Timeblind

Solar Life Raft Ingredients

Artist: Timeblind
Format: Digital
Release date: 4th January 2010
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The unmixed ingredients from Rupture and Shadetek’s Solar Life Raft. Including two tracks by me: Coltan and Cassiterite and Space Cadet (which came out on last year’s 12” on Version)

I’ve been waiting/yearning for Coltan and Cassiterite to come out for much of last year. I was about to release it myself just to relieve my own tension waiting for it. Anyway, its on a good home: The Agriculture and the reviews have been great so far.

The title refers to two of the minerals that are mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are components in portable electronics like cel phones. Its one of the unfortunate driving forces behind continuing warfare among the militias in the Rwanda/DRC border area.

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Timeblind
May 2009

for MUSICBOX / diversity.fm in Lancs

http://www.myspace.com/musicboxmobiledisco

A Mahout is a the long-term caretaker of an Elephant. I was going to call this mix Elephant Jockey, which means both “guy who likes to fuck fat girls” and is a racial epithet in certain parts of Africa. I decided not to use the name due to the latter.

One night in southern India my very good friend Galya and I got off the bus in a state park. We were immediately surrounded by the rangers who told us we couldn’t stay there due to the dangerous presence of Veerappan the Bandit (although he was never known to terrorize tourists). We caught a ride on top of a truck and there I met a Mahout who told me in typically fucked up English about his 30 years with his Elephant. Long term relationship, very deep. It was late and very dark and the truck barreled loudly under the Banyan trees. A few months later Veerappan, who was very vain about his majestic moustache, experienced health problems due to the toxic black die he colored it with. He tried to go into the city to seek help, but when the car opened its back doors he was assassinated by the police with a single shot to the head. It is believed that he had stashed millions of rupees deep in the forest in cash including ransom money and ornaments, in secret caves and holes in the forest.

Its all true I swear !

full tracklisting

LD – Peace In Our Culture
Dexplicit – Firebell
Skream – Trapped In A Dark Bubble
Eskmo Remix (Bar 9) – Murda Sound
Kromestar – Devil
Synkro – Hold On
Untold remix (Toasty) – The Knowledge
Maga Bo feat K-Libre – Nakhil
Animals on Wheels – Ball
Steppo – flossin
TIME – ECHO PARK
Dexplicit – Aura
Burning Spear – Dread River
Madosini – Nozimanga (Uthando Luphelile Dub)
Timeblind – + reg
LV Remix (Unotld) – Walk Through Walls
Ahmed Janka Nabay – Eh Congo
TIME – CATCH THE BREAK
An-ten-nae feat. Samba – Griot
Fantastic Mr Fox Remix (Untold) – Yukon
Dj Znobia – ABC
(Jahdan Blakkamoore) – Varela (Chancha Via Circuito)
Estrellas de la Kumbia -Taliban En Victoria RT @djrupture
Timeblind – tai chi-ton
Flying Lotus – Melt!
Timeblind – Wood

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Timeblind
Feb 2009

airing: February 2nd 2009 10pm UK time

avail on iTunes as a podcast shortly afterwards

Feb show also featured:

[KANSAS CITY PROPHETS]

(all tracks unreleased – label offers welcome!)

  • Deserted feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson
  • Transport Control
  • Eye Witness Reports
  • Cams feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson
  • Trawla feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson
  • Navigator – due out on new 'Balkan Vinyl’ label ('Colours’ series) 2009.
  • Tunneltone
  • Drome feat. Soom T
  • Sleepers

LKJ drinks in the same pub I guess and KCP just asked him. nice one ! a legend.

