Those damn immigrants again!
The Spanish government, led the “intellectually weak” socialist Zapatero, (according to French president Sarkozy) wants to introduce a law whereby should you have an immigrant in your house without residency […]
Sonidos Urbanas
GAF, Tropico28, Comsat and myself will be in Los Realejos for a night of Sonidos Urbanas. Famillie Bou Bess will also come down for the grasp the mic’s for a […]
John Lurie
Preparing this week’s Ear Conditioning program, reached for a John Lurie piece from his soundtrack for Down by Law. This quote is from his myspace page “I keep asking myself […]
Brothers from Another Planet
Hitting the airwaves this week, a selection featuring a couple tracks from the album of Ras G and The Afrikan Space Program. He’s part of the Brainfeeder posse that runs […]
Diversity
Famille Bou Bess will be part of the Diversity event taking place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 25 April. Sharing the event will be STILL (Senegal), Salamat Khartoum (Syria); […]
Crate-diggers unite
Guardian article by Ben Beaumont-Thomas on bloggin’ crate-diggers: If labels can’t keep obsure albums in print, why not let bloggers post them…? Da brother’s got a point innit? Now, time to […]
The Bomb Squad
Hank Shocklee talks production, AnR and sample time, here. Thanks to Daily Swarm for leading the way. Download mixes from the Shocklee Brothers aqui. Can you believe that Russell Simmons hated their […]
Got the Flu
Flying Lotus meets Blu, hijacking ‘GNG BNG’ from the Los Angeles album, pinch here.
Radio Activity
Okay, it’s like this. Planet Radio was supposed to start transmitting ‘old’ episodes of the Ear Conditioning program from yesterday. However they had to change the schedule last week, and in the chaotic run-around forgot to inform me. So now, we are gonna run the program on Thursday’s at 23h00 (GMT), not Tuesdays as previously thought. ‘Old’ episodes….well, […]
Understanding and Surviving Terrorism
The US Marine Corps manual on understanding and surviving Terrorism. Sample: Hard targets do not : Go out each morning at the same time to pick up the newspaper or […]
Obey / Shepard Fairley
Shepard Fairley vs. Associated Press, read here.
The Stick Up
Flying Lotus again?! I’ll get over it. When? I don’t know, he’s just got me hard, and since I do the program primarily for the ears that reside in Tenerife, […]
Tsk tsk tsk vs. Boom Boom Boom
Filmaker and DJ, Don Letts speaks about punk roots, technology and music in today’s Guardian. Guardian: Bass (how low can you go?) Don Letts: It’s disturbing when I see […]
Genre Alert
Not one to sit on his backside in the comfortable zone, Steve Goodman aka Kode 9 / Hyperdub talks about ‘Funky’ here courtesy of Fact Magazine. I saw Kode 9 spin […]
Gone to the dogs
This week’s program was a repeat of a show from last October, still sounded fresh though. I try not to be bound to fashion fashion in having to play […]
Hey soundbwoy, you wanna turn that goddam music off?
The Ear Conditioning radio program will soon be moving from Radio Norte to a new home at Planet Radio, which I’m pleased to say covers all of Tenerife. Ever since […]
