Maybe it’s because of personal experience, and videos like this:

Yes they are really capturing criminals here…people breaking the law by sitting. That sitting is what terrists do. Sitting is UNamerican!!! Sitting is for pinko commie lefty fags.

Really, if the police, or the army, actually for once in their lives refused to hold up the people in power and do their dirty work for them, and fight for their and our rights as fellow workers against corrupt leaders then maybe, just maybe, the world would be a better place.

But they don’t. And thus uphold the status quo, which is what those in power want.

And please don’t tell me ‘I’ll be glad if you need them’ because yes I’ve been in that position. Were they anywhere to be seen, or for a long time? No. Did they solve anything? No. It was obvious that they don’t really care until you become a statistic, and then it is too late. So sadly at the point where they could prove to me, their employer (I pay their wages with my taxes), that they had some worth, they failed.

So when I see stuff like this I can’t counter it with a nice happy fluffy experience of them. They need to work on that…if they want a job when the revolution comes

It seems like music the book selling model is changing – Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more so with books.

So when Mr Holy13Nation recommended a book to me, The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason, it was great to see that as well as the usual Waterstones/Amazon gubbins they were using the same ‘pay what you like including $0′ model as introduced by Nine Inch Nails (no not Radiohead, they just stole that idea, and it was just a fan-gimmick cos as soon as it hit the shops the ‘free’ copies magically disappeared!).

You get the feeling that the likes of Mr Mason, BB’s Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig get it, that the future will be free electronic versions, or donation/pay what you like model, which will actually increase people buying books, CDs etc. as they’ll get a chance, as with P2P to ‘try before they buy’ – the idea that these technologies destroy the artist getting any money is ludicrous – who loses out is those with bad stale content.

It also makes sense as unlike the physical product the outlay is far far less – server space, bandwidth and setting up a paypal/ecommerce payment are far cheaper than the oil, shelf-space and outlay of a physical product. I think we will see more of this – and I’m pleasantly suprised to see a major publisher like Penguin get involved in this.

The book? Well only read the first few pages so I can’t give a review yet, but so far if you are into the sort of remix/mashup/open source and indeed YARR! pirate culture here at Radio Clash, then I think you’ll love this book. And at a nice price – one you determine.

Oh and even the book logo is Creative Commons, and available on the website, hence my ‘remix’ above.

Negativland press short – early 80′s? I mean WTF David doesn’t have a beard so it’s early – culturejammed a little by me

In a conversation recently I found several people who had no idea who Negativland are – being the sort to want to show people new music and bring it to them, here are two shows about the Bay Area merry band of pranksters, culturejammers, CB radio and cutup freaks that not only pissed off U2 (bonus!) fell out with SST (seems like everyone has since) they also pioneered using the media to subvert it’s own message with Helter Stupid and the murders by David Brom, inspiring mashups and cutup culture in the process.

They ARE the grandaddies of mashup. So pay attention children!

This episode, inspired by the dense collage of Over The Edge shows that the band have been doing since the early 80′s on KPFA in Berkeley, takes us from the start of Negativland shrouded in the fog and sex chemicals of Concord in 1980, to being sued bea sate by Bono and co. in 1991 even ironically as U2 embark on the culturejamming inspired tour that was ZooTV…

Sea Bea Sate! Play Black Sabbath at 78 (56Mb, 73 mins)

• Negativland – Track01 (from Negativland, 1980)
• Negativland – Track06 (from Negativland, 1980)
• Negativland – Track09 (from Negativland, 1980)
• Negativland – The Answer is…(from Points, 1981)
• Negativland – Theme From A Big 10-8 Place (from A Big 10-8 Place, 1983)
• Negativland – Four Fingers (from A Big 10-8 Place, 1983)
• Negativland – The Way of It (from Escape from Noise, 1987)
• Negativland – Michael Jackson (from Escape from Noise, 1987)
• Negativland – Play It Again (from Unsound cassette, 1987)
• Negativland – Methods of Torture (from Escape from Noise, 1987)
• Negativland – A Big 10-8 Place Part One (from A Big 10-8 Place, 1983)
• 180 Gs – Car Bomb (from 180 D’Gs To The Future, 2007)
• Negativland – Christianity Is Stupid (from Escape from Noise, 1987)
• Negativland – Helter Stupid (newscast, from Helter Stupid 1989)
• 180 Gs – Helter Stupid (from 180 D’Gs To The Future, 2007)
• Negativland – The Perfect Cut (Rooty Poops from Helter Stupid 1989)
• Negativland – Perfect Scrambled Eggs (from Potatoes)
• Negativland – Long Distance Dedication #2 (live) (from These Guys Are from England…2001)
• Negativland – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For [1991 A Capella Mix]
• Instamatic – Still Haven’t Found It
• Negativland – U2: Special Edit Radio Mix (U2 single, 1991)
• Negativland – Wake Up America (live – from These Guys Are from England…2001)
• Negativland – Long Distance Dedication #1 (live – from These Guys Are from England…2001)
• Negativland – A Big 10-8 Place Part One (from A Big 10-8 Place, 1983)
• Negativland – 07-The Perfect Cut (White Rabbit and a Dog Named Gidget – from Helter Stupid 1989)
• Negativland – 03-The Perfect Cut (Canned Music – from Helter Stupid 1989)
• Negativland – 06-The Perfect Cut (Piece of Meat – from Helter Stupid 1989)
• Negativland – Please Don’t Sue Us (from Fair Use, 1995)
• Negativland – Harry to the Ferry (from Points, 1981)

