Donal Dineen - Stir the Melting Pot

A fantastic video featuring Donal Dineen, Liam Ó'Maonlai and Niwell Tsumbu culminating with Body and Soul in flying form on Friday night at EP. Delighted to say I was there. You have to appreciate the great work of all at www.ArbutusYarns.com on this. To see more from them check out their website and particularly this beauty.

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Taken from Stop Making Sense shot at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre in December 1983. Awesome.

Thank You!

Caribou, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Fever Ray, Janelle Monáe, Hot Chip (both times), Reneck Manifesto, Jape, Four Tet, R.S.A.G., Villagers (both times), Dirty Projectors, Wild Beasts, Efterklang, Tunng, Donal Dineen and friends, NSO, Channel One, Greg Wilson, Gold Panda, Pantha du Prince, Yeasayer, Kele, Armand Van Helden, Friendly Fires, Two Door Cinema Club, Foals, Girls.

Now that's what I call a summer, 2010.

It's here!

Gold Panda's new record is available to stream here. Been waiting on this for months; plan on giddily overplaying it for longer...

Four Tet FACT mix

Tasty. Íoslódáil anseo (mp3).

Muto Leo - One Trick Pony available to buy on iTunes

Muto Leo (formerly SextonBlake) have been putting in the hard hours recording their first 4 track EP and single. The fruits of their labour are, I'm ecstatic to report, well worth a trip across to their MySpace page. Their first single 'One Trick Pony' is now available to buy on iTunes. Give it a lash.

www.myspace.com/muto_leo

Muto Leo Facebook Page

BTBW Playlist - U've Really Got You - August 2010

1. Girls - 'Curls'

2. Neon Indian - '6669 (I Don't Know If You Know)'

3. Broken Social Scene - 'All to All'

4. The New Pornographers - 'Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk'

5. Egyptian Hip Hop - 'Hazel Groove (Modernaire Remix)'

6. Matthew Dear - 'You Put A Smell On Me'

7. Gil Scott-Heron - 'Me And The Devil'

8. Daniel Wang - 'Not Feeling It'

9. To Rococo Rot - 'Seele'

10. Arcade Fire - 'Rococo'

11. Best Coast - 'Summer Mood'

12. The National - 'Lucky You'

13. Philip Selway - 'By Some Miracle'

14. Girls - 'Hellhole Ratrace'

This one is for Gisele. Title contender.

Íoslódáil Anseo

BSITWT #107

Beach House - 'Norway'

BTBW Playlist - Take The Edge Off - August 2010

1. HEALTH - Die Slow (Pictureplane Rmx)

2. Caribou - Odessa (Junior Boys Remix)

3. Caspa - Born To Do iT

4. Floating Points - Argonaut

5. Foals - Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)

6. Gold Panda - I Suppose I Should Say 'Thanks' Or Some Shit

7. Bombay Bicycle Club - Evening/Morning

8. The Antlers - Kettering

9. Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)

10. Outputmessage - Bernard's Song

11. Crystal Castles - Vietnam

This one is for Natalie. Title contender.

Íoslódáil Anseo

FlashMob - Shop Street Galway

BSITWT #106

Hard Mix - Memories (mp3)

Beautiful stuff from North Carolina. The video is composed of snippets taken from the past 8 year's of Mr. Mix's (Noah Smith to his mum) life. Some folks are calling this 'chill wave'. If you see them, tell them to fuck off.

BSITWT #105

Villagers - 'Home'

www.myspace.com/villagers

He IS on a Horse

Eircom Case - Future of Illegal Downloads in Ireland

A recent case in the Irish High Court has displayed that Ireland is leading the way in combating illegal file-sharing. In a move that is likely to be replicated, or at the very least prove influential, across regulated countries record labels are beginning to make some progress in the battle against music piracy. For the purposes of shedding some light on the High Court's decision in this matter I have examined some of the main issues and likely consequences for those who fall foul of the this new legal approach.

Eircom customers consider yourselves hereby warned.

On 28 January 2009 the terms of a settlement between EMI, Universal, Sony, Warner and Eircom was set down in writing and filed in court.

The Data Protection Commissioner in turn raised three issues as to why the settlement might be doubted to conform with data protection legislation.

Under the terms of the settlement the parties agreed to implement a three stage procedure. Firstly, internet users involved in illegal downloading will be contacted and requested to desist, another warning will issue on a second infringement. When a third infringement is notified to Eircom, a review of all evidence must be conducted, and a termination notice will then be issued. The customer is at this stage entitled to make representations to Eircom as to their situation.

The Issues Raised

Issue 1

Do data comprising IP addresses, in the hands of EMI or its agent(s) constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003?

The court ruled that IP addresses alone are not to be considered as personal data. The court noted that in order for the IP addresses and other information obtained by the plaintiffs to constitute personal data, it must be probable that further information might come into their possession which would identify the individual end users.

Issue 2

Does the processing by Eircom of “personal data” in the context of the third of the three steps envisaged under the terms of the settlement (i.e. the termination of an internet user’s subscription) represent unwarranted [processing] by reasons of prejudice to the fundamental rights and freedoms or legitimate interests of the data subject?

Justice Charleton approached this issue by reference to the principle of proportionality and a balancing of the right of an owner of copyright to have the fruits of their labour protected versus any right which an internet user might have to access the internet and not to have that access terminated.

The court’s ruling on this issue effectively places the protection of copyright ahead of the right of an internet user to access the internet and consequently not to have that access terminated.

The second question was, therefore, answered in the negative.

Issue 3

Whether it is open to EMI and/or Eircom to implement the 3 step process set out in the settlement including, in particular, the termination of an internet user’s subscription under step 3 of that process, in circumstances where the termination of an internet user’s subscription by Eircom would be predicated on the internet user in question having committed an offence but without any such offence having been the subject of investigation by an authorised body; and, further, without any determination having been made by a court of competent jurisdiction.

The judge opined that the parties to the settlement were concerned only with the civil side of copyright infringement, and as such that a mental element of knowing or having reason to believe that one is dealing with an infringing copy of the work was not required to be proved. Justice Charleton answered the third question in the positive, specifically that the graduated response process agreed by the parties was indeed lawful.

Overall, a high degree of power to stop illegal file-sharing has been given to the four major record labels. Already a number of Eircom customers have received warnings and word is that others have had their connection severed after ignoring the warning letters received from Eircom. Similar court cases are due against the other Internet Service Providers operating in this country. The likes of NTL have vowed to fight the labels harder than Eircom and this will really clarify the future of file-sharing in Ireland.

BSITWT #104

Health - Before Tigers (Gold Panda Remix)

Gold Panda goes all Four Tet on Health, with very, very nice results.

From the new(ish) Health remix LP DISCO2 (also featuring remixes from CFCF, Crystle Castles and other good folks).

Gold Panda plays Field Day, Victoria Park, London on July 31st.