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dragoni · 6 years ago

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Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

— Citizens for Ethics‏ @CREWcrew - Feb 6, 2019

One of the payments to Rinat Akhmetshin came from a ”veteran Republican operator with ties to the Trump campaign” 💣 Who is it? #MuellerKnowsEverything

The New York Times described Akhmetshin as a "master of dark arts.". He’s able to find kompromat (compromising information) by “obtaining email records, information from spyware and other data that appeared to be drawn from Russian hackers.”

Was Akhmetshin the one behind Guccifer 2.0 — the hacker who stole emails from the DNC and Hillary? Is that why he was at the Trump Tower Meeting? Does he have dirt on Trump?

From BuzzFeed

Documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News show that Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the meeting, where a Russian lawyer offered senior Trump campaign officials dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The lobbyist also received a large payment that bank investigators deemed suspicious from Denis Katsyv, whose company Prevezon Holdings was accused by the US Justice Department of laundering the proceeds of a $230 million Russian tax fraud.

As part of that inquiry, banks were asked to pull financial information on the [Trump Tower] meeting attendees, and investigators at Wells Fargo handed over documents on Akhmetshin to the US Treasury in 2017.

Those records were passed to Mueller's team, but Peter Carr, a spokesperson for the special counsel, declined to say whether the transactions are under investigation. Congressional investigators also requested the financial information from the Treasury Department.

Just last month, Natalya Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer with whom Akhmetshin attended the meeting, was accused by US authorities of secretly coordinating with the Russian government while defending Katsyv in a money laundering case in New York.

Katsyv, the son of a powerful Russian figure, backed a lobbying campaign by Akhmetshin and Veselnitskaya against the Magnitsky Act, a US law imposing sanctions on a group of Russians officials connected to the suspected $230 million fraud.

$192,000 #SecretPayments #BuyAmerican

In the months before and after the meeting with the Trump campaign, documents show that Akhmetshin made unexplained cash deposits totaling $40,000, and received a wire transfer of $100,000 directly from Katsyv along with $52,000 from a foundation funded by Katsyv and other wealthy Russians to try to undermine that law. Bankers examining the lobbyist’s accounts flagged these transactions for a variety of reasons, including the inability to explain them, their overseas origin, and a suspicion that they showed Akhmetshin had violated federal lobbying law.

$500,000 #SecretPayments #BuyAmerican

A half-million dollars of payments to that nonprofit, the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, have also come under scrutiny. Wired by Katsyv and other backers, the payments came two months before the Trump Tower meeting. Investigators at Bank of America, where the foundation held an account, cited the transactions as potential evidence of corruption and bribery in the bid to overturn the sanctions law, and provided them to Treasury, documents show. Mueller is investigating the foundation, Bloomberg reported.

Trump Dumpster 🔥

Beyond his work with Katsyv and Veselnitskaya, investigators discovered that Akhmetshin had received large, mostly unexplained wire transfers from companies in Latvia and Panama, and payments from longtime American political insiders, one of whom is a veteran Republican operator with ties to the Trump campaign.

June 9, 2016 Trump Tower Russia Meeting Refresher

Michael Cohen and Sam Nunberg said Trump knew about the meeting. Cohen went farther and said Trump “Individual-1″ APPROVED the meeting

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allmusic · 7 years ago

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Emin Wonder March 28, 2011

Having conquered the Russian music scene with his first four albums, billion dollar businessman-turned-pop star-turned-Presidential meeting coordinator Emin Agalarov set his sights on the rest of the world with his first internationally released effort, Wonder. Described as his homeland's answer to Enrique Iglesias, the son-in-law of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev appears to have used this comparison as the album's template. In the end, apart from the odd flourish of well-crafted pop, it's a case of being a jack of all trades but a master of none. - Jon O'Brien

#allmusic staff picks #emin #emin agalarov #rob goldstone #pop

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nbcnightlynews · 7 years ago

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NEW: Rob Goldstone, publicist who helped setup 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, is ready to meet with the special counsel, according to several people familiar with the matter.

http://nbcnews.to/2AXj1e3

#Rob Goldstone #trump #trump jr.#trumptower #news

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odinsblog · 8 years ago

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Donald Trump Jr. revealed an email that shows Trump’s campaign team knowingly met with Russians, specifically because they said they had political dirt to offer on Clinton. This is an impeachable offense and a textbook example of collusion with Russia—if not outright treason.

At the very least, by meeting with Russian foreign nationals to seek favors, Trump has violated federal campaign finance laws. Half of the Trump administration has questionable financial ties to Russia, and the other half is under federal investigation for their ties to Russia.

And please remember: Fox News, the NRA and the Republican Party have all been willing accomplices to treason from day one.

Let’s hurry up with that impeachment. We now have everything we need.

#rob goldstone #donald trump #politics #don jr #treason #donald trump jr #russia

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seriousbusinessforhumans · 8 years ago

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#Donald Trump #Donald Trump Jr #Rob Goldstone #American politics #video #The Daily Show #2017 #Trump's America #Trump and Russia #US and Russia #American elections #emails

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gwydionmisha · 6 years ago

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jonjost · 8 years ago

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With each passing day the Trump White House Reality Show Saga staggers forth, drowning the public arena in plots and events which would leave a Brazilian soap opera in the dust of absurdist improbability. Each day the various spokespersons emerge to spew ridiculous lies, one after the other, with seeming shamelessness. Nearly each day Herr Trump emits a sequences of Twitter enuncios, often mangled in misspellings, grammatical knots, and, yes, the invariable Everest of lies which seem to be his singular reason for being. This grand drama has carried on ever since his highness descended the golden escalator of Trump Tower, greeted by a large gaggle of paid actors, and announced he was in the ring, running for President. It was in more ways than one a real class act.

