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MONTH: JUNE 2009


THERE ARE MANY, I’M SURE

“For those of you thinking of leaving Internet today — and there are many, I’m
sure — I’d say just do it. . . Walk away. Internet doesn’t need your talent,
your creativity and your intelligence.” yes.



Posted on June 26June 26Categories web2.52 Comments


FABLED

You heard the one about the scorpion and the frog?



A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the
frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t
sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings
the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they
both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”

The scorpion replies: “It is my nature…”

* * *

We can learn several things from this fable.

One: animals can talk to each other. Since scorpions have no vocal cords, this
might indicate telepathy. If human scientists devoted more time to unlocking the
mysteries of inter-animal communication and spent less time building weapons to
be abused by those in power, then many conflicts could be avoided. I, for one,
would like to talk to elephants.

Two: It is possible to feel the absence of feeling (“the frog feels the onset of
paralysis”). In the amphibian world, drowning operates as a metaphor for the
negative sublime. It is something the genus experiences second-hand, at an
uncanny step of remove.

Herodotus alluded to certain unorthodox interpretations of this fable which cast
the frog’s mortal feeling of no-feeling as a register of empathy for inert
objects such as chocolate bars or computers. (Greek empatheia, literally:
passion). Herodotus’ status as a liar and a plagiarist do not lessen the acuity
of this scholarship. Unlike our telepathic insect, he was sponsored by the Greek
goddess of victory.

Three: It is the scorpion that pulls humanity down. If you yourself are not a
scorpion, or if you can’t swim, then you are unable to play every move of every
game in the cooperation zone, because sooner or later you will meet a scorpion.
A real scorpion. Many live in arid or semi-arid areas where unpolluted water is
scarce. Yeats’ judgment that “things fall apart, the center cannot hold”,
because “the worst are full of passionate intensity” is a recognition of the
fact that scorpions are real.

* * *

> reader response # 1 : I’ve always been fond of that Yeats quote. “The worst
> are full of passionate intensity” is an obvious but essential piece of
> knowledge. The first time I came across the story of the scorpion and the
> frog, it struck me as somewhat insulting and reactionary – a person’s nature
> is definite and static, and there is no hope for them to change, even as their
> lives depend on it. It’s a engagingly doomed-romantic notion, sure, and it’s
> been pretty much the basis for all of favourite films, book and plays, but the
> optimist in me doesn’t want to BELIEVE it.

Dear reader: Martin Heidegger’s ‘The Heraclitus Seminar’ references (somewhat
inconclusively) a variant of the tale much more in line with your optimism:
instead of stinging the frog, the scorpion performs a mad celebratory dance —
the bug has realized that its essence can be changing, dynamic, just like
Heraclitus’ famous river, into which one both can and cannot step twice.
‘Biology is not fate’, it thinks in its chitinous little head.

The scorpion expresses this epiphany to the frog via a mixture of pheromones and
vibrational communication, putting it at odds with Herodotus’ postulations of
animal-to-animal telepathy and leading to the historic suppression of this tale
by a strangely powerful Flemish legal council, of whom Yeats was a sympathizer,
esp. during his theosophist latter years, a time of intense public ridicule,
when the poet’s wife George wrote volumes ‘automatically’, channeling the spirit
of Leo Africanus, who does not read blogs because he is dead.

In the so-called Upbeat Heraclitian variation, the animal pair cross the river
to safety. Upon reaching the shore, the altruistic frog returns into the stream
for a swim. Moments later the scorpion gets eaten by a bat. Waves of positivity
emanate from the human observer, gently touching all within radius, like the
surface of a pond into which one has just thrown a bag of cats. The dark legend
of poetry is that it is true.

Posted on June 25June 25Categories prose poetry, transience6 Comments


BROOKLYN WE GO SOFT

this Friday, come join us @ Glasslands in Brooklyn for another installment of
the Dutty Artz party, New York Tropical.

Expect cheap dutty fun, populated by healthy pterodactyls and pansexual tiger
cubs. We like Glasslands because it’s on the edge of things. I’ve been out of
town for the last 4 or 5 of these, am looking forward…





Fri. June 26th BROOKLYN

music by: DJ /rupture. Matt Shadetek. Geko Jones. Lamin Fofana.

