Latest old greats on WFMU

New music, in no particular order of favouritism.



Sciflyer - Lush sounds teleported straight outta the nineties in some UFO accident. Listen to "Never Come Down" on the Andrew Lisfield Playlist (the preceeding tracks are ambiently nice) here.

Antibalas - Che Che Cola (Makossa) - Could be my new sound for the summer, maybe needs a techno remix before that happens. The Makossa remix heavy backbeat version certainly helps..... Listen to it here, from Hatch's playlist. I have to recommend listening to the whole playlist as well, apart from the 20 minute jazzy bit in the middle.

Lee Scratch Perry - Judgement in A Babylon - from the Brian Turner playlist here, this is a stinging attack on Chris Blackwell, which is also very funny and groovy. Listen to it here

Mogwai - Hunted by a Freak - from the Push Bin with Lou playlist - which was taken from the Peel Sessions. Listen here

The Ken playlist from 28 March 2001 - some good music on display here - from Little Axe's Ride On, which I remember from some years ago when my DJ friend got a promo and we played it to death, to Lee Scratch Perry and the Os Mutantes. Also my favourite Moby track Run On is here too!

Pseu's Thing With a Hook playlist from 24 June 2005. Starting with the Ramones, then the Jesus and Mary Chain ( a personal favourite of mine), then the Ravenonettes, David Bowie, it also introduced me to Joy Zipper's best song (in my humble opinion) a lot later on in the playlist. Unfortunately there is no accuplaylist, and I can't quite remember how long into the playlist that the song starts.... Before that incidentally is the Teenage Fanclub - a band I had the pleasure of seeing live in my home town.

My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When/Swallow - from the Karaoke Alarm Clock playlist, I hadn't heard the second MBV track before, and was immediately hypnotised. Listen here.

My Bloody Valentine - What you Want. Well caught up in a bit of MBV nostalgia, been listening to Joy Zipper as a susbstitute..... From the Push Bin with Lou, listen to it here.

Joy Zipper - previously mentioned above, listen to The Christmas Song here, from the Evan Funk Davies show

Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte - from the playlist for Scott Williams there is no accuplaylist, so click on realplayer and scroll along to 1 hour and 58 minutes to listen. One of my favourite finds of the last 6 months, it immediately became apparent where I'd heard the bassline before! and when that choir sound kicks in....!

Shelagh McDonald - Liz's Song - from the Hatch Sept 3 2005 playlist. Found via the WFMU beware of the Blog web ... well.... eh... blog. Listen here

Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day - Listen here. From the Acapulco Dance Party playlist, also found via the WFMU Beware of the Blog site. Yeah I love it.

Loads more Vashti Bunyan on the This is the Modern World with Trouble playlist here, plus an interview with said person. It's all good.


!SR

Me want beer

"homepub" fridge/freezer

- A fridge that delivers draught beer on tap!!

£649.00

Extend your warranty 12 months extra cover £72.00
Model: "AHP7316".
Chilled draught beer on tap - from the fridge!
Fridge capacity 220 litres gross (218 net), 7.9 cu.ft gross (7.7 net).
Freezer capacity 96 litres gross (83.net), 3.4 cu.ft gross (2.9 net). 2 glass shelves. Energy consumption 255.5 kwh hours per year.
Wine rack. Anti-bacterial linings.
Automatic defrost on fridge, manual on freezer.
Fittings for using a unit to store a 5-litre barrel of beer/lager together with a gas cylinder and valve. Beer is dispensed via a pump on the fridge door. H 185, w 60, d 60cms.
Details included inside of how to get extra kegs. Visit www.beersofeurope.co.uk for 24hr keg delivery service or phone

Link

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Very, very something or other.

Very, very something or other.

Link

Crowley (125kb)
From PDC tape #18 (Dec 5, 1952)
"Now, he could simply say, "I have action." A magician - the magic cults of the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth centuries in the Middle East were fascinating. The only modern work that has anything to do with them is a trifle wild in spots, but it's fascinating work in itself, and that's work written by Aleister Crowley, the late Aleister Crowley, my very good friend. And he did himself a splendid piece of aesthetics built around those magic cults. It's very interesting reading to get hold of a copy of a book, quite rare, but it can be obtained. the Master Therion, T-h-e-r-i-o-n, The Master Therion by Aleister Crowley. He signs himself "The Beast"; "The Mark of the Beast, 666." Very, very something or other."

