HEPCAT

The man.

Hobo Blues

Yes.

"But trust me on the sunscreen.."

Next time you have a quiet 7 minutes and 14 seconds .. Try this on for size .. Its fantastic ..

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) [2007 Mix] - Quindon Tarver

(the only sentence I disagree with in this song is the one about beauty magazines .. I enjoy them and I don't think they make you feel ugly .. haha)

Art: Weather #12, Rosemary Laing, (For the 2008 Sydney Biennale, Revolutions: Forms that Turn)

HIPGNOSIS

Legendary 70s art and design group, Hipgnosis.

Beginning in 1968 when Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell were asked by Pink Floyd to do an album cover, the group are responsible for the greatest Rock covers of all time. To name a few; UFO, Pink Floyd, Yes, ACDC, The Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, 10CC, Electric Light Orchestra.

Pink Floyd- Meddle 1971

Argent-Ring of Hands 1970
The Alan Parsons Project- Eve 1979

Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here 1975

The Nice- Elegy 1971

Montrose- Jump On It 1976

Humble Pie-Thunderbox 1973

Electric Light Orchestra-Electric Light Orchestra 2 1973
Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy 1973

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon 1973

Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel 1977

Pink Floyd-Obscured By Clouds 1972

Rainbow-Straight Between the Eyes 1982

Black Sabbath-Technical Ecstasy 1976

Bad Company-Desolation Angels 1979

Pink Floyd-Animals 1977

ACDC- Dirty Deeds Don Dirt Cheap 1976

Toe Fat-Toe Fat 1970

Toe Fat-Toe Fat II 1971

` 10cc-Sheet Music 1974

10cc-How Dare You! 1976

10cc-Deceptive Bends 1977

10cc-Bloody Tourists 1978

I guess its just a feeling

You know there's so many people living in this house
And I don't even know their names

Grab this mix. They say its good for road trips.

Kollektiv Turmstrasse

This website is a bit beautiful. I know we are all busy and that curiosity can sometimes be lacking, so the 'hidden track' you should download is on the white tree on the left (of the website.. durr). This LP will be pretty dope I reckon.

Hot Chip described Kollektiv Turmstrasse tracks as a 'secret weapon' belonging to many good DJ's. Now they are leaving the EP and remix world and coming out into their own. Good news !

Wowzers !

Ultimate Sensuous

No comment

I got techniques dripping out my buttcheeks
Sleep on my stomach so I don't fuck up my sheets

Ready To Die (Original Beat Version)

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This is (apparently) the original DAT tape before it got produced and mastered by the ever-talented Sean Combs

Chi Chi Che

Love Mother Sky

Bach was a Madman…

The 'Coffee Canata' was a piece written by Bach for the opening of a Café in Leipzig in 1732-4.

It was marketing. With a few sexy twists. At the time it was written, coffee had recently arrived in Europe and had received an unsavory reputation from the older folks for corrupting the youth. Bach acknowledged this in his work and redeployed this criticism to make coffee more attractive. Quelle classe.

The story is about a Father who laments his daughter’s crazy-ass coffee drankin' ways. He says stuff like this:

Don't one's children cause one endless trials & tribulations! What I say each day to my daughter Lieschen falls on stony ground!

The daughter being a duplicitous coffee drankin' badass though keeps going to the café. She doesn’t care. She’s a rockstar. Like all coffee drinkers. This movement is one of the final ones where she tells her father that she has quit (and then winks at the audience and tells them that she just lied to her father because coffee is just too damn good).

Bach was a pretty clever dude. Marketing has the potential, always, to be amazing.

Now Panic and Freak Out...

...is the name of a really good book filled with "bad advice for good people". apart from a really pretty design that will impress your peers (haha) the book has pearlers such as these:

"Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head" - Mignon McLaughlin

"I don't want to retire. I'm not good at crossword puzzles" - Norman Mailer

"I think that was a moment of cool panic there" - Ron Atkinson

Here is a some nice Panic Music to listen to as you madly run to amazon (or Berkelow paddo)

It comes from Jamie (from the XX) who did a mix for Colette last May. Full mix here. Its a pretty nice mix. Its dark. Got some surprises in there too. That work well.

Fuck Yeah

'030' by The Good The Bad (UNCUT) from 030 on Vimeo.

Wish I had a guitar.

Love Bites - Morning Glory

 

"Now I eat Quail..."

Jay Z is a hero of mine. He has courage and vision. And now he is telling his story.

This mix is awesome: The DNA of the Blueprint - DJ Neil Armstong X Jay Z.

Neil Armstrong is the tour DJ for Jay Z (I think). The mix is a real nice trip through the history of Jay Z, peppered with his musical influences and other fine lovely things. He's a real good DJ. Like fuck, this mix is real fun. And 'wise' I would say too.

