and what do I do;

All the way from Tokyo. Big Up!  

http://www.hijackbristol.co.uk/board/the-forum/neil-kymatik-has-died/?all

shocked and very sad to hear about this

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Click here to hear clips of Soul Motive 002, now available - either on vinyl or MP3 - am playing electric and spanish guitar on tune "last saloon swagger".



Here's some quotes about it;

"The problem with most underground scenes is that when they start to break into the mainstream a lot of bandwagon jumpers tend to dilute the musical output and many tunes start merging into one, big homogenous sound. It takes a few select artists or labels to push the musical direction into new areas, to push through experimentation and imagination into their output; Forsaken is one of these people."

 - www.beatportal.com
 

"Speaking of Bristol, one of the most head-turning productions in dubstep has come out of the city, from Forsaken. The track in question, "Last Saloon Swagger" stands out not because it's melodic and not over-dark, nor because it features a guitarist Ben Blackmore and co-production by local grime genius Joker. It stands out because it features a spaghetti western piano roll solo and a breakdown that a chicken wanders through. Laughing in the face of soulless gnarly tech-tunes and wobble-clones, it's a maverick move that the fact that as it divides listeners only goes to prove it's pushing boundaries. It's light, El-B-esque woodblock snares tickle the ear, EQed without the need to slap the dancefloor in the face, funky like some strange Timbaland/Clint Eastwood hybrid. If the influx of new fans into dubstep circa 2006 has pushed back the boundaries of the scene, bringing it into contact with new influences far from its roots, risks like "Last Saloon Swagger" will be taken. If Distance can encompass heavy metal and Vex'd can vibe off avant classical, then bring on the spaghetti western."

- Martin Blackdown, Pitchfork

"Life's not supposed to be figured out - it's supposed to have twists and turns and things you can't predict." - Mike Watt.

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"Wanna fly, you gotta give up all that shit that weighs you down" - Toni Morrison

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art." - Claude Debussy

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde.

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." - Albert Einstein.

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." - M.K. Ghandhi.

"As far as I can see no-one knows why we're here at all, so we all have to invent a reason, and everyone will have invented a slightly different one." - Robert Wyatt.

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The idea that history must make sense is just a Christian prejudice." - John Gray

"Today young men on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream in which we are the imagination of ourself...here's Tom with the weather." - Bill Hicks.

"The darkest hour is before dawn." - Paulo Coehlo.

"What we think of as talent is actually a complicated combination of ability, opportunity and utterly arbitrary advantage." - Malcolm Gladwell.

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams.

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes" - Salman Rushdie.

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."- John le Carre.

"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another." - John Le Carre.

"The worst immorality is in living a trivial life because one is afraid to face any other kind of life—a despairing life or an anguished life or a twisted and difficult life." - Andrea Dworkin.

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde.

"Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people."

"Ideas flew out of Damien like they fly out of everybody, but he was a man of action. He made his dreams come true." - Alex James on Damien Hirst.

"Jim: Opposition's about asking awkward questions.
Sir Humphrey: And government is about not answering them." - Yes Minister.

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein.

"Morton Feldman once likened musical tones to people. I don't think you should push them... they're very much like human beings - if you push them, they push you back. So if I have a secret it would be: Don't push the sounds." - John Adams

RSD

Zomby

Bonnie Prince Billy

Shakti with John McLaughlin "A Handful of Beauty"

Christopher Poppen/Hilliard Ensemble - J.S. Bach: "Morimur"

Joan as Police Woman - saw her live, she was great

Peverelist "Roll with the punches" - amazing, like all his tunes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyd5MVcE_BI

Hyetal

Thom Yorke The Eraser

Martyn "Great Lengths"