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  • Occupy by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    http://www.rawillumination.net/2016/04/new-steve-fly-pratt-music-release-has.html

    Did a little shopping this morning — just bought a  digital copy of the new album Occupy by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle.

    The band’s drummer and one of its main songwriters is my friend Steve “Fly” Pratt who has a big group of RAW related websites and blogs, among them the extraordinary RAW360 site, which you really should go take a look at today, if you are not familiar with it.

    The album was released on April 23 on Iron Man Records. Fly is based in Amsterdam and has been playing with the band for quite awhile now.

    Fly says “The Track titled ‘The Law Of Acceleration’ features fly reading words by Robert Anton Wilson, from Cosmic Trigger I.”

    I listened to the track and noticed I enjoyed the drums. I asked Steve who his favorite drummers are. “Max Roach, Billy Martin, Alan Hertz, Owen Hart Jr., Mike Clark, Stevie Wonder, JoJo Mayer, Zakir Hussain,” he replied.

    Occupy is available from iTunes and the Amazon digital music store and probably lots of other places, too. More on the album here.  There are lots of YouTube videos of the band. 

    Posted by at 6:32 AM 
    Steven James Pratt

  • They Came To Starburg – by Steve Fly Agaric (Audio Book)

  • Cor Bin Yow (For Jeremy Corbyn)

    Cor Bin Yow

    oi you
    its you
    innit
    cor bin yow
    could it

    Fly: Selected Poetry

    by Steven Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/3of5XFj

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  • ‘Muster Up Some’ and ‘New Pictures Of Plutocracy’

    Muster Up Some…

    …can you muster up
    some good faith today
    can you give the
    benefit of doubt

    Flyting: Selected Writings

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/f5pSkqP

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  • Robert Anton Wilson & Steven ‘fly’ Pratt: A Serial Killer In The Whitehouse

    Robert Anton Wilson & Steven ‘fly’ Pratt: A Serial Killer In The Whitehouse

     

    A teaser from my full audio interview with Dr Robert Anton Wilson, recorded at his humble home in Capitola/Live Oak/Santa Cruz, California (looking out over the Monterey Bay).
    This recording was rediscovered in a jumble-bunch of mini discs–if you can remember that flash-in-the-pan format–only last week. I made my first round of rough chapter edits, and here is part 6 out of 32.
    Please share the good news and in he meantime visit:
    www.rawilson.com
    &
    raw360.net
    &
    www.rawillumination.net
    &
    maybelogic.blogspot.com
    &
    www.cosmictriggerplay.com
    Love ALL the more people
    x
    steve fly agaric 23

  • just a few things that wus’ running through my heeed

    Preservation of the self

    to jump ship
    and join the self
    preservation society
    resist creeping humility
    the others
    the 7 billion or so
    others here on planet earth
    kill or be killed
    no its program or be
    programmed and so
    both and more
    all for your genes the pool
    they happen to come from
    did you ask to be born
    to the genetic and class
    you ended up in?
    the elite and the high brow
    looking down from top dog spot
    moral superiority to go with
    privilage and invisible righteousness
    those who are stupid
    and damn sure
    stupid and certain
    those know-it-all
    fascists

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  • …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    by Steve Fly

    “Omniverse / Is / The totality / Of / All the universes / And you / Are welcome / To / Be citizens / Of / The Omniverse–Sun Ra, Omniverse.

     

    “Rhythm…is the first formal esthetic relation of any part to part in any esthetic whole or of an esthetic whole to its part or parts or of any part to the esthetic whole of which it is a part.–James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

    To this drummer/blogger, music and poetry share common parenting in the human universe. For example the 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth and lungs of the majority of humans on earth create a basis and foundation for the human arts. The infinite potential of human hardware, the body, linked up with the infinite potential of the human software, mind, exhibited together in the spacetime flux of sound and symbol can heal the human condition and help the individual get a taste for freedom, and a little regiment.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • Multi Model Agnostic Geometry: MMAG by Steve Fly Agaric 23

    His philosophy was one of multiple model agnosticism – not just simply about the existence of God but agnosticism about everything. With MMA, there is no point getting hung up on the models themselves because that’s all they are – models.—John Higgs, KLF. pg. 258.

     

    Multi Model Agnostic Geometry.

    by Steven James Pratt

    Flyting: Selected Writings

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/f5pSkqP


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  • Astral Projective Verse: Olson, Ophiel and Sun Ra

     

    Astral Projective Verse

    By Steve Fly Agaric 23

    For Eric Wagner and John Sinclair. Thanks for inspiring these wild speculations which are really notes that shall be reshuffled into a more coherent whole at some future point.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • Steve Fly Biography From IronMan Records

    Steven James Pratt a.k.a Fly Agaric 23 (Steve Fly) Biography

    March 7, 2013 by

    Born April 15th 1976 in Wordsley, England, and grew up as a competitive swimmer into his teens when he came across Jazz music, speed Metal, hip-hop, drum and bass, and playing drums in a school band. This led to Steven developing his drumming and DJ skills over the next 20 years.
    Steve Fly’s first ‘live’ gig was drumming with ‘Surgery’ at Thorns School in 1991, and went on to play with local Stourbridge garage punk band ‘Indigo Jane’ at such venues as J.B’s Dudley, The ‘Source’, ‘The Mitre’ in Stourbridge, and support for Babylon Zoo and Fret Blanket in Kidderminster.
    In 1993 Steven briefly played with Kinver based band ‘Taxi’ and recorded and album together and supported vocalist ‘Sam Brown’ at the Robin Hood R n’B club. In 1994 Steve played drums for a short time with the Birmingham based ‘live’ drum & bass band ‘Plutonik’, featuring vocalist Chrissy Van Dyke.
    In 1994 fly bought his first pair of turntables, and was instantly attracted to scratching and spinning vinyl, and began buying and playing a mixture of old Jazz, new electronica, drum & bass, break-beats and other soul/funk/jazz oddities. This led to him playing records with local DJ crew’s ‘Lowlife’ and ‘Lifted’ (94-2001) and by 1998 starting a successful ‘soul/jazz/funk/breaks’ night in and around Stourbridge called ‘Pass the peas’.  Other gigs included dj slots with Craig Fields and the ‘Nazareth’ DJ crew,  and gigs at the Q-club Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Wales, and the Glastonbury festival 2000.
    In 1998 Fly Agaric was billed with Fuzz Townsend on the bill for Graffiti Bastards 2, an art and music exhibition featuring and produced by CHU. This collaboration led to fly travelling up to York, and Finsbury Park studio’s to record a ‘live’ drum track for the first full album from UK left-field hip-hop crew New Flesh. (Part2, Toastie Taylor, Juice Aleem, DJ Weston) The resulting track ‘Quantum Mechanix’ turned out to be fly’s first release, launched in 1999 on Big Dada Records 0013, and stands as a testament to alternative UK hip hop at the turn of the millennium.

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