Cybersyn, Salvador Allende’s attempt to create a ‘socialist internet’ in Chile.
Black Cultural Archives opens in Brixton
"The launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennia, not decades"
Harry Partch's Instruments
Play the Virtual Harry Partch Instruments
There you can play the Partch instruments, listen to Partch explain each instrument, and hear musical examples.
Drawings of Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Patti Smith.
Screencap from this video.
“Pop is … a soundtrack to your consumerism. The wallpaper of your essentially commercial existence, and thus it has to ‘clean up’ the more rugged genres it pulls from, make garage cosy, make rap tuneful, make grime behave itself and always always always, just as it’s always been in the UK, it’s only white artists who can perform that magical act of thievery, dilution and repackaging, it’s only white artists who can fully reap the benefits of black innovation. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.”
White Power And Black Pop: The Real Problem With 1Xtra’s Power List
Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Artist: Abdul Hafidz (2009)
Source: The Palestine Poster Project Archive
The Pop Group on Belgian TV 1980
The Infamous, Sandpaper Cover of The Return of the Durutti Column
Louis Pattison explains the backstory behind the infamous Factory Records sandpaper cover sleeve, and how one man tried to recreate it.
Save What Remains of the Remainder of the Land
Artist: Abed Abdi (1975)