Also sneakily mixed in and appropriated are clips from the excellent 1995 Sonic Outlaws documentary – go find a copy! Or you can see a low-res online Flash version here from Denver OpenMedia.

There’s also a great history of the group here

This town’s been raining far too long for me
To find my way to you,
You see me everywhere
I see you in my boots and in my hair and in my care
for you is such that we could never find a another way to be.

Not as downtempo as the above suggests, but a long show with mighty good music, many mighty mashups interspersed with mighty silly shit…also very sweary in places so get yr headphones on!

Mighty Mighty Clicky Linky ( 86Mb, 109mins)

• Playaway theme
• Matt Hite – I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind
• Magnetic Fields – California Girls
• Hercules and the Love Affair ft Antony Hegarty – Blind
• Copycat – I Feel Love is a Stranger
• I Will Shank You For a Penny – Boots
• The Illuminoids – Heart Shaped Titties
• Copycat - A Smalltown Monday Solution
• I Will Shank You For a Penny – On and On
• Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor
• Eve Massacre – A Sweet Bit Dixy
• Whitney Houston – How Will I Know (el barto and liam b re-edit)
• DJ Spanner Monkey – This Is Shit
• Celebrity Murder Party – What Time is Dub?
• Romp and Play – Reverberate (Pirate Soundsystem Vocal mix – available here)
• The Illuminoids – Fuck the Electro DJ
• Atiq & Benefit of the Boomerang – It Was There (available on Mindtrick records)
• Roger Miller – You Can’t Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd
• Spike Jones – Gesundheit Polka
• Lawrence Welk – Clarinet Polka
• The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra – Kazooed on Klassics
• Wah Kazoo – Doctor Wah
• Doctor Sings – Time Warp
• The Rubinoos – Heroes and Villains (via Copy, Right)
• Hidden Cameras – Man That I Am With My Man
• Hot Chip – We’re Looking for a Lot of Love
• Dale B – Lose Myself Ce Matin La
• Glasvegas – It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry
• Lawrence Welk – Bubbles in the Wine

A special interactive edition of Radio Clash collaborating with Celebrity Murder Party, specially for the 3rd birthday of Radio Clash (well I’m a few weeks early)

Can you solve the mystery of John Law’s disappearance?

If so then an exclusive mashup compilation with tracks from The Who Boys, CMP, dj lobsterdust, LeeDM101, RIAA, Copycat and World Famous Audio Hacker would be yours.

Find the clues in the show and in the Flash map below and get the top-secret The Radio Clash File! Don’r forget – email me with the code when you’re solved it, I’ll mention you on future shows, and I might play another track from the compilation

Thanks to CMP for the idea and their hard work and Mark Who Boy for the great voiceage!

Oh and as usual, the language and themes reflect the hard, dangerous and explicit life of a spy!

EDIT: Want to know the code for the compilation? Well lookee here first

Dum de dum dum de dum de dum de dum dum de dum (74Mb, 1:45)

Spytracklist!

* only available on The Radio Clash File compilation

• John Barry – Persuaders Theme
• Hello Celebrities!
• amillionsons – double oh heaven
• Michael Mills – Queen
• dj lobsterdust – It’s Fun To Smoke Dust (Satanic Reverses mix)*
• Strummer Toys & Liquid Silk
• Roy Budd – Carter Gets the Train
• Golden Bootie Showers
• Desmond Dekker and the Aces – 007 (Shanty Town)
• Randy’s Allstars – Mission Impossible
• Burnt Toast
• SFA – She’s Got Spies
• Sarah Vaughn – Peter Gunn (Max Sedgley mix)
• Dances with Freud
• dj lobsterdust - Wanna Be Your Alala*
• Acen – Trip 2 The Moon(The Darkside)
• DUKE DUMONT – Final Level
• LeeDM101 – Hot Pursuit*
• Celebrity Murder Party – The HoneyTrap (a Bond symysogny)
• Where’s Maddy? He Says
• The Who Boys – Hugh Boy Secret Agent*
• William S. Burroughs – Dr. Benway Operates
• Slap me with a wet kipper (in mandarin)
• Tape Beatles - Dashed against the rock
• My Bloody Valentine – We Have All The Time In The World
• Michelin Wicker Man?

Can’t see the map? Try here