250703 18:28

moving house today, so it's all madness / radness. got cut off in my prime during yesterday's update (probably for an outbreak of dinner) - believe me, there was a thought-provoking thread in there somewhere. i have many more links relating to the thorny issue of the american record industry gestapo boyz, honest i do. including this one which absolutely counters yesterday's theory about increased traffic on the p2p networks. ah, well, just shows u what a crazy upside down fast paced musik non stop world we live in, nes pas? there's also a tasty little titbit here on emi's 'copy protection' software causing all sorts of havoc left, right and straight up.

check out james brown's full page ad in last week's variety announcing that the godfather and his good lady wife were "going there separate ways". look at it and look it again - compare the photo with the text. now meditate for a moment repeating the mantra ::: 'truly, he is the godfather of soul'.

i should also say 'god bless rough trade records' for bringing so much joy into our lives. this week, it's their new 'post punk volume one' compilation - over 40 li'l tunes to get ya on the carpet and aiming the cranium for the ceiling, or something.

ok, back to da packing :::


240703 19:44

following the american record industry's announcement that they are to sue individual mp3 file sharers, the li'l ol' file-swapppin' community bods stuck up a royal finger and upped the ante last week by increasing the amount of traffic on the p2p networks by 10%.

meanwhile the uk record industry tried another tactic by issuing a statement claiming that music piracy funded organised crime - admittedly only in the high profile countries such as china, but the timing of their announcement could hardly have been co-incidental.

i also managed to find a link to the sydney morning herald bootleggers story 'crazy remixed up kids'.


180703 08:24

on the iPod this week ::: the utterly incomprable new york noise compilation from soul jazz, featuring some outstanding 'post punk / funk / whatever' including esg and liquid liquid ::: on repeat, is the track 'crazy love' by colder from the output recordings - channel two compilation. the colder album isn't out yet in aus, looking for that import ::: also up for my listening pleasure, fat truckers lp on gigolo, melbourne collective architecture in helsinki and the playgroup remix cd ::: ch'ck it!


170703 07:40

the dream is over ::: AOL, owners of netscape, have made 50 members of the browsers' coding dept redundant in what is seen as the final death rattle for the old internet explorer rival. AOL simultaneously announced that whilst it would continue to have a netscape support dept, it has signed a deal with micrsoft to make IE its proprietry browser. see people who used to work at netscape for some sad reminiscing in good ol' plain txt stylee.


080703 07:17

entertainment through pain ::: fanboy andrew weatherall has interviewed all founding members of throbbing gristle on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the formation of industrial records. great interview, but what about the photos? is it just me, or do cosi and genesis look frighteningly similar these days - in fact, look closely and maybe that's not mr p.orridge after all, couldn't that just be cosi in a nice grey wig?

henry, henry, henry ... you can't knock nice mister rollins for wanting to have a movie career, but bad boys 2? haven't you got any respect for yourself, henry? and haven't we had enough of this no-brain movie fodder? shouldn't you of all people, mr.R, be encouraging participation in a cultural experience that offers stimulation and not an all-out assualt on the will-to-live? stop peddling this filth to minors! and can't that jug-eared loon will smith just please leave us alone? and peter stormare has had some storming roles (see what i did there?), like fargo, lebowski, dancer in the dark... yet he's signed us for this gig too. mind you, he did play the evil scientist bloke in 'the tuxedo' (which i haven't seen obviously...). nurse, the screens!

so we lost barry white at the weekend. does that mean an end to dumb-ass impersonations whenever an untalented baboon-like "comedian", marred for life by the lord's great hulking ugly stick, tries to hilariously chat-up some completely inappropriate member of the opposite sex? i'm glad i wore my corset for i fear my sides my have split.

some good news: swen from wherever has put together a fantastic blog featuring background info + mp3 links for artists that have appeared in the wire magazine. if you have no idea what i'm talking about, then i recommend you check this out for an instant broadening of yr musical horizons. recent postings include links to peaches, the boredoms, michael gira and a 'just taped this off the radio' version of the new kraftwerk single 'tour de france.03'. legend!


020703 8:18

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it's 2003 - what's the fuck's going on?

the record industry has worked itself up into such a frenzy that it is now suing users of file-sharing software such as kaaza and grokster. last week saw the first of the law suits being filed against hundreds (althought eventually tens of thousands) of individuals. an article at thestateman.com quotes RIAA (recording industry association of america) president cary sherman as saying that the law suits will initially target bulk users but will ultimately hit bedroom users. "we're going to sue the person whose name we get, and that will be the person who has the internet account," says carey. "it doesn't matter if it's a minor . . . because the law applies equally to minors as it does to adults."

recently in sydney, the local version of the RIAA both sued and confiscated hardware from three individuals involved in file sharing. one, however, was not making original files available, but rather he was offering his own individually-created bootleg cut-ups and remixes of known tracks. ironic that at the same time that he's being sued, the industry is paying $10,000s to other bootleggers to give their artists some credibility (stand up dannii minogue, liberty x, sugababes etc etc).

once again, the RIAA and their ilk show a complete lack of ability to deal with the digital world - analogue heads lost somewhere in the past, full of panic and paranoia! the future is here and it's about time they put their resources into creative solutions (such as apple's itunes store) instead of suing the very people that are keeping the industry alive.

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