I recomment those who get your sound muted or get a nastygram from Warners Media Group use Audioswap and swap in the same song – something unsigned like Playgyrl Slim’s ‘Shut the Fuck Up’ – be warned some of the selections are actually Warners – oh the irony – Fearless Records who Classic Case and Plain White T’s are on is owned by Warners….so don’t promote that shit. Check it on Myspace/Wiki first.
This helps promote those bands and tells Warners where to go…
OK I’ve been working on this mashup of Stereo MC’s vs Rolling Stones vs Benga vs Fun Boy 3 for a while – kind of a State of the Nation address in a mashup as regards how I felt in the run up to the US election, Georgia v. Russia, Iran and Iraq, Military Industrial Complex and various things…but history in the fact of Obama being elected president overtook me, so the paranoid worried bootleg seemed a bit at odds with the times.
So I’ve created two – one called (Fear) the full-length extended version with the Chris Rock intro, and a short radio version called (Hope) using Barack Obama’s recent speech in Chicago after he won the presidency – really they are different mashups, with a common basis.
Ground Shelter (Hope) - Stereo MC’s ‘Ground Level’ vs Rolling Stones ‘Gimme Shelter’ vs Benga ‘Lightbulb’
Ground Shelter (Fear)- Stereo MC’s ‘Ground Level’ vs Rolling Stones ‘Gimme Shelter’ vs Benga ‘Lightbulb’ vs Fun Boy 3 – ‘Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum’
Apologies to Shepard Fairey for abusing his wonderful artwork; and love goes out to Ian Fondue who gave me some tips on an earlier version – hope it works Ian!
Even Opie and Richie Cunningham, the Fonz and Andy Griffiths want you to vote Obama (and how American are they? Stick that, Palin!):
Still not convinced? Check out DJ Paul V’s great Obama mix – and heed what the man says, share, blog, play, spread the word. I love the ‘Sarah Palin (I Wanna Lay Some Pipe)’ especially, and I have to say, as a former Jay-Z hata that his ‘Lick A Shot For Obama’ is not only on the money, it’s actually one of the best and most honest things he’s done in a LONG while. May it continue.
If you’re in the U.S. – don’t vote for ignorance, racism, war, homophobia, Xtian fundaMENTALism or reducing women’s rights. Vote for change don’t vote for fear. Otherwise the election could turn into more than a Halloween scare. Even I have some differences in what Obama says about gay marriage, but I would vote Obama if I could, and I wish I could because it does affect me, as it does the rest of the world, in the UK. This really feels like a dividing point in history, like 9/11 because it’s born of 9/11, seems like everyone’s been running since then and it’s time to stop. And change.
As Bill Hicks said:
“It’s just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
uh oh – the e-voting part of the Mayoral election bothered me, but with such a close vote is it possible Boris Johnson didn’t win at all? This is the problem with e-voting systems, you cannot easily know as all the votes are counted inside a machine, and the company behind it Indra was involved with those trials last year which were far from perfect, total chaos in fact. And now the just released Open Righs Group report has given a ‘no confidence’ vote to the London elections.
Not happy…
ORG Report:
However, transparency around the recording of valid votes was a major issue, leading many of our team of 27 official observers to conclude that they were unable to observe votes being counted. And while hundreds of screens set up by vote scanners showed almost meaningless data to observers, London Elects admit that the system was likely to be recording blank ballots as valid votes.
The report also details how London Elects are unable to publish an audit, commissioned from KPMG, of some of the software used to count the London vote, because of disputes over commercial confidentiality. The situation highlights the problems that arise when the very public function of running elections is mixed with issues of commercial confidentiality and proprietary software. In the context of a public election, it is unacceptable that these issues should preclude the publication of the KPMG audit.
Well the Socialist Worker Party’s comment form on the rose-tinted sweetness and light article about the festival isn’t working, so I’ll post this here:
“I was one of the people at the Love Music Hate Racism carnival, too young for the original Rock Against Racism but regard that concert with great respect.
Overall it was a great festival, but with a few major issues.
It’s a shame though that unlike the Pride events held at Victoria Park in the 90s there was fences and police everywhere, people confiscating or refusing entry to people with plastic water bottles (not just glass and alcohol) – but a really poor selection of alcohol inside.
But the biscuit was taken (away) by the police stopping the event – the aforementioned PCS tent. It wasn’t unsafe – in fact the tent was part empty – and people were just having a good time. I don’t expect the police at a political event to just shut the tent down at 5:20 for no explained reason – leaving DJ Hype and the poor MC to try and explain after getting us to step back, which we did. It was lucky that there wasn’t a riot…
Yes people had a great time, and it was the one part of the LMHR I felt racial and cultural divides breaking down with people dancing to everything to banghra to drum and bass – but I find it odd that the police would be in control of such an event, given the SWP/IS history. And as we left the organisers (not police) were rudely barking at people to move out of the way, but most of the problem was the ice cream van parked in front of the exit.
Also the irony of asking people to buy tshirts and bags to support the event. Capitalism anyone? Oh it’s ok to wear a tshirt if it has the right logo on it? Very dodgy.
So although I did have a good time, I did feel LMHR and SWP and the Unions involved were skating a very fine line - I was left feeling disheartened rather than empowered, and felt that rather than talk to someone about it they’d rather sell me a tshirt.
So this is the revolution in action is it?”
I was talking about this with John (who is a member of the SWP, I am most definitely not although have leanings that way) – I think the festival compromised the SWP and LMHR and various groups involved.
