June 1, 2024

Vision Remigration: Project Advocating the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe Launched in Switzerland

Vision Remigration, led by neo-Nazis, is growing rapidly online and off since its April launch

https://globalextremism.org/post/project-advocating-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-europe-launched-in-switzerland/



In April, a new Telegram account opened with a post featuring a large banner drop in Switzerland with one word: “remigration.” That was the launch of Vision Remigration, a new project inspired by the racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which alleges that white people are being intentionally displaced in their homelands by people of color, mainly immigrants and refugees. Vision Remigration, led by individuals with neo-Nazi and other extremist links, calls for state policies to deport en masse people of non-European descent “back” to their “home countries.” In its own words, Vision Remigration attempts to “[formulate] solutions for current migration policy and population exchange, which are grouped together under the term remigration.” The word remigration is nothing more than a more “acceptable” term for what amounts to ethnic cleansing, removing people of non-European descent from the continent.

The concept of remigration garnered international attention in early 2024, when Austrian Martin Sellner, de-facto leader of the white nationalist Identitarian movement in Europe, delivered a lecture on remigration to members of the far-right German party Alternative Für Deutschland (AfD) in Potsdam, Germany. His calls for ethnic cleansing of immigrants created a firestorm in Germany and mass rallies against the AfD. This meeting followed AfD member’s Matthias Helferich launching his own campaign called “Vision Remigration” in December 2023. But now, the Swiss’ Vision Remigration movement is attempting to export this idea, in its more innocuous sounding form, and instill it in far-right party platforms across Europe, starting with Switzerland. They’ve been organizing rapidly, hosting three events since mid-April, including a series of lectures advocating for remigration, and another “information session” planned for June.





Vision Remigration Leadership

Vision Remigration is led by members of the neo-Nazi group “Junge Tat” (“Youth Action”), a small outfit led by former “Eisenjugend” (“Iron Youth”) leader Manuel Corchia, and based in the German-speaking areas of Switzerland, primarily near Zurich. They identify as an “Identitarian Movement 2.0.” Their leadership maintains links with fascist and neo-Nazi groups across Europe, like Kampf der Nibelungen, Blood and Honour, and Combat 18. Junge Tat has openly endorsed violence, including sharing the manifesto of the Christchurch shooter, titled “The Great Replacement,” which served as the impetus for the murders of 51 at two mosques in New Zealand. The security forces have, on several occasions, seized weapons from members, and the Swiss intelligence service has stated that they “have the group on their radar.” At least one member is allegedly employed with the Swiss military police as of 2023.

Corchia, in addition to helping lead Junge Tat, is also providing leadership to Vision Remigration and has an extensive history of far-right extremism and the promotion of neo-Nazism. In 2020, while leading Iron Youth, Corchia, under the username “Alles Gute A.H 88,” (A.H standing for Adolf Hitler and 88 being numerical code for “HH,” or “Heil Hitler”) and five others disrupted an online lecture at the Zurich University of the Arts, yelling “Heil Hitler” and “Seig Heil” on April 20, Hitler’s birthday. At the University, he also distributed a series of hateful stickers, including those saying that “mixed children are more susceptible to health problems,” “mixed babies are born unhealthier than unmixed babies,” “mixed-race couples are more violent than white couples,” and some featuring the Black Sun, Swastika and pictures of Adolf Hitler. Corchia also posted a series of racist symbols on the fringe platforms Minds and Gab, the latter of which was used by the perpetrator of the Pittsburgh Synagogue mass shooting in 2018 to spread “Great Replacement” rhetoric, including a post signaling his intentions to target Jews. Corchia was later sentenced to fines and expelled from the university. That same year, Corchia’s home was raided on the suspicion of illegal possession of weapons, where police found several firearms. Corchia was convicted of owning an AK-47 without a permit.

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June 1, 2024

Following Trump Verdict, Far-Right Explodes in Rage, Seeks to Undermine Faith in Elections and the Judiciary

https://globalextremism.org/post/following-trump-verdict-far-right-explodes-rage-seeks-undermine-faith-in-elections-and-the-judiciary/



On Thursday, Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. In the hours following, as rage grew among Trump supporters, there were calls for riots and violent retributions. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has documented calls for violence coursing through white supremacist and other extremist movements, while enraged MAGA influencers sowed distrust in our judicial and electoral systems.

