Topic: MUSIK - on January 16, 2017 at 5:41:00 PM CET
Your guide to The KLF, pop music’s original pranksters
They’re justified and they’re ancient, and they’re coming back after a 23 year hiatus – dive into the weird world of the music world conceptualists.
2017: What the fuck is going on? After embarking on a 23 year, self-inflicted hiatus, The KLF are back in an attempt to answer that question. Formed in 1987 by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, The KLF made destroying the mainstream music industry their mission, and – perhaps inadvertently – became the embodiment of a country gripped by rave culture in the process. Many a time The KLF attempted to be the undoing of their own success without ever really achieving it. Instead, intent on self-destruction, they somehow became untouchable. To some, they were artistic visionaries, to others, a novelty act – but that’s where their beauty lied. Extraordinarily self-aware of their place within music and the wider art world, The KLF’s mission was to confuse, and whether you loved or hated them you can’t dispute that that’s exactly what they did. In a time when reality has become stranger than fiction, Drummond and Cauty’s return may be the reminder we need to realise just how absurd things can really become. With that, all aboard to Trancentral as we run down 26 ways The KLF are a band who should never have existed.
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Topic: Podcasts - on January 16, 2017 at 5:34:00 PM CET
incommunicado das neue Hörbuch
incommunicado, das neue Hörbuch – Teil 1 (Zum Download rechtsklick “Ziel speichern unter…” oder einfach den Feed abonnieren. Hier geht’s zum iTunes Podcast.) Dieses Hörbuch basiert auf #incommunicado, einem Roman von Michel Reimon, ist gesprochen von Fabian Neidhardt und Dennis Kröger, aufgenommen bei Rockinson unter der Aufnahmeleitung von Maikl Robinson.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 16, 2017 at 5:32:00 PM CET
Who killed bourgeois democracy in Europe?
When a system calls itself democracy, but forces increasing parts of the demos (people) to live under poverty, its own central concept gradually becomes hollow.
Since early December 2016, following the Italian referendum that cancelled Renzi’s government, most newspapers and news-sites have expressed fears about the populist and anti-EU comedian Beppe Grillo and his Five Star Movement winning the next elections in Italy. Simultaneously, the same progressive media seem pretty happy about the Austrian elections that took place that same weekend. In that case the victory against a right-wing populist, with neo-Nazi tendencies, was celebrated. What is striking is that even left-leaning news sources expressed their relief at what was in fact the victory of a highly neoliberal political agenda.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 16, 2017 at 5:31:00 PM CET
What you need to know about the ‘Trump dossier’
Months of inaction by the FBI forced former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to turn to ‘alternative’ media to publicise his allegations against President-elect Donald Trump. In the end, the allegations were published in the form of a ‘dossier’ by Buzzfeed. But there are more allegations to be examined. And there is still the unanswered question: is Trump a clear and present danger – not only to America, but to the entire world?
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