He’d laid the groundwork for this grand Guignol theater with decades in the trenches of the New York real estate biz, and then the tinsel glamor of casinos, draped with gambling’s usual cast of thugs and local Mafia which, in fact, was not a great change from NYC’s corrupt building industry. And then, having failed in both these endeavors, with a trail of bankruptcies to show for it, he moved on TV’s reality-show sewer, and ever greater fakery.

As with his businesses, so it was with wives. Failing with one, he dumped her and moved to the next, a littering the way with a string of children, the last of whom is named after the fake PR agent which Trump himself used to play to pass along juicy items to New York’s yellow press. Barron was his name, and he’d call to let the world know of Trump’s latest conquests in the field of fucking. His son now bears this albatrossian monicker. Lucky him.

And now looking more haggard with his vast comb-over and sagging flesh, eyes peering out from their odd white sockets from the fake tan skin job he applies to himself, The Donald is able to command the world’s attention, his stubby fingers but a code away from incinerating the whole globe, should the corrupted American system comply with a demented order from The President. Thus far the theoretical “checks and balances” of the Founding Fathers scheme seem to be faltering seriously.

All of the above is appalling, and sadly true. The Rosebud of Trump’s psyche is clearly hidden in the massive chip on the Queens kid’s shoulder. Bruised with a silver spoon up his ass at birth, and apparently a harsh unloving father and mother, The Donald took his million buck wad from his father, moved into the Manhattan real-estate racket, and pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, a real Horatio Alger American success story. Well, not quite. Hobbled with a bone spur in one of his feet, he forgets which, Donald blazed a pecker-track trail through the decadent Manhattan party scene of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, emerging, so he says, unscathed with STD, his own private Vietnam, risking AIDS with each psycho-sexual battle. Along the way he blew his million buck starter kit, had some bankruptcies here and there, and built a reputation as a scam artist, from high to low. He moved on to Atlantic City casinos, and gambling there, lost again. His dad bailed him out with a legally dubious multi-million dollar purchase of casino chips. The Trump Taj Mahal recently shuttered its doors after being sold to another sucker. Along the line The Donald learned that old PT Barnum maxim, there’s one born every second.

Failed but famous, he saw his name was the best product on offer, mystical and golden. Trump Steaks! Trump National Golf Courses! Trump Vodka! Trump University! He built a tower on 5th Avenue, asserting it was 68 floors when it was in fact 58. He installed a private Versailles on its top floors, a garish palace of fake Louis XIV and hauled his third wife up there to spawn his 5th child, dear Barron. And yet, despite all this, the Manhattan elite never accepted him and his brash, crude and rude ways, and the best tables at the classy restaurants were not reserved for him. In fact the boys on Wall Street finally declined to bank with him, and he turned his sights to other funding sources, and, along with other New York real-estate moguls, Trumpworld became a money laundering machine for Russian and East European dirty money, carefully funneled through an arcane web of off-shore shell companies and banks.

This fantastical story is no fable, but rather the unhappy truth, a real American novel writ large if crude.

Though the still more fantastical story – no fable – is that this one could never have been lived if it were not for the world in which it has been played out: America, circa now. In an America where corruption on a vast scale is the norm, though not so long ago we primly lectured the world on probity. Where the once staunchly proper Republican Party lies supine, awaiting Donald’s allegedly very little dick, for a daily reaming. Where a party of pious moralizers about women’s bodies turn utterly silent when the most obvious of liars occupies the White House in their name, and tramples daily on the “values” which they once harped upon so loudly. The hypocrisy is so vast as to diminish the word “hypocrisy” to nothing. It is something else. It is something which has incrementally entered the American body politic in ways that, as ever in hindsight, seem so obvious now, though were invisible as they entered the bloodstream. A stealthy terminal cancer which does not reveal itself until it takes your life.

Today the liberal world of Democrats is still in shock, unable to believe their most worthy candidate actually lost to the uncouth bullying braggart which Donald John Trump is. At the outset of the campaign they were salivating at the obviousness of their win, it was a no-brainer no-match. They’d take the Senate, clean up in once Red States, and waltz happily from the wonders of a black President to smashing the glass ceiling of sexism, and have a woman in the Oval Office. And, in a manner they did: 3 million more votes went to Madam Clinton than Mr Trump received, just that, in the arcane electoral scam world of America, they were in the wrong places. Firm in her belief that certain fly-over zones, traditionally Democratic, were hers for granted, she declined to campaign in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and missed out on noting the collapse of these realms which Don the Con so expertly gamed into his head count.

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 04: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listens as he speaks to members of the media June 4, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate Republicans had their weekly policy luncheon to discuss the Republican agenda. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

And then of course there is the litany of GOP tricks of gerrymandering, of voting roll purges, and, so it seems, a bit of Russian cyber warfare to tilt the appropriate tables just enough to pull out a Trump Electoral College win. Such is the Dem lament. If, indeed, Putin had much to do with it (I’d guess he did, but the roots go far back into post-USSR oligarchic mafia money flooding into NYC and along the way bailing The Donald out of his business miseries), then in terms of grand real-politik, he’s already had an immense win: the USA is in severe internal turmoil, and seems headed towards a dissolution similar to that which the good old USSR went through.

