On Top of Blues on Top of Blues

It's Back!!!

Back-to-the-roots dub special I did a few years... back... enjoys a refresh with some new-ish tracks keeping the vibes rolling and even stepping slightly outside the conventions of the genre in ways that I happen to find musically appealing... 

Happy Dubsgiving, everyone!

It is distressing that in a culture so heavily invested in external appearances the assumption of distinct, manipulable mental states, the quintessential bedrock of the mental health movement, seems to rest uncomfortably somewhere between hearsay, folk tradition and outright superstition; under such conditions practically anything might be taken as "evidence" of a mental disorder.

Part of the process of liberation involves shifting mindsets from seeing oneself primarily as a consumer who 'votes' for items having some predetermined value (using money) to becoming a generator of value, someone who determines for themselves what things are truly worth, using the full resources of the human imagination as a guide.

And so in the end it is not enough to "fight fascism", "fight communism", or any other -ism you might care to name. What must be fought is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the other and fear of the self. You must change yourself from the inside, or else no real change is possible.

For once you see that there is nothing there than what is really there, one can see that all struggle is really the illusion of reality struggling with itself. 

There is no other. There is no external agent.

There is only the whole.

Isn't that... obvious? 

Thanks

So I played a show last week... it was noisy, chaotic - maybe even a little slapdash - but very much worth my while. Hope everyone enjoyed the sounds! I had a great time, considering just a couple of weeks ago I was barely stumbling around after getting bloodied by some sketchy gaggle of stooges. The real problem is dealing with sound systems when you're trying to concentrate on your set. Next time I won't play any DJ tracks, it'll just be me from start to finish. 

And sorry I was late getting there everyone; we had to move the venue to the park because there wasn't any AC power along the street. There's a first time for everything!

The voice in the wires

 "...Of course there's a deal. There's always a deal..."

"...you got enough chips in there to send a spaceship to Saturn..." (referencing an 'ordinary' TV set)

      - Pulse, 1988

The soundtrack of this film is all Wavestation, D-50 and DX-7 II. Makes for great watching for this reason alone, any eerie relevance to the present moment notwithstanding. The cameo by Robert Romanus as the TV repairman has certainly appreciated in value as kind of meta-guide for the lately perplexed... We all just "read the book" now and understand only as much as its authors intended, yes?