In honour of the beautiful summer we’re having DJ Heavy Smurf has created a new mix for listening to while at your local beach, tanning salon, lawn, or (if you’re Martha Stewart) in your jail cell..

Paper Thin Suntan packs 18 tracks on one mix, journeying from 92 BPM to 117 BPM over 79 minutes and 55 seconds. Insodoing it winds its way around the world from France to Norway to Lebanon to Honolulu to Brooklyn to London and Brazil,

The Smurf hopes you enjoy it at: http://heavysmurf.com

Track listing: “Paper Thin Suntan”

Air All I Need 92 BPM Jaffa Sneakin’ 94 BPM Elak Remember Me 96 BPM Royksopp Cry Baby 96 BPM Thievery Corporation Lebanese Blonde 97 BPM Bebel Gilberto Bananeira 97 BPM Fantastic Plastic Machine Honolulu, Calcutta 98 BPM Blue Boy Remember Me 99 BPM Roy Davis, Jr. Lyrical Trip 101 BPM Nightmares on Wax Ease Jimi 102 BPM Fila Brazilia Freedom 103 BPM Saint Germaine Acid Jazz 105 BPM Royksopp Eple 107 BPM Marschemellows Soulpower 110 BPM Telepopmusik Breathe 112 BPM Spiller Groove Jet 114 BPM Fred Derby 116 BPM Jamiroquai Little L 117 BPM

It’s encoded as 192kBps MP3… like most of the others…

-Enjoy!

—— Forwarded Message From: Pablo Bose Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:53:19 -0500 (EST) To: Ian Andrew Bell Cc: Gordon Ross , Bryan Robertson , Adam Wood-Gaines , Kim Morrice , James Rothney , Subject: Re: @F: Does Fast Internet Need a Push?

Do Full Stomachs Need a Push?

By Tokalogu Chumbawamba New Alipore Slum Circular Staff Writer Tuesday, January 15, 2002; Page A01

At a recent Calcutta meal cooked over a dung-stoked fire, four slum dwellers compared notes about the food stored in their home larders.

One is a senior rock-breaker at the State Happy Quarries. One has forty-five years of experience pressing fresh cow dung into hand-sized patties to be baked on the outside of slum walls. One lobbies passersby not to throw stones at his face as they pass his hovel, and one pulls a rickshaw full of sweaty tourists around the dirty streets of Calcutta.

Yet only one of them has any food at home.

This drives Sugit Sarkar nuts. Sarkar, assistant secretary for the ministry of the distribution of tiny packages of spoiled food in Calcutta, tells the story to illustrate the challenge of convincing Americans that for the vast majority of people around the world, mere subsistence–rather than technological wizardry–is the only big thing (Sarkar has a cupboard filled with at least six cans of baked beans). If these people don’t have food, what good will broadband access do them?

I could go on but I don’t want to belabour the point. The surreality of the distance between our lived experience and that of the vast majority who live outside the boundaries of the elites, whether in the North or the South, become increasingly bizarre.

Pablo

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