The bottom line, which it seems Democrats are unable to comprehend, nor did their GOP counterparts, is that the USA is, socially, utterly corrupted, top to bottom, and only in such a situation could a Donald Trump emerge triumphant. With the GOP he acted like a juvenile delinquent, he huffed and puffed and called his opposition truly stupid bad names – and they all shriveled up and collapsed as they were nothing to begin with. And once he won, having insulted them all, they showed their true characters and value and went to suck his butt.

“We came, we saw, he died.” (Laughter.)

And while the Democrats imagine themselves somehow different, in truth it is their own corruption – for decades – which brought this debacle upon them, and upon the nation. For decades they have spoken nice liberal niceties, while wallowing in the trough of corporate malfeasance, and enhancing their personal wealth along the way. Clinton (both) did half-million buck speeches to Wall Street honchos and said no quid pro quo was involved, while they backed the corporately-written trade agreements that have decimated American labor. Obama, well-mannered Harvard-trained Step’n Fetchit did the Man’s bidding and let Wall Street off the hook for illegalities up the kazoo in the 2008 collapse. Ditto did he say he was “looking forward” and not back in letting Bush and gang off the hook for lying the USA into a disastrous war, the consequences of which are still being played out. One of the club. The list of Democratic dishonesty is equal to that of the Republicans, because, bottom line, they all belong to the same institutions and the same insider game. That is the corruption which blossomed over the decades as the few became obscenely wealthy, and the many fell ever further behind, and the social infrastructure was effectually let to rot while the liberal-left of America mouthed platitudes about race, sexual identification, “safe” spaces, and all the rest of the fake stuff of “political correctness” which invaded our public commons, while the invisible hand of the market consigned a vast portion of the country to Walmart and worse. While 22 veterans a day, left homeless, commit suicide each day – now far out-numbering those killed in combat. While meth and then opioids cut a lethal swath across the nation’s failing economic casualties. It is not as if these things were not visible, it is just that for the liberal world, the large mental “fly-over” country was dismissed as a yahoo red-neck Nascar wreck, unworthy of attention or care, and was left to Fox and friends to warp with 24/7 right-wing propaganda. All in plain sight, but until it came to whack them over the head in the 2016 election, seemingly unworthy of giving the time of day. And now the institutional Democrats are convulsed in an internecine war with themselves, fingers pointing blame at anyone but the person in the mirror: It was Sanders’ fault. It was the blind DNC. It was Clinton’s ham-handedness and arrogance. It was the Russians. It was…..

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks on as she speaks during a town hall meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada August 18, 2015. REUTERS/David Becker – RTX1OPKY

It was anyone and anything aside from the rotted corrupt society that is America today. A society in which corruption is such a norm that a great majority is blind to it, taking it as how the world is, and how it should be. Grade inflation in schools, from kindergarten to PhD’s in Harvard. Cheating as a necessary way to get ahead. A medical system which is little more than an extortion racket. Our vast and corrosive “entertainment” industry that feeds virtual death on a grand scale 24/7 – look at your TV and Hwd block-busters. Sports which are but a step away from Roman gladiators killing each other for the pleasure of violence besotted spectators. A military-industrial-media system that functions as a quasi-religion and contorts the American economy in a death-lock. Look almost anywhere and the ugly specter of corruption materializes: social, economic, cultural, political.

This should be no surprise in an imperial system which lies to itself, and has done so from its inception. The United States of America comprises 5% of the world’s population and consumes 25% of its resources. While America insists that it is “exceptional” and that this disproportion derives both from having a large landmass and brilliant creative entrepreneurial people the brutal fact is that it has a vast military machine which enforces its economic sway on much, if no longer all, of the world. It is imperialism, plain and simple. But Americans, self-deluded, do not acknowledge it, just as they do not acknowledge that the US is almost always at war, supposedly defending “US interests.” In such a system the moral rot is innate: no one wishes to admit their wealth is ill-gained, no one wishes to really admit the history which is that of America. Almost no one in such a system will volunteer to relinquish 80% of their wealth to help even out the grotesque distribution of global wealth. And so lying and self-delusion arise naturally and “normally,” and with it a fertile ground for corruption of all kinds. And a hence, a field ripe for the emergence of Mr Trump and his cohorts.

“A candidate for public office…does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” H.L. Mencken

FAKE With each passing day the Trump White House Reality Show Saga staggers forth, drowning the public arena in plots and events which would leave a Brazilian soap opera in the dust of absurdist improbability.

#Barron Trump #Democrats #DNC #Donald Trump #GOP #Hillary Clinton #MAGA #Obama #Rob Goldstone #Trump Taj Mahal #USSR #Walmart

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dragoni · 7 years ago

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New: Trump Jr talked to Emin Agalarov who arranged Trump Tower meeting then made 11-minute phone call to a blocked number. Trump Jr said he couldn't remember who he called. However, Dems note Corey Lewandowski testified Candidate Trump's primary residence has a blocked number.

Jim Sciutto‏ @jimsciutto - May 16, 2018 10:00 AM

Don Jr is Fredo

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oddepia · 8 years ago

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Trump Junior’s Russian Conspiracy Meeting Was Total Fucking Clown Car, Apparently Trump Tower, June 9, 2016 A tweet to end your Friday: EIGHT. What did we ask this morning?

