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Save The World

The Copenhagen Climate Summit has come and gone.

The mud-slinging for it’s failure is in full swing with the UK and US governments laying the fault at the feet of China.

As George Monbiot of the Guardian wrote this morning…(For Obama) ‘to push a strong climate programme through the Senate, many of whose members are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the energy industry, would have been the political battle of his life.’

His campaign for the US presidency was based on ‘Change’.

Change, just not yet.

And now sports,

Ear Conditioning – Save The World, Shoot The Politicians

• Bei Bei & Shawn Lee / Make me stronger [Floating Points Remix featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow]
• Erik L – Soularp Susite Pt. 2
• Sorry Bamba – Serre
• Guem / Le Serpent
• Chief Boima / Shake them dreads
• Bonjay /Gimmee Gimmee
• Reso /Otacon
• Fujako / Preparation
• Company Flow – Lenorcism (Def Jux)
• Company Flow – Info Kill (Def Jux)
• Lil’ Wayne – Robo Tussin [Flying Lotus Mix]
• Gaslamp Killer – Weeping Waiting
• Dub1 – No Weapon
• Blackdown – Crackle Blues – Burial Mix

‘Earable at Sunhole Radio, tonight at 22h00,

Photo: Banksy/Camden Town

Gonja Sufi – Ancestors

Yeah, him, that bad motherfucker whose voice  delivered ‘Testament’ on the Flying Lotus album.  His own album, ‘A Sufi & A Killer’  will be released  in March  next year via Warp.   Three tracks from upcoming 2010 Warp albums are online over at  the Guardian. Click ears should you wish to have a taste.

Ear Conditioning: Attack Sustain Delay Release

Cumbia/work song/balkan mix-up from Thornato (courtesy of Gen Bass); the bass interrupted air of Kode 9; Pillow talk from Jose James and the appropriately named Jordana de Lovely; Iraqi Choubi Choubi from Ja’afar Hassan; Beats from Reso; Edgy funk from 23 Skidoo.

That and a little bit more comprises Ear Conditioning for this week.

‘earable at Sunhole tonight at 22h00.

(It maybe on Radio Norte at 20h30, but they seem not to pay their staff, so the staff can’t be arsed to upload the program)

Ear Conditioning – Attack Sustain Delay Release

• Thornato – Rose Work Song (mpfree)
• Mos Def – Casa Bey (Downtown)
• John Baker – Decimal Currency (Trunk Recordings)
• Ja’afar Hassan – They Taught Me (Sublime Frequencies)
• 23 Skidoo – Vegas El Bandito (Illuminated)
• King Midas Sound – Meltdown (Hyperdub)
• José James – Love Conversation featuring Jordana de Lovely  (Brownswood)
• Reso –  Channel Pressure
• Lloyd Robinson – Cuss Cuss
• Kode 9 – Sinogrime Minimix (mpfree)
• Kode 9 vs. LD – Bad (Hyperdub)
• LD – The King of Kong (Dub Police)
• Moondog – Bumbo (Astralwerks)

Massive Attack + ‘Paradise Circus’ Video

Video for new Massive Attack number, ‘Paradise Circus’ featuring the voice of Hope Sandoval.
Video stars Georgina Spelvin. Great idea, not ideal to have the kids in the room.

Watchable at Massive Attack’s webHQ

Obama $ell-Out

Aspirations have gone up in smoke.

I’ve caught this Matt Taibbi journalist fellow a few times on bits on Bill Maher’s program, Real Time.  He seems to get his knees and hands dirty when reporting.  In the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, he’s written a very long article, as is required, about Obama’s connections to those running the big US  financial institutions that recently damn near crippled the economic world.

‘member when Obama appeared on the scene? He was like some badly needed fresh blood on the political scene, and man it didn’t take long for him to switch it on us.  Taibbi’s article explains how The Ohhh Man ditched the progressive thinkers, those that during his election campaign, focused on issues regarding the working class.  Once the election was sealed, he brought in Wall $treet people to run his economic program.

