joined on 08/02/05
last updated 05/14/08
The pix on my profile started off prinipally as either cell phone photos or as appropriated portraits from various online swingers sites. Regardless of source typically these images were then heavily manipulated and often collaged in Photoshop.
I have two prinicipal objectives the majority of the time..
At a purely aesthetic level I try to create a psychoactive experience for the viewer by way of color selection, pattern and contrast. I am influenced in this regard by the irridescent and inherently psychedelic qualities innate to materials such as mother of pearl, peacock feathers, mohair and orchids.
At a subjective level I try to accentuate the positive aesthetic of the images I use. I look for the love behind the lust. I seek to highlight the commitment and trust behind the superficial pursuits of hedonistic pleasure that often make up my subject matter. I not only modify images, I generally modest - ify them too. (Worst made up word ever).
All of these pix were done over the course of the last four - five months.
! ! ~ A Place For Vinyl Records Collecto,
4AD,
Beatboxing,
Charles Bukowski,
Detroit Techno,
Oaktown,
PHOTOGRAPHY,
Post-Punk,
Rebellious Jukebox,
sf_electro,
SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE,
The Fall,
Vinyl Freaks,
HIP HOP
Lady Sovereign - Vertically Challenged (Sri Lankan Guerilla propaganda mts London Grime)
The Coup - Pick a bigger weapon (epitaph) (Oakland/Vallejo's finest socialist Hip Hop outfit with prisitine modernistic production).
E-40 - My Ghetto Report card (Bringing the sound of HYPHY to the rest of the country)
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
anything by Spank Rock ( Baltimore's finest) -(Dirty electro freaked raw hip hop with occasional Beach Boys Sample)
Hollertronix - various 12" singles
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - various 12 " singles (This woman is a genius)
Edan - Fumbling over the words (Lewis) (the history of hip hop condensed into a single track over the funkiest of echoplexed beats)
Keek da Sneek (w/Dj Shadow) - 3 Freaks (Super stripped down electro/sound fx track with Oaklands own Keek da Sneek jabbering on atop.
SOUL AND FUNK
Darondo - Let my people go (Oakland pimp makes good with this set of impassioned Soul torch songs)
Jaheim - Ghetto Classics
Girl Group Sounds - Lost and Found box set - VA
ELECTRONIC
Richie Hawtin - DE : Transmissions
AFX - Chosen Lords
Tiga - Sexor
Gomagang #3 - VA
Fat Freddys Drop - Based on a true story
James Lidell - Multiply (warp)
Death in Vegas - Fabric live
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas - Prima Norsk Vol 3 (studio produced Italo disco inspired music from scandinavia)
A.R.E. Weapons - Free in the Streets
Betty Botox presents G4 Faggot - (simple raw disco electro tracks that somehow add up to more than the sum of their parts)
Alexander's Dark Band - 'Eponymous' - J Saul Kane aka The Octagon Man aka Depth Charge aka Founder of the epic DC Recordings takes on a new guise and returns to his earlier Depth Charge esque style of Electro/Downtempo/Dub inflected tunes. A truly amazing double album. Animal noises, analog synth groans, bird calls and Horror movie samples compete for yr attention against a backdrop of fierce Linn drum programming and ever changing sound sculptures.
Egyptian Lover - Platinum Pyramids ( A return to form from one of the progenitors of Electro)
Emperor Machine - first 3 releases on DC recordings (J Saul Kane's imprint) Disco/Moroderesque punk)
Will Powers - Adventures in Success (reissue) (Masterful Linn drum machine programming)
EXPERIMENTAL(post punk)
This Heat - eponymous
AFRICAN
Lagos Chop-up - VA (Honest Johns) With the exception of Ebenezer Obey, nearlly all the Nigerian musicians of the 60's thru the 80's on this comp are little known. Yet the endlessly inventive guitars, the horns and voices and, of course, the percussion are a revelation. The shit.
Geraldo Pina and the Heartbeats - Heavy Heavy Heavy (pre Fela - impossibly funky afro beat) Fela on Pina "This man was tearing Lagos to pieces. Wooooh man he had all of Nigeria in his pocket. This motherfucker had a devestating impact live. After seeing this Pino, I knew I had to get my shit together and quick!"
BRAZILIAN (post punk)
The Sexual life of the savages - VA (soul jazz)
BRAZILIAN (Tropicalia)
Tropicalia comp - VA (soul jazz)
ROCK
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Kate Bush - Aerial (double album of effortlessly innovative music from this always groundbreaking artist)
Maximum Joy - Unlimited (79 - 83)
Tom Robinson Band - Power in the Darkness (EMI) Gay Hard Rock band with biting political agenda from late 70's England
Cardinal - Eponymous (reissue) (the most beautiful harmonies you will ever hear).
REGGAE
Barrington Levy in dub - The lost mixes from King Tubby's studios (Best dub album you will hear all yr. If you liked "Big Showdown by Scientist and Jammy, you will love this album, the newest from Araulux Records. Featuring the ROOTS RADICS. Weak hearts will be bass shattered.
REGGAE/LAPTOP
DJ RUPTURE/KID 606 w/Sister Nancy - Little More Oil (soul jazz) (Just for the laptop glitchy dub mix on side 2)
SOUTH AMERICAN
Mas Rock and Roll - VA Valenzuelan comp that opens yr eyes to the other America's.
