Concrete and Clay

Mike Hansen from Canada and Tomasz Krakowiak from Poland have been involved with improvised music for a decade, collaborating and releasing outstanding works with international artists such as John Butcher, Kaffe Matthews, John Oswald, Otomo Yoshihide, Aoki Onda and many more.

For frozenelephantsmusic.com they have selected various unplugged and improvised works, a tremendous collection of raw and haunting compositions made from record-player (Hansen) and percussion (Krakowiak) only. The demanding recordings of The Confines of Power combine crackling ruins of sound, concrete noise-incidents, sine feedbacks, intimate close-ups and detailed ideas of scale and movement. Hansen has already been part of the Connected Dots. Connected Ideas compilation released in March 2007.

Full details and free downloads at...
http://www.frozenelephantsmusic.com/fe007.html

Well, we've all come across a little spam in our lives, but when I saw this guy's infuriated response, it made me laugh out loud. Click on comments as its quite foul, so be warned.

Continuing with the Roger Linn theme...

The inventor of the first programmable drum machine talks with the Fake Science Crew.

Roger Linn Podcast

Fatal Bazouka est de retour with 'Jaime trop ton boule' He must be doing some parody this time of Christina Aguilera or some Sean Paul style track. As usual, check it on www.tf1.fr go to videos, then musique and you'll see Fatal. Homo erotic appreciators should not miss this. Check the ski mask all junglists.

Michael Knight inhales burger whilst intoxicated. Filmed by his daughter and posted on Youtube.

The legality of Mixtapes.

Guillaume Paris - Paved With Good Intentions

19.05.07 - 22.06.07
PRIVATE VIEW: 18 May 2007, 7 - 9 pm

"Purity is the enemy of change, ambiguity and compromise"
Mary Douglas

Paradise Row presents 'Paved with Good Intentions', the first major London solo show by French artist Guillaume Paris. On show will be key pieces from Paris' oeuvre along with a number of works including sculpture, video, painting and computer-generated works.

Over the last fifteen years Guillaume Paris has evolved a diverse practice that focuses, from an anthropological standpoint, on the use and abuse of meaning and identity in contemporary culture. The work examines the powerful ideological forces that shape modern society, especially their more curious elements - such the persistence of quasi magical forms of thinking in the discourse of both consumer capitalism and Western politics that combine to form our 'new world order'.

At core, these interests lead Paris to explore notions of the ideal and the rhetoric of purity that underlie all these discourses: from politics to religion, via advertising and marketing. As part of that critique of purity Paris positively engages with ideas of change and adaptability, in conceptions of heterogeneity, transience and tolerance.

In keeping with these concerns Paris produces exhibitions that define a very particular kind of space. Structurally diverse, often combining works executed in different media that apparently address different subjects. Paris creates spaces that are opposed any form of essentialism and so do not lend itself to any form of closure. Instead they provoke critical engagement and, at times, a more emotional response to the vast flow of material and ideas that constitutes the world that shapes, and is shaped, by humanity.

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