Westlake3000 - Sunday Shining

Westlake72 - Song For Kay

Westlake72 - The Rules Of Love (Up All Night Mix)

Classic House, Garage & Techno Mix - Westlake72

Track Listing:

I Found It (Accapella) - George Morel feat. Shadii
Take Some Time Out - Arnold Jarvis
Fate (Todd Terje Edit) - Chaka Khan
Animal Rights - Deadmau5 featuring Wolfgang Gartner
Bizarre Love Triangle (Westlake72 Re-Edit) - New Order
The Electric Dream - Mord Fustang
Tormento De Amor - Salome De Bahia
Everybody (All Over The World) (Accapella) - FPI Project
Don’t Turn Your Back On Me - Sax
Strick Machine (Stripped Machine Remix) - Goldfrapp
Together In Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
Lay Me Down (TE Dub Mix) - Surkin & Todd Edwards
Two The Max - Adonis
Make My Love (Stonebridge Main Mix) - Shawn Christopher
Sex In Zero Gravity - Lbh - 6251876 (The Martian)
Numbers - Man Ray
If Only You Knew - Chip E
State Of 727 West - QX1

Dark Soul Night:Inner Reality Set [Part 1]

This is studio version of the first half of a live Laptop/DJ set I did at Dark Soul Night: Inner Reality event at the Vibe Gallery on the 23rd of March. This was the blurb introducing the set the set…

“Artist Dan Westlake will be play a Laptop/DJ set exploring the spaces, links and relationships between sacred and secular musics. Expect a spiritual journey that maps the connections between the polyrhythms of West African drumming and the minimalist compositions of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, the meditative chordal progressions of Arvo Pärt and Górecki, and the Drum and Bass of Goldie, the ragas of Ravi Shankar and the free jazz of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. Also en route the Shinto music of Japan, the roots reggae of Augustus Pablo, the celtic folk of the Cocteau Twins and all destinations between on this mystic voyage. The set will include special re-mixes, re-edits and dubs created exclusively for this event.”

Track Listing:

Alan Watts: Lecture on Ecstasy
Pauline Oliveros: Lone
[unknown artist): Heart Chakra Resonance
[unknown artist]: Tibetan Singing Bowls
Tajima Tadashi: Ukigumo (Floating Clouds)
Ravi Shankar: Raga Kausi Kanhra
Badmarsh  & Shri: Appa
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas
Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians
Terry Reily: a Rainbow In Curved Air
John Cage: Dream
Gorecki: Symphony No. 3
Augustus Pablo: Nature Dub
Scientist: Dematerialise
Scientist: Cloning Proccess
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Meditations
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Devika (goddess)
John Coltrane: Body & Soul

Effects, Delays & Sonic Manipulation… Dan Westlake

On *Art-Speak*

The language used by commercial galleries’ to describe their exhibits purpose is to imbue the art objects that they are selling with a faux-intellectual rigour to flatter the kind of, *more money than sense*, clients who tend to buy contemporary art. But in defence of *art-speak* much art IS intended to in someway be a critique of, or at least perform at a critical distance from, mainstream culture, i.e the (invisible) ideology of Late Capitalism, therefore it is understandable that its discourse adopts a language that is deliberately ‘distancing’ from that mainstream. Also many words that tend to crop up a lot in art-speak, often drawn form critical theory, are not used in everyday language but are appropriate and functional in the context, though such words are, of course often horribly, and liberally, misused.

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(pic by Zbigniew Tomasz Kotkiewicz)

Dan Westlake Laptop/DJ set at Dark Soul Night: Inner Reality

On Saturday 23rd of March I’ll be playing a Laptop/DJ set exploring the spaces, links and relationships between sacred and secular musics at the Dark Soul Night: Inner Reality

Expect a spiritual journey that maps the connections between the polyrhythms of West African drumming and the minimalist compositions of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, the meditative chordal progressions of Arvo Pärt and Górecki, and the Drum and Bass of Goldie, the ragas of Ravi Shankar and the free jazz of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. Also en route the Shinto music of Japan, the roots reggae of Augustus Pablo, the celtic folk of the Cocteau Twins and all destinations between on this mystic voyage. The set will include special re-mixes, re-edits and dubs created exclusively for this event.

