What I like about the MySpace music search function is the boundless optimism it suggests. Would you like to search for ambient music from Samoa? Electro from Vanuatu? Just select the relevant genres and locations in the pulldown menus, and give it a whirl. It’s a weird illusion.

And if it hadn’t been such a shit year for music, I wouldn’t be so desperately plugging ridiculous combinations into the search function, looking for something with some blood and brains to it…

In pre-production — a new film by the makers of STAR WRECK. “In 1945, the Nazis went to the Moon. In 2018, they are coming back…”

• COLLEEN sounds
  click the record titles to pop up a window, click the track names for streaming music. Start with “colleen et les boîtes à musique” -> “please gamelan again”
  (tags: music)
• Pierre Bastien
  ‘rusted and tragic and astoundingly beautiful, like early Tom Waits mixed with ancient ragtime’ – start with “L’Orchestre Thermo-dynamique”, maybe
  (tags: music)

The dubbed version, and I can’t imagine it’s going to survive online for long — but if you haven’t watched it, you should (even in dubbed form — I prefer the subtitled):

• Scientist debunks nomadic Aborigine ‘myth’
  Before white settlers arrived, Australia’s indigenous peoples lived in houses and villages, and used surprisingly sophisticated architecture and design methods to build their shelters, new research has found.
  (tags: history)

Greenpeace campaigner encourages Australia to slaughter and eat more kangaroos to help save the world from global warming, environmental activists say.

I am all for this. I believe roo is still on my list of Animals I Have Not Yet Eaten.

Total plays:

The 4am: 3 – 7,410
The 4am: 2 – 5,708
The 4am: 1 – 4,120

If you’re making music yourself, and you’d like me to listen to your stuff towards including it in a podcast, email an mp3, ideally 128kbps or above, to warrenellis@gmail.com, along with a link to your website. Obviously, I won’t be able to include everything I receive in whatever podcast I finally make, but everything will eventually get listened to. (Please DON’T send me other people’s music just because you really like it.)

(warrenellis@gmail.com isn’t my main personal address, so don’t otherwise contact me on it looking for an instant response.)

• TokBox: Talk to The World
  free, in-browser, no-download, embeddable video calling
  (tags: web comms video)

The 4am is a mixtape file containing nothing but music donated directly by new and/or unsigned acts. The 4am is of no set length and is released on no set schedule. The 4am is mixed down to 128 of the kbps. The 4am is not afraid of your nipples. The 4am is imflammable.

3: That Man Has A Peculiar Walk

“Black Fly” fascinates me because it’s hard to pin down what it is from moment to moment — a sort of Industrial Prog Worldpop. “Pray For Me My Prey” is just fucking peculiar, as I’ve come to expect from anything involving JahFurry, New York City’s favourite freakscene facilitator. “Kletka ot Sniag” is all in Bulgarian, for reasons unknown to me, and is provided to me by Dorian from his current album BOLKA. It has a sort of epic bleakness to it.

“Hayride To Hell”… yeah. It’s a perfectly structured little pop song, but it’s also… Wrong. The Miracles Of God’s various claims to fame include having been run over by a drunk driver while on tour and playing the site of the world’s biggest urinal.

I’ve mentioned Kemper Norton on the site before, and I’m honoured to have been given “Denaissance” to play on the 4am. “Slurtronic folk collective” is how the sound’s been described, and, while I don’t get the folk element so much, you’ve got to love the word “slurtronic,” right? I know nothing about Jethro Furvert beyond the fact that his name is apparently Jethro Furvert. Which may well be enough.

 

 The 4am: 3 - That Man Has A Peculiar Walk [25:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (23933)

Tribal Machine – “Black Fly” (4:09)
JahFurry and Josh Sampson – “Pray For Me My Prey” (3:32)
Dorian Wood – “Kletka ot Sniag” (5:47)
The Miracles Of God – “Hayride To Hell” (2:36)
Kemper Norton – “Denaissance” (4:58)
Jethro Furvert – Comfortably Glum (4:18)

The 4am needs music: If you want your music to be played on The 4am, email your 128kbps-plus mp3 files directly to warrenellis@gmail.com.

As of 1.20am today, The 4am 2 had been listened to 5,584 times.

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God help poor old Brit-Com. God help us all.

(“Maman”)

Well, if the email I received Friday night is accurate, then I’ll have a short story, “The Position,” published in Forbes on Monday the 15th.

Yes, that Forbes.

Strange days.

• Colchester Green Fair -
  girlfriend may want to attend this. Whatever happened to just getting shitfaced on a Saturday afternoon? Bah
  (tags: green october2007 this+is+how+i+have+to+live)
• Roadside Picnic
  appears to be a PDF of the complete text of the novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  (tags: sf book)
• Archinect : Features : Delirious Moscow
  In Search of Lost Vanguards – Excavation and Space Exploration in Constructivist Architecture: it’s not quite so surprising that one of the war cries of the Russian Futurists was The War of the Worlds’ Martian roar ‘ULL-AA’…
  (tags: avant design futurism future)

“I really get off on seeing my blood spraying out of my cockhead.”

“Troy” — of whom Shannon Larratt says, “how many guys can cum while fucking a cactus?” — is really the limit test of body modification. He’s either a physical artist who owns his own body and should be understood as finding his own edge as an aesthetic and personal quest… or he’s a mentally ill person with a camera who cuts himself to make meat porn.

Shannon notes that he conducts these interviews “to show people that even if it?s not what they?re into, that this is normal and not unhealthy or sick behavior and it shouldn?t be demonized.” I personally think this guy should be wearing padded dungarees and a pair of boxing gloves in a secure unit somewhere — but, ultimately, he’s doing it to himself, it’s not my body and not my call to make.

Shannon continues to post thought-provoking work pretty much daily at BodyTwo.

Butterflies

Originally uploaded by NebulaskiN.

“Bring the real nipple back, you bastards.”

From Wane & Waste, accoutrements for the post-civilized:

Available for free download now.