[STORMFIELD]

  • Autopsia and Achtar – Radical Machines 1 – ( http://www.myspace.com/autopsiaachtar )
  • Scorn – Gravel Bed (original mix) – Combat Recordings forthcoming
  • Gunjack – Bruk shut Revenge – Consume
  • Subjex – Manneken Acid – In Vitro
  • Anstam – Aeto – Anstam Music
full tracklisting

Pigeon drones recorded in Ürümqi – (Royal Oculus and Gramophone Company)
crucialfelix – (live at slowsoundsystem, London)
Herbie Hancock – Nobu (live in Japan)
Twisted – Give me Up (2nd drop, UK) (we think boomkat has the titles swapped)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow (I) (Americans Swinging in Paris)
Groovechronicles – 1999 – (DPR, UK)
Timeblind – Shunyata (unreleased)
Basic Channel – Radiance (Timeblind transmogrification)
F – The Untitled Dub (7even, Frankreich)
CIAfrica – STAND (CIAfrica, Côte d’Ivoire / “Eastern France”)
DJ Chemistry – Hallucinations (Chemistry Records, UK, )
DJ Nike – Soba Soba (Angola)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – obligatory Malachi Favors clown horn solo
The Berlin U-Bahn –
Anstam Music – Cree B (Berlin)
Helixir – Narcotik Dub (7even, France)
Martyn – Vancouver pure dub
Timeblind – Coltan and Cassiterite (forthcoming split 12” on the Agriculture with Rupture/Shadetek)
Vice Squad – On the Edge (just the breakdown)
Pandit Ravi Shankar – Raga Margwa (78 RPM classics, Calcutta)
F – Phantom (7even, France)
Pangea – Router (Hessle Audio, Großbritannien)
Drexciya – Depressurisation (Detroit)
Helixir – Springz & Wires (7even, Frenchland)
Spatial – Infra001_CC1 (oota Lunnon, the caipital ceity o the Unitit Kinrick )
King Sunny Adé – Eje Nlo Gba Ara Mi (Island Records classic, Nigeria)
Ramandanman – The Woon (2nd drop, not from France)
Serginho Costa – Beijar Na Marra !! (Brasileiro)
Montagem – Aquecimento dos Bailes (Brasileiro)
RSD – Over it (UK)
Groovechronicles – Incredible (DPR)
Galleon Dub – 23Hz & Numaestro (Substratum EP, Spain)
African Head Charge – Conspiring (1979, UK)
Matt Shadetek – Lily of the Valley – Flowers (NYC)
Wolves (dunno, I found it)
Timeblind – Ayerz mix (unreleased)

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Birdman Ft. Clipse - What Happened To That Boy

Birdman – 2002

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my favorite movie in English!!if you want to see the movie in Spanish got to my channel!
this a movie ...

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yes, this is a stunning film that sadly makes me question that there is much hope to reform the way humans run this planet. but its also a very beautiful thing to watch.

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While we're on the subject of great Maker-movies, I feel obliged to mention Jennifer Baichwal's documentary Manufactured Landscapes, which is a survey of the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose métier is finding beauty in the midst of environments radically altered by human activity. If you watch no further than the first shot, you will have seen one of the most amazing takes I've ever seen in any movie, ever: It's an eight minute tracking shot of a Chinese factory floor that just goes on and on and on, and you keep thinking "This place can't be that big; this shot has to end soon." And it doesn't. And the images of the ship-breaking beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, are like something out of a post-apocalyptic video game: Beautiful and frightening.

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http://➯.ws/ Dub Gabriel / U Roy remixes (Ming,SubatomicSound,lloop,timeblind) are up! U Roy is 69 y'all! 1 week, 5 days ago

Luv n' Liv EP out Mar 9th

27 January 2010






Dub Gabriel feat. U Roy- Luv n' Liv ep-Out 3/9/10  by  DESTROY ALL CONCEPTS


Luv ‘n Liv - Dub Gabriel featuring U-Roy (DAC 009)


Straight outta Kingston Jamaica via San Francisco and beyond, Luv ‘n Liv is the first single to drop from Dub Gabriel’s upcoming 4th studio album, The Cut Up. Featuring the mighty Dread in a Babylon, U-Roy (The Originator), Luv ‘n Liv lays testament to all that can be when you put a reggae legend in the same room as one of America’s leading producers of nu-dub.


With the original hook-up coming through none other than Scientist himself, U-Roy & Dub Gabriel went deep in Mark Pistel’s (Hercules & The Love Affair/Meat Beat Manifesto) Room 5 studio and emerged with Luv ‘n Liv. To round things out, DG enlisted David J of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets to hold down the bass, and Ysanne Spevack on strings who was fresh from her recent work with the Smashing Pumpkins. The outcome is pretty epic if we say so ourselves.


