Omar Rodriguez Lopez is a textbook example of the bad sides of being overly prolific. Nonetheless, as a producer, he might just save whatever is left of his diminishing reputation with this piece of ass-kicking garage. This would definitely help you survive the musical horror called summer, and as a prrof have a look at this (not from the album, but how could I resist?)
בלב כבד ביותר הבלוג נפרד מחתולת העל על שמה הוא קרוי. עוזה הלכה היום לעולמה אחרי עשרים שנה בהן היתה מושלמת יותר מהרוב המוחץ של האנושות כולה והיתה כולה יופי, חן ומתיקות אין קץ. היא תצטרף לחבריה צ'רנוחה וטבנקין שנפרדנו מאתנו כבר לפני שנים.
With abysmal sadness the blog bids farewell to Uza, who had died today at the age of 20. She had given this blog its name, and our family eternal joy and happiness.
A superb example of how a video becomes a huge utube success regardless of the music. Don't get me wrong, this is a great tune, but would it get 2.5 million views w/o the help of Assassins creed (to which this video and song are an obvious reference) and/or Agyness Deyn? This is a clear ripoff from These new puritans' We want war, yet they have only 0.8 mil and their video is over a year old. I guess product placement is the name of the game.
Woodkid – Iron (2011)
Kym Amps - You don't know my name (1980)
Antimagic – Bang (2011)
Psychologist - Out, damned spot! (from: Propeller EP, Not even 27/07/2011)
Gross magic - Sweetest touch (from: Teen jamz EP, The sounds of sweet nothing, 08/08/2011)
Red, white & blue (Simon Rumley, 2010)
Enno Poppe - Holz (2000)
This has been a horrible weekend for science, both theory and praxis. On the experimental side, the all mighty journal Science didn't flinch, hesitate or felt a fraction of shame to publish these two papers: the first studied the effect of aircrafts on clouds and rain and has reached the whopping conclusion that "Global effects are minimal, but regionally near major airports, additional precipitation can be induced". Wow! That definitely merits a publication in Science and not, let's say, Annals of the Irish Society for Aeronautics and Bullshit. This scientific gem was eclipsed, however, by the amazing piece of interdisciplinary science (that can only brew in the Miami heat), which states that "We uncovered a simple dynamical pattern that may be used to estimate the escalation rate and timing of fatal attacks. The time difference between fatal attacks by insurgent groups within individual provinces in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and by terrorist groups operating worldwide, gives a potent indicator of the later pace of lethal activity."
On the other side of the fence, a workshop held near Vienna tried to elucidate the meaning of theory in biology. Clearly an important topic, especially given the two horrendous examples just published in science, yet the only thing the workshop was successful at was demonstrating the unfathomable, huge rift between philosophers and practicing biologists, as if the two were species of different kingdoms. Both theory and praxis proved to be this weekend in a dreadfully impoverished state, which cannot rely be mended since theory and science practice have clearly taken different paths by now.
Heymsfield AJ et al. 2011. Formation and spread of aircraft-induced holes in clouds. Science. 333 (6038): 77-81
Johnson N et al. 2011. Pattern in escalations in insurgent and terrorist activity.Science. 333 (6038): 81-84
The most surprising thing about this track is that Spruance is doing Patton better than Patton, which also takes part in this album. Thus, the closest will ever get to a Bungle reunion, only perpetuates that damn stupid bad blood running between these two. Apart from that, pay attention to the amazing track with Blixa Bargeld, which is simply on fire these past few years.
The book of knots ft. Trey Spruance - Obituary for the future (from: Garden of fainting stars, Ipecac 14/06/2011) www.myspace.com/thebookofknots
This is yet another project by one of the best musical minds of recent years, Jason Kohnen. After demolishing breakcore under the moniker Bong-Ra and then inventing doomjazz with the Kilimanjaro darkjazz ensemble, he hooks up with breakcore colleagues Deformer and drum workhorse Balazs Pandi to give birth to Wormskull.
