Posted by coldcut, 13.5.2008 03:14
...is a project which aggregates together computers on the net, likeyours and mine, to form a super-duper computer; the humungous crunchingpower of this is then used to work out molecular biochemistry problemssuch as folding protein structures. This is medically important asquite a lot of diseases such as sickle cell anemia are caused byabnormally folded proteins...thus by joining the project and donatingfree cpu time you are helping accelerate medical progress and possiblyhelping yourself as well as others. DO try this at home, but carefulhow you fold yourself.
Folding@Home here
'Goodbye'magazine launches soon....like 'Hello' mag but concentrating ondeathstyles of the rich and famous. corpses and those still, just,doing the mortal coil shuffle. Exclusive funeral pix. really spitefulobituaries. 'who's next' column. undertakers to the stars articles.death tips: how to leave a good looking corpse, celebrity coffins. Weare not recommending starting this magazine , you understand, justobserving that it may soon come to pass. However, interested publisherscan contact deathstyles@ninjatune.net
Nasty.
Had supperwith Morris before he set off for Japan and as usual got treated to abumper infocrop. Made the aquaintince of cult Japanese animation Haland Bons
Thats the first episode, the others are about. youeither love it or cant love it. I cackled my head off, tho found roundep4 it couldnt quite sustain me. But it is superb.
Watched'Freedom Writers' , true life story of a US school teacher bringingliterature to her resistant ghetto youth class. An inspiring story butUNBELIEVABLY clunky cliched cheesy hollywood. Pass.
Morrissays Flight of the Conchords is the new Mighty Boosh, or at least verymassive. yall probably hip to this one but what the hell txt is cheapand this is a classic: 'Business Time'
This weekend was Coldcut JVJ at new festival GuernseyLive, the first festy of the year and good fun...a full tent thanks tothe Editors. Thanks to those who came and said hallo and posted. Justbefore our set found a bunch of random liggers in our personal Coldcuttent seemingly polishing off our rider without offering so much as ablowjob, a regretably common occurence. Just as I was instructing ourhospitality person to eject them, recognised Vince Noir of the saidBoosh. Backtracking hastily, got this pic which is blurry but cool
Lovelybloke ( though character-wise personally I-dentify more with HowardMoon and his cream poetry). And ace mackeral fisherman, it transpired.Link here is video director Tim Hope who is a Coldcut mate and alsodoes video projections for the Boosh.
LOVE the MB absolutely thebest thing since the Young Ones imho, tho it is just possible that the3rd series wasn't quite as dope as the first 2. They will of course beheadlining the Big Chill this year where i wont be for the first timefor years as Ibiza is calling...dates soon...VJing with 4YourEye.
Vince -aka Noel- was there with Dee Plume's band Robots in Disguise which
(Should anal retentive be spelt with a hypen?)
leads me onto the topic of ROBOTS. Certainly the next big thing, especially MUSICAL robots. Check this out...
letsmakerobots here
Play the first vid...stick with it, it takes a while to get going but is wicker.
Feel a Coldcut collab coming on with that shit...Boom...or at least Thwack Tick Tick ningningning.
Would there be any interest in a ltd edition Coldcut drum robot like that? £100? answers to this blog.
Heres a scary and astonishing bot...
I love that bit where it skids and NEARLY goes overbut somehow recovers like a raver on acid tripping and turning it intoa move.
The US do have gun toting bots, but had to retire a loadin Iraq before they got used because ..uh..."the US Army's ProgramExecutive Officer, Kevin Fahey, who reportedly said that there was anincident where "the gun started moving when it was not intended tomove". Quite. Next stop: Terminator. What was scifi is now scifact.When i die I'll leave my body to Science Fiction, to fight back.
Topof the Bots...heres another groovy one...reassembles itself when kickedapart...in a chilled fashion...thanks to Brian Kane of EBN for this..