White supremacists took to the web to push violent rhetoric and calls for civil war. Chapters of the misogynistic, racist, street-fighting Proud Boys, whose leadership has been sent to prison for their involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, made several calls to violence. The Proud Boys Ohio, Proud Boys Columbus, and Proud Boys Toledo chapters simply posted “war.” Proud Boys Columbus posted a song on YouTube called “Get ya Gunz up” advocating for the use of violence and a message saying “any one (sic) else have an insurrection erection?” Proud Boys Long Island issued a call to their supporters, saying “anyone who defends this verdict is guilty of treason!” The Cape Fear Proud Boys, after invoking Trump’s call to the group to “stand back and stand by” during a 2020 presidential debate, wrote “this is far from over, we promise.” The Official South Texas Proud Boys cited a plan, “Operation Free My N**** Trump,” calling for the “most glorious battle of our young hot lives,” which involves “smash[ing] commies, Feds & f*gs…while we storm the gates.”





Online commentators like antisemite Stew Peters and far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich weighed in with violent rhetoric. Peters shared an image of a noose with his 200,000 Telegram subscribers that had “extreme accountability” written on it. He captioned the picture “it’s time.” Cernovich posted on Twitter that “today was a terrorist bomb [that] detonated on our legal system. A September 11th level attack.” Dozens of racist and antisemitic online accounts posted violent messages including “EXECUTE BIDEN FOR TREASON,” “time for us all to start a civil war,” “So what happens now? Riots? Revolution?” and “nothing can stop what is coming.”

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1796296502928924692


It wasn’t just American white supremacists who weighed in. Austrian Martin Sellner, de-facto leader of the Identitarian movement in Europe, called the verdict the result of a “show trial” which “should not have taken place at all” and called the trial “probably the biggest abuse of the legal system in American history!” Canadian Jeremy Mackenzie, a leading figure in the white supremacist Diagolon movement, said the verdict was “the best possible outcome for people who want [America] to get rebooted,” and that “they just revolution-pilled tens of millions of Americans.” White supremacists weren’t the only ones who erupted in vitriol after the verdict. Several MAGA figures responded swiftly, questioning the legitimacy of the ruling and casting doubt on the judicial system and elections.

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May 31, 2024

Recognition of Palestine pushes others to follow

Norway, Ireland and Spain have recognised the state of Palestine, pressuring others to follow suit as Israel continues its assault on Gaza.

https://www.socialeurope.eu/recognition-of-palestine-pushes-others-to-follow



Ireland, Spain and Norway have broken with the majority of European Union member states by formally recognising Palestine as an independent state. This follows the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados, which did the same earlier this year, bringing the number of members of the United Nations that recognise Palestine to 143 out of 193. On May 10th, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution giving new rights to Palestine within the organisation and calling on the Security Council to admit it as a full member. This has not happened yet because the United States keeps vetoing the decision. But, unlike the vast majority of UN member states which supported the resolution, most EU members did not. Most still do not recognise a Palestinian state and the war in Gaza has made the differences in how they treat Palestine obvious. As a result, Spain’s wished-for joint recognition by EU member states has not been possible. Such big decisions require consensus—and currently there isn’t one among EU governments.

This is not to say that the EU is completely neutral on Palestinian statehood. The European Council supports the right of Palestinians to have a state alongside that of Israel, although recently the president of the council came out in favour of full recognition. And, for years, the EU has given money and expertise to try to assist in building a Palestinian state—but has stopped short of recognising it. This lack of consensus has undermined political support for EU peace initiatives in the region. That is despite the fact that the European Commission has been engaged in the peace process and has reaffirmed its commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most recently by proposing a ten-point roadmap. This is not the only time the sensitive issue of recognition has created divisions among EU member states. National governments have also not managed to agree a common position on the statehood of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008.

The European Parliament

Unlike decisions at the European Council, European Parliament decisions do not require consensus. This is one of the reasons the assembly has had a stronger and more positive voice on Palestinian statehood. Strictly speaking, the parliament does not have the official capacity to recognise states (this is something mostly done by governments). And yet, for a decade now the parliament has expressed support for the recognition of Palestinian statehood and the two-state solution. It has said that recognition should happen simultaneously with the development of peace talks. In January a resolution by the parliament also condemned Israel’s illegal settlements and called on the EU to contribute actively to the middle-east peace process. The parliament mantains a delegation for working with parliamentarians of the Palestinian state. Our research shows that setting up delegations with those seeking recognition as states is another avenue through which the parliament has been important for recognition matters.