#donald trump #emin-agalarov #kremlin #national politics #rob goldstone #russia #trump #trump russia collusion

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spinozists · 4 years ago

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✨ August Reading List ✨

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us, Stephen Greenblatt

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, Sarah Gristwood

The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece, Brooke Holmes

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zola Neale Hurston

Collected Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, Gregory Nagy

Praise of Folly, Erasmus

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Illuminating the Roman d’Alexandre; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264: The Manuscript as Monument, Mark Cruse

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Melissa V. Harris-Perry

The Rival Queens, Nancy Goldstone

Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton

The Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, Rob Iliffe

Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence, Michael Rocke

Laura Cereta: Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist, trans. and ed. Diana Robin

Along with several varying articles, usually to supplement the book i was already reading, this month was a good one for me actually reading. Due to farm duties and housework I’m not sure if September will be as well read (as well as me possibly - finally - getting an interview for work). However, I would greatly appreciate recommendations!

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bae-del-moon · 5 years ago

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Hidden in the Files: Fancy a New Story?

Requested: one way or another, jacob bae, crime, scenario: jacob is madly in love with you but you keep it professional between the two of you so he decides to get creative on how to get your attention. NGL- THAT IDEAS MAKES ME WANNA *debby ryan smirk* okay anyways lol tyty

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[A/N] I’m not gonna lie, your debby ryan smirk made me debby ryan smirk irl lol

- Part of the Summary/Abstract Request Weekend. (Req. closed)

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Check Out: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

Abstract/Summary:

Jacob Bae. Twenty-Three. The brain behind the operations of the infamous city gang: DBZ. [Y/N Y/L/N]. Member of DBZ. The master of SA’s, otherwise known as special attacks.

It’s no secret to anyone that Jacob Bae has been in love with you since the day you were recruited into their gang. The only reason he hasn’t done anything? Your acting like you didn’t overhear the leader of the gang tell him not to let his feelings for you affect his performance.

Professionalism, he gets it. Besides, it’s not like you’ve distanced yourself from him or rejected him.

But as the five year anniversary of your recruitment starts creep up and a new member is added to the team. Jacob discovers that his jealousy is very much alive and present.

With your spending more and more time with the new recruit and hardly sparing him a glance, Jacob resolves to get your attention back and, once and for all, get you to acknowledge his love for you.

Creativity has always been Jacob’s strong suit.

His first move: appearing shirtless, a rose tucked between his lips, in the back of your getaway van, only for you to appear with the newbie in tow. Awkward drive back home? Completely.

From accidentally bumping into you after coming out of the shower to organizing a multiple-jewelry store heist, without your knowledge or involvement, to steal all the rose quartz, rhodonite, garnet, angelite, and red goldstone gems and pieces he can find and lay them over your bed like rose petals.

Jacob Bae is done overseeing the gang’s operations passively. For you, he’s going to put himself out there and join everyone on the ground.

Ideas he will create to gain your attention once again; and if it takes robbing the state out of your favorite pastry to get you to acknowledge his feelings for you.

He just hopes you accept his feelings instead of reject.

#the boyz imagines #the boyz au #the boyz blurbs #the boyz jacob #Hidden in the Files: FAS #tbz imagines #tbz au #tbz blurbs

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bestreasonstowriterecordreviews · 5 years ago

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✰ BEST OF THE BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2019 ✰

It’s that time again: let’s feast from 2019′s Grapevine That Is Never Pruned with 21 (+ approximately 277 more) of the BEST OF THE BEST REASONS TO WRITE FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEWS IN 2019! ✰ 7th ANNIVERSARY ✰

✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ TOP 21 ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰

✰ TAIWAN HOUSING PROJECT Sub-Language Trustees (ever/never) ✰

✰ SAMANTHA RIOTT Bloodletting download (self-released)

✰ PAULA GARCIA STONE Undercurrent cd (Linear Obsessional, UK)

✰ POSSIBLE HUMANS Everybody Split (Trouble In Mind)

✰ WILLIAM HENRY MEUNG cassette FMerror (chemical imbalance., Australia)

✰ LEILA BORDREUIL Headflush (Catch Wave Ltd)

✰ LEIGHTON CRAIG Diamond Eye (Bruit Direct Disques, France)

✰ KNITTED ABYSS Bad Lassies (Paradise Daily, Australia)

✰ WEAK SIGNAL LP1 (Mag Mag)

✰ TOM OF ENGLAND Sex Monk Blues (L.I.E.S.)

✰ DRY CLEANING Boundary Road Snacks And Drinks & Sweet Princess LP (It’s OK, UK)

✰ 75 DOLLAR BILL I Was Real double LP (Thin Wrist Recordings)

✰ DARK BLUE Victory Is Rated (12XU)

✰ KALI MALONE The Sacrificial Code 3 cd (iDEAL Recordings, Sweden)

✰ SHABAZZ MYSTIK Chant D’Lâme (Off, Belgium)

✰ LONG HOTS Give And Take 7” (Third Man)

✰ AMIRTHA KIDAMBI & LEA BERTUCCI Phase Eclipse cassette (Astral Spirits)

✰ CHRIS BROKAW End Of The Night (VDSQ)

✰ SPIRAL WAVE NOMADS Spiral Wave Nomads (Twin Lakes/Feeding Tube)

✰ HAMA Houmeissa (Sahel Sounds)

✰ YL HOOI Untitled cassette (Altered States Tapes, Australia)

JEANINES Jeanines (Slumberland)

ARTEFACTOS DE DOLOR La Niña double LP (Pain Artifacts)

U-BAHN U-Bahn (Future Folklore, France)

MDOU MOCTAR Ilana: The Creator (Sahel Sounds)

STEFAN CHRISTENSEN The Upcoming Flame (bruit direct disques, France)

TYSHAWN SOREY & MARILYN CRISPELL The Adornment Of Time cd (Pi Recordings)

ALE HOP Apophenia (Buh Records, Peru)

TIM PANARETOS Submergence cd-r (chemical imbalance., Australia) & Opposites End download (self-released, Australia)

KATE CARR City Of Bridges download (Longform Editions, Australia)

WRITHING SQUARES Out Of The Ether (Trouble In Mind)

MY NORTH EYE (My) North Eye (2011) cd-r (Reverb Worship, France)

PINOCCHIO Pinocchio ep (Toxic State)

BRIDGET HAYDEN Soil And Song cassette (Synchronise Witches, UK) [comes with Karen Dalton fanzine!]

