BLTC EZine 29/7/2003

> In this issue of BLTC Australia National
> National progressive and trance, JOHN 00 FLEMING 5HR MARATHON SET
> National Smoothest Hip hop, THE HERBALISER
> National Cool, way Cool, RZA - FOUNDING MEMBER / PRODUCER OF WU TANG
> CLAN
> National Awards, WINK (WIRED INNOVATIVE NAUGHTY KIDS) AWARDS 2003
> National Breaks, DANNY HOWELLS - GLOBAL UNDERGROUND 24/7
> NSW 7/8/2003 DVD Production, OZDOX
> QLD 12/8/2003 Hard Trance, TIME TUNNEL
> QLD 27/9/2003 Global Dance Event, Godskitchen
> QLD 3/10/2003 Hard trance, LAB4
> SA 9/8/2003 call for submissions, PSMIP012 - SALA FESTIVAL
> SA 21/3/2004 Artist Call, PSP009 - DEVILGULLY[MARCH 2004]
> VIC Submissions, UNPOPULAR CULTURE -THE 2004 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
> VIC Peace, VICTORIAN PEACE DIARY
> VIC 29/7/2003 Melbourne's more interesting (and unpopular) artists,
> LOOP
> VIC 1/8/2003 arse-shakin' funk, TERIYAKI ANARKI SAKI
> VIC 1/8/2003 Booty Shakin' Electro Breaks Styley, 100th MONKEY/2
> VIC 2/8/2003 Da Stuff, TENDERFOOT
> VIC 2/8/2003 Black Diamond Disco, POWDER MONKEY PART 2
> VIC 2/8/2003 Celebration, LEO'S BDAY BASH
> VIC 8/8/2003 Techno, PITCH -7: WE LOVE TECHNO
> VIC 9/8/2003 Peace, REMEMBER HIROSHIMA!
> VIC 16/8/2003 DJ Assault, MELB - XSIVE DJ ASSAULT MK6
> VIC 16/8/2003 Psy, LOONACY THE SEQUEL
> VIC 29/8/2003 Breaks, MINISTRY OF SOUND 'BREAKS 03'
> VIC 30/8/2003 Breaks, FUTUREBREAKS
> VIC 13/9/2003 Trance, SMELLS LIKE PHARMACY
> VIC 27/9/2003 Trance, BLISS 5
> VIC 4/10/2003 Old Pskool, FEELING WEIRD
> VIC 3/11/2003 Trance, CUP EVE - THE GATHERING
> VIC 22/11/2003 Party, ADVENT*JAH
> VIC 28/11/2003 Trance, EARTHCORE - 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
> VIC 20/12/2003 Trance, TWISTED CHRISTMAS 2003
>
> EDITORIAL
> This was sent to me and given it's length I have cut it into
> three parts for
> the next three issues of BLTC. If you can't wait for each week
> then email me
> and i will forward you the entire article.
>
> Peace
>
> Robin
>
> ACTIVISTS MUST BE IN FOR THE LONG HAUL, BECAUSE CHANGE TAKES TIME REBECCA
> SOLNIT SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
>
> I once read an anecdote by someone in Women Strike for Peace, the first
> great anti- nuclear movement in the United States, that contributed to a
> major victory: the 1963 end of above-ground nuclear testing, with its
> radioactive fallout that was showing up in mother's milk and baby teeth.
>
> She told of how foolish and futile she felt standing in the rain one
> morning protesting at the Kennedy White House. Years later, she heard Dr.
> Benjamin Spock -- one of the most high-profile activists on the issue then
> -- say the turning point for him was seeing a small group of
> women standing
> in the rain, protesting at the White House. If they were so passionately
> committed, he thought, he should give the issue more
> consideration himself.
>
> A lot of political activists expect that for every action there
> is an equal
> and opposite and punctual reaction, and regard the lack of one as failure.
> After all, activism is often a reaction: President Bush decides to invade
> Iraq; we create a global peace movement in which 10 to 30 million people
> march on seven continents on the same weekend.
>
> GROUNDSWELLS OF HISTORY
>
> But history is shaped by the groundswells and common dreams that single
> acts and moments only represent. Politics is a surface in which
> transformation comes about as much because of pervasive changes in the
> depths of the collective imagination as because of visible acts,
> though both
> are necessary. And though huge causes sometimes have little effect, tiny
> ones occasionally have huge consequences.