I’ll be on from 6pm - 7:30pm

Vibe Gallery

N001The Biscuit Factory
Tower Bridge Business Centre
100 Clements road
London
SE16 4DG

For More Information Dark Soul Night: Inner Reality

Why You Should Not Give Money To Red Nose Day

Please don’t give money to Red Nose Day this year, the whole thing is a disgusting spectacle of narcissistic self-promotion for the entertainment industry and big business that raises an absolutely pitiful amount of money while giving the participants the reams publicity and PR spin. To give an idea of the figures involved Tax dodging/Tax Avoidance costs UK around  £70 BILLION per year, Comic Relief/Red Nose Day has not even raised £1bn in TOTAL in over 25 years. Or to put it another way a single failed and bailed-out bank (RBS) last year paid out more than £600m in bonuses to staff just last year. That is almost as much as Comic Relief has raised in it’s quarter of a century long history.

The whole thing is a disgusting farce used by big business’s such as BT and Sainsbury’s to exploit those in need on order to present a false picture of corporate responsibility. The money these companies “give” doesn’t go to good causes but paying for things such as Chief Executive Kevin Cahill’s wages (over £250,000 every 2 years - nice work if you can get it!) and subsidising free adventure holiday outings for TV celebrities, such as this years white water rafting expedition for a bunch of millionaire, once funny, comedians. David Cameron’s involvement this year just makes this big con even more explicit. His government have recently  admitted that their introduction of the so-called *benefits cap* will plunge 100,000 more children from working families into poverty. Irony is not dead.

On the subject of children the coercion of schools into the Comic Relief hype machine is bad enough in that it indoctrinates relatively wealthy children into the belief that the poor and disabled are to be viewed as powerless victims, second class citizens, requiring hand outs - not as human being with rights, who, as such, have every right to demand social and economic justice. But the involvement of schools is even worse for children of poorer parents who may be struggling just to feed themselves, their children, and keep their homes warm. Think how it must to feel to then be hounded by millionaire Pop-Stars, TV personalities and Politicians into giving a slice of what little they have to avoid the shame and stigma that is the inevitable result of the social pressure to *join in* created by this mass media onslaught of hype.

For the vast amount of free air time, publicity, celebrity endorsement, time, energy and goodwill, not only is the pitiful amount raised embarrassing but the whole event propagates the idea that real lasting change is impossible. Real change IS possible but it won’t come through charity but from a re-adjustment of the political landscape. Now imagine if the vast amount of time and energy put into comic relief was put into campaigning for real political change because big, vital and necessary changes are not only possible but easily achievable if the political will is there. For staters we need the introduction of A) a mandatory living wage B) a redistributive tax on the obscene bonuses the bankers who brought this country to edge of bankruptcy are still paying themselves, and C) an immediate end to those tax loop holes that cost us £70 BILLION PER YEAR. Just these three steps would bring about real lasting change by redistributing wealth from the parasitical classes who steal it, to the working people who not only create this wealth but deserve their fair share of it. Also we wouldn’t have to watch Lenny Henry in a bath of baked beans (or whatever) every two years.

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Why the Right-Wing demonise the poor and why Ed Balls is an idiot.

http://www.channel4.com/news/balls-attacks-benefit-claimants-who-are-playing-the-system

The Tories have no real intention of winning the ‘debate’ about the long term unemployed by means of reason, statistics or even anecdotes. They can’t because they have no sustainable argument whatsoever, but they don’t have too. The point is simply, with the craven support of the overwhelmingly right-wing media, to shift the agenda away from the failures of so-called ‘laissez-faire’ Capitalism (what a charming term) in general, and this Government's abject failure at revitalising the economy in particular, as much as possible. Therefore causing resentment, anger and energy to be (mis)directed away from them and those at the top of the socio-economic ladder and onto those at the very bottom. And here comes Mr Balls playing right into their hands ensuring this phoney ‘debate’ runs and runs…  If the Labour Party’s leadership continues to slavishly follow that of the Tories/Tory press it may as will give up. I really do despair.