Over the past few months, this delegation has met to discuss the impact of the war on Gaza and the west bank. Members of the delegation are some of the most vocal supporters of Palestinian rights in the EU. For example, the chair has condemned Israel’s war on Gaza, the killing of Palestinians during aid distribution and the suspension of funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency by some donor countries. The parliament has also hosted robust debates on Palestine. Shortly after a resolution passed by the parliament favouring Palestinian statehood, in 2016 the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, visited the parliament and thanked MEPs for their recognition. In recent debates on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, there have been different opinions in the chamber. In March the majority voted in favour of a resolution calling for a ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages and the dismantling of Hamas. But MEPs from the Left group voted against the resolution, arguing that making the ceasefire conditional on the end of Hamas would mean that ‘the resolution stands with Israel’.

Necessary momentum...........................

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May 31, 2024

AXXE - Disappointment Boulevard (The Reflex Revision) (2024)

Label: Emerald & Doreen – EDR 536
Format: File, WAV
Country: Germany
Released: 10 May 2024
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style: Nu-Disco, Synth-pop

May 31, 2024

Plastikman - Consumed (1998) FULL ALBUM (archetypal dark, austere minimal techno masterwork by Richie Hawtin)

Label: NovaMute – nomu65lp
Format: 3 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: UK
Released: 18 May 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Ambient, Experimental, Acid


































Plastikman's 'Consumed' remains a masterclass in dark, minimalist techno

Brooding and austere, Richie Hawtin’s third album under the Plastikman alias is a minimalist masterwork

https://djmag.com/features/plastikmans-consumed-remains-masterclass-dark-minimalist-techno



When first encountering ‘Consumed,’ Richie Hawtin’s third studio album under the Plastikman name, a normal reaction might be like that of the prehistoric hominids in 2001: A Space Odyssey after they stumble across the alien monolith: scared, awed, and very much aware of the presence of a superpower. Like the monolith, ‘Consumed’ is dark and (almost) featureless; also like the monolith, it’s basically perfect in a way that seems to suggest an unsettling kind of higher intelligence. Unlike the monolith, though, ‘Consumed’ is (at least on the face of it), the work of a flesh-and-blood human being in the shape of Richie Hawtin, then in his late twenties and still a cult figure, rather than the techno superstar he would later become. ‘Consumed’ didn’t exactly drop out of the sky, either. Hawtin’s two previous Plastikman albums, 1993’s ‘Sheet One’ and 1994’s ‘Musik,’ both took the acid-house sound of squalling 303s and cutting drum machines, eliminated superfluities like the human voice, and encased the results in cavernous reverb; the ‘Concept 1’ run of 12-inch singles in 1996 pushed this minimalism to new levels of obsession, laying the path toward ‘Consumed’ in 1998. “The ‘Concept 1’ releases documented a year of sonic experimentation,” Hawtin said at the time of their re-release in 2021. “Each month I would record as much music as possible with a strict and limited selection of technology. Gone were the typical ‘Hawtin’ combination of TR808, TR909, and TB303s, which had driven the techno tracks I had become known for under my F.U.S.E. and Plastikman aliases, replaced by a stripped-down selection centered around three Doepfer MAQ 16/3 sequencers and five panels of Serge modular racks.”

Each ‘Concept1’ 12-inch was limited to 2,000 copies, with Hawtin taking full control of every aspect of the package, from design to distribution — which meant that they were as widely heard as the two previous Plastikman albums. But much of the ‘Consumed’ sound, which shocked many Plastikman fans at the time of release, was already present in ‘Concept 1,’ as the acidic burbling of ‘Sheet One’ and ‘Musik’ was reduced to an austere series of squiggles, clicks, thuds, and echoes. Much, but not quite all. ‘Consumed’ wasn’t just minimal — it was dark in the extreme, a pitch-black excursion into electronic sound that had more tonally in common with Norwegian black metal than Joe Smooth’s ‘Promised Land’ or Hawtin’s own blissful ‘Spiritual High,’ which he released as UP! in 1992. DJ Mag once described the 303 line of ‘Plasticity,’ from the ‘Sheet One’ LP, as having “the physical presence of cathedral reverb,” but ‘Consumed’ felt more in line with the echoes of a dank cellar or satanic coven. ‘Sheet One’ looked off into the wonders of space; ‘Consumed’ contemplated a deep, dark, and possibly poisoned well.