Bridging the living roots of dub to the future-present world of dubstep, DG also brought in some of the hottest producers in the game to remix the track, including Ming (Ming & FS), Subatomic Sound System (following up on his highly successful remix for Lee “Scratch” Perry), Lloop (The Agriculture Records) and Timeblind (Tigerbeat 6). Finally, for all those who crave a good dosage of roots, Dub Gabriel brings things back down to earth with a soulful version of Luv ‘n Liv backed by none other than Yellowman’s original Sagittarius Band. Respect!


www.mcsweeneys.net Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) DVD, Part Two

Chomsky: One of the problems with the perspective offered by the Man-Elf coalition is that you have to try so hard to get at the truth of the conflict, at what is really going on; it's so obscured by their propaganda and relentless militarism. I mean, here we have swords being distributed to the Hobbits by Strider so they can protect themselves against these "evil creatures." Now, in this case, it's probably warranted, though the "evil creatures" are looking for the ring in their own individual self-interest. They're behaving in a purely rational way.

Zinn: The Nazgul have been ordered to get the ring. So, that's what they're doing.

Chomsky: There are conflicts in rationality as well. Sometimes valid rationality is forced into conflict because of the structures of culture. But working through those cultural differences is where the peace lies. It doesn't lie in destroying some magical ring. This takes me back to the media's involvement in all this, and the way the media is being controlled by Gandalf, such as when he covers Saruman's palantir in Orthanc. This is the stone that allows one to see, and thus communicate with, different cultures.

Zinn: Right. "What does the eye command, my lord?" This is what the Orcs ask Saruman. In other words, what does the palantir say? Clearly the Orcs know a lot more about the people of Rohan and Gondor than the people of Rohan and Gondor have ever cared to know about them. They're curious beings.

Avatar vs. Nirgendwo in Afrika

8 January 2010

Most everybody on the internets seems to be raving about how great Avatar is. I agree. A splendid moviegoing experience. Except for the plot and the script. And the racial pre-suppositions (us vs. them). And the self-congratulatory viewpoint of a liberal white audience condemning an obvious and uncomplicated evil.


The real world is not simple. People tend to choose an enemy and blame that enemy. Corporate Capitalist Empire or Global Jihad ? Neither thank you.


In some cases the enemy is obvious. That's why film makers go back to the Nazis over and over again. Safe target. I thought Inglorious Basterds had the political intelligence of a 3 year old, but then again Quentin Tarantino protrays the Jews as psychopathic (but justified) basterds and the Germans are in general stylish, polite and they keep their word. But there is only one side you can root for. In a way this is funny, but I'm not sure if I want to give Tarentino credit for it. OK, I'll cut him some slack.


Anyway, in case you haven't seen Avatar, its about a white (American!) dude that goes native and becomes their most awesome leader and achieves an improbable, lo-tech victory (but with soul power! and the animals help them!). Awesome battle sequence ! Good vs. Evil, get it ?


In the real world you live in a complicated global capital network that sometimes deliberately but mostly inadvertiantly leverages injustices so that your locality can exist with the wealth and convienience it enjoys. You cannot opt out. You can't just choose the right items on the Health Food store shelf.


You can use your influence to convince specific companies to change behavior and you can make the best decision when you personally have a decision to make. Don't just say "fuck it".


That's the resources issue. The other issue is racial and cultural understanding. Most of the people who see Avatar will not be White Americans. But we get it, its supposed to be a character you can relate to.


Here's an amazing film I watched the other day. Available, for the moment, in HQ in full on YouTube. Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa, 2001 German/Swahili/English) is a true story, the auto-biography of a young Jewish girl who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 with her family and went to Kenya to manage a farm.


Regina, the girl, takes to it immediately. She learns Kiswahili, makes friends easily and has the genuine wonderment of a child. Her mother is in denial about what is happening in Germany. "We were as German as anybody, we weren't religious Jews". She has lived an upper middle class life. In Nairobi there is colonial splendour, but the family is poor and rural life is hard.


She think's she is tolerant. In an argument her husband tells her that the way she speaks to their cook and closest friend Owuor reminds him of "certain people in Germany that I don't think you wish to be compared to".


Its primarily her that grows throughout the film.


