Apologies and thank you's

A huge sorry to anyone who came down to the gig at MAO on Thursday but couldn't get in, even we were surprised that we completely sold out beforehand! And thank you to those who did make it in for making it such a great evening, we had a blast...PRDCTV is playing again at The Wheatsheaf in Oxford on the 28th of November, which definitely WON'T be sold out...see you there hopefully!

Apparently we don't need science...

Home Secretary Alan Johnson clearly feels that, when scientific evidence and governmental policy are at odds, the best way to resolve the issue is to stop people from hearing the science. Hence his sacking of the government's chief drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt, for speaking out against the government's reclassification of cannabis from a Class C to a Class B drug last year, a decision which he and most other experts opposed and which had next to no scientific justification.

I'm not big into the current popular trend of Labour bashing, and I personally believe letting David Cameron anywhere near No. 10 would be a disaster, but it's a sad day when whoever is making the policies feels that the need to pander to ill-informed "public concern" is greater than the need to follow carefully researched scientific consensus. 1 in 5000 males (and 1 in 20,000 females) who smoke bucketloads of cannabis may develop schizophrenia, a condition which has an incidence of 1 in 100 in the normal population anyway. Yet alcohol and cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands a year and cost the NHS millions. If alcohol and cigarettes are treated as an acceptable vice of society, why not cannabis?

After the War

part lll of 'Different Trains' by Steve Reich, one of my favourite pieces of music ever. nice film here too (it takes a minute to load).

Steve Reich - Different Trains part 3-America after the war from Lost Highway on Vimeo.

Volcano

Four Tet taking an average hip-hop tune from Anti-Pop Consortium and turning it into gold dust. Genius.

i'm lost without your rhythm

i saw "i'm lost without your rhythm" by Johanna Billing on Saturday in the Arnolfini. The film shows rehearsals by a group of amateur dancers in Romania preparing this abstract choreography. hard to describe but very good stuff. the details are here.

some info on johanna billing is here.

Here's the song that was playing.

I couldn't find the film that I saw, best I could do from the internet was one of her previous works:

Dead Pilot Records

Just a bit of love from one label to another here. One of our favourite local(ish) labels for quite some time has been Dead Pilot Records, who release some great ambient/folkish experimentalism from so many artists we really wish we'd found - Message To Bears (once remixed by our very own PRDCTV), The Soul's Release; the list goes on and on my friends. And did I mention they've got a wicked logo?

ghost town

http://societe.fluctuat.net/diaporamas/pripyat-une-ville-irradiee/

deserted town

Teengirl Fantasy

I'm addicted to this band called Teengirl Fantasy at the moment...two guys from NYC who definitely know how to use a sampler. It's genuinely difficult to pigeonhole their sound - it's like dubstep on poppers with a side of soft electro. Trust me, it's better than that sounds.

They've got an EP out for free download which is more than worth a listen. Their London shows at the end of October should be amazing.

Teengirl Fantasy - Love Dont Live Here

here's that rhythm again, here's my shoulder blade..

talking heads - stay hungry:

one minute into the song, it turns into this bit that could go on for ever really, and there's this great chorus thing that comes in.. and then, of course, into 'cities'..

galaxie 500 + bicycle + october

Galaxie 500 - Sorry

'seems like everything is business...'

http://www.last.fm/music/Galaxie%20500/_/Sorry