Everything about ‘Consumed’ was stygian, austere, and designed to disorient, an 11-track journey into nebulous space. The basslines, such as they were, were pitched low and menacing, more of a malevolent presence than a musical force; the drums hit like hammer blows to the knees, bearing little or no similarity to the physical kits on which drum machines were based; the synth melodies, when they came, were brief and discomforting, four-note bursts of whistling paranoia; the occasional sound of a 303 was stripped back to tiny fragments, little more than the idea of notes. And all of this was wrapped in a series of chirps, howls, and echoes, reminiscent of a murderous mechanical zoo, everything reduced to the most minimal concoction possible, putting an almost sickly emphasis on the negative space between music and listener. “‘Consumed’ was recorded in the dead of winter in Canada,” Hawtin told the Line Noise podcast in 2022. “It was very isolated. So I think there is this kind of iciness, this introverted, kind of alone, dark part. Not dark as in necessarily scary, but just it’s very brooding, you know?”





Techno music, let us not forget, comes from disco and funk. It’s generally music for dancing. But there was nothing of joyful motion in ‘Consumed,’ nothing funky to grab the muscular attention, no lingering traces of human instrumentation to rescue you from the void. Rather than Larry Levan in the Paradise Garage, ‘Consumed’ felt like Jean-Paul Sartre contemplating endless nothingness in 1940s Paris: bleak but fascinating, and perfect in its intellectual inhospitality. This was by design. In a recent video, Hawtin said that ‘Consumed’ “is about taking as much away as possible. Leaving something which was more the aftereffects, the shadows of sound... I think at that point, in 1997, I had had so much time on the dancefloor, and ‘Consumed’ was kind of an antithesis of that. It was, ‘Can I continue to make music, coming from a DJ perspective, but reduce the sounds, the rhythm, so that it doesn’t feel like monotonous 4/4 techno anymore?” You could, at a push, dance to some of ‘Consumed.’ But throughout the album, the music feels more like it is waving the possibility of the dancefloor before you, then snatching it away at the last minute. That this menace was encased, on opening tracks ‘Contain’ and ‘Consume,’ in a shuffling triplet rhythm that was more typical of glam-rock boogie than Detroit warehouses (the kind of rhythm that would later form the basis of the short-lived Schaffel genre) felt like some kind of sick joke on the listener, like a pantomime horse clad in satanic robes or the monstrous rabbit figure in Donnie Darko. Hawtin wasn’t the first techno producer to use this kind of rhythm — Felix Da Housecat’s 1997 Essential Mix for BBC Radio One kicks off with a track listed as Ghetto House ‘Untitled’ that has a triplet rhythm, for example — but it was certainly rare, and Hawtin has to earn credit for helping to pioneer it in dance music.

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May 31, 2024

Medicare Advantage's $64 Billion Supplemental Benefits Slush Fund

https://prospect.org/health/2024-05-30-medicare-advantage-64-billion-supplemental-benefits/



In mid-March, the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which advises Congress on Medicare policy, made a bombshell disclosure in its annual Medicare report. The rebates that Medicare offers Medicare Advantage plans for supplemental benefits like vision, dental, and gym membership were at “nearly record levels,” more than doubling from 2018 to nearly $64 billion in 2024, but the government “does not have reliable information about enrollees’ actual use of these benefits at this time.” In other words: $64 billion is being spent to subsidize private Medicare Advantage plans to provide benefits that are not available to enrollees in traditional Medicare, and the government has no idea how they are being spent.

Not only is this an enormous potential misallocation of taxpayer resources from the Medicare trust fund, it is also a critical part of Medicare Advantage’s marketing scam. The additional benefits offered in Medicare Advantage plans are what entice people to give up traditional Medicare, where there is no prior authorization, closed networks, or care denials. But, as MedPAC states in the report, even though the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) does not collect the data on utilization of supplemental benefits, what little data there is does not paint a pretty picture, with MedPAC noting that, “Limited data suggest that use of non-Medicare-covered supplemental benefits is low.” HEALTH CARE un-covered is among the first media outlets to report MedPAC’s findings.