Other parts I liked: Owuor is very big hearted and wise, but he's real. Its a classic "native" role but its not simplistic. On the second farm there is a new helper and he has a gruff suspicous look. He says he's lived on the farm for 40 years and demands to be hired. It takes a while to get his trust. In one small scene he says that if somebody steals your cow then you can just forget about it. The cow will be eaten and then it's gone. If somebody steals your land then its still there. You have to look at it every day of your life.


Real characters with real relationships. As the viewer you really put yourself into what they are going through.


Click to pop it up, watch it on YouTube in HQ.









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Welcome to the West

9 November 2009

I was in a bar a few weeks back, drunk, talking to some people and listening to this girl tell us about growing up in East Germany. Just to paint a picture: she was very attractive, blond, very lively and also a bit drunk. She mentioned the dolls that they used to have, an Eastern German version of the Barbie Doll and I accidentally joked something like "were the dolls named Helga ?" — she slapped me. Lightly, but to the point. Then she complained bitterly that people just didn't understand what its like to have grown up in the east.


I think I do understand, and I'll get to that in a moment. But first let me say that often we think we understand something but we don't unless we've really been through it. Deep seated things get into your body, your emotions, your language and your way of being. Its about Identity. I didn't understand the terrors of immigration until I went through it (and mine was mild and my chances very good). Getting a taste of it I could say that I can imagine. But I can't imagine really what its like to be African and trying to stay in Europe and really having no idea what to do if I got denied. You have no idea the panic that brings a man.


I want to take a stab at this: the DDR was pronounced dead, it was declared unfashionable, its furnishings ugly and laughable, its people (many of my current friends) were poorer and behind the times. And the Western world, still to this day—in particular on this day November 9th 2009 (Mauerfall Tag) says how wonderful it is that these poor bastards got their freedom to be like us, to shop at Karstadt and eat bananas. The relics of the East are diminished by calling it Ostalgie and shoved into a box marked "The Past".


So its read as something like "you can be like us now" ... but you AREN'T us. You are still "them", and we've declared your culture as dead so now you really have no country. You can't change who you are (the way you grew up, your memories, the way you talk), but we've declared your whole Ossi culture to be over with.


Welcome to the West.


The only thing you can do now is give up and gradually assimilate into the western capitalist culture. As new identities come forth, people take those up and eventually it changes. Perhaps try Football or Rave.


Its like the well dressed older brother came back from college and now teases his little brother constantly.


That is the message that is being read.


I don't think like that, mostly I'm not even that aware of the cultural war, or I don't realize its that important. Hence me not realizing that the Helga joke was really insensitive. (I know it wasn't funny. I was drunk, it was an offhand comment, OK ?) My American method is to use humor to dissolve things.


Can't wait for a unified Korea, eh ?


  1. 1 Sean Smuda says...

    When I was in Rostock in the former East in 2001 it was amazing to me that young and old male and female were using the same cheap red hair dye. Is this Ostalgie pride? There were also many skinhead attacks in the news. My German girlfriend informed me that History as taught in was differently slanted than the West and the gaps somehow resulted in violent prejudices.

    Posted at 5:44 a.m. on November 16, 2009
  2. 2 Andrez Bergen says...

    Interesting food for thought, Chris, from the outsider's perspective – and you're right; we can't really understand it unless we're in that situation ourselves. But having lived in Tokyo these past 8 years, I've got an inkling… ;)

    Posted at 5:37 p.m. on November 25, 2009
  3. 3 Romy says...

    I just wish that any mention of East Germany could expand beyond the red hair dye, unemployment, banana jokes and skinheads. There are skinheads in the U.S., west germany ( perhaps even more dangerous racists who aren't skinheads working as executives in Germany, governmental officials etc.).

    It's very limiting and pretty boring. If I want that picture of East Germany I can just watch mainstream German T.V. I'm sure West Germans don't appreciate all the hitler jokes whenever they hang out in England or the US and the complete ignorance of the 1968ers, the antifa, the different regional cultures of Germany, etc.

    But it's true about immigration—i really had no idea until I experienced my own very lightweight version of it. Suddenly a lot of issues like retaining your native language, wanting your children to underestand your culture, feeling terror at not being able to answer simple bureacratic questions made more sense.

    Posted at 4:43 p.m. on January 30, 2010

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