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Broadside news

From the front page:

In the centuries before there were newspapers and 24-hour news channels, the general public had to rely on street literature to find out what was going on. The most popular form of this for nearly 300 years was 'broadsides' - the tabloids of their day. Sometimes pinned up on walls in houses and ale-houses, these single sheets carried public notices, news, speeches and songs that could be read (or sung) aloud.

The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions - all these and more are here

Link here

19th century transvestite!:

Female Foot Boy!

This is a rattling good yarn from the 1820's which would not look out of place in a modern tabloid. It concerns a young woman who had to dress as a man to earn a living.

When her true identity was discovered, she was forced into marrying an unmarried mother - a bizarre arrangement which happily did not prove to be permanent!

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Hearts Sacks Fans !

Nicked from Motherwell Board which Nicked it from the Hibs board:

Heart of Midlothian Football Club today announced that
they have sacked all their fans

The Hearts support, who joined the club in 1874, were
dismissed by owner Vladimir Romanov after a series of
poor results. A statement issued on behalf of Mr
Romanov, who from the end of the season will be known
as Club President, said: "We have been disappointed
with the performance of the fans. Results were not
what they should have been.

"The way in which some events were discussed by the
paying support was disappointing to us. It was been
made clear that the only statement that is appropriate
for the supporters to make is the mindless chanting of
the words: 'I believe'. Genuflection to the club
President is also appropriate."

Mr Romanov, who from the end of next season will be
known as Tsar of All The Russias and Empress of India,
added: "I'd like to thank the Hearts support for all
its hard work. It gave 100%, but ultimately it did not
work out. Vladimir Romanov and the club's management
felt that something had to be done quickly. We owed it
to our own ridiculous delusions."

He then outlined ambitious plans for the club to win
the Champion's League, lift the World Cup and put a
man on Mars by 2007 - probably Stephen Pressley.

In the interim, the support will be replaced by
"caretaker fans" - cloned members of the Romanov
family who have been trained to burl scarves and ask
no questions.

A spokesman for the Hearts Supports Support Group, Mr
A N Gunt-Romanov, said: "I believe."

Disgruntled Hearts fans gathering outside Tynecastle
were offered an attractive array of one, two and
three-bedroom luxury apartments from £100,000.

!SR

Scary Face Smiley Face

This is really cool and a bit freaky but you might
have to back off a bit, or squint your eyes.


at the website grand-illusions.com :

Yeah click it !!
Do you remember the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Dr Jekyll, the famous scientist, is not all he seems,
and the other side of his character - Mr Hyde - is,
you will recall, a distinctly nasty piece of work.

Continuing the idea of the two sides of the human
character, have a look at the picture above. On the
left is Dr Angry, and on the right is Mr Calm.

Now, back away from your computer screen. This effect
will work at different distances for different people,
but you should see the two characters swap over...! As
you come closer to the screen again, they revert to
their original characters. Spooky or what!

As optical illusions go, we think this is pretty
impressive. A short explanation goes something like
this. When we look at an object, we can normally see
both fine detail and coarse detail. However when we
are close, the fine detail will dominate, and when we
are further away, we lose the fine detail, and see
more of the coarse detail.

Both of the faces you see above are hybrids - each
face is actually a combination of two faces. The left
hand face shows an angry man in fine detail, but
within the picture there is also coarse detail of the
calm face. Move away, and you lose the fine (angry)
detail, and just see the coarse (calm) detail.

The right hand face shows the calm face in fine
detail, and the angry face in coarse detail.


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Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja �Geometrik� edition (apparently) from
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Eccentric Genius Hypnodisk, (not) available to take over the world at http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/Products7.htm
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Going anti-grav

Instructions from the 1996 Electronics Now magazine on how to build your own ant-grvity machine (well an electro-magnetic levitator) re-printed on the web in full here.

!SR

The incredible mind-control and journey of a parasite

From Pennyslvania Boat and Fish Commision, is this description of the life cycle of a fish parasite. The "Black Spot" parasite has be born in the belly of a bird, get passed to the water, live in a snail, before it progresses to live in a fish. Link.

Incredibly,iIn order to increase the chances of a bird eating a host fish, the parasite actually alter fish behavior, causing it to swim awkwardly and nearer the surface, where a bird will more likely grab it.

The lifecycle of the "black spot" parasite is complex. The adult parasite is found in a fish eating bird, the kingfisher. The larval parasite is transferred from the infected fish to the bird during the feeding process. In the kingfisher, the larval stage develops into an adult parasite. The adult parasite in the intestine of the bird produces eggs that are eventually deposited in the water. There the eggs mature, hatch, and develop into the miracidium stage of the parasite. The miracidium infects a snail. In the snail, the miracidium develops into the cercaria life stage. The cercaria leaves the snail and actively penetrates a host fish. In the fish, the parasite becomes encysted. In about 22 days, black spots form around the cyst. This entire lifecycle takes at least 112 days to complete.

!SR

Civilisation crash

From polyscience.org an interesting feature on the collapse of the Easter Island population. Read the interview with Dr William Basener here

There are several well-known examples of societies that have experienced a collapse. Several of these are described in Jared Diamond’s recent book “Collapse.” In each case there are a number of theories for the cause of the collapse. For example, take the Maya Civilization. At their peak, the population was as dense as modern day Los Angeles, and they built the magnificent buildings, but their population very suddenly dropped to a small fraction of their peak.

Q: Can your work be applied to modern civilizations? Perhaps for the use of oil?
A: We believe so. We are collaborating with some economists on applications to the present. Long-term sustainability is a well-studied topic, although much of the work is still being done

!SR

Cheat at Poker ?

Article from 1999 about cheating at online poker.

Largely about random number generators.

Link here

Another guide here

Notorious casino cheat claims 99 per cent of players will one day be cheating... here



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Greasy PC

Want maximum cooling for your PC?

Want a totally silent PC?

Answer: Why not submerge it in oil !

From Tomshardware (with great pictures too)

Dousing Your Athlon FX-55 With Eight Gallons Of Cooking Oil?

Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore the realms of the non-conventional. Members of the Munich-based THG lab are only too happy to confirm this fact. And not only did we find that our AMD Athlon FX-55 and GeForce 6800 Ultra equipped system didn't short out when we filled the sealed shut PC case with cooking oil - but the non-conductive properties of the liquid coupled created a totally cool and quiet high-end PC, devoid of the noise pollution of fans. The PC case - or should we say tank - also offered a new and novel way to display and show off your PC components.

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Electric Toothbrush Lockpick

Fed up brushing your teeth with the same old toothbrush?

Why not turn it into a lockpick?

From inventgeek.

While there is a decade or more of heated debates on the topic of humanity and honesty, it is with the fore mentioned biases that we are doing this project. I have been actively interested in locksmithing and more over lock picking for several years. Any time a new gadget comes out that speeds up the ability to pick a lock it is often extremely overpriced. One of these types of tools is the vibrating lockpick. 60-120 bucks for a vibrating lockpick was a bit ridiculous in my opinion, so I decided to come up with a cheep way of making a good vibrating lock pick. For about 9.00 and a half hour we have produced a comparable lockpick to the most expensive commercial ones.

!SR

Quote of the week

From wafflemovies :

Yours, Mine and Ours is so bad you might not legally be allowed to call it a movie.

!SR

Playlist for 2006

Tammy Lee - I'm Alive. Funky soully stuff to get up to. From the Inner Ear Detour. Listen here. Leave it playing for more funky stuff.!

Juana Molina - Tres Cosas - electronic ambient sublime. From Dan Mackta playlist. Start here and scroll Realplayer along to 2:25:04 into the show.

Broadcast - Corporeal. More beautiful female lyrical smoothiness with a dash of loopy electronica for good measure. It really is very good. From Charlies playlist listen to it here.

Robert Wyatt - At Last I am Free. More floaty spacedness. I think this is a cover but can't remember. From Scott Williams playlist. Listen to it here and again scroll along the time bar, this one starts at 2:18:35

Rolling Stones - 2,000 Light Years. An oldie but a goodie. From Fabio's playlist, listen to it here and scroll to 57 minutes or so in.

Alexander Skip Spence - War in Peace - Absolutely incredible song, sung at a frequency inaudible to normal human hearing, must be derranged to assimilate waveform. From Mitas playlist, listen to it here

Lyrics Born - Do that there - Bit of hip-hop to pick things up. This is a way better tune than the original. Deserves to be ten or twenty minutes long! From the Push Bin playlist, Listen here

Beth Orton and Terry Callier - Dolphins - This cover song turned me back on to Beth Orton, I had forgotten how good the Best Bit EP was. From the Rix playlist, listen to it here. Also stay listening for the Neil Young track that follows.

Devandra Banhart - Cripple Crow - Kinda folky - countryish, with a bit of a Freudian undertone (or is that just me?), nice song tho. From Irene Trudel's playlist, (would I like her if I met her?) listen to it here.

Television Personalities - I hope he's everything that you wanted me to be. Best title of these selections so far, I used to listen to the TVP, when I was young and had more hair, on Peter Easton's Beat Patrol. Anyways, this track's from the Push Bin (again) playlist, listen to it here.


!SR