Wednesday 31 March 2010

THE MICHIGAN MILITIA

As much as I hate the tit, Bill O'Reilly is great entertainment...so a few weeks back I'm trawling the net for a quick fix of  Fux Nooz and I hear Bill chatting to this dude from the Oath Keepers; a rapidly growing patriot organisation of apparently 6000+ members consisting of (serving and retired) military men, police and firefighters who have collectively agreed that should the federal  government request their services in the implementation of marshall law (or anti-constitutional acts as they put it) they will commit to resist. Crucially many members are also part of Patriot Militias; anti-government resistance armies who exchange paramilitary knowledge and train in armed combat. 

The belief that a militarised crack-down on dissenting voices is probable, or even unavoidable underpins the ideology of all these groups; this being the paranoid legacy of the far-rights addiction to conspiracy theory, and additionally, the recent re-emergence of a classic conspiracy keynote, that FEMA are rehearsing and preparing for a mass incarceration program.... 

Heres NWO profiteer extraordinaire Alex Jones with a trailer to what I imagine was a good little earner for him back in 2009.   

Clearly most Americans who found a moment to watch crap of this nature will passively consume it and show (at best) indifference to its conclusions.... but check out these people !



The call themselves the Hutaree. A Michigan based, religiously fundamentalist militia who today were arrested for planning acts of terrorism that would begin with the murder of a policemen, and conclude in a a series of co-ordinated explosion at the officers funeral killing his loved ones too. That is dark.

So thats both ends of the radical anti-government spectrum. Hutaree: the hot-headed terror-cell of chubby, wildly radicalised Christians. And Oath Keepers : A huge, multi-state network with its delicate cocktail of ambiguous-pacifism and a marksmen-centric recruitment policy. Either way whats stunned me about the whole thing is how many of these militias there are, according to US Thinktank over 500, each with a membership of dozens spanning to hundreds, and over a quarter of these groups are self-classified militias actively engaged in insurgency training tactics in the forests of rural America. That is surely some scary shit for an alleged socialist with foreign blood, the middle name hussein and a modest electoral mandate to have on his doorstep.


So what's in the middle ? ? Well, just like back in the days of Tim McVeigh, a major (if not the major) hotspot is Michigan.... Perhaps the lakeside terrain provides the perfect geographical feature to resist the march of Obama and his 'euro-jew overlords' ? So yeah this is a middle ground........ I guess ?


Especially love the doctored clip-art, no picnic scene is truly complete without a Tec-9 poking out of ya Dads levis while he's munching slaw.  



EFVA ATTLING JEWELLRY

I recently came across Swedish jewellry designer Efva Attling and her range of chunky industrial silverwear... The Mens stuff is sick (and the highlights posted are all less than 200Euro !), the ladies stuff is even sicker but sadly, I aint no fuckin' lady !
anyways.... observe with awe !

http://www.efvaattlingstockholm.com/







SABRE TALKS VINO (Chapter 2)

Mexico isn't the first place that springs to mind when you're talking about good plonk, but you know what I came across a little treat whilst out and about in Dulwich this weekend... Best part is that by all acounts this is a £10 wine, but for the fact its hard to get in Europe. On a side note can I just add that East Dulwich aint the shithole it was when I last visited.... Infact its enviably pretty

- LA CETTO 2006 ZINFADEL TINTO -

sabre says : "14% vol is a grown man ting"

FLYING COFFIN PERFORM 2010 BURIAL

Mock-Goth streetwear kings Flying Coffin deliver the 2010 package of cotton...Good batch this year, not all that many products but hopefully we'll see a larger offering for autumn/winter.. Loving the 5 panel headgear, pity that shit looks retarded on anyone stocky












SABRE PRESENTS GRASS ROOTS AGENCY PODCAST


Following on from last months podcast from Critical Music, this months installment of Sabre in the mix has arrived thanks to the GRAM agency, the people putting together the Live Tour for the 'A wandering journal' LP..... Check it out for a journey across the 170bpm landscape

TRACKLISTING

1. Notion - Even Out [Nu Directions]
2. Data - Burning Paradise [Blackout]
3. Sabre - One Jundred Teeth [Critical]
4. Zero T & FD - After All [Subtitles]
5. Hybris - Of Two Minds [N/A]
6. Sabre - Peril (Stray Remix) [Critical]
7. Data & Keza - Surveillance [Inside]
8. Cern & Dabs - What Remains [N/A] Cern LP
9. Dot - Secure Zone [N/A]
10. Alix Perez & Zero T - Enemy Of Reason [N/A]
11. Hybris - Dirty Money [N/A]
12. Judda - Pressure Plate [Critical]
13. Cern & Teknik - Wasabi [N/A] Cern LP


MP3 LINK

Tuesday 16 March 2010

"NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS"


Looking at the underground music scene in Tehran, 'No one knows about Persian Cats' is a stylish tale of struggling musicians, subversive youth, and the constraints of living in a dictatorship. Its a real good watch, and a limited release hits cinemas next week, not too many mind - you're going to have to hunt for it.




