Sasha (born 4 September 1969) is a Welsh DJ and record producer, best known for his live events, electronic music as a solo artist, and collaborations with British DJ John Digweed. He topped DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs poll in 2000, and is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee. He began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s. In 1993 he partnered with Digweed, touring internationally. Sasha has remixed tracks for artists including Madonna, The Chemical Brothers and Hot Chip. He has produced three albums of original works: The Qat Collection in 1994, Airdrawndagger in 2002 and Scene Delete in 2016. His use of live audio engineering equipment helped popularise technological innovations among DJs who formerly relied on records and turntables. In 2007 he formed a record label with Renaissance Records called emFire.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
Los Angeles (downtown pictured) was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by forty-four Spanish settlers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles
1839:
First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kowloon
1912:
The Albanian revolt of 1912 came to an end when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1912
2010:
A 7.1 Mw earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand, causing up to NZ$3.5 billion in damages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
bread and circuses: 1. Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people. 2. (by extension) Grand spectacles staged or statements made to distract and pacify people. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bread_and_circuses
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The issue which I propose for discussion should … be clear: how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads — commons that are at least as valuable as silence. Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving. A transformation of the environment from a commons to a productive resource constitutes the most fundamental form of environmental degradation. This degradation has a long history, which coincides with the history of capitalism but can in no way just be reduced to it. Unfortunately the importance of this transformation has been overlooked or belittled by political ecology so far. It needs to be recognized if we are to organize defense movements of what remains of the commons. --Ivan Illich https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich