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Andrew Weatherall for Mayor

While we're on the subject of Lord Sabre. Here's a link to something called "Facebook" (?). It's some kind of new fangled thing, that enables people who work in offices to spend their time talking rubbish and uploading photographs while getting paid. Amazing. This really is the future. But where the f*ck is my hover car?

The Campaign for Andrew Weatherall to get John Peel's Radio 1 slot

Andrew Weatherall - The Music That Made Screamadelica

I hope you're all purchasing and joining in to support the UK independent sector after their recent losses after the fire at the Sony storage facility. I do keep hearing stories daily about the losses to certain labels, many of which are much loved here at EE Towers.

Also much loved round here is Mr Andrew Weatherall esquire. As I've said before, I've danced my legs down to the knees to him many times and in more recent years had the great pleasure of warming up the technics for him too. He is indeed a gent an a scholar of the highest order.

Here's a link the the excellent (& new to me) TestPressing site, with Mr AW mixing up the tracks that influenced Screamadelica.

Andrew Weatherall - The Music that made Screamadelica

I'll save the story about seeing Primal Scream in 1988, pre-Screamadelica, at Planet X in Liverpool. I bet you can't wait ..........................

UK Riots/disturbances & UK Independant Labels

Here in the UK we've had a very bad week, with riots starting in Tottenham in London then spreading across the country (though it just seemed to be aimless looting and vandalism after the initial demonstration).

A Sony DADC owned storage facility was burned down in London, destroying stock for the majority of UK independant labels. (a list of labels distributed via.PIAS is here)

Various support websites/funds have been set up to help these labels, as many have stock insured at cost price not sale price etc... And of course this is a huge blow to the independant sector, who try and stand strong in the face of the majors and the changing face of the industry.

So, at the very least, go and buy some downloads from your favourite artists/labels from the list of those affected.

Links:
PIAS website with links and information (with support links to iTunes, Zune etc...)
Various compilations made by Jarvis Cocker etc...
Facebook page, with links to info/fundraisers
Another Facebook page!!
AIM label fund

(By the way - I don't work for an indie label/shop, or work in the industry at all)

Oh, and on the subject of the "riots". Lets push to reverse the cuts made to policing, social services etc... and lets try and fix the underlying problems instead of just focusing on punishing the individuals (which does need to happen).
Lets also not forget about the moral bankruptcy of the press and bribes paid to police by Murdoch and News International. How come the Guardian/Hugh Grant got to the bottom of the Hacking issue and not the Police investigation?!! Who was running the country?!

Splitting the Atom [1997]

This was a collaboration between Andy Ramsay and Simon Holliday, with contributions from the late great Mary Hansen and Pete Kember aka. Sonic Boom. It appeared as a 3 track 7” single in 1997, in quite small quantities I think. So here it is, in all it’s bubbling analogue glory. From my record deck to your ears.

Side A - Splitting The Atom (Part One) / Splitting The Atom (Part Two)
Side B - Monkey Brain

Splitting the atom

Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [2005]

If you don't want to hear an album that sounds across between later period Fleetwood Mac and Sonic Youth, look away now.

Broken Social Scene's Self-Titled debut

Acetone - York Blvd [2000]

I like this record, though unfortunately I was a latecomer to Acetone.

Some people have reviewed this album, like this & this


Things are gonna be alright

Various Artists - Easter Everywhere vol.1

Here we present the first Easter Everywhere compilation/mixtape. To kick things off, volume 1 focuses on recent stuff (well, from the last 2 years).

The image on the cover is a triple exposed picture taken with a Diana F+ camera near Arbor Low, Derbyshire, in summer 2010 CE.

If you send me a blank tape in the mail (address available on request...), you can have this on a C90.

Mixtape/compilation -wise, news on what you can probably expect on these pages in the future is here.


Side 1:
1. Lower Dens - Blue & Silver
2. Black Lips - Bicentennial Man
3. Moon Duo - Scars
4. Dirtbombs - Shari Vari
5. Archie Bronson Outfit - Chunk
6. Chain & The Gang - It's A Hard, Hard Job (Keeping Everybody High)
7. Clinic - Male Stripper
8. Low - Witches
9. Les Savy Fav - Dirty Knails
10. Women - Heat Distraction
11. Sarabeth Tucek - Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)

Side 2:
12. Psychedelic horseshit - Laced
13. Woods - Find Them Empty
14. The Soundcarriers - Last Broadcast
15. TOKiMONSTA - Sa Mo Jung
16. Barbara Morgenstern - Der Augenblick
17. Spectrum - Mary
18. MGMT - Congratulations
19. Washed Out - Amor Fati
20. CFCF - Upon the Hill
21. Walls - Burnt Sienna

Download it here ...

... or stream on the right of this page

... and buy the artists albums here

(words) Charles Bukowski - My Fate