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Coil: Summer Solstice: Bee Stings

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Bill Laswell & DJ Krush - Shuen

Shuen by Bill Laswell & DJ Krush

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (Full Album 1992)

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BODY COUNT - BLOODLUST (FULL ALBUM STREAM 2017)

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Tackhead (Gary Clail) & Mark Stewart Sound System - Nottingham Garage 8t...

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Le concert d'Ez3kiel au Cent Quatre

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Asian Dub Foundation live @ EXIT Festival 2014

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Soap&Skin, Konzerthaus - Vieanna 3.10.2016

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Coil - Spring Equinox: Moon’s Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull

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Ethiopia: African Futurism

Ethiopia: African Futurism by Various Artists

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八十八ヶ所巡礼 - 日本

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New Age Steppers - Action Battlefield

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Ez3kiel live

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David Bowie - No Plan

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The Bug presents Killing SoundChapter 5: Radio Voodoo

This mix is dedicated to the memory of Paul Bowles, an incredible writer, music curator and itinerant traveller. 

 It is for those that seek to keep borders open, when so many, with a vested interest in population control, are trying so hard to shut doors, and limit freedom of thought and movement. When Julian, at RBMA Radio, asked me to put a show together that featured my tracks of the year in 2016, my step off was an incredible 10” by Mark Ernestus where he remixed Nigerian band Obadikah, and set adrift his Rhythm & Sound-past into a seductive, afrodelic future. And that record, together with three jaw-dropping performances I witnessed by Senyawa in solo mode, or together with Rabih Beaini as KAFR, triggered memories of rhythmic fire and bliss, from all four corners of the globe, that I had immersed myself in heavily down the years. I knew I didn’t want to rehash another subjective year end list on radio – I chose instead to centre this show around a coupla personal highlights of ’16, and how those tunes opened up percussive paths, backwards and forwards simultaneously for me.

 I remember many years ago, being graciously invited to visit the Jajouka village, deep in the Rif mountains of Morocco by the tribe’s internationally recognized musical leader Bachir Attar, and how, on my first night there, I had been woken by the distant, swirling, magical tones and drones of pipes and drums, sounding like an intense soundtrack to an unforgettable fever dream… When I later asked Bachir about the music which had greeted the dawn light, he told me that the Jajouka musicians had been playing for a mentally disturbed villager who had been chained to the main village tree, whilst the music was being administered as hypnotic therapy, to cure him of his schizophrenia. That tribal cure for madness had resonated deeply with me, as a fully willing member of McLuhan’s “Global Village,” where digitized tribes amplify cross cultural raids, perpetually morphing electronic nomads ride on phrase shifting alien rhythms, and transgressive 4th world voyagers transform surreal geographical conjunctions into unforgettably fresh mental landscapes.

I remember also, when I finally tracked down Brian Jones’s (Rolling Stones) infamous album of Jajouka field recordings, which he had mixed down thru a wall of phasers, delays and reverbs, how the album had completely washed me away, with its genuinely dreamlike results. And I recall previously, how my first polyrhythmic baptism had bizarrely come c/o Adam & the Ants/Bow Wow Wow shamelessly stealing the infectious stomp of African Burundi drummers, or how 23 Skidoo had eclipsed the legions of goths with their brilliantly exotic melting pot of hand drums, tape looped voodoo, and furious industrial ethno-funk, inspired by gamelan and dub at the ‘Futurama’ festival. Those formulative sonic encounters with mutant wayfarers would lead to me hiring two drummers, and eventually inviting Nana Tsiboe’s phenomenal Ghanian percussionists into the band I formed and led, called GOD.  Transmitting from the echo chamber, deep in a reverb tank, I chose to submerge this mix in a wall of delays, reverberations and filters… it’s a celebration of the joy of movement, so I hope you enjoy the excursion. Hail percussion power. 

