"I don't believe we are put here to be comfortable".
Richard Dawkins appearing on Newsnight Friday 22nd September.
Anyone else spot the glaring error in that statement from the worlds leading atheist? It's ok Dick.. honest, no one noticed ;)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Quote: V
Quote of the Day
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
V in V for Vendetta
Monday, September 25, 2006
New Album: Track Complete - "No More Working For The Man"
If the Jinster says "That's the best track I've heard all night.." and you've been playing all the usual suspects (Jesse Rose, Swag, Riton, etc etc) you know you've got a winner on your hands. That was the enviable position I found myself in on Wednesday. Now I know the girls' biased, but she knows her shit - no doubt.
I must admit I was that wasted after a beautiful night at the man like Spencer's place, and it just hadn't occurred to me to play it. I'd finished it 2 days previous (18th) but with all the excitement (and stress) of the move - this is my last Monday in the UK by the way - it didn't occur to me to cue it up. I'd been caning it to death over the past few days while performing the final edits, but hadn't heard it as a listener does. Aphex's "Window Licker" was currently gracing the system and as you may or may not know that is a very well produced slice of Electronica - not an easy act to follow.....
Cue No More Working For The Man
Ah. Whoa... F*ck me that kick drum punches a hole in your stomach! And it builds, and it builds... the little percussive noises wildly over produced to shake your senses. The drops, the timing seeming to catch you unaware, the wide encompassing fullness of the sounds... synths that sound like no other instrument, generating noises and tones that could only possibly be electronic in nature - but not sounding like other synths. It's always a pleasure, a real pleasure to hear your own music "fresh". You listen with virgin ears..... it's a bizarre feeling because you know you wrote the tune, but you really can hear it like it's the first time. It was like that for me on Wednesday - or should I say early Thursday morning.
Love it.
I really think I'm doing the best work I've ever done right now. That's a beautiful place to be for any artist, and I thank God / Allah / The Old One / My Spirit Guides / Gaia / Thor / Zeus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster (thanks Mr Dawkins) / The Tao / The Undefinable Absolute / The list goes on / for making it possible. "No More Working For The Man" has something to say... I'm proud to say it's my work.
The story of how the track came to be is a coincidental tour de force. As is the entire album so far, but much much more on that later. First of all I must thank the amazing Alex Jones about whom Greg Palast states:
"This guy is a national treasure, a light breaking through the electronic Berlin Wall of the US media establishment."
True enough. Alex is also passionate & committed to what he believes. Fox News do not like him very much, they like John Connor even less. If I worked for Fox and I was screening calls for Hannity & Colmes and a call from San Diego came in from a bloke called John - I'd be worried. Not that I'd ever work for Fox and IMHO Hannity & Colmes are indeed Gatekeepers of the highest order. Which is exactly what John Connor calls them. One of the many tracks currently in progress for the new album was this one, already titled "No More Working For The Man" and started the same day as this post. I needed a vocal for the track and had toyed with some Bush samples and some gems of wisdom from Chomsky on Corporations, but after hearing Hannity admit again and again that "I'm working for the man" it really was a coincidence too far. So I fired him into the EXS24 and before you could say "Pawn & Puppet of the Illuminati" the track was complete....
Currently this will be track 3 on the album. I'll post to the hub asap.
For now and for reference and because you need to see it, check
Alex Jones and
John Connor
Peace & Love
Migz
I must admit I was that wasted after a beautiful night at the man like Spencer's place, and it just hadn't occurred to me to play it. I'd finished it 2 days previous (18th) but with all the excitement (and stress) of the move - this is my last Monday in the UK by the way - it didn't occur to me to cue it up. I'd been caning it to death over the past few days while performing the final edits, but hadn't heard it as a listener does. Aphex's "Window Licker" was currently gracing the system and as you may or may not know that is a very well produced slice of Electronica - not an easy act to follow.....
Cue No More Working For The Man
Ah. Whoa... F*ck me that kick drum punches a hole in your stomach! And it builds, and it builds... the little percussive noises wildly over produced to shake your senses. The drops, the timing seeming to catch you unaware, the wide encompassing fullness of the sounds... synths that sound like no other instrument, generating noises and tones that could only possibly be electronic in nature - but not sounding like other synths. It's always a pleasure, a real pleasure to hear your own music "fresh". You listen with virgin ears..... it's a bizarre feeling because you know you wrote the tune, but you really can hear it like it's the first time. It was like that for me on Wednesday - or should I say early Thursday morning.
Love it.
I really think I'm doing the best work I've ever done right now. That's a beautiful place to be for any artist, and I thank God / Allah / The Old One / My Spirit Guides / Gaia / Thor / Zeus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster (thanks Mr Dawkins) / The Tao / The Undefinable Absolute / The list goes on / for making it possible. "No More Working For The Man" has something to say... I'm proud to say it's my work.
The story of how the track came to be is a coincidental tour de force. As is the entire album so far, but much much more on that later. First of all I must thank the amazing Alex Jones about whom Greg Palast states:
"This guy is a national treasure, a light breaking through the electronic Berlin Wall of the US media establishment."
True enough. Alex is also passionate & committed to what he believes. Fox News do not like him very much, they like John Connor even less. If I worked for Fox and I was screening calls for Hannity & Colmes and a call from San Diego came in from a bloke called John - I'd be worried. Not that I'd ever work for Fox and IMHO Hannity & Colmes are indeed Gatekeepers of the highest order. Which is exactly what John Connor calls them. One of the many tracks currently in progress for the new album was this one, already titled "No More Working For The Man" and started the same day as this post. I needed a vocal for the track and had toyed with some Bush samples and some gems of wisdom from Chomsky on Corporations, but after hearing Hannity admit again and again that "I'm working for the man" it really was a coincidence too far. So I fired him into the EXS24 and before you could say "Pawn & Puppet of the Illuminati" the track was complete....
Currently this will be track 3 on the album. I'll post to the hub asap.
For now and for reference and because you need to see it, check
Alex Jones and
John Connor
Peace & Love
Migz
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Science At The Crossroads
Quantum Mechanics. Western Science or Eastern Religion?
"The last few decades have witnessed tremendous advances in the scientific understanding of the human brain and the human body as a whole. Furthermore, with the advent of the new genetics, neuroscience's knowledge of the workings of biological organisms is now brought to the subtlest level of individual genes. This has resulted in unforeseen technological possibilities of even manipulating the very codes of life, thereby giving rise to the likelihood of creating entirely new realities for humanity as a whole..." Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama.
"How come it is, that the further in you go, the bigger it gets?" Terence McKenna
One of the things I find really fascinating about current Western Scientific theory is how much it sounds like Eastern Religious thinking. Quantum Mechanics is a case in point. As Niels Bohr so famously noted:
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."
"And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it."
The implications of Quantum Theory are reality changing. Nothing will ever be quite the same again. The phrase "Everything you know is wrong" just about sums it up. Best not to think about it then. Put the grey matter on hold and watch retards on reality shows, interspaced with high intensity mass media sales pitches.
As Bill Hicks used to say:
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride?....."
I'm going for a lie down. I'm feeling very dizzy.
Peace
Migz
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