Art: Rick Amor, The off ramp, 2007 .. Rick is an Aussie that loves New York .. Like Jay Z .. Except Jay Z is not an Australian unfortunately for him haha .. Thankfully he's genius anyhoo

(ps. I don't know if Jay Z intended this in his lyrics, but the second sense of the word Quail is to "feel or show fear or apprehension" (OED) .. well, intention is irrelevant I guess .. Jay Z is rich in instinct in any case)

(pps. I wonder what the backstory is to the Maison Martin Margiela reference in this mix .. I bet its fucking funny)

Ummm .. OK

What cruel piano speaks here ..

(Ken Done BMW of course..)

Micky Moonlight Mix Excerpt.

Get the full mix here.

Superstar

Yes.

Copy // Paste

Some random gems I've taken from people, books, toilet walls and 70s kung fu classics. they have been paraphrased, manipulated and distorted by the passage of time. so now they're just sentences.

1. one only hears those questions to which one is able to find an answer
2. a violin in the hands of the greatest virtuoso emits only a squeak if the hall is too big
3. our greatest moments are not our noisiest, but our stillest
4. don't let your ego swell too much. a bubble bursts with just a touch.
5. the greeks were superficial out of wisdom
6. a good writer possesses not merely his own mind, but also the mind of his friends
7. sometimes taking a step back is necessary to make a leap
8. willing beyond ones ability arouses mistrust of beautiful things
9. free for what is more important than free from what
10. the vanity of others only offends our taste when it offends our vanity

Tree Top Flyer - Steven Stills

(originally published 2007)

How do wild animals love each other ?

An intoxicating riddle . . .

Don't be light (Oizo remix)(The good part) - Air

"Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler"

- Freddy Neats

(For a nice head-fuck, check out Infinite Descent of a Shepard tone)

Quits

Palm up Brother; Way of the butterfly

Delight in Blindness - 'My thoughts', said the wanderer to his shadow, 'should show me where I stand, but they should not betray to me where I am going. I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised.'

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Song

My ex girlfriend spent thirty grand on a dream romantic wedding.

YA YA YA YA YA

A few months later she was having mistaken drunken sex with a colleague at a work christmas party.

YA YA YA YA YA

The husband was told and came to her work and had a feeble fight with Sean.

YA YA YA YA YA

You cannot buy a romantic lifestyle. It is free. You just have to be able to see it.

YA YA YA YA YA YA

You cannot buy a romantic lifestyle. Its free. You just got to be able to see it.

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(unrelated but cheers to mike for this track and the brilliant 12AMMaternal vibe)

Speed of life

Sharp and mild, dull and keen,
well known and strange, dirty and clean,
where both the fool and wise are seen:
All this am I, have ever been, --
in me dove, snake and swine convene!

(nietzchean proverb)

David Bowie - Speed of Life

Where did The Doors get their name ?

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite"

~ William Blake

The Soft Parade (Live) - The Doors

Thanks Sammy Danger for showing me this track so many years ago.

Jiving Aisle

Tyler Warren jiving in some amazing afternoon light.

Beach Combers

Unknown - Side A: Track 3
Les Nouveaux Jaguars - Jaguards

Where does the horizon end ?

The Philosophia Perennis: There should be no conflicts between our best ends, best answers to the central problems of life . . .

"Forms of life differ. Ends, moral principles are many. But not infinitely many: they must be within the human horizon." ~ Isaiah Berlin, The Pursuit of the Ideal

Orage ~ CFCF

David to Cézanne: master drawings from the Prat Collection

This is quite beautiful. If in Sydney, you should go.

Don't believe the hype . . . (Unless its williams)

But then again . . . Fuck it

Unforgiving Techno

Lets not cannibalize eachother . . .

. (Link Fixed: Track meant to be Richard Pinhas)

Prava corrigere, et recta corroborare, et sancta sublimare

~ Alciun the Anglo-Saxon

Pick your poison . . .

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Why the philosopher rarely turns out well. His requirements include qualities that usually destroy a man:

1. a tremendous multiplicity of qualities; he must be a brief abstract of man, of all man's higher and lower desires: danger from antitheses, also from disgust at himself;
2. he must be inquisitive in the most various of directions: danger of going to pieces;
3. he must be just and fair in the highest sense, but profound in love, hate (and injustice), too;
4. he must not only be a spectator, but also a legislator: judge and judged (to the extent that he is a brief abstract of the world);
5. extremely multifarious, yet firm and hard. Supple.

~ Unpublished Notes of Friedrich Nietzsche (1884; §976 WP )

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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates

~ Not in Nietzsche's hand; dictated (1885)

Just Wait Til Next Year