The COWBOYS The Bottom Of A Rotten Flower (Feel It Records)

OLUMPUS Caucus & Surplus downloads (both stabbies, etc., New Zealand)

CHUCK CLEAVER Send Aid (Shake It!)

JOSÉ DIAS After Silence, Vol. 1. cd (Clean Feed, Portugal)

KNIFE WIFE Family Party cassette (Sister Polygon)

TRAMPOLINE TEAM Trampoline Team (HoZac)

KATE CARR Heatwave cassette (self-released, UK)

SEBASTIEN STH BISET Islæd cd (Mnóad, Belgium)

PHAROAH CHROMIUM Eros + Massacre (Scum Yr Earth, France)

JOSEPH ALLRED Aspirant cassette (Garden Portal Tapes) & O, Meadowlark (Feeding Tube)

ANDREA BORGHI Tistre cassette (Dinzu Artefacts)

MOPE GROOVES Desire (See My Friends Records)

JOSHUA ABRAMS & NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Mandatory Reality (Eremite)

SOFIE BIRCH Island Alchemy cassette (Constellation Tatsu)

VOYAGE DATA Voyage Data cassette (Econore, Germany)

JONNY COUCH Mystery Man (Damages Sofa)

FISCHERLE Gmatwacz cassette (Czaszka, UK)

ROCKET 808 Rocket 808 (12XU)

LINDA TRIP Sad Bangers cassette (Superdreamer)

MATTHEW J. ROLIN Matthew J. Rolin (Feeding Tube Records)

STEKKERDOOS Kalendar cassette (No Rent)

IAN HAWGOOD 光 (Home Normal, Japan)

ÀLEX REVIRIEGO • DISCORDIAN STRING ENSEMBLE Incerto For Doublebass And Strings download (Discordian, Spain)

JULIA KENT Temporal cd (The Leaf Label, UK)

NAPS Better To Give cassette (Gertrude Tapes)

TERROR OF THE DEEP The A-Team cassette (Melted Ice Cream, New Zealand)

CLAIRE ROUSAY Friends cassette (Never Anything)

ANNA SUBIRIANA • POL PADRÓS • JOAN ANTONI PICH Brull’s Bet download (Discordian, Spain)

HAKOBUNE A Fan, Strings, and Two Guitars cassette (Patient Sounds)

LORI GOLDSTON Things Opening (Second Editions, Germany)

The RESONARS No Exit (Trouble In Mind)

MARCIA BASSETT • MANUEL MOTA • MARGARIDA GARCIA Here They Rest Immobile (Yew)

URANIUM CLUB The Cosmo Cleaners: The Higher Calling Of Business Provocateurs (Fashionable Idiots/Static Shock, UK)

THE COOL GREENHOUSE “Crap Cardboard Pet” 7” (Hidden Bay Records, France)

ROB NOYES “You Are Tired”/“Nightmare Study” 7” (Market Square Recordings, UK)

TOM LÖNNQVIST Häviävän Pieni Osa (Guggenhavn Archive, Sweden)

GOTOBEDS Debt Begins At 30 (Sub Pop)

GREG KELLEY/ROB NOYES Greg Kelley/Rob Noyes split cassette (self-released)

DEAD SEA APES The Free Territory double LP (Feeding Tube Records)

DRAGGS Draggs cassette (Slime Street, Australia)

SPRAY PAINT Into The Country (12XU)

SPF Paul’s McCartney

2 CHEVRONS No Rules In Outta Space cassette (Albert’s Basement, Australia)

DARK TEA Dark Tea (Fire Talk)

TERRINE Live At Home cassette (Econore, Germany)

The SNAKES The Snakes (Anti Fade, Australia)

LIVE SKULL Saturday Night Massacre (Bronson Recordings, Italy)

ELKHORN Sun Cycle/Elk Jam 2 LP (Feeding Tube)

MESSRS Messrs 12” (Heel Turn Records)

VIRGINIA PLAIN Strange Game (All Hands Electric)

JEN KUTLER Dismbodied (EyeVee)

MOR AIR Life Behind Glass cassette (Genot Centre, Czech Republic)

CIA DEBUTANTE The Landlord (Siltbreeze)

JOSÉ DIAS After Silence, Volume 1 cd (Celan Feed, Portugal)

LAURA LUNA CASTILLO Folksonomies cassette (Cudighi Records)

THE GIRL IN TIMES NEW VIKING The Girl In Times New Viking (The Fah-Q Catalog)

43 ODES 43 Odes cassette (Eiderdown)

OOF Vanity Plate cassette & EGO cassette (both Fuzzy Warbles cassettes)

ORGUE AGNÈS A Une Gorge (three:four, Switzerland; Standard In-Fi - 2018)

MICHAEL MORLEY Heavens Idleness Awaits 2 LP (Thin Wrist Recordings)

CHRISTINA KUBISCH Schall Und Klang cd (Fragment Factory, Germany)

HUNTED CREATURES Sleep Weed cassette (White Reeves Productions)

UNITED WATERS Coma To Coma (Drawing Room Records)

