The Ear Raid
I used to fret about making mixtapes, anyone that makes them knows the deal about having to repeatedly start again due to an error committed along the way, such […]
The Drone Operator who said no, dreams in infra-red
Death by Metadata. Terror Tuesday. Every Tuesday, the White House occupant, Oh-Bummer Man has a meeting where he and military chiefs go through a list of people they have decided […]
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks, one of the most celebrated African American artists of his time, is the subject of this exhibition of groundbreaking photographs of Fort Scott, Kansas—focusing on the realities […]
200 years of African American art
James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney No World by Kara Walker Martin Luther King Jr. by John Woodrow Wilson “From Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to move to […]
Fun-da-mental ‘Audio Shrapnel’ XFM Superchunk
First broadcast in December 2001 for the Eddie Temple-Morris & James Hyman program on XFM. Big respect to DJ Overhaul who constructed the final mix on his jack after my […]
Fourth World – Flora Purim & Airto Moreira ‘Terra Mae’
An early show of confidence from Tony Thorpe. Back in the day, he was commissioned to assemble a collection of producers to remix songs from the catalogue of Fourth World, […]
Daniel Edlen: Vinyl Art
Arizona-based artist Daniel Edlen has been collecting vinyl since he was a teenager at art school. One day he combined his two passions of art and music, and started painting […]
Chrome ‘Melody’
A pre-internet tune that could be released today an’ nobody would be any wiser. It was on ‘The Family Album‘, compiled by Tony Thorpe for his Language label than ran […]
Ear Con 111: Keroxen Closing Night
I got a date tomorrow, the end is near, so I am preparing the digital record box…..whilst searching the deep recesses of hard drives and bending shelves for tunes for […]
Festival Boreal
Hello strangers. Been tied up with getting our label onto the digital distribution thang, among other things. so the blog has been neglected. A week friday, Sept. 19th, is the […]
KingLMan feat. Earl 16/The Mighty Zulu Nation LV Remix
The second release on our label is about to get out there. I had the pleasure to lock down singer Earl 16 when he came to Tenerife for a show […]
Spring flowers….real close up
Flowers are one of the great joys of spring, but viewing them under a scanning electron microscope uncovers a surreal, alien beauty. These images were created by the award-winning German […]
Nasa, not N.A.S.A.
Spring Cleanin, it’s only now that I have come across this draft of a post that I started….uh, three years ago! What don’t you get with mpfreeze? Information, that’s what. […]
Mapa Sonoro 45
Spanish TV music program Mapa Sonoro, takes it name because it travels around the country, and it’s territories, such as the Canary Islands. It is creating a national map of […]
Socos Dúo: Album – These Times We Are Living
Next week Saturday, 15th March, we will be on hand for the presentation of the first album for Socos Dúo and the first for us as a label. We will […]
Ear Con 110: It’s normal, we live in a strange universe
John Zorn: Peur sur la ville – (From The Big Gundown LP, Icon) Mr. Zorn records a tribute to Ennio Morricone. Stellar list of collaborators on-board for this excursion. Owiny […]
