Martyn's 5 Influential Ninja Tune releases

 
Ninja Tune. Originally formed in 1990 by Matt and Jonathan of Coldcut, Ninja Tune has an impressive history that a trip down Discogs or a visit to their basement (if you are ever at their London HQ) will leave you drooling over. With album artists spanning the likes of Amon Tobin, Roots Manuva, Actress, Bonobo through to... Kelis, like Martyn - the label evades a pigeon hole like a cat to water. Consequently it's also been home to some absolute game changers over the last 24 years, so we were pretty happy to get this intimate guide back from Martyn on the early releases on the catalogue.

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Pourquoi le porno gay est-il si populaire au Pakistan?

Pour le Pakistan, ce taux peut paraître logique sachant que cette pratique sexuelle est interdite. Et pourtant, remarque Mother Jones, et c'est l'autre donnée qu'elle met dans la balance, ce pays est «le leader mondial en volume des recherches sur les termes shemale sex, teen anal sex and man fucking man», selon Google Trends. Et la république islamique arrive deuxième également pour le terme «gay sex pics». Et si l’on affine les origines des recherches, c’est notamment dans la ville très conservatrice de Peshawar que l’on apprécie le «shemale sex».

-Libération

Beauty from the crypt: Mystery of Europe's jeweled skeletons

When archaeologists unlocked the catacombs of Rome in 1578, they unleashed a wave of religious fervor. Catholic officials disinterred skeletal remains, which they assumed to be early Christian martyrs, and had artisans reassemble them. Encrusted with gold and jewels, the skeletons then went on display in lavish shrines across Europe to convey the glory that awaited the Church's devout followers in the afterlife. But by the early 19th century their saintly authenticity came into question and, in a dramatic reversal of fortune, many of the relics were hidden from view or destroyed.


-CNN

The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places On Earth

These real life ruins offer an eerie glimpse into a world without humans. Their dark walls inspire a sense of wonder like I've never felt before.

-Distractify

Ecuador, cocaine’s stopover on the way to market

If smuggling cocaine onto an airplane sounds dicey, then imagine navigating 2,000 miles on the open sea in a homemade submarine with half a ton of the white stuff and no oxygen tanks.This 30-foot fiberglass sub can dive just 15 feet and stay under for a maximum of 15 minutes — barely long enough for passing coastguard patrols to disappear. It has no toilet, kitchen or, for that matter, legroom.


-Global Post

Modern rock didn’t start with Dylan or the Beatles. It started with Zeppelin.

It is early 1969, and you are young. You hold in your hands an LP by a band with a strange name. The cover art is a black-and-white photo of the Hindenburg exploding, cropped and retouched to resemble some phallic, Nazi apocalypse. You remove the record from the sleeve and place it on your turntable. The sound of a guitar explodes into your ears, two quick bursts of a Fender Telecaster, each lashed to a violent drum hit: BOM-BOMP. The next two minutes and forty-some seconds roll by like an avalanche, intricate webs of guitar and bass, thundering percussion, a 20-year-old vocalist belting lines like “I know what it means to be alone” with a flamboyance that makes it impossible to believe him. When it all ends you grab the needle and move it back to the record’s edge, to confirm all this is real, and it all begins again. BOM-BOMP.

-Slate

The Beauty and Strangeness of the World’s Colossal Statues

The political, religious, and ideological monuments in photographer Fabrice Fouillet’s series “Colosses” stagger with their extreme dimensions. But Fouillet is not concerned with hugeness for its own sake. He’s more interested in how oversized statues, despite their extraordinary proportions, fit in the landscape around them and, as he writes in LensCulture, the reasons for the “human-sized desire behind these gigantic declarations.”


-Slate

8 Pieces of Advice From the Middle Ages

As much as we like to think we're so much more advanced than people in the Middle Ages, we’re actually not too different. We still listen to demagogues and use dangerous cosmetics and drink too much. We’re still superstitious and paranoid and xenophobic. We’re still really into dragons. Bear that in mind while reading these extracts from medieval advice texts, books of conduct, and manuals. Some kind of make sense, some are timeless, and some are exactly the kind of thing that we make fun of the Middle Ages for. Just don’t forget that our generation invented an app that just texts the word “Yo.”

-mental_floss

''I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.''

-Simone de Beauvoir

Explore the hidden Japanese village where dolls replace the departed

Nestled in the hidden valleys of Shikoku, Japan, is the village of Nagoro. Its remote location has led its residents to leave for big cities in search for work. With not even a local store, there's little reason for immigration, so as residents die there is no one left to fill their void. Nagoro is slowly shrinking.


-The Verge

El Dorado in the Amazon: A Deluded German and Three Dead Bodies

In the late 1960s, a man turned up in the Brazilian state of Acre, deep in the Amazon region. He was wearing a loincloth and a feather, carried a bow and claimed he was Tatunca Nara, chief of the Ugha Mongulala. No one had ever heard of an Indian tribe with that name. In addition, the man bore no resemblance whatsoever to an Indian. He was white and spoke with a strong French accent.


-Spiegel