JULIUS MENARD Hr cassette (Econore, Germany)

GEE TEE Chromo-Zone download (self/released, Australia)

AARON RUSSELL Coral Music cassette (Gertrude Tapes)

9TH HOUSE Planetary EP 12” (Hot Haus, UK)

SCAN Scan 7” ep (Drugfront)

The HECKS My Star (Trouble In Mind)

ALINA PETROVA & KIRA WEINSTEIN Sad Ko cassette (Never Anything)

HIEROPHANTS Spitting Out Moonlight (Anti Fade, Australia)

NOTS 3 (Goner)

P WITS The Desire and Pursuit of The Whole cassette (chemical imbalance., Australia)

GOLDEN PELICANS Grinding For Gruel (12XU)

TOPDOWN DIALECTIC Vol. 2 (Peak Oil)

M. SAGE Catch A Blessing (Geographic North)

ECHO OHS Wild Weeds 12” (1:12 Records, New Zealand)

CIVIC Selling, Sucking, Blackmail Bribes 7" (Total Punk)

WENDY EISENBERG & SHANE PARRISH Nervous Systems (Verses)

KNEELING IN PISS Tour De Force cassette (The Fah-Q Catalog)

s.soo Tyman download (New York Haunted, Netherlands)

WSCHÓD Wschód cd (Clean Feed, Portugal)

PREENING Gang Laughter (Digital Regress)

CLARICE JENSEN Drone Studies cassette (Geographic North)

MARBLED EYE Beat Sessions, Vol. 8 cassette (Shout Recordings)

STEVE MOORE Steve Moore 12” (L.I.E.S)

The SELVA Canícula Rosa cd (Clean Feed, Australia)

PROGRAM Show Me 12” (Anti Fade, Australia)

SLUMB PARTY Spending Money (Drunken Sailor, UK)

EUN-JUNG KIM & CHARLIE COLLINS Shining Days cd (Linear Obsessional, UK)

NEON Neon 12” (Square One Again)

CUCINA POVERA Zoom (Night School, Scotland)

PAULA SHOCRON & PABLO DÍAZ with GUILLERMO GREGORIO Díalogos cd (Fundacja Słuchaj, Poland)

MY NORTH EYE / LE GOÛT ACIDE DES CONSERVATOURS MNE • L / G / A / D / C split cassette ([Equilibre Fragile], France)

The WOOLEN MEN Human To Human (Dog’s Table)

PIERCE WARNECKE & LOUIS LAURAIN

Phonotypic Plasticity cassette (Astral Spirits)

BIG QUIET Interesting Times (Unblinking Ear)

SEAN ALI • LEILA BORDREUIL • JOANNA MATTREY I Used to Sing So Lyrical cassette (Astral Spirits)

POWDER Powder In Space cd (Beats In Space)

MUKQS Jaki Crush cassette (No Rent)

DENNIS GONZALEZ & DEREK ROGERS Certain Aspects cd (Marginal Frequency)

PONT-À-MOUSSON Bye Bye Mirello! cassette (ABrecords, France)

AKI ONDA A Method To Its Messiness (Thalamos, Greece)

ALEXANDER Untitled cassette (Garden Portal)

BRANDY “Clown Pain”/“Rent Quest” 7” (Total Punk)

MAJOR STARS Roots Of Confusion, Seeds Of Joy (Drag City)

LORI GOLDSTON & JUDITH HAMANN Alloys cd (Marginal Frequency)

PAINT THINNER The Sea Of Pulp (ŌBLĒK)

JEANS BEAST Unearthly Gardens Of The New Gods cd-r (Econore, Germany) & Attrition cassette (self-releases, Germany)

SKULL PRACTITIONERS Skull Practitioners 12” (In The Red)

UROCHROMES Trope House (Wharf Cat)

LIVINGDOG & MIKE JOHNSON CRO$$ cassette (Constellation Tatsu)

HEADROOM New Heaven 12” (ever/never)

JEFF HENDERSON The Charming Clarinet download (III Records, NewZealand)

GRAHAM DUNNING & EDWARD LUCAS End Of A Cable cassette (tsss tapes, Italy)

VILDE CHAYE Demos cassette (Brainplan)

Heavy Space Records - Anthology Volumes I & II cassettes (Ikuisuus, Finland)

KYLE EYRE CLYD Eggshell cd (Yew)

NEUTRALS Kebab Disco (Emotional Response)

FREDDIE DOUGGIE Freddie Douggie: Live on Juneteenth cassette (International Anthem)

AGUSTÍ FERNÁNDEZ • WILLIAM PARKER • SUSIE IBARRA One Night At The Joan Miró Foundation cd (Fundacja Słuchaj, Poland)

HUGO MASSIEN Dance Trax Vol. 21 (Unknown To The Unknown)

RRILL BELL Vagabond Laws cassette (Gertrude Tapes)

GAMARDAH FUNGUS Natural Storm cd (Hidden Vibes, Ukraine)

WAYNE ROGERS The Air Below (Twisted Village)

UNKNOWN SENDER Unknown Sender (Colonel Records)

BLUES LAWYER Something Different (Mt.St.Mtn)

DURA Reverberation Hymns cassette (Garden Portal)

JODIE LOWTHER The Cat Collects download (self-released)

WOLKOROTS Dan Manialogism cassette (Magma Tones, Finland)

CEREAL KILLER The Beginning And End Of Cereal Killer (Anti Fade, Australia)

COLIN WEBSTER/MARK HOLUB Nadir (Raw Tonk, UK)

The CAVEMEN Lowlife 7” EP (Slovenly)

FRANCISCA GRIFFIN The Spaces Between cd (CocoMuse, New Zealand)

ANDY HUMAN & THE REPTOIDS “Psychic Sidekick” 7” (Total Punk)

SEI A Mode Static 12” (Aus Music, U.K.)