A 2018 study by Milliman, an actuarial firm, found that just 11 percent of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries had claims for dental care in that year, and that “multiple studies using survey data have found that beneficiaries with dental coverage in MA are not more likely to receive dental services than other Medicare beneficiaries.” A study from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association found that just one-third of eligible participants in Medicare Advantage plans used an over-the-counter medication benefit at pharmacies, leaving $5 billion annually on the table for insurers to pocket. Elevance Health, formerly Anthem, has 42 supplemental benefits available to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. They analyzed a subset of 860,000 beneficiaries. For six of the 42 benefits, the $124 billion insurer could not report utilization data. For the other 36 supplemental benefits, the bulk of those covered used fewer than four benefits, with a full quarter not using any benefits at all and a majority using one or less benefits.

MedPAC added that it had “previously reported that while these benefits often include coverage for vision, hearing, or dental services, the non-Medicare supplemental benefits are not necessarily tailored toward populations that have the greatest social or medical needs. The lack of information about enrollees’ use of supplemental benefits makes it difficult to determine whether the benefits improve beneficiaries’ health.” With studies already showing that Medicare Advantage is associated with increased racial disparities in seniors’ health care, the massive subsidies provided to supplemental benefits appears to be an inadvertent driver of this problem: the $64 billion—at least the portion of it that is actually being spent as opposed to deposited into insurer coffers—is likely not going to the populations that actually need it.

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May 31, 2024

Jennifer Rubin: The latest mass killing of civilians brings Israel to an inflection point

With condemnation growing after horrific deaths in Rafah, new pressure could push Netanyahu toward ending the war.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/30/rafah-israel-civilian-deaths-pressure-ceasefire/

https://archive.ph/883N7



The latest mass casualty event in Gaza, the accidental killing of at least 45 civilians in a horrific fire set off by shelling, echoes the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers last month. After that tragedy, fierce condemnation forced Israel to increase humanitarian aid and intensify efforts to “deconflict” (i.e., take measures to prevent accidental killings). Now, in the wake of the killing of 45 innocents, pressure on Israel mounts again. As a result, two starkly different possibilities emerge: another cycle of recrimination and Israeli defiance, fueled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal desperation to remain in power, or domestic and international pressure galvanizing to bring about a negotiated end to the ordeal. As unlikely as the latter may seem, there are precedents for it. “When a single Israeli action has resulted in a civilian death toll that the world cannot tolerate, it’s often become a tipping point in the course of conflict,” writes Dan Perry for the Forward. “Perhaps the most well-remembered such case was Israel’s [1996] shelling of Qana in Lebanon, which killed more than 100 displaced people. Outrage over the Qana massacre was so extreme that the strike ended up being one of the final actions in Israel’s (quite justifiable) ‘Grapes of Wrath’ operation against Hezbollah terrorists.”

With the investigation ongoing, the precise sequence of events is as yet unknown. “The Israeli military is investigating the possibility that munitions stored near a compound in Gaza hit by an air strike on Sunday may have caught fire, killing more than 40 civilians, a spokesperson said on Tuesday,” Reuters reported. “Chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said it was still unclear what set off the deadly blaze in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but added that the 17 kilogram munitions used in the strike were believed to be too small to have set off such a big fire.” Whatever the specifics of this incident, the deaths would not have occurred but for Israel’s incursion. Accordingly, the Israeli government finds itself the target of international condemnation. The government’s response did not help matters. As Israeli press reported, Netanyahu was silent for nearly 24 hours and then merely expressed regret over “a tragic mishap” and promised the Knesset he would investigate.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported, “Egypt’s military said one of its soldiers was shot dead during an exchange of fire in the Rafah area, without providing further details. Israel said it was in contact with Egyptian authorities, and both sides said they were investigating.” And both these deadly events came just days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a vaguely worded opinion that Israel must “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” The ICJ ruling (to which Israel and the United States object strenuously), the Rafah deaths and the Egyptian exchange collectively intensify the impression of recklessness, disarray and arrogance in a military operation already facing criticism for lack of a viable strategic plan. After so many warnings about Israel’s obligation to minimize civilian casualties and, specifically, to forgo a full-scale invasion into densely populated Rafah (forcing nearly 1 million people to flee), the backlash to Netanyahu’s conduct of the war intensifies. Already, domestic opposition is coalescing.