Glasslands, 289 Kent. williamsburg $5 before 11pm, $8 after.

Posted on June 23Categories decentertainment, dutty artz, gigs, nycLeave a
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POEM FOR THE ROOFTOPS OF IRAN

Subtitled version of Inja Kojast Inja Iran Ast Sarzamine Mano To – a woman
recites a timely poem while filming the rooftop shouting of “Allah-o Akbar” in
Iran yesterday.

Audio added from a live performance by DJ /rupture & Andy Moor.

Posted on June 20June 20Categories iran, youtubery5 Comments


TEHRAN: DISPATCH # 11

My friend, filmmaker B, whom I am not allowed to call Texan, is in Iran right
now. Sending out dispatches via email. After the photo is an excerpt from
dispatch # 11. The personal weight and texture of an email augments the realness
of the situation, at least for me.

It is so easy to change your Twitter icon to green and read newsfeeds… the hard
thing is anything else, information into action.

Returning to New York’s poverty and hi-rent capitalism was particularly strange
after spending so much time this past tour in Scandinavia and the Netherlands.
(Staying in a now-legal squat in Amsterdam, playing at some festivals with arts
funding and kids paid to curate and produce them.) Northern Europe has its share
of problems, yes, but also strong social nets for its citizens (health care,
education..). The challenge is not to remain informed about large-scale upheaval
abroad (although that is part of it), but to find things to push towards and
fight for, here, on one’s block, neighborhood, city. Distance is comforting.
Intimacy is the hard part.

Maybe I’m just saying I’ve got too many broke, talented friends in NYC who are
just barely hanging on, and that I want this city to resemble us, our city, more
than it does now.



from Bani:

> It is hard to know exactly what is happening in the top ranks, and what
> political phase the country is moving into. It is a time to be thinking,
> interacting, and planning. There is no real strategy nor an idea of what shape
> this action should take. It is refreshing to be constructing a movement with
> people and working towards something collectively without leaders around or
> political parties, but at the same time, there is no hope of having enough
> force to confront the regime without some structural help or some internal
> battles being fought at the top levels – that is unless we want this to become
> a bloody battle once again. But with the thousands killed during the
> revolution and the purges that took place afterwards on everyone’s minds, this
> is not what people want to move towards. Not now at least.
> 
> The resilience and the determination to change things peacefully is remarkable
> for me. It has made me think about a lot, and to watch how people work
> together to maintain silence during the demonstrations is beautiful. At
> yesterday’s quiet march, people held signs with sentences, slogans,
> photographs of the violence of the past days, and the names of those who have
> been killed. There was a feeling of mourning in the air, but also of tension.
> We all know that things are serious, and our great numbers in the streets are
> our only protection. This will continue until we achieve the minor request of
> announcement of election fraud, or until people tire and move towards other
> methods. There is the possibility that those imprisoned remain there, that
> Moussavi is done away with by some means (exile, house arrest, etc), and that
> Ahmadinejad remains the illegitimate president of an unlawful dictatorship. If
> this happens, the next four years would mean major organizing in the
> underground and a new stage in Iranian political activism. One thing is sure:
> people are no longer going to accept the self-censorship or fear that has been
> imposed upon them. It is already easier to speak to people on the street and
> in shops without wondering if they work for the secret service, or if they
> will tell the police. Our collective trauma from SAVAK times, and mainly from
> the Islamic form of ideology and socio-political cleansing that has taken
> place for the last 30 years, persists today. Yesterday was a reminder of that.
> 
> In addition to this psychological war that the regime wages upon us by cutting
> our connection to the outside world, and to each other, there are a number of
> ways that we are threatened. I cannot go into detail now, but starting
> yesterday morning, our house received phone calls every 15 minutes from an
> unknown number. The caller ID showed a number with many zeros at the end,
> which from our experience means that the secret service or police are trying
> to get in touch. We did not answer, and luckily I had taken all my videotapes
> and other things to another house, but there is a still a feeling of
> insecurity. Like many others in the city, our house had become a sort of
> unofficial ‘newsroom’ with people coming in and out, working, making phone
> calls, emailing, and sleeping in different spots around the house. We decided
> to calm things, now that Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and blogging have made it
> possible to announce our resistance to the world. But this is precisely what
> we are worried about, that the psychological games of the regime and the
> disappearances and arrests will begin again, at an even harsher intensity.
> 
> Last night Bassijis were roaming the neighborhood, going into some homes to
> gather satellite dishes. We got rid of a lot of things, hiding others. This is
> what will begin happening; and paranoia will set in again. We can already feel
> it. Now we have word that some of the reformists and other political figures
> are saying that they should put an end to the direct opposition to the Supreme
> Leader. This is disheartening for us. Right now, there is definitely a threat
> to the tight grip that Khamenei maintains over the people, and within the
> hierarchical structure of the Republic; a threat as well to the pillars of the
> 1979 revolution. As of today, we have reports of 500 people arrested:
> political leaders, students, activists, journalists, and others who have been
> suspected of dissent. The latest news is that the French Embassy in Tehran has
> been attacked. Fifteen members of our Documentary Filmmakers Association have
> been arrested in the streets since Saturday, despite having official permits
> to film in the streets. Many of them were beaten by plainclothes police or
> Bassijis, and their homes have been raided. There is a harsh crackdown. I am
> debating on leaving soon, before it becomes impossible to do so. We are
> strategizing, trying to be pragmatic, and intelligent. It is a hard situation
> to judge.

