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- A journey to the heart of hard core UK Jazz dance! Blogspot dedicated to Mark ‘Snowboy’ Cotgrove’s ‘From Jazz Funk & Fusion To Acid Jazz:- A history Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene.
- Deep reggae 7's Deep Brooklyn based reggae-matical blog
- Ian Bone Esoteric anarchistic poliical runnings & tings
- If you are into your "garms" this is the lick! Mr. Jason Jules is The Man when it comes to Style & Pattern.
- IGNORANCE the truth, wealth is not money, it is so much more than money. Kevin D Blanch rants on the nuclear fuckin’ nightmare (“Fuckushima”) and stuff!
- Plum Publications Excellent resource for run by Ted & Debbie in California, both long time martial arts practitioners…. lots of books, dvds etc with informed reviews based on experience.
- STUDIO BABYLON: Swift, Mode2, Mitch, Robi Bear, Kam, Fred…. Another era….
- SUPA DUPA rare 'n' old skool Nigerian Ju Ju, Fuji & hi life… Just haul up the the groovemonzter, log on & stream the majestic sounds of Sir Shina Adewale, Dr Orlando Owoh, King Sunny Ade, Cardinal Rex Lawson, Queen Oludunni Decency, Tunde Nightingale, Alhaji Sikuru Ayinde Barrister…. wonderful!
- Through the lens darkly… the photography of Liz Johnson-Artur Enter the world of one time Chaser contributor, Liz Johnson Artur… expect unique, engaging, powerful portraits.
- Toshio Matsuura: Word from Japan UFO’s Toshio Matsuura reflects on Japan today!
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- Plum Publications Excellent resource for run by Ted & Debbie in California, both long time martial arts practitioners…. lots of books, dvds etc with informed reviews based on experience.
- Serious photographer! If you missed Peters’ show: The Chaser Years… check this!
- Shifu Quan Jun Liu – Chen taiji quan, Qi Gong… My teacher’s site… timetables etc…
- Thanx to Jody G. I regularly pop up here!
- The Badddest magazine… 1988 – 2009 (As its Publisher & Editor I can say that!) Straight No Chaser: Interplanetary Sounds: Ancient To Future!
- The genius typograffix & artworks of my long time bredren – Ian 'Swifty' Swift
Category Archives: Urban runnings…
SOUNDS OF BRASIL 2012
This 33 track feast of radical, wayward and modern Brasilian music comes courtesy of Dave McLoughlin, who is something of a don on the Brasil music scene. Dave operates out of Brasil Music Exchange and works with my good friend … Continue reading
Doin’ It In The Park… Premiered in NYC
One of the first posts I did on Ancient to Future, back in June 2011, was a news story on the forthcoming indie documentary Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC. Co-directed by Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love … Continue reading
MY ROCK STARS VOL. 1 – Hassan Hajjaj in Bahrain
Last Wednesday saw the opening for my good friend Hassan Hajjaj’s latest images – My Rock Stars Vol. 1 – at The Third Line in Bahrain. This time round Hassan’s lens pays tribute to tradition African portraiture of photographers like … Continue reading
STORM WARNING: KATE TEMPEST’S ‘BRAND NEW ANCIENTS’
IF YOU’RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE NAME KATE TEMPEST YOU NEED TO BE! It’s almost a year to this day that I first did a little piece on this 21st century South London wordsmith whose rhythms and rhyme, once … Continue reading
BLOWN AWAY: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a must see!
I’m definitely behind the curve on this one! Went to check out Searching For Sugar Man at the Curzon in Soho yesterday and was blown away. I like to see documentaries on the big screen… it’s a different experience… you … Continue reading
MORE MADNESS… ALPHABET CITY, CUT CREATIVE, SEMI-PERMANENT & CONCH RECORDS… Aotearoa No 5 – The final runnings!
ALPHABET CITY is run by native New Yorker Erin who specialises in pre-digital printing and runs an early evening letter writing group. Erin is old skool and upon our arrival at the work-shop she and Swifty enthusiastically talked TYPE! They … Continue reading
SEVENTY TWO HOURS OF LO-FI MADNESS…. Aoteara Runnings No. 4
7AM Tuesday morning… Da Bei Qigong under the eaves of a building in Myers park. When it rains it Aukland it rains. Things were about to get busy! The PIYN project was scheduled to kick off at Bizdojo at 10.30am … Continue reading
Posted in Just Runnings, Urban runnings...
Tagged Aukland PIYN, Bill Brewster, Bizdojo, British Council, Conch Records, Cut Collective, DJ: EMP, From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz, George Booker, George FM, Maori, Recloose, SAE Institute, Sniffing Glue, Snowboy, Straight No Chaser, Swifty, The Yoots
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HIGH TIMES IN AUKLAND… Aotearoa Runnings… Part 3
Singapore – Sydney – Auckland…. gotta say, the aerial view of Sydney was pretty impressive… all those inlets and coves lined with yachts… life-style is undoubtedly king. It’s clearly changed a lot since the Tolpuddle martyrs were transported there, given … Continue reading
WARNING! Beware the Blandford Fly… Vicious little fuckahs migrate to the ‘hood!
Last year, I was training outside in Camden and sustained a bunch of nasty bites. I thought, is it me that’s just susceptible to these little bastards? No-else seemed to be getting bitten. I finally sussed out that it was … Continue reading
Posted in Urban runnings...
Tagged Blandford fly. Banny Bomber, Blanford Forum, Camden. Hackney, Dorset, insect bites
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