JOHN SAINT PELVYN Improvisation 7.7.18 download (Southern Jukebox Music)

REBEL SCUM The Descent cassette (chemical imbalance., Australia - 2018)

S. ARAW TRIO XIII Activated Clown cassette (NNA Tapes)

FERRAN FAGES & VASCO TRILLA Gestell cd (Raw Tonk, UK)

HUA LUN Wanderlænd + 2 cassette (Katuktu Collective)

VIRVON VARVON Mind Cancer cassette (Girlsville)

PHILIPP OTTERBACH The Rest Is Bliss (Knekelhuis, Netherlands)

EDITRIX Talk To Me download (self-released)

PAVLOV’S PUSS Comfort Food (Melted Ice Cream, New Zealand)

NATHALIE STERN Nerves And Skin cassette (Cruel Nature, UK)

AKI TAKASE Hokusai cd (Intakt, Switzerland)

MOORDDROOM Deep VR Edits bandcamp DL (New York Haunted, Netherlands)

EXEK Some Beautiful Species Left (Digital Regress)

CLAIRE BIRCHALL “Dead Air” bandcamp DL (it, Australia)

JUDY & The JERKS Bone Spur cassette (Earth Girl) & Music For Donuts ep (Thrilling Living)

POWER STEERING Power Steering cassette (chemical imbalance., Australia)

RASMUS TIETCHENS HOBOTPAHC cd-r (New York Haunted, Netherlands)

UTINUTIN Black Cat, Anyeurism, And Simian Politics download (no label)

GUY BIRKIN Yemen Data Project cassette (New York Haunted, Netherlands)

LINUS VANDEWOLKEN Het Vlier Een Hommel Op Aarde 10”x 2 (Okraïna, Belgium)

JOHN CHANTLER Tomorrow Is Too Late (Room40, Australia)

JENNIFER VANILLA J.E.N.N.I.F.E.R. EP 12” (Beats In Space)

WOW Come La Notte (Maple Death, Italy)

KATE MOHANTY Disappear Here cassette (Friendship Tapes)

ASTRO SOCIAL CLUB & GRUMBLING FUR Plasma Splice Trifle (vhf)

SANR Kesif cd (Flaming Pines, UK)

ANDREW TASSELMYER & PATRICK SPATZ Interior Currents cassette (Constellation Tatsu)

AHMEDOU AHMED LOWLA Terrouzi cassette (Sahel Sounds)

SKRU Count Zero cassette (Bedouin, UAE)

PUGILIST Blue 06 12” (Whities, UK)

ULAAN KHOL Collapsing Hymns cassette (Worstward)

L.$.D. FUNDRAISER No Peace Without Tranquility (no label, New Zealand)

COCHONNE Cochonne (self released)

LE POUFS À CORDES Le Poufs À Cordes cd (Pagans, France)

FRET! A Vanity Spawned By Fear cassette (Cruel Nature, UK)

UNWAR Other People cd-r (Magma Tones, Finland)

WOJCIECH RUSIN The Funnel (Akashic, Scotland)

SLEEPER AND SNAKE Junction And High (Aarght, Australia)

The OILIES Psychic Dog (Fruits & Flowers)

ELI KESZLER Empire 12” (Shelter Press, France)

HAIDER 10961 12” (Aus Music, UK)

FOSTER CARE El Abuso (Total Punk)

TORN HAWK Time Is A Scam 2x 12” (L.I.E.S.)

The LICE Nancy Spungen download (self-released)

DJ XNX ATX (Get Busy!, Russia)

SHITTY LIFE Vinyls Discography (Lo-Fo Lo-Life, Germany)

GONG GONG GONG 幽靈節奏 = Phantom Rhythm (Wharf Cat)

SARAH LOUISE Nighttime Birds And. Opening Stars (Thrill Jockey)

MYRIAM BLEAU Lumens & Profits (Where To Now?, UK)

TV DUST Forget (MyOwnPrivateRecords / Occult Gang, Italy)

PRIMORJE Reference Path cassette (Thalamos, Greece)

JUNE CHIKUMA Ler Archives LP + 7” (Freedom To Spend)

dMyanche Ergonomie cassette (Indian Redhead, France)

EQUIPMENT POINTED ANKH Live (Sophomore Lounge)

VIV CORRINGHAM Until I Learn The Language Of Mineral Vegetable cassette (Linear Obsessional, UK)

JACOB WICK feel (Thin Wrist)

AMATEUR HOUR Framtiden Tillhör Inte Oss (Happiest Place, Sweden)

The FICTIVE FIVE Anything Is Possible cd (Clean Feed, Portugal)

DANKETSU 9 Towards A Walk In The Sun cd (Patient Sounds (intl))

IVAN THE TOLERABLE Rations 2LP (Stolen Body, UK)

DANA Glowing Auras And Black Money (Heel Turn)

NATE YOUNG Volume 3: Dance Of The Weeping Babe 12” (Lower Floor)

SHOLTO DOBIE & MARK HARWOOD The Blue Horse cd (Penultimate Press, UK)

HEAVY METAL 4 (Statik Age Music, Germany)

WET TUNA Water Weird (Three Lobed Recordings)

CARRAGEENAN Invisible Design cassette (Czaszka, UK)

