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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_%28DJ%29>
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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>
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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>
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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>