Posted on June 18June 27Categories ., iran, nu-world, transience9 Comments


RADIO TONITE

Breaking news! Mudd Up radio, my weekly radio show on WFMU 91.1 fm NYC, is
moving from Wednesday nights to Mondays. Tonight is the last Wednesday show.
We’ll return early next week, Monday June 22nd, when WFMU’s summer schedule
kicks in. The time, 7-8pm, remains the same.

I’ll be after Douglass Rushkoff’s show, and Vicki “People Like Us” will slip
into my former slot. In other words: all good.

Except the American FCC ban on explicit language, which amounts to soft
censorship and means we play a lot less rap, dancehall, and grime then we
otherwise would on-air. You can’t clean them all…

+ + +

me: u coming 2nite? can you send clean WILEY? that 1st track u posted is AMAZING
lamin: yeah. oh, i think that Wiley track is clean too…
lamin: i’ll check it now
me: kool
Sent at 4:20 PM on Wednesday
lamin: yep, it’s clean.
you can grab it here – http://www.duttyartz.com/2009/who-said-man-cant-spit/
Sent at 4:24 PM on Wednesday
lamin: amazing how he can spit for over five minutes and no swears…
me: very impressive
wiley is #1

Posted on June 17June 17Categories radio4 Comments


THE INDEX OF PROHIBITED HARMONY

Raz Mesinai kicks off his blog Harmonia Prohibitorum with a nice post on soul &
noise — turns out they’re the same thing, kinda…



A conclusion he arrives at via a fascinating take on the analog vs. digital
debate – its not about heat metaphors (warm vinyl, cold brittle CD audio), it’s
about silence:

> Despite my prejudices I’m almost entirely digital for the portability and the
> wide spectrum of possibilities that comes with it but one thing that keeps me
> yearning for analogue is the noise of it. My main problem with digital music
> applications is the silence that is there to start with. If you record nothing
> at all onto analogue tape and play it back there’s still something there.

Posted on June 14Categories psychedelia3 Comments


MAJOR SWEDISH LAZER PIRATES

Busy on tour, the blog gets a bit neglected… Andy & I are playing Tuesday
through Sunday, a show (or two) each night. This much real-world sound
translates into online silence (I don’t have an iPhone).

Warding off that soundlessness, here are two ultra-fresh new jams ::: MAJOR
LAZER ft. Jahdan & a SWEDISH PIRATE CUMBIA REMIX by yours truly.



[Jahdan Blakkamoore]

first up: June is a good month for Dutty Artz’s Jahdan Blakkamoore, he features
on Diplo and Switch’s reggae project ‘Major Lazer’ (album streaming now, out
next week), and Jahdan also drops some verses on a Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry 12″.
Here’s our man nicing up a Major Lazer tune.