BANKSY REVEALS HIS IDENTITY !

The elusive street art golliath that is Banksy has chosen to reveal himself to the BBC ! In this exclusive uncensored insight, the subversive doodler takes us through an average day of the under-the-radar living. The mask has been lifted !

Monday 15 March 2010

CARBON 6th BIRTHDAY @ CONCORDE 2 CLUB BRIGHTON - SAT 20th MARCH



Probably up there in the best 3 DnB events in the country, the Brighton based clubnight Carbon celebrates its 6th Birthday this weekend, with a move to a bigger venue for this one off event, and featuring a hench line-up to mark the occasion - See you people down there - I'll be rocking up alongside hellraising paddy Zero T for some mish-mash style tag team.

REQUIEM FOR DETROIT



CLICK TO WATCH THE DOC

A city designed for 3 million, reduced to accommodate 800,000 following the collapse of its motor industry; Julien Temple explores the current state of America's most abandoned major metropolis... This flick is amazing, a truly insightful timeline of events filled with amazing shots of urban decay, and some great eccentric types thrown in the mix too..... Sorry to anyone out of the U.K, its iplayer only :-(

Wednesday 10 March 2010

FREE SABRE TRACKS COURTESY OF K-MAG + REMIX COMPETITION



Head over to K-MAG online to peep more details of an exclusive track give-away and remix competition... the long and short of of it is that the track 'One Hundred Teeth' can be found for free on thier sounclound page, and on the release date of my LP entitled 'A Wandering Journal' , (Monday 29th March) Knowledge and myself will be making the multitrack stems available for you lot to go crazy with..... Its not just a lark in the park, the winner walks away with £1k worths of Addict clothing AND a soundcloud pro account for a full year !


Remix it, dont remix it.... the choice is yours, but ither way cop a listen (and a download) from the link below.... enjoy !




SABRE - ONE HUNDRED TEETH - KMAG REMIX COMP by knowledge

SUPRA FINALLY RELEASE SOME 2010 SNEAKS

Since last years deluge of colour ways and styles; most of which were seriously ugly looking, Supra finally get back to their core and drop some fresh Vaidars and Muskas

The pick of the bunch :





ORISUES' LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO SPRING SUMMER/SUMMER 2010

A sneak into the Monochrome lookbook for 2010, fresh from the Orisue loudspeaker..




Tuesday 9 March 2010

LP PREVIEWS UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE CHANNEL & CRITICAL MUSIC WEBSITE

Audio previews of my forthcoming LP entitled 'A Wandering Journal' are now floating about online at various spots....so..... fancy a listen ?

Head over to www.criticalmusic.com/awanderingjournal OR www.youtube.com/awanderingjournal to hear the more audio, but in the meantime, check these out :









Sunday 7 March 2010

DOUBLE GOOSE


750 euros worth of hearty winter fare...presenting the "double goose" jacket.... Cant imagine these sit good on fatboys though, need to see myself 20lbs lighter (and £500 richer) if theres any hope of slipping one of these into my wardrobe




Thursday 4 March 2010

CRITICAL MUSIC PODCAST VOL. VI presented by SABRE

"......With the Sabre album looming we thought it was about time he did a special podcast mix for us, previewing some choice cuts from the longplayer as well as freshness from the best of the scene sit back and enjoy this beats masterclass...... "

- TRACKLISTING -

01/ Mixmaster Doc - Cancelation Dub [Dub]
02/ Sabre & Alix Perez - Javelin [Critical]
03/ Dub Phizix - Handmade [Dub]
04/ Sabre - Marvel [Critical]
05/ Alix Perez - The Observer [Dub]
06/ Hybris - The Cleaner [Critical]
07/ Jose James - Warriors / Rockwell Remix [Brownswood]
08/ Ena - Slip Into Ur Mind [Dub]
09/ Sabre - Follow Polaris [Critical]
10/ Kryptic Minds - Wondering Why [Osiris Music]
11/ Icicle - Xylophobia [Dub]
12/ Sabre - The Gazette [Critical]
13/ Jack Sparrow - Torment [Tectonic]
14/ Sabre - Levelling out pt.2 [Critical]


HUF S.F DROP SOME ESSENTIALS

Skatewear boutique turned manufacturer HUF SF layout their season of simple styles and vasrious fresh collabs with other fashion houses and ... Here's a taster






THE OFFICIAL 'A WANDERING JOURNAL" LP IS NOW ONLINE


If you want to get an insight into the narrative that forms the basis to this LP's concept, head over to www.awanderingjournal.com. The photography you'll find is the visual storyboard to the album, taken by myself whilst on a escapade of my own on the other side of the planet.