Southern Queensland, tvrdi da postoji mogućnost dau najskorije vrijeme, Zemlja dobije privremeno drugo sunce… Betelgeza, jedna od najsjajnijih zvijezda na našem nebu, gubi masu, što znači da se urušava i da bi bi mogla ostati bez goriva, te postati super-nova…… vidi sveAmplify’d from www.balkan-express.org2012 - Zemlja...
Temporary Hegemonic Zones + First NSK Citizen’s Congress + *Victory Under the Sun (1988)* documentary http://ping.fm/kw8aW
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Temporary Hegemonic Zones + First NSK Citizen's...
Attending a sprawling congress for Neue Slowenische Kunst’s imaginary state proved to be a worthwhile exercise in traumatic participation. While it is almost impossible to encapsulate what the Slovenian art movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) has undertaken, in all its manifestations, since forming in 1983, we could perhaps describe it best as an aesthetic apparatus for collective...
Black Punk Time: Blacks in Punk, New Wave and Hardcore 1976-1984 http://ping.fm/hVczq
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Black Punk Time: Blacks in Punk, New Wave and...
The true relationship really comes down to early punk and early Hip Hop both being D.I.Y. movements with independent spirits. When Black Hip Hop artists began exploring (and creating) their underground, culminating in obscure, unbelievably NEW sounding vinyl spinning out of NYC, this was not entirely untread ground. So in addition to the African griots, the signifying toasters, the comedic Jump...
Gaza’s Youth Manifesto - Gaza Youth to Planet Earth! Anyone out there? “Gaza what?” http://ping.fm/J5xM2
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Gaza's Youth Manifesto - Gaza Youth to Planet...
Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in...
Microbial communities in fluid inclusions and long-term survival in halite + The 11th Hour - documentary http://ping.fm/kZh3T
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Microbial communities in fluid inclusions and...
Fluid inclusions in modern and ancient buried halite from Death Valley and Saline Valley, California, USA, contain an ecosystem of “salt-loving” (halophilic) prokaryotes and eukaryotes, some of which are alive. Prokaryotes may survive inside fluid inclusions for tens of thousands of years using carbon and other metabolites supplied by the trapped microbial community, most notably the...
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One Day In Metropia - *Peoples from Metropia* free...
Welcome to the other side of the moon, where no earthlings telescope will ever reach, to see the entrance to the space of a completely new civilization, that differs from human behaviour in some points. One day, we got some package, transmitted via scalar waves, out of our own future. Hear and see…Amplify’d from www.makeahistory.comOne Day In MetropiaPeoples from MetropiaWelcome to the...
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Where is Everybody? - How many technically...
Essay by Steven Soter, Scientist-in-Residence in the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University. Gedanken experiments, which have been used for hundreds of years by scientists and philosophers to ponder thorny problems, rely on the power of one’s imagination to project these scenarios to logical conclusions. They do not involve lab equipment or, often, even experimental data. They...
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Owlface - *pish posh* free CD - great Alaska...
recorded by Shawn Jackinsky on an old busted 4track in winter 2008/2009, Alaska ….. It sounds at turns like floating through space, sitting on an iceberg travelling down a frozen river, wandering across an alien beach at night, walking around a tiny fog-enshrouded rocky lighthouse island, and travelling through the arctic on a dogsled. It is truly a work of art that can be listened to (or...
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Top US Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons...
A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week.Amplify’d from www.makeahistory.comBy: Sorcha Faal,...
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Birth (of the Image) of a Nation: Jean-Luc Godard...
While Jean-Luc Godard’s life and work has received a plethora of critical attention, a relatively uncharted episode occurred in 1977–1978, when, at the behest of the Samora Machel government, the filmmaker worked in Mozambique to assist in the establishment of the country’s first television station. Having newly acquired its independence from Portugal, the avowedly Marxist government of Machel...
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How to Subvert Institutional Authority Through...
One of the first lessons of magic(k) that we learn as children is that words and symbols have power. Abracadabra. Hocus Pocus. A five-pointed star. A four-leaf clover. As we get older, this primary notion quickly degrades and often becomes the source of one of the first dismissive tendencies towards magic(k) that arises amongst adults. Too many hokey movies and failed attempts to levitate with an...