One of the best things about going to Tate Modern with my Dad, his ladyfriend Christine and John was seeing Len Lye FINALLY shown in an art gallery – I’ve been fan of this animator’s work since the early 90’s, when the university where I did my art degree had a few videos from the G.P.O. film unit. He invented the cameraless animation technique of drawing straight onto the film – something I immediately tried to do!

Here, have a look:

Colour Box – the one in the Tate:

and

Swinging the Lambeth Walk.

So WHY OH WHY can you not (apart from a paltry 3 on a collection) get his films on DVD? When you get utter Hollywood drivel pumped out by the bucketload and someone who did innovative and magical films like this can only get an old VHS?

Tempted to buy the VHS and transfer it…these films are crackly and noisy at best, so don’t survive modern codecs, it would be shame to add more quality loss. Sort it out Royal Mail, Postal Heritage and co.!

 Changing over email systems and I seem to have b0rked something, and currently not going emails – they’ll be bouncing back merrily home to you.

If you need to contact me, I’m on G-Mail as t-i-m-b-e-a-r-c-u-b (take out the dashes)

But in the meantime have a look at the great graphic…

Back from Trier, via Bastard and OMD (or those OMD Bastards), I muse about the incomplete nature of communication on teh Innernet, surviving silly boots and dad-dancing. Oh and I play some tunes…DJNoNo does some ‘mixing’ via the medium of the Get Stupid room from Trier, so loads of Chas n Dave and polka gets unsurprisingly played.

404 You Know The Score: (77Mb, 1hr 33) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_119.mp3

Notes

• rx2008 – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• RIAA – Armageddon It On (or The Gaye-Pride Apocalypso) (from Tech-Xotica!)
• I survived Trier
  
• Instamatic – Stone Cold Roses
• Gregorian ABBA – Dancing Queen
• K.C. and the Sunshine Band – Queen of Clubs
• Slade – Gudbuy t’Jane
• Moby – Go (Vitalic mix) (from PalmOutSounds)
• ninjasonik – Internet Bitch (from PalmOutSounds)
• Army of Lovers – Crucified (Nuzak mix)
• Phil n’ Dog – Gay Muppet Bastard
• Juxtaposeur – Cheers2
• Georg Schwenk – Tanzende Finger
• holyghost – LaLaUnlimited
• Si Begg – Non Stop Cut And Paste (Pirate Soundsystem Remix)
• cry.on.my.console – Command Your Rabbits
• Beatbox Saboteurs – KneesUpMF
• DJNoNo – SuperCaliBreakz
• Who Boys – We Will Chop You
• Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker – Cousin Mosquito #1 (from Songs in the Key of Z)
• Bastard Pilchard Who Boys
• Musings about an incomplete medium
  
• Pet Shop Boys – To Speak is a Sin (from Very)
• Slade – How Does it Feel? (from Wall of Hits/Slade in Flame)
• Who Boys – SF Chopin
• Have a break have a Time Out
• Chas n’ Dave – Aint No Pleasin’ You (from Guilty Pleasures Rides Again)

Episode 118, in a mentality far, far away.

Where Tim gets obsessed with Fleetwood Mac, plans to go off to Trier (err and comes back, this was recorded before I left) and it all ends with hilarious consequences, or something.

Actually it ends with a lack of editing where I got bored, so it sounds rough and is far, far too long. Almost deleted it but there are some good songs on it. Oh well….(I might not give the answer that you want me to)

Don’t Stop Thinking about your Download…(2 hours, 96Mb) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_118.mp3

• American Standard – Couldn’t Be Done (from WFMU 365 Days)
• Who Boys – Blue Betty
• Dunproofin – SimianTronicDisco
• Kerrier District – Disclix
• Fleetwood Mac – Big Love (Arthur Baker’s House on the Hill mix)
• Pacific - Runway to Elsewhere (from fluokids)
• Lassigue Bendthaus – Ashes to Ashes (Digital Spacepop Replicant) (thanks to Copy, Right)
• Collide – The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (Copy, Right blog)
• Coup – ShoYoAss (from Pick a Bigger Weapon)
• Just Jack – I Talk too Much
• Slade – Know Where You Are
• Liberator - Does Your Mother Know? (Copy, Right blog)
• Avalaches – Do you Know the Way to San Jose? (Copy, Right blog)
• RIAA – Say A Little Prayer For Religion (from Dirt Bacharach)
• Voicedude – The Unusual Mr Jones
• Joan Jett – Crimson and Clover
• Jarvis Cocker – Black Magic
• Death Cab for Cutie – Earth Angel
• Black Box Recorder – Rock and Roll Suicide (Copy, Right blog)
• The Veils – Advice for Young Mothers To Be
• Black Shakespeare ft Charlie Charles – Dreams
• Dreams (from WFMU 365 Days)
• Venetian Snares – Szamár Madár (from the Hungarian Album)
• Winston Giles Orchestra – We wait for Sunrise (download tracks here) (Myspace)
• Stars – Theme from the Stars
• Who Boys – Man at the Piano
• Fleetwood Mac – Crystal
• Was Not Was – Out Come The Freaks (1981 ZE 12″ Mix)
• Fleetwood Mac – One More Time (Over & Over).

Yep I’m doing a Radio Clash LIVE! but at the Parkade in Second Life at 10pm GMT / 2pm SL/PST – in about 20 mins. A mashup hybrid of podcasting, clubbing via my Cruise Control night, and SL!

So come on down – either search for Parkade  within Second Life (the new club in the same place) or use the <a href=”http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drive%20In/4.58063/141.089″>SLURL here</a>.