Made in Belgium: Marc Moulin – Tohu-Bohu

Marc Moulin was a Belgian musician and journalist. He was a member of the avant-rock band Aksak Maboul in 1977 and formed the pop group Telex in 1978.
Moulin was one of Belgium’s jazz legends, making jazz-influenced records for over 30 years.

Drums: Bruno Castellucci
Trumpet & Flügelhorn: Richard Rousselet

I love this stuff.. great songs, and every one of them is sample heaven for Hip-Hop producers. Vive la Belgique!

Protect the Free Internet!

Today January 18th 2012, at 0:00 EST, this website will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA.

In just 7 days, the American Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

For the full state of play on the censorship bills, take a look here. The clock is ticking, and we’re still 35 senators short of the number needed to kill the bill.

Composers as Gardeners: inspiring talk by Brian Eno

“My topic is the shift from ‘architect’ to ‘gardener’, where ‘architect’ stands for ‘someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made’, to ‘gardener’ standing for ‘someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up’. I will argue that today’s composer are more frequently ‘gardeners’ than ‘architects’ and, further, that the ‘composer as architect’ metaphor was a transitory historical blip.”

Watch and read the full interview here.