[audio:MajorLazer-Cash Flow_ft_Jahdan_Blakkamoore.mp3]

Major Lazer – Cash Flow feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore

It’s a pleasant surprise to hear Dip & co. workin with JD in a conscious roots
reggae mode (JD’s roots roots run deep). Cash Flow is a very satisfying
appetizer to the incoming Jahdan Blakkamoore album Buzzrock Warrior (produced by
Matt Shadetek, myself, and the Dutty Artz family, out this September on Gold
Dust). Which will crush everything.

+ + +

I’m in love with D.F., Mexico City. Forget leafy Berlin, let’s all move there,
sísísí!

When Geraldine Juárez, one of my favorite piratas/artistas, asked me to remix a
Swedish piracy jingle to accompany a video of Mexico City’s young Internet
Embassador, Mila, playing in an Embajada Pirata / Embassy of Piracy — made from
repurposed US postal service envelopes and constructed in a D.F. park — I said
claro k si! (Piracy? Distribution. I have been known to defend the pig.)

[audio:http://secretgooglecheatcodes.com/Cumbia_De_Las_Piratas-DJ_Rupture_Mix.mp3]

Cumbia de L@s Piratas – DJ Rupture refix

Cumbia DNA courtesy of Discos Barba Azul. Guitar by Andy Moor. Swedish Pirate
anthem remix files here.

Speaking of Sweden – as Europe swings even further to the right, at least the
Swedish Pirate Party won a seat in European Parliment! Kinda crazy! But nowhere
near as crazy as, say, Dutch far-right or British National Party gains.. Anyhow,
before we resume fighting the power, check Geraldine’s sweet video with my
sweaty cumbia refix soundtrack:



Embajada Pirata México

Posted on June 10June 10Categories ., decentertainment, dutty artz,
pirate-style8 Comments


BUZZROCK WARRIOR

Matt Shadetek and I mixed & produced a lot of music for the above album, nearly
all of which we recorded in Geko’s living room. Straight DUTTY. We enlisted the
skills of friends like Modeselektor, Maga Bo, Durrty Goodz, Chancha Via
Circuito, and of course hometown fam 77Klash & Abena Koomson. We think it’s the
best thing we’ve ever done, and we’re pleased to announce that Gold Dust agree
with us! We (Dutty Artz) just signed a worldwide license deal with them,
ensuring that Jahdan Blakkamoore’s debut album, Buzzrock Warrior, will sound far
& wide. Brooklyn Tropical?!?! Dubstep Pop?!?!

Whatever beast we’ve created, it’ll hit the world this September. For warmup,
look for Jahdan’s “The General” single out now, and his upcoming track on Diplo
& Switch’s Major Lazer album project.

(Backstage in Mulhouse, no sleep til Finland, more updates “soon”.)

Posted on June 5Categories dubstep, dutty artz, reggae1 Comment


MEANWHILE, BACK IN NEW YORK

Toy Selectah is a man of many producerly hats. From masterminding Celso Pina’s
crossover megahit “Cumbia Sobre el Rio” to pushing the (somewhat defunct)
Machete reggaeton/Spanish-language hiphop label a few years back, to his latest
130bpm Mirlos edit on Bersa Discos and free remix album…

I’m still too busy in Barcelona to post new audio, but New York can listen to
Toy live tomorrow (@ Santos Party house with Dutty Artz family).

Or win tickets to the show on my radio show tonite. I’ve prerecorded the music
and Lamin Fofana will be holding it down on the mic.

I upped this tune over at La Congona a few weeks ago – Toy remixing Santogold in
a cumbia-gone-doubletime style. Around the corner from where I live they now
sell “BROOKLYN WE GO HARD” t-shirts. Reach!

[audio:http://lacongona.com/mp3/Shove%20It%20(Cumbia%20Remix).mp3]

Santogold vs Toy Selectah – Shove It (cumbia remix)

Posted on June 3June 3Categories ., cumbia1 Comment
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