>
> Some years ago, scientists attempted to create a long-range weather
> forecasting program, assuming that the same initial conditions would
> generate the same weather down the road. It turned out that the minutest
> variations, even the undetectable things, things they could
> perhaps not yet
> even imagine as data, could cause entirely different weather to
> emerge from
> almost identical initial conditions. This was famously summed up as the
> saying about the flap of a butterfly's wings on one continent that can
> change the weather on another.
>
> History is like weather, not like checkers. A game of checkers ends. The
> weather never does. That's why you can't save anything. Saving is
> the wrong
> word. Jesus saves and so do banks: They set things aside from the flux of
> earthly change. We never did save the whales, though we might
> have prevented
> them from becoming extinct. We will have to continue to prevent
> that as long
> as they continue not to be extinct. Problems seldom go home. Most nations
> agree to a ban on hunting endangered species of whale, but their
> oceans are
> compromised in other ways. DDT is banned in the United States,
> but exported
> to the Third World, and Monsanto moves on to the next atrocity.
>
> The world gets better. It also gets worse. The time it will take you to
> address this is exactly equal to your lifetime, and if you're lucky you
> don't know how long that is.
>
> As Adam Hochschild points out, from the time the English Quakers
> first took
> on the issue of slavery, three-quarters of a century passed before it was
> abolished in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the
> beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed
> impossible
> suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.
>
> And as the law of unintended consequences might lead you to expect, the
> abolition movement kicked off the first widespread women's rights
> movement.
> This took about the same amount of time to secure the right to vote for
> American women, has achieved far more in the subsequent 83 years,
> and is by
> no means done. Activism is not a journey to the corner store; it
> is a plunge
> into the dark.
>
> Part Two next Week
>
> Rebecca Solnit is the author of "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and
> the Technological Wild West," among other works. A version of this article
> first appeared on OrionOnline.org.
> ______________________________________________
> Here is your BLTC Australia National E-Zine.
> ______________________________________________
>
> EVENTS
>
> State: National
> Genre: progressive and trance
> Event: JOHN 00 FLEMING 5HR MARATHON SET
> Website: www.futureentertainment.com.au
> Email: anthony@futureentertainment.com.au
> The Gig: John 00 Fleming 5hr marathon set
>
> The most intimate show of all for the first time witnessed in Australia
> John takes you on the complete journey of progressive and trance in a
> club environment. JOHN 00 FLEMING is without doubt one of Melbourne's
> favorite international Dj's, John boasts regular appearances at
> Godskitchen and The Gallery, John 00 Fleming has been injecting his
> blend of hard-edged progressive trance into the UK's top clubs which
> includes Cream, Ministry Of Sound, Euphoria, Promise, Slinky, Passion
> and Inside-out.
>
> With a career spanning nearly twenty years, his unique character and
> impeccable talents have seen Fleming become the face of his genre,
> producing numerous mixed albums, artist singles, remix projects and
> heading his own underground label; Joof Recordings.
>
> QBH will be fully transformed in J00F decor lasers and the kick arse
> Nexo sound system brought in especially for the night.
>
> Main room: John 00 Fleming UK (5hrs), Mark James & Jason Midro
> Top Level: Scott Alert, Ajax, Kaos, Tristan Mason, Nexus.
>
> When: Saturday 23rd August, 11pm - 8am
>
>
> Where: QBH 1 Queensbridge Street, South Melbourne
>
>
> Tickets $35.00 + bf thru (more on the door) Ticketek ph: 13 28 49, CC
> Records, Central Station, Dance Arena Chadstone, Chapel St, Dandenong,
> Doncaster, Highpoint, Southland, Virgin, DMC Records, Inacoma,
> www.inthemix.com.au, Jac n Jean, Ministry
> of Style, Mooks Chadstone, Chapel St, China Town, Hawthorn, Lt Collins
> St and Poetic Jungle.
>
>
> Australian Tour Dates
> Auckland - 22nd August St James
> Melbourne - 23rd August QBH
> Adelaide - 28th August le Rox
> Brisbane - 29th August Family
> Sydney - 30th August Gas Nightclub
> _____________________________________________
> _____________________________________________
>
> State: National
> Genre: Smoothest Hip hop
> Event: THE HERBALISER
> Website: www.agentmad.com.au
> Email: julia@inthehoop.com.au
> The Gig: THE HERBALISER DJS
> OLLIE TEEBA & JAKE WHERRY
> (Ninja Tune) on four decks
>
> Just announced - Sydney & Melbourne support details:
>
> SYDNEY - THURS 28 AUGUST