The article is deep, thick, very long, and very fucking depressing when you take into account how millions felt with his election win, not just in the US, but yeah, worldwide.

Noam Chomsky did say that Obama should have got the prize for best marketing campaign of 2008.

Ear Conditioning – Body Rock

The head-nodding, body rocking, mind-bending experience.

It had to happen, didn’t it?

What?

Dublicker, a bass-heavy take on Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker. Thanks to Generation Bass for posting the link.

The Clandestino Festival, have just announced the dates for next years event, 11-14 June, and I’m onboard again, as part of the curating team.  One of the highlights will surely be Staff Benda Bilili.  The rumba-based sound this band from Kinshasa, threw me a curveball alright.  Glad to say I caught it.

My man Scalper pointed me in the direction of Fujako, who are linked up with the Wordsound label, another bed of quality, (Sensational)

The mix that accompanied the ecent post on a decades worth of Boom Bap did the job, digging out gems such as KRS-Ones’s Return of the Boom Rap.

The head-nodding, body rocking, mind-bending experience.

Antoine Dougbe – Honton Soukpo Gnon (Analog Africa)
Staff Benda Bilili – Moziki (Crammed Discs)
John Robinson – Fly Prezidente
Famille Bou Bess vs. Flying Lotus – Melting
Fujako – Sulphur Goat
Unknown Artist – Dublicker
Untold – Stop what your doing * James Blake remix (Hemlock)
Chancha Via Circuito – Prima (ZZK)
MadVillian – Raid (Stones Throw)
KRS One – Return of the Boom Bap (Jive)
Martyn – Krdl t grv (3024)
Silkie vs. Mizz Beats – Purple Love (Deep Medi Musik)
Aziz Mian – Allah Hi Jane (Oriental Star)

Ear Conditioning is ‘earable at Sunhole Radio, Tuesday  22h00

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago – Wesley Wills

Remember Wesley Willis?
You can’t forget him if you do.
Over at Pitchfork, as part of their ‘One week only’  music-related film thingy they’ve got a docu on his life.

Wesley Willis, a unique rock star.

A Boom Bap Continuum

2tall, DJ Clockwork and Kper present a decades worth of quality hip hop in a megachuck of a downloadable mixtape, yeah, it’s still called a mixtape even though tape bit of the mix ain’t been used since last week.

What’s on it?

Dilla, Spacek, Mos-Def, Co-Flow, El-P, Flying Lotus, Matty G, Loefah, Samiyam, GLK, Ras G, Mike Slott, Danny Breaks, Nosaj Thing, Group Home, High & Mighty, Shawn J. Period,  J-Zone, Lootpack, Madlib, Pete Rock, Cannibal Ox, Rdj2, DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, DJ Vadim, Busdriver, Pharoah Monch, Slum Village, Jaylib, De La Soul+MF Doom , Dabyre, Vast Aire, Roots Manuva, Prefuse 73, The Bug, Boom Bip, Oh No, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Modeselektor, Onra, Rustie, Jneiro Jarel plus about three giga more.

Download here

Thanks to Daily Swarm for the heads up.  How goes it Todd?

Tunes from the Missing Channel – Cuentacuentos Los Silos

Ram Skull - Brian Dettmer

With this weekend’s Cuentacuentos storytelling event in Los Silos in mind, (where I’ll be supplying some sounds on Friday night en el Patio Exconvento San Sebastian a las 23h)  I’ve got some African Head Charge, Tony Allen & Jimi Tenor, and field recordings from Chris Watson and La Casa de Africa lined up.  Also stepping up to shine are Portishead, Floating Points (electronica), Scalper (NZ hip hop),  John Baker of the BBC Sound Workshop, Taslit-Laârbi Ihihi (Amazigh), Mohsen Sharifian (Iran or Armenian, much google), Samiyam (Brainfeeder), a couple minutes from the Paul White album , Sounds from the Skylight, the spacious electronica of Porcelain by ASC ,  Mike Slott, and more from the new King Midas Sound album.

Tune in at www.sunhole.net 22h00 GMT, repeated weekday mornings at 11h00 GMT.