ELECTRO/DOWNTEMPO
Alexanders Dark Band - eponymous (Depth Charge new alias) (Effortlessly superb)
Dave Clarke (feat Chicks on Speed) - What was her name? (skint) (Rubbery Electro)
HOUSE
Ultimo Francisco - Ultimo (nature records)
VARIOUS - COMPILATIONS
Pillows and Prayer's
Cherry Red Records 82 - 83
This retrospective from small indie label "Cherry Red" records bears the statement "Pay no more than 99p" on the front cover. If you find this record for anything near that price as is still possible I might add consider yourself very luck. This is probably one of the strongest single label compilations ever released. It features some of the strongest material from....
Everything But the Girl (3 tracks total...Ben Watt solo, Tracy Thorn solo and the band together), Felt, Kevin Coyne, The Nightingales, The Marine Girls (one of Curt Cobains many pet indie fave bands) and the Monochrome Set. Also thrown in are two of the funniest spoken word diatribes ever committed to vinyl. Quentin Crisp (The Naked Civil Servant) makes like Oscar Wilde and delivers "Stop the music for a minute" to close out the record. The Orb sampled this diatribe as I recall...Also Attilla the Stockbroker etches the air with his detailed observations about the tawdry lives innercity living, glue sniffing 12 yr olds.
But the coup de grace has to be Joe Crow's stunning slab of proto electro "Compulsion". So sleek, so economical and beyond melancholy this song features a single chord change over the course of its primitive synthesized life. In spite of this or maybe because of this it attains a perfection in color, tonality and feel that Depeche Mode spent an entire career aspiring towards. Indeed, as I recall Martin Gore did a note for note eerily identical cover of this track on his otherwise drab "Counterfeit" album.
A truly amazing little label and a perfectly compiled compilation, make this record (also reissued on CD) essential. Particularly if you have any interest in learning about what was going on in the indie music world of the UK circa early "80's.
...If you find the history, evolution or science of "Sound Systems" and the evolving "culture" thereof to be "interesting" or "engaging".
I use this "TRIBE" as a repository for any info/pix/stories/anecdotes/factoids on this subject. In the topics section you will find mostly articles etc that I come across during the course of my day to day research in this subject area. I compliment this with some editorial scribblings of my own....if compliment is the right word.
Very heavy on content.
Not so social.
Mediated with OCD overtones by yrs truly
Joe Bob Briggs says...
"Two nipple whippings, one tweeter rape, gratuitous TURBO pornography, crossover infantilism, full frontal PA fetish play on display.....I give it 4 boobs......CHECK IT OUT."
FACT! - "Scientists have observed black rabbits and white rabbits frenzidly copulating together in the wild."
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Mon May 5, 2:16 PM ET
A Rio de Janeiro tour company could be in trouble for giving tourists too intimate a view of life in the city's notorious slums, including photo opportunities with drug gang leaders.
The Brazilian city's tourism chief said on Monday that the company, Private Tours, could be stripped of its license after a report in Sunday's Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that it had set up meetings between traffickers and tourists.
The paper sent a reporter disguised as a foreign tourist on the 4-hour, $55 (28 pound) tour of Rocinha, the city's largest slum, that included visits to the "bocas de fumo" where traffickers sell drugs to Rio residents.
It said the traffickers told the tourists stories about their time in prison, described the life of a Rio drug dealer, and would then pose for pictures with their guns -- as long as their faces were not photographed.
Rio tourism chief Rubem Medina said the firm could lose its license if the story was accurate.
"It's not necessary to do this kind of tour in Rio; there are a lot of wonderful attractions," he told Reuters.
Pedro Novak of the Private Tours firm acknowledged that he ran that kind of tour but that "I'm not the only one."
Several companies have for years offered tours of the city's more than 600 slums, offering tourists a controversial alternative to the city's beaches and an insight into the lives of the more than 1 million people who live there.
The slums, or favelas, are largely controlled by heavily armed drug gangs with names such as "Red Command" and "Friends of Friends" that fight each other for control of the lucrative cocaine market.
Wed, May 14, 2008 - 7:10 AM
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April 18, 2007
Nouns, adjectives and six phrases about Phonic: integrity, character, wise, clever, cute, whimsical, loving, verbal, good at lifting things, energetic, feeling, great dancer, exciting, excitable, big picture thinker, renaissance-mansy, principled, creative, playful, sensitive, thinks with his brain, cuddley, sexy, philosophical, intense, handsome, generous, gutsy, human, sartorialish, charismatic, thinky, sweet, whitty, musical, intelligent, listens with his ears, thoughtful, passionate, always developing.
I have more respect, admiration and love for Phonic than any other artist, musician, audiophile, man or person that I've ever known. My dream.
about me
I AM the most modest.
YES
I am biased ...
towards myself.
QUESTION....
"Do you understand?
.....Do you?
IN AFFECTATION OF ENTROPY
"IF YOU ARE GOING THROUGH HELL...........................................KEEP GOING" -
- "Winston Churchill"
THERE IS NO POINT IN BEING PESSIMISTIC
IT WOULD NOT WORK ANYWAY.
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