Space...the Vinyl frontier. Ask Raj who is nowstoring my records. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has taken $30million in bookings for flights to start in 2009 @$200k a flight to flyweightless for 6 mins. I always thought he was quite cool, but mateCOME ON...at this stage you have to make a project like that carbonneutral at least and better environmentally neutral ie replace the fuelyou use which is colossal. He's also been running some sort of acontest for ideas to stop global warming , which twinned with Galacticsuggests advanced schizophrenia to say the least. A quick perusal ofthe site turned up no mention of environmental considerations...http://www.virgingalactic.com/
On a more positive tip, geneticsmega genius Craig Venter may yet save the world by building bacteriawhich eat CO2 and produce fuel. Dont tell the Gov or the 4x4 posse thattho...theres still a way to go and we NEED intelligent Energy andpollution control anyway NOW.
This talk by Craig is pretty inspirational:
Gets my vote.
Tho as one guy points out, MrVenter is in some ways the most dangerous guy on the planet...if youthought GM foods were scary, using the tech he is developing- hasdeveloped, eg DNA synthesis- we are entering the era of designergenetics applied to everything. Being able to make and modify livingthings is the goal of Synthetic Genomics. New lifeforms, immortality,radical body remixing...the electronics era is fading out into thebiotech era and the mind bogles.
So, a key tipping-point racecould be Peak Oil vs Synthetic Genomics. Peak Oil is a phrase todesrcibe the point at which Oil production peaks, ie the real beginningof the end for Oil. This may already have occured, if not it must soon.No major new oil reserves discovered for 30 years, and boy have theybeen looking, and with the best kit. Nada.
WIthout oil, we cannotfeed even that part of the world population we do feed...Oil is themainstay of modern agriculture, the essential resource for fertiliser,pesticides, and farm machinary. This is why rice prices in most of theworld have doubled in the last year which as you can imagine people arenot happy about....
two essential docs on this subject are Crude Awakening
and The Power of Community-how Cuba survived Peak Oil. I'm off to Cuba, me. They sorted it.
This is a rambling post, sorry.
Comedown Pete Tong, new head of Music for resurrected film company HammerHorror. First offering 'Beyond the Rave'...you could not make itup...we wish mr Tong well in this terrifyingly appropriate musical post.
Bigup to disarmucl.com
acampaign to get UCL to offload its armaments shares. The UK being no2seller of arms in the world natch. you know who no1 country is, dontyou. Clue : the 2 countries often work together on ..uh..arms sellingpromotional activities.
Coldcut news flash: we can now revealthat super producer Dave Switch aka Solid Groove will be workingclosely with us on the new Coldcut album. We loved his work on TrueSkool and basically it should guarantee a banging result for all,Forward my selector. Big Thanks to Ross Alan for the intial connectionand Ninja outernational Dom Smith for piloting us in with that. Moresoon...Dave is in LA and is on it AS OF NOW.
Lets end on a smoking piece of music found by Morris, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
I cant embed it but its Here
Love, Peace, Other and all Funky Things
xxx
Matt
Posted by coldcut, 28.4.2008 15:13
"Solutions are not the answer"- Dan Quayle
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Wah.
Theinsight of US leadership is truely awesome, frighteningly so. I wouldnever imagined Obersturmgruppenfuhrer Quayle to be a man of such pureZen intelligence. What does it all mean? .
I don't know, but asHarold Pinter observed in his laser-like Nobel prize analysis of USdictatorship, America plays a 'brilliant, even witty' game of worlddomination. The term 'witty' ties in with my theory of 'HilariousDictators'...our rulers don't -as we comfortably may assume- lackhumour, but are in fact great comdians, directing the global tragedywith enormous enjoyment of the surreality of suffering...the huge jokethat we are all just too fucking stupid to actually wise up to thereality of control , let alone change it, is not lost on them. They are, quite literally 'having a laugh'. We- that is the seemingly tiny % ofthe population awake enough to understand a little of the true natureof the performance - are in some sense their audience. This is a sickscenario and needs to be reversed. Are you in? out? in?out ? WORSE:what if the hokey cokey actually IS what its all about ?
The whole Pinter piece is available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY2Z27Y-HJE
actually lets have it right HERE
now i'm getting a little more fluent with all this .
This is , imho, essential viewing esp. the 2nd half where he warms to his theme.
