My Bleep.com contest entry

Bleep Competition by Atop on Mixcloud

direct link to download full set with extra tracks!
LINK TO TRACKLIST

In my mind and heart I feel that 2010 was one of the greatest years for music in history. Seems as though we are at a time when super labels are suffocating themselves with music that pushes no boundaries and seems to be aesthetically void. The rebellion against the norm is in full swing and we that love great music can reap the benefits of societies' answer to banality and mediocrity not ever remotely hidden in most popular music. The answer this year was loud and clear for myself, this mix being a byproduct of my 2010 music induced bliss. I hope that all whom hear my choices enjoy themselves and share with others their knowledge about any of the artists included in this set. 

Thank you for listening.

Hope you all enjoy!!!


May this music find you well!




with love and sincerity,




93 ATOP 777

Future Music mixes 1 & 2

Future Music Mix 1 

Jon Hopkins – Candles

Milieu – Playground Memories

d_rradio – Shake Down The Stars

Bro Safari – Amazon rock

B1t Crunch3r vs Killeralien vs Phonetic System -  Neuro Science

Zomby – Liquid Dancehall

Hautlle – Just For You

Yvat – Neume

Hermutt Lobby – Rock the Bell

Bullion – Funnybones

1000names- Private Hero

Lone – Ultramarine

Poborsk – Little Insect Bag

Phoenecia – Phase Inv 2

Acidburp – I lost My Palindrome

Space Disease – Glamour Attack

H. P. Sneakstep – Aphid Herder

Nine Inch Nails – trk 3 on Ghosts IV

Future Music Mix 2 

Nine Inch Nails – trk 4 from Ghosts I

Eprom – Donkey Nap feat Boreta

Ras G – In Coming

Samiyam – Swamp Tarts

Teebs – Lakeshore Ave

Dem Hunger – Electric Shithole

Burnkane – You Know

Tipper – Sponge Mallet

Clouds – Protecting Hands part 2

Konx-Om-Pax – Organ Inst

Roel Funcken – Daze Flextone

Prhizzm – Grasping the Equinox

Space Dimension Controller – Spanner Cord (Monolith rmx)

Brothomstates – Brothomstates vs Bill Yard

DJ Shadow – Def Surrounds Us

Matty G – My 808

Shigeto – Sky Of The Revolution

Baths – You’re My Excuse To Travel

Gold Panda – After We Talked

Asura – Altered State

Sistol – Keno (Somatic Responses rmx)

Hope you enjoy and support any or all of the musicians  that you enjoy hearing within these sets....

with love and sincerity,

93 Akkad the Orphic Priest 777

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is being censored

Right after the request of Mark Twain to have his autobiography republished last year, exactly 100 years after his death......

I can see both sides on why the book is offensive to many people....

To read the book to students is probably a nightmare for a lot of teachers but they probably can choose not to read it out loud...(If they are forced to read it out loud, that is a whole other matter)

The hypocrites that the human race are as a whole, allow for violence to be readily available on any given TV show and without much thought to its impact on society....

Instead, in the year 2011, Auburn University is going to change a literary classic without any opinions or votes from the people of the US, or the world...

Sure people can argue that when a film is censored for TV if it has inappropriate language, sex and/or nudity in it, this isn't much different....

I deplore watching censored versions of films filled with commercials interrupting the film's flow and containing bad over dubbing, e.g. "Yipee Ki Yay MISTER FALCON!"

The word slave, as a replacement, seems even more offensive now, to me....

Huck wouldn't have referred to Jim as a slave, when conversing with him, it just isn't the way Huck speaks, plain and simple!

In the end, great art suffers because of how society has acted as a whole...

The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

There was a long period in my life where I had given up on the comic book format yet still garnered a strong love for speculative/ultra-imaginative literature. A friend of mine, James, was working at Whole Foods as a cashier and James quickly became someone I knew I could talk to about great reading. He was shocked at my almost comic book illiterate lifestyle and quickly told me to read anything I can get my hands on by either Alan Moore or Grant Morrison. I will speak about Mr Moore in some other post but this one is about my first encounter with Mr Morrison's unique and untouchable series, The Invisibles. I proceeded to order the first volume published by DC's Vertigo and having been a little about it by James, knew that this was going to be up in my alley way, all the way!

