The Hip-Hop Vs Bjork Mixtape

As if further proof were needed of Bjork's genre defying influence and adaptability, or the ingenuity and resourcefulness of a good producer, here is a brilliant hip-hop mixtape by Boston MC Moe Pope and producer Headnodic.
They've taken a huge range of Bjork's beats and sounds from across her albums and mashed them up, cut them into bits and pasted them together again. The results makes for some wicked hip-hop tracks. These two have done an awesome job.

Highlight for me is the last track, which is a sizzling hot big band jazz version of Venus as a Boy which turns into a proper stealthy stomper hip-hop tune before melting back into a swinging jazz hands finale!

DOWNLOAD HERE (64 mb)





Source: onthedownload (Thankyou)

My Daughter The Terrorist

MY DAUGHTER THE TERRORIST
(58 minutes) Sri Lanka/Norway/USA
Director: Beate Arnestad
Producer: Morten Daae

This fascinating documentary is an exceedingly rare, inside look at an organization that most of the world has blacklisted as a terrorist group. Made by the first foreign film crew to be given access to the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) of Sri Lanka, the film offers insights into the recently re-ignited conflict in Sri Lanka. Twenty-four-year-olds Dharsika and Puhalchudar have been living and fighting side-by-side for seven years as part of LTTE's elite force, the Black Tigers. Their story is told through cinema verité footage, newsreel footage, and interviews with the women and Dharsika's mother.



The women describe heartbreaking traumas they both experienced at the hands of the Sri Lankan army, which led them to join the guerrilla forces. As they discuss their readiness to become suicide bombers and their abiding loyalty to the unnamed "Leader"-who they are sure would never harm civilians-grisly images of past LTTE suicide bombings provide somber counterpoints. Their curiously flat affects raise the possibility that they have been brainwashed. This even-handed documentary sheds light on the reasons that the Tamil Tigers continue their bloody struggle for independence while questioning their tactics.

Watch the whole film on this Youtube playlist http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6116C06833C109A8

OPAQUE - BREAK THE CIRCLE

Opaque's new album is almost here! Check out the tracklist below and download new song Ball Of Fire!

Opaque - Break The Circle

1. Building Burning Bridges
2. Ball Of Fire
3. They Chose To Lead Us
4. Anything You Want
5. Karma
6. Billy The Circus Freak
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Butterflies
9. Taken By Surprise
10. The Way It Seemed
11. Rise & Fall Of God
12. Unity
13. It's All About The Music

Press Release

“Psychedelic indie folktronica? The band that refuses to be pigeonholed is back with a new album of beautifully crafted songs ”

Break The Circle, the new album from Opaque, out May 2009 on
Drip Dry Productions

Renowned as the most original band to hail from the city of Peterborough, the members of Opaque have garnered attention from across the UK since their formation in 2002 – taking to the stage to support the likes of Kasabian, The Kooks, Biffy Clyro and more. The festival fields of England soon became their regular haunt and they’ve been invited to play everywhere from Secret Garden Party to Bestival and Small World. Opaque’s debut album, The Last Moustache, won over a new legion of fans and the band’s philanthropic nature saw them get busy organising their own festival, GrassRoots, and setting up the Muddy Promotions arts collective (www.muddy.org.uk) while touring the album throughout 2006.

This fruitful time saw Opaque win plenty of recognition for their artistic endeavours – they were nominated at the 2008 Indy Awards for best alternative act, sold almost 1000 hard copies of The Last Moustache and started a community record label, Drip Dry Productions, cementing their DIY approach to merry music making. Such a creative burst of industry can be a hard act to follow but the ‘difficult second album’ syndrome was avoided by this bunch of troubadours… who even brought in a collection of new musicians and instruments for Break The Circle, with cello, saxophone and piano all adding a layer of melody to the songs. Recorded over 12 months at The Glass Onion, home to the Muddy collective, the album was engineered and produced by band members Benny and Moony. The year-long production mirrors the cyclical themes behind the album nicely and, when not recording, Opaque were busy signing a management deal with Peter Jones (of Dragon’s Den fame) and touring with Dragon’s Den winners, Hamfatter.

The album’s title, Break The Circle, was taken from the chorus line of the opening track – Building Burning Bridges, a lament about harmful relationships that you entrench yourself in, despite the knowledge that change is necessary. However, the album title has a myriad of meanings and references for the band.

Opaque’s lead singer, Moony, said, “For me it’s a general ethos about breaking bad habits or any destructive cycles in your life, from bad relationships to drub habits. It’s more than just that though, it’s also in recognition of the many cycles and circles that surround us all the time – from the planets to the seasons – and the effects of breaking these circles. And it’s a call, a call for anarchy and change. So it’s many things in one.”

Break The Circle marks a departure from catchy pop and takes the fork in the road that leads to a little extra meat on their symphonic bones. It’s a welcome and natural development for Opaque’s sound, a sound that is still unmistakably Opaquian but signals a more introspective, multi-layered approach to song crafting that still features an eclectic mix of jaunty rock and electro sprinklings. A wonderful addition to the album is a demonstration of all that the Opaque boys hold dear in the mould of an 11-minute version of My Favourite Things, which features a plethora of friends and fellow musicians adding extra verses. The album has seen the band flex their creative muscles, bringing on board talented illustrator Lee Mason to create the karmic themed artwork, and it is being sold in three guises: -

• Break the circle (standard) – £8

• Break The Circle (deluxe) – double CD including remix CD all housed in a gatefold vinyl pack with lyrics and poster £12

The first single from the album is entitled Karma and also includes the politically antagonising They Chose To Lead Us. Opaque will be touring extensively throughout the summer so head to www.myspace.com/bandopaque for details

Email: opaque_moony@hotmal.com

Website: www.bandopaque.com

Myspace: www.myspace.com/bandopaque

Management: www.JamieTurnerNewMusic.co.uk

Patrick explains it all

Randomly found this on the internet, it's well old but I'd never seen it before



Donwload an acoustic version of Hard Times (The next single from forthcoming album The Bachelor) recorded live on XFM sessions last night HERE
It's nice and has violins and doomsday lyrics
Get b-side 'Tinderbox' HERE

Björk ~ Voltaic

The long awaited 4-disc live boxset from Iceland's finest export chronicling her amazing 2 year Volta world tour has been delayed AGAIN!
The suspense is killing me, but now I must wait until June for two full DVD concerts in 5.1 surround sound, 11 music videos, a documentary, a live session album and a remix compilation to fall into my grubby mits.

One track from the Paris DVD has leaked on the internet and can be viewed here.



Preorders made on the One Little Indian website will be sent out from mid May apparently.

Here are some still from the DVDs (click for full size)

Now that's a drum kit!


the WonderBrass girls in full swing!

L'Olympia in rainbows