Tooill to fly to Stockholm to accept his award, Pinter delivers the full45 min speech from his wheelchair, upright , without notes, and withouta single hesitation or um or ur. Even makes me feel somewhat proud tobe English, white and middle class...a rare feeling to be sure. Atleast one of our number can deliver a good punch straight to Babylonhead from time to time.
OK, so its not new. Well , its news to me. Inspiring. Thanks to Raj Pannu, Coldcuts live scratch DJ, for turning me on to that.
Well, this is quite good fun. For me, anyway. How are yall doing? read this far?
Expectmusic playlist here to change. Some Coldcut old gold ('Goldcut' toanticipate our greatest hits album if there ever is one) , And why notsome random good tuneage from time to time? Once more, Raj turned meonto 'All day Breakfast' by Anticon's Jel. Am uploading this now.Flipping love this track...that stab is so nextfat. (nextfat is a next,fat phrase, innit?).
Lets pack one more in. Friend and VJMinusbaby is a reader of this blog and sent me this clip which is lushenough to share. Thanks mate!
Loving that. Heh, maybe it could learn to scratch.Actually, my cat Monty could scratch...just not records, more my legs,though it did get on the decks from time to time.
Time for din dins.
Saw Stella today , on the way back from Goa. Sweetheart! BOOM! Missing you.
pic by Stellicious
The story continues...
ONE LOVE TO ALL.
ps ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Itsnot clear why myspace blocked the link to the RAW doc i gave out in anearlier post. the file IS there. f you paste thishttp://www.megavideo.com/?v=U3O4FFC1 direct into your browser it shouldwork too . Lets see.
Posted by coldcut, 2.4.2008 01:23
Back from 10 weeks in Goa. Superb. Too much to blog here, 100s of pix+vids.
Arambol Insights....a few random trawls through my notebook...
Free Love? Love is always free. Sex you have to pay for.
New Age? Love is the New EDGE. And the New Edge ...has no edge.
Atti: 'My Religion is trial and error'
Evolution exists: so it is natural for us to find our parents frustrating. They represent, they ARE, us at an earlier stage of evolution. Their inability to transcend the limits of their era forcefully reminds us of our own recalcitrance in stretching ourselves, in doing what the Self knows is right even as the ego screams 'Wrong No I don't need to change'. The accuracy of these mirrors made of our own blood is unbearable , hence our reluctance to experience these reflections.
More as I work it out...
Posted by coldcut, 23.12.2007 03:04
looks like THIS
in Beijing. Its the ceiling, seen? of a shopping mall.
here showing some high class wallpaper but COULD be rocking something cooler eg our show.
Sound systems a bit pone tho.
Still well Bladerunner tho.
x
M
Posted by coldcut, 20.12.2007 16:48
Please accept our Christmas message of (global) warmth...Coldcut + Juxta feat. MC George Bush- 'White Christmas'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQ54jTQfv4
You know it makes sense...
xx
Daddy Coldcut
Posted by coldcut, 7.11.2007 19:53
After Marrakech we went to Lisbon, for a gig at the Casino there. This is a pretty futuristic circular building with balconies and a sliding stage portal for grand entrance style. The Casino have a policy of free music every Monday night, so there was a decent crowd there for Coldcut. we were well looked after by promoters Miguel and Miguel and copped some excellent fish. the modern Lisbon, down by the harbour , seemed to have quite and lot of funky new modern buildings like this one.
when Juiceand I got to the airport the day after the gig, the flight had been cancelled: there was a colossally depressing queue for people wanting to get on replacement flight but luckily we managed to skank out of this, get sorted on the next flight, and then went back in to town for a last lunch of some more excellent fish.
We got back to the UK, had a day off and then headed up to Leeds for a gig with the new Bohemia promoters in the Leeds University student union. this was okay, not the greatest ever, but we did get to hook up with MC Rebe and also graffiti artist Replete who has given us clips of his Ninja animations which we use in the show. His book of pieces was pretty amazing: he designs pieces in 3-D studio, so that they can have proper 3-D quality, then paint them on real walls!