There are hints and huge chunks of everything I love about life in this. Esoteric occult thinking, science fiction, beautiful artwork, fantasy. These books will sing to you they are so alive! I will not go into a synopsis but my main point is that after having devoured all of the volumes these wonderful BOOKS are compiled into, I was a firm believer again in the comic book medium and will remain with this stance. Here are some fucking LINKS!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-Say-Want-Revolution/dp/1563892677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291782735&sr=8-1 

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-2-Apocalipstick/dp/1563897024/ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-Entropy-UK/dp/1563897288/ref=pd_sim_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-Bloody-Hell-America/dp/1563894440/ref=pd_sim_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-Counting-None/dp/1563894890/ref=pd_sim_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-Kissing-Mister-Quimper/dp/1563896001/ref=pd_sim_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/Invisibles-Vol-Invisible-Kingdom/dp/1401200192/ref=pd_sim_b_1

if you have the money and the time, you will want to own these.....pure BRILLIANCE!

some art from the books:

and Mr Grant Morrison himself:

listen to what he has to say about reality:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6148569602584070911#

Hope this will change your life for the better, or worse...

love,

Akkad the Orphic Priest

777

I love music, so I make it

http://soundcloud.com/atop

There are some original pieces up and some music mixes that I have put together.

Love you all,

Akkad the Orphic Priest

777

Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey

When people ask me what my favourite film is I have a conditioned response, which is 2001. I love many films but this one has indeed affected my life the greatest, in the ways I think, what I love about art and life. After having seen the film numerous times I decided to read the novelization of the script, which was written both by Kubrick and Clarke with the novel being written only by Arthur C Clarke, one of the most amazing writers and thinkers of my generation and the one before it. The novel explained the film in a way I don't think I would have ever understood if I had watched the film many more times over without reading the book. It made the film more alive for me. It explained the monolith and its role in the film. The ending which is a mystery to most but not as much so if you read the novel.

here is a quote from Stanley Kubrick on the deeper meaning within the film:

"The God concept is at the heart of this film. It's unavoidable that it would be, once you believe that the universe is seething with advanced forms of intelligent life. Just think about it for a moment. There are a hundred billion stars in the galaxy and a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe. Each star is a sun, like our own, probably with planets around them. The evolution of life, it is widely believed, comes as an inevitable consequence of a certain amount of time on a planet in a stable orbit which is not too hot or too cold. First comes chemical evolution -- chance rearrangements of basic matter, then biological evolution.

Think of the kind of life that may have evolved on those planets over the millennia, and think, too, what relatively giant technological strides man has made on earth in the six thousand years of his recorded civilization -- a period that is less than a single grain of sand in the cosmic hourglass. At a time when man's distant evolutionary ancestors were just crawling out of the primordial ooze, there must have been civilizations in the universe sending out their starships to explore the farthest reaches of the cosmos and conquering all the secrets of nature. Such cosmic intelligences, growing in knowledge over the aeons, would be as far removed from man as we are from the ants. They could be in instantaneous telepathic communication throughout the universe; they might have achieved total mastery over matter so that they can telekinetically transport themselves instantly across billions of light years of space; in their ultimate form they might shed the corporeal shell entirely and exist as a disembodied immortal consciousness throughout the universe.

Once you begin discussing such possibilities, you realize that the religious implications are inevitable, because all the essential attributes of such extraterrestrial intelligences are the attributes we give to God. What we're really dealing with here is, in fact, a scientific definition of God. And if these beings of pure intelligence ever did intervene in the affairs of man, so far removed would their powers be from our own understanding. How would a sentient ant view the foot that crushes his anthill -- as the action of another being on a higher evolutionary scale than itself? Or as the divinely terrible intercession of God?"

So the monolith is essentially a calling card belonging to a highly evolved species that is just checkin in on the whole universe to see what is going on everywhere. Amazing film, wonderful story. 

Stanley Kubrick. 

Enough said. 

Not really but that is all I am saying for now.

777

Parasol Productions

an affiliate label of the awesome new essential electronic music machine, Karakasa Music http://karakasamusic.blogspot.com/ , Parasol Productions has been formed to be used for dj mixes has released one of mine as their first. I feel so honored. This mix is hot. CHECK IT! http://www.archive.org/details/AkkadTheOrphicPriestMusicToKeepTheRainOutYerEyesMix

Thanks to H. P. Sneakstep and the gang! 

Love always,

93

Akkad the Orphic Priest

777