Tracklist:

1 Master Musicians Of Jajouka – ’55 (Hamsa Oua Hamsine) (Point)  2 Unknown Artist – Burundi - Musiques Traditionnelles: Chant Avec Cithare (Ocora) 3 Mark Ernestus vs Obidakah – April DubHonest Jon’s 4 Tapes meets The Drums Of Wareika Hill Sounds – Datura Mystic (Honest Jon’s) 5 The Sidewinder – Scarification Dub (Mille Plateaux) 6 Mala – Hunter (DMZ) 7 The Spaceape – On The Run (Self-Released) 8 Master Musicians Of Jajouka – Memories Of My Father feat. Bachir Attar (Axiom) 9 Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Skull Disco) 10 Cabaret Voltaire – Sluggin’ Fer Jesus (Rough Trade) 11 Beatrice Dillon – Can I Change My Mind? (Boomkat Editions) 12 Master Musicians Of Jajouka – I Am Calling Out (L’Afta) (Point) 13 Muslimgauze – No Maps Of Dar-Es-Salaam Show This (Staalplaat) 14 Flux Of Pink Indians – The Stonecutter (One Little Indian) 15 Terry Riley – Persian Surgery Dervishes: Performance One (Shanti) 16 Morphosis – Dismantle (Honest Jon’s) 17 Plastikman – Kriket (NovaMute) 18 Rais Ahmed Ben Bakrim – El Baz Ouichen Song For Male Voice (Tiznit) (Dust-To-Digital) 19 Konono Nº1 – Kule Kule (Crammed Discs) 20 Dayak Benuaq – Ngerangkau (Second Version) (Sublime Frequencies) 21 Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – Vague, Yet (Faitiche) 22 Brian Eno & David Byrne – The Jezebel Spirit (Sire) 23 Skidoo – Kundalini (Fetish) 24 Scarab – The Castle Of Nonexistence (Bath Badgerd) (WordSound) 25 Senyawa – Gaib (Morphine) 26 Jon Hassell & Brian Eno – Chemistry (Editions EG) 27 Process – Smp-K Option 2 (FatCat) 28 Porter Ricks – Biokinetics 1 (Chain Reaction) 29 Sculpture – Slime Code (Digitalis) 30 Eardrum – From The Nucleus (Leaf) 31 Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Walo Walo Version (Ndagga) 32 Demdike Stare – Hashshashin Chant (Modern Love) 33 Unknown Artist – Burundi - Musiques Traditionnelles: Akazéhé Par Deux Jeunes Filles (Ocora)

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The Bug presents Killing SoundChapter 4: Poems & Drones