PRIVATE ANARCHY Central Planning (Round Bale Recordings)

HIDEO NAKASAKO Texture Of Days cassette (Muzan Editions, Japan)

PRANA CRAFTER Bodhi Cheetah’s Choice (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)

PATRICK SHIROISHI & NOEL MEEK Break Your Eyes cassette (Sploosh)

ANDY HUMAN & The REPTOIDS Psychic Sidekick (Total Punk)

SLAG QUEENS You Can’t Go Out Like That (Rough Skies Records, Australia)

ALIAS G Natural Love 12” (Unknown To The Unknown, UK)

NIVHEK After Its Own Death / Walking In A Spiral Towards The House cd (W.25th)

GARCIA PEOPLES Natural Facts (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)

MARCO SERRATO/FRANCESCO COVARINO Bestemmia cd (Raw Tonk, UK)

HOUSEWIVES Twilight Splendour (Blank Editions, UK)

CLOUDWATCHERS Cloudwatchers cd (Unexplained Sounds Group, Italy)

CATHERINE LAMB Shade/Gradient (Black Pollen Press -2018)

UNITED BIBLE STUDIES Porti Sepolti cassette (Sloow Tapes, Belgium)

ÚJ BÁLA Diacritical Marks And Angels cassette (Baba Vanga, Czech Republic)

STRENGTH N.I.A. Do Televisions, Frankie Moore ritual cassette (Stength N.I.A., UK)

DAVID LIPTAK David Lipton: Dove Songs [Tony Arnold, soprano/Allison D’Amato, piano] cd

ANNĒE ZĒRO La Coolitude (Indian Redhead, France)

MELENAS “Ya Me No Importa Si Tú Quieres”/“Si Tú Me Quieres” 7” (El Nebula Recordings, Spain)

WHIRLING HALL OF KNIVES Knukke cassette (Cruel Nature, UK)

PROTRUDERS Poison Future (Feel It)

MOTHER JUNO Commit cassette (popnihil)

LEFT HAND CUTS OFF THE RIGHT Purge cassette (Fractal Meat Cuts, UK)

CLAIRE ROUSAY t4t cassette (No Rent)

IQ+1 Conversaphone Plus (mappa, Slovenia)

BENOÎT PIOULARD & SEAN CURTIS PATRICK Avocationals (Bacon Sound)

DELPHINE DORA Dunkles Zu Sagen (self-released)

SOOT Pockmarked With...Soot! cassette (Eternal Soundcheck, Australia)

DAN MELCHIOR BAND Negative Freedom (In The Red)

TÔLE FROIDE Tôle Froide (Le Turc Mecanique, France - 2018)

AHMED AG KAEDY Alkaline Kidal (Sahel Sounds)

DUNNING & UNDERWOOD The Blow Vol. 5 cassette (Front & Follow, UK)

TAKAHIRO MUKAI Super Annoying cassette (Fort Evil Fruit, Ireland)

ANTONIO High Voltage! cassette (Altered States Tapes, Australia)

CUBE Decoy (W.25th)

The PLAINS The Plains cassette (chemical imbalance., Australia)

KA BAIRD Respires (Rvng Intl.)

GINO & The GOONS Do The Get Around (Drunken Sailor, UK)

VIVIEN LE FAY Ecolalia (Boring Machines, Italy)

DUKE Uingizaji Hewa (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda)

ARIAN SHAFIEE Arabic Voice cassette (unifactor)

MOUNT TROUT Shelter Belt cassette (Rough Skies, Australia)

OCEAN FLOOR Vernalis cassette (Eiderdown)

CURRENT AFFAIRS “Buckle Up”/“World In Crisis” 7” (dotx3, Germany)

AARON SNOW Instrumentals ‘15-‘19 cassette (Surf Shop)

MELKINGS Movement Music cassette (Regional Bears, UK)

DECIMUS DECIMUS 6 (self-released)

SYLVIE COURVOISIER and MARK FELDMAN Time Gone Out cd (Intakt, Switzerland)

DANIEL HOLT Daniel Holt 12” (L.I.E.S.)

BEAT DETECTIVES NYPD Records Volume 3: Nefertiti Abstract Movie cassette (NYPD Records)

STEFAN CHRISTENSEN & FRIENDS Unknown Fortune (C/Site)

DIRE WOLVES Grow Towards The Light (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)

FAMOUS LOGS IN HISTORY Memories Of the Space Age cassette (Fuzzy Warbles Cassettes)

HAND & LEG Lust In Peace (Black Gladiator)

DEE DEE & The FUZZ COFFINS Three Golden Hits cassette (Earth Girl Tapes)

RAZORLEGS Skip Skool cassette (Fadensonnen)

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Neil Morris, speaking to Alan Lomax in 1959:

“Well, when I was just a small boy, Old Uncle Milt Oldfield…Billy Oldfield, the Congressman from Arkansas for so long, it is his father. He and my father are awfully close friends. And they were discussing music. They were music teachers both of them.

“And uh, and they said, dad did and Uncle Milt sanctioned what he said, that MUSIC HAD NO END. That you could learn all the other guy [or girl] learned, and after you got that done they would then, something else would crop up. That uh, that you, that was the reason why that uh, music advanced. That’s why that you would get a better music in one generation maybe that is, uh, IT WOULD FIT THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVED.”

[Lomax: “What about music on the grapevine?”]

“Welllll, they said that MUSIC GREW LIKE THE GRAPEVINE THAT IS NEVER PRUNED. That each year it’d…it’d put on a little bit more. That was what they said, now, about it. Any further questions?”’

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