Next day was an early start, we flew into Geneva in Switzerland for a gig at a superb underground venue called Usine, and this time we were back on form with a massively enthusiastic crowd inciting us to go on and on and higher and higher. Sat, we took the train to Basle for the shift Festival, a new Festival of electronic arts. apparently the site will be turned into a new arts university over the next two years. Thanks to Anders and Reena (big up Radio Ix!) and everyone for looking after us. The shift gig was exceptionally good: I had been somewhat concerned the more arty crowd might not get our show which is quite populist in its choice of material, but need not have worried: the audience of 500 or so raised the roof and would not let us go.A great gig to end this cycle on , with rousing choruses of Coldcut Coldcut and much stamping of feet. here is a picture of Raj engaged in open heart surgery on his mixer. keeping it real.
on Sunday I had a day off. mooch around town for a bit and had dinner at a rather wonderful co-operative restaurant that Anders and Reena took me to.
now back in London, preparing for the next stint which is a tour of South-East Asia commencing 28 November.
Last night watched the Serbian film 'Black cat White cat' which was astonishingly beautiful and funny, highly recommended. the night before it was the turn of Zeitgeist, a kind of audiovisual cutup documentary about such subjects as religion, mind control, the American right etc. Geat stuff , right up our street, again can give you a solid recommendation.
Peace.
Posted by coldcut, 31.10.2007 17:40
Doing our bit for global warming, the Coldcut crew have been jumping internationally at various fun happenings. (check coolearth.org for a good way to pay back for flights , better than just carbon indulgence style offsets imho)
Last week was the lush venue of the Palace Badi in Marrakech, a ruined palace right in the heart of the city. 4000 lanterns made it glow, with loads of tents cushions rugs layed on for the mainly rich looking crowd.
At £500 for a VIP ticket it wasnt that fully attended, but Juice roused everyone inc. harrassing the VIPs to join in there to party with CC and it worked. One of the most beautiful places we have played in.
Hung out with Dimitri from Paris and Patrick from Gotan Project who both played some nice music.
Marrakech is pretty exciting (esp. after dark) and photogenic. Ian Brown had been there recently and enthused about his 4 day camel ride trip but we didnt make that. But, heres a pic of a camel, if thats any use?
Then on to Lisbon...
Posted by coldcut, 18.9.2007 01:32
Yo.
So we are starting up a blog project. a blogject. whatever. Coldcut will endevour to post some items of interest, funky things for you to play with. Where we've been, doing what, with who, if we've been eating carrots.
Lets start now....
Recently I, Matt, went to John 'Hoppy' Hopkins 70th birthday party. He is veteran 60s psychedelic guru much involved with Pink Floyd, activism, freethinking. Chatted to old cohort Youth, ex-Killing Joke, Orb, and god daddy of psi trance amongst his other sins. Lots of nice people there of all types and ages. Filmed an astonishing Kora player , and have put this up as a test. clip is not good quality, but riff is gorgeous. Amongst the other guests, rapped with David Vorhaus of White Noise, creator of the electronic-psychedelic classic album 'An Electric Storm' which has just been reissued, and is well worth checking. His collaborator on this was synth pioneer Delia Darbyshire of Dr Who theme fame. He lives near me in North London so we thought we should get together for a jam, watch this space. Heres a pic of Dave (left) and me, and NLP Danny, looking quite scary.
Last weekend we did Coldcut 'Journeys by VJ' in Sheffield which rocked, yo to Mike Stirling and friends. Heard Ian Brown was also doing a party there, but didnt have a chance to drop in, boo. Then, there he was at the hotel so we rocked up and introduced ourselves. He fired up a great rant on the evidence for Prince Charles being the AntiChrist, which seems pretty likely (compare his coat of arms and description of the Beast of Revelation). Mind you , Charlie isnt all bad...he can bodypop pretty well, as seen in the clip of him we use in the Coldcut show. Must post that.
Heres a pic of me and IB. We swopped contacts and talked about doing a track with him and CC so thats pretty exciting. In fact, stayed up late next night and did a new track which head A+R Colonel Dom @ Ninja thought could be good for IB...just a sketch at the mo. will keep you posted.
More soon. Now off for 5 days my first ever meditation couse.
Rock Om.