Westlake3000 - Temple

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*Fake* Moon Landings

According to Conspiracy Theorists not only did NASA fake the Moon landings but they did so with such a level of complete incompetence (a breeze on the moon, no stars, no-crater etc. ad infinitum) that anyone with even a very basic understanding of photography, film making or science is able to see through the charade. But can Conspiracy Theorists explain why a organisation such as NASA, an organisation  with almost unlimited resources of both money, technical know how, and scientific research was unable to find anyone to work the project with even a very basic understanding of  A) Photography B) Film-making C) Science?

The Moon Landing where a massive propaganda cue for the US at the height of the cold war. Winning this particular space race was not only a huge boon to US prestige but a humiliation to the USSR which had previously been in the lead with Yuri Gagarin being the first man in space. The USSR itself would have have had enormous  resources in with which to expose such a 'hoax' and  there by cause the US the ultimate humiliation - but they didn't. Is this because as well, as the entire military, scientific, political, and media establishments of the US being in on the hoax, the Soviet Union were too? (If  the USSR were not in fact the US's bitter enemies but co-conspirators in this 'hoax' the entire history of the Cold War, form the Berlin Wall to the Cuban missile crises and beyond, would also be a giant hoax).

One of the ways to tell the difference between a genuine conspiracy and a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is the credibility of those ‘exposing it’. There has not been a single well known expert, established in the fields of either photography, film or science who claims the moon landings were a hoax. Nor here has not been a single well known political, historical or cultural commentator or academic from anywhere on the political spectrum who claims such a thing (including those who are highly critical or even hostile to US hegemony). Neither has there been a single article by any established investigate journalist who's very raison d'etre is to expose conspiracies. Therefore if the moon landings where a hoax, and the 'evidence' for this is apparently clear to anyone with a very basic understanding of photography, film making or science, the co-conspirators must include every well known radical or anti-establishment commentator who claims to challenge American hegemony. Are, for instance, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone or Carl Bernstein all of either not intelligent enough to see that they've been duped, or really undercover stooges for the US intelligence services?

The time and energy wasted on such these bogus Conspiracy Theories could be put into challenging real conspiracies such as those we see at News International, or are seeing the beginnings of in the banking sector. These real life conspiracies evidence another of the ways it's easy to tell the difference between a genuine conspiracy and a ‘Conspiracy Theory’; real conspiracies tend be messy, with lots of the skullduggery going through on a nod and a wink but, as we have seen, exposure of real conspiracies takes time, expertise and bravery. 

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The David Cameron & Jimmy Carr Show

By attacking Jimmy Carr, Cameron has extended the debate about tax avoiders beyond the broadsheet reading ‘chattering' classes to the tabloid reading masses in a way Uncut could never of dreamed of: A debate that is going to hurt nobody but him and his vile mates. From being the Conservative  Party’s prime asset Cameron is now exhibiting such a level of political incompetence that he is becoming a liability.

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Murdoch/Tory Coalition

 
The cosy texts, late night calls and socialising between cabinet ministers and News International's inner sanctum, particularly evident in the familiarity of the language used, reveal that the ‘Coalition’ we are currently governed by is not a coalition between the Tories and their idiotic alibi - the LibDems, but between a party less than a third of country voted for and a, primarily American owned, multinational corporation that NO ONE voted for.

The Independent: Rupert Murdoch’s Men On Th Inside

The Guardian: Texts reveal Hunt's close alliance with Murdoch