I dedicate this show to the memory and work of Stephen Gordon aka The Spaceape. I still vividly remember Kode 9 playing me his earliest broadcasts from the abyss, alongside Stephen Gordon aka The Spaceape. Floored I was… even tho I had also previously embarked upon similar ideas with my album Pressure. Here was a duo, who were splicing together dissidence, science friction and sonic sorcery for their immaculate cover of The Specials’ “Ghost Town” or Prince’s “Sign o’ the Times”. Much later, when I asked Stephen to record my poem “At War With Time”, he didn’t just ice it, I completely froze when I heard the result. Goosebumps. And when I remembered how I used to read the numbskulls on ‘dubstep forum’ moaning about The Spaceape’s words interfering with the mood of the dance, I remembered how much I used to seethe, at their blinkered vision and closed ears, as he did too… for sure… lol! For me, Stephen’s poetry and prose had knowingly inherited Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dread delivery, and tipped a hat to Roger Robinson’s baritone blues, but had blazed its own futurist path to a scintillating, bewitching void. The Spaceape had re-ignited my interest in the idea of combining language with cosmic tones, and for a tremendous wordsoundpower. Other than being smitten by Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus at school, poetry didn’t register on my radar till I saw Linton Kwesi Johnson fearlessly recite “Inglan is a Bitch” on national British TV’s Old Grey Whistle Test. Unplugged and a capella, his tale of alienation, indignation and the two-faced brutality of British colonialism resonated with me deeply. At that time, I knew I was pissed off at everything, and here came an angry man who verbalized my inner fire, albeit from a cultural opposite. But it was after hearing Roger Robinson’s appearance on the Chocolate Art EP that I subsequently invited Roger to guest with Techno Animal on the track “Dead Man’s Curse” (re-recorded here). I had found a meeting place for music and poetry in my soundworld. But I wasn’t the first, and certainly won’t be the last, I hope. And when I recently heard Rider Shafique’s fantastic “I-dentity” on Young Echo, it was great to hear the virus spreading still further, again. And likewise, with drone, it went from what I guess had been Eno’s mesmeric wash of sound for Bowie’s Low or John Cale’s relentless electric viola fueling The Velvet Underground, which had alerted me to the immersive appeal of sonic minimalism. And for me, the more I submitted to the magnetic foundation of drone music’s hypnotic core, the more I became addicted to its best players/composers/producers’ heart of spaciousness. When Justin Broadrick and I began work on the first Techno Animal album, and subsequently on Re-Entry, we had well and truly become disciples of drone, in our quest to explore anti-music, and the possibility of melting down conservative song structures. We wanted to get wasted on waveforms, and get suspended by endless loops of fx. Whilst many of us have lost faith in words and language due to misuse, political abuse and floods of imagination stealing ad-rushes, it’s a pleasure to put together this show with its slow musical evolutions and psychological revolutions. And with the shockingly depressing rise of the far right globally, and countries scrambling to close borders, it was crucial for me to bring together disparate voices from disparate cultures, united in their protest, passion and affirmation of life. Drone is the weapon, words are the ammunition. Enjoy the meditation. – Kevin “The Bug” Martin 1/ Charles Bukowski x Max Richter – The Bluebird x What Had They Done? (Ecco/Delabel) 2/ King Midas Sound – You Disappear (Ninja Tune) 3/ The Bug x Burial – At War With Time feat. Spaceape x Night Bus (Ninja Tune/Hyperdub) 4/ Rider Shafique – I-Dentity (Young Echo) 5/ Michael Smith x Cliff Martinez – Mi Cyaan Believe It x First Sleep (Island/Superb) 6/ Anthony Anaxagorou x Tim Hecker – I Am Not A Poet x Hatred Of Music (Exclusive/Kranky) 7/ Coil – How To Destroy Angels (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords) 8/ Linton Kwesi Johnson x Alvin Lucier – Five Night Of Bleeding x Music For Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers And Loudspeakers (Shanachi/Lovely Music) 9/ Anthony Anaxagorou x The Bug – How The Sky Finds Us x Sirens - Movement 3 (Exclusive) 10/ William S. Burroughs x Techno-Animal – The Last Words Of Hassan-I-Sabbah x The Dream Forger (Am Here Books/Pathological) 11/ Nick Makoha x Black Swan – Highlife x Part II (Exclusive/Ethereal Symphony) 12/ Saul Williams x Chris Abrahams – Elohim (1972) x Scale Upon The Land (Big Dada/Room40) 13/ Moor Mother x Stars Of The Lid – Creation Myth x Taphead (Don Giovanni/Kranky) 14/ Roger Robinson x Thomas Köner – Dead Man's Curse x Ruska (Exclusive/Barooni) 15/ Kevin Drumm – More Blood And Guts (Hospital) 16/ Gil Scott-Heron – Where Did The Night Go? (XL) 17/ Rider Shafique x King Midas Sound – 7 x Lies Version (Exclusive / Ninja Tune) 18/ Steven Jesse Bernstein x Techno Animal – Face x Cape Canaveral (Sub Pop/Virgin) 19/ Anthony Anaxagorou x William Basinski – Pathology Of Like x dlp 3 (Exclusive/Temporary Residence) 20/ Linton Kwesi Johnson x Fis – Bass Culture x Sub Larynx (Mango/Loopy) 21/ Flowdan x The Bug – Groundhog x Boa Layers (Tru Thoughts/Unreleased) 22/ Dr. Yen Lo – Day 3 (Pavlov Institute) 23/ High Priest x Yellow Swans – Breakinapattern x New Life (Exclusive/Type) 24/ Nick Makoha x My Bloody Valentine – Resurrection Man x Glider (Exclusive/Creation) 25/ Anthony Anaxagorou x Miles Davis – You / Rated X (Exclusive/Columbia) 26/ Roger Robinson x Popol Vuh – Prayer x Aguirre I (L'Acrime Di Rei) (Exclusive/Kosmische Musik) 27/ The Bug – Somnia Loop 10 (Ninja Tune)