Yair Lapid, the opposition leader and chairman of Yesh Atid, and Avigdor Liberman, the Yisrael Beytenu chairman, met with New Hope chairman Gideon Sa’ar on Wednesday “to discuss the formation of an alternative government,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “Sources in the opposition said the three parties are taking steps to overthrow the government and combine different parties to form a new government.” They are also planning to include war cabinet member Benny Gantz, who has vowed to leave the emergency cabinet and pull his centrist party out of Netanyahu’s coalition if there is no postwar plan by June 8. In sum, Netanyahu faces loud and harsh criticism from all sides: the international community, the Biden administration, members of the U.S. Congress, current and retired Israeli military officials, and mass protests that have become increasingly antagonistic toward him. Though the sources are different, the complaints (e.g., no strategic plan, not enough focus on the hostages, insufficient attention to mass civilian casualties, courting of international scorn, vile public comments that engender international legal action) are largely the same. The criticism has intensified in the aftermath of the latest civilian disaster and might help shift momentum in favor of a cease-fire.

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May 30, 2024

ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ＷＡＶＥ　２ // vaporwave officewave

Tracklist :

0:00 Bart Graft - Faces (Neon Genesis Remix)
4:20 𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 - Costa Azul
8:40 𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 - la pazienza porterà le rose
11:54 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Taking Off! (Vaporwave version)
17:35 𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 - Palmbeach Heartbreak Melancholy
20:56 𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 - Unlimited Dreams Corporation
27:34 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Love Frequencies (Vaporwave version)
33:03 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Addictive Feeling (Vaporwave version)
39:20 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Paradise Road (Vaporwave version)
45:20 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Kindful Mistakes (slowed)
49:55 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Teenage Years (Vaporwave version)
56:12 𝙈𝙖𝙙 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡. - Oceanwave (Vaporwave version)

May 30, 2024

Liquid Drum and Bass Mix #60

Mixed by Q-Lee (Warsaw, Poland)

Tracklist:

Monrroe - Dawning (Feat. Emily Jones)
Degster - Falling Leaves (Original Mix)
Monrroe - Days Like These (Original Mix)
Degster - Walking At Night (Original Mix)
Kairos - Visions (Original Mix)
Colossus - The Road
Nexus & Tight - Spectrum
Tokyo Prose - Songbird
Technimatic & LSB - Rotary Motion (Calibre Remix)
Humanature & Colossus - Nothing (Original Mix)
S.P.Y - Perth Sunset
Monrroe - The Inevitable (Original Mix)
Hybrid Minds - Meant To Be (feat. Grimm)

May 29, 2024

Why modern living is easy at Farnley Hey - Peter Womersley's first domestic dwelling

https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/open-house-farnley-hey-peter-womersley/











In 1954 the architect, Peter Womersley, built his brother, John, a home on the crest of a valley in West Yorkshire. Floating above a bluebell wood with views out towards the Pennines, Farnley Hey was to be the first of many houses Womersley went on to build, encapsulating his ability to seamlessly blend the outside with the inside, balancing utilitarian materials with the natural environment. “It is a contemplative house,” says owner, Christian. “It makes you sit and think.”











Another of Womersley’s celebrated domestic dwellings, High Sunderland, was commissioned by the textile designer, Bernat Klein, who saw Farnely Hey in the 1950s and promptly demanded to know who had built it. The house had a similar effect on its current custodians, designers Christian Harvey and Vicky Lynn Davies. Only the third owners to live at Farnley Hey, they had no intention of moving when they stumbled upon Womersley’s Grade II-listed design. “When we first visited the house, we didn’t want to leave,” Christian recalls. “The setting – with its woodland and views – blew us away.”











Christian and Vicky have lived in the house in much the same way as Womersley originally intended. “The house was designed a certain way and it still feels right to use it that way. The rooms work as they are,” says Christian. Built from a blend of Yorkshire stone, camphor wood and brick, the spacious property winds its way up to a crescendo of a view celebrated with a floor to ceiling window at the end of a cantilever. An extension was constructed in the 1960s – adding a garage and several bedrooms – which Womersley is rumoured to have seen and given the stamp of approval. Now, as Farnley Hey comes to market, the owners speak to us about the joy of everyday life in a Womersley designed home.











“Modern living at Farnley Hey is easy. The open plan layout flows as you move up through the different levels and there is not an area of the house we don’t use at different times. There’s no wasted space. The split levels create space for privacy, while the open plan layout makes the home social and interactive. If there is somebody up on the mezzanine – chatting away – while you are in the dining room, you won’t know what they are saying but you’re still essentially sharing the same space. “It is also a contemplative house; it makes you sit and think because you are looking outside all the time and you see how the building works with nature. If you are in the garden and you’re looking at the house, you can see through the building: it’s at peace with what’s around it.

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