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The Life & Times of Aphrodite, Queen of Beauty

WHAT IS THE STORY
In ‘The Life & Times of Aphrodite, Queen of Beauty’ we invoked the text-generating capabilities of contemporary AI to reflect on questions of beauty, art and materiality through a series of mythological genealogies, (anti-)humanist reflections and archetypal story-telling. The algorithm used to produce the text relies on a deep learning model called a recurrent neural network (RNN). This model is trained on a large corpus of text, and can generate new text that is similar to the training data - in this case we used Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 aka GTP-3 which is trained on a vast amount of online conversations and millions of digitized books. The model is capable of learning the long-term dependencies in the text, and can generate coherent and realistic outputs. The language model we used is capable of generating long-form text with the assistance of a few user-inputed prompts. Our prompts of 10-15 words set the overall intention of the text, and the algorithm generated the different chapters based on them. We didn’t edit or intervene in any shape or form with the final output. 

In order to transcribe the text into sound we used a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). With a GAN, you have two neural networks: a generator and a discriminator. The generator tries to create fake audio samples that sound realistic, while the discriminator tries to distinguish between real and fake samples. The two networks compete with each other, and as they do, the generator gets better and better at creating fake audio samples. Other audio inputs for this piece also included stock music, T-T-S (Ivy, child), special FX awards, field recordings, 8-bit music, happy hardcore, a song by Dana International, and YouTube extracts.

The resulting audioplay follows goddess Aphrodite through the millennia of her existence providing a philosophical account of the history of aesthetics. While story-driven and highly entertaining the work also explores questions around the nature of art, the concepts in art, and the experience of art. In our story, Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty experiences multiple existential crises as historical definitions of both love and beauty shift and often collapse over time. In her attempt to keep up with times Aphrodite has to re-configure her subjectivity and belief systems, a process of evolutionary adaptations that mirrors the function of artificial intelligence. Both AI and our Aphrodite crave for a totalising comprehension of reality but always fails as we live in a world of absurdity and finitude. Our training data sets are as flawed as the subjects producing them; creativity (and even our understanding of beauty) spring out of unconscious processes in ways that can only be affectively effective when they ambush us. With this work we aspire to understand what the collective unconscious of the algorithmic abyss can teach us about the impossibility (and therefore freedom) of desire.

Part 1: The Beginning; The School of Wild Aesthetics

Part 2: Industrial Revolution & the Creation of Beauty 2.0

Part 3: Pikachu, the Beloved Slave

Part 4: The Plight of the Perverts

Part 5: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Heart

Part 6: Crime & Punishment; The Birth of the House of Love & Beauty

Part 7: Bio-Hacking Aristotle

Part 8: Aphrodite X: the Famous Widow

Part 9: Eternal Diva

The Life & Times Of Aphrodite, Queen Of Beauty

Remixed one of my favorite songs when I was first getting into elm. I hope you guys enjoy it.

-Nolan 

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RL GRIME - SHRINE (AEYE FLIP)

Before MC

Good To Forget (The Remixes)

Good To Forget (LOVESLAP Remix)

Kinky malinki was like being a part of a huge family.  Almost everyone who attended had friends who knew a friend, who knew friends, who all came to every party. We never had a fight at our event. The crowd were far too happy and busy dancing for that nonsense. 

The 25th Anniversary has inpsired me. I haven't stopped reminsicing about the amazing times I had with Paul Crane . Jay Friction was the silly name I decided to call myself at Kinky Malinki, and it does feel like something inside of me has just been shaken and stirred like a Martini, and I've just realised he's still there. I did once set the speakers on fire at Pacha. The tunes must have been scorching hot 😂. Or I got too excited with the levels 🤷.

I might even be back on the radio soon (Jay Friction used to have a Kinky Malinki show on House FM back then) 💃🏻🕺🔥.

This mix for me at least, encapsulates the sound of Kinky Malinki (at least from the years I was jointly running it with Paul). It was quality house music, big vocals, euphoric drops, heavenly choruses, beautiful piano keys and a happy, happy vibe.  Back then we were different to most other nights.  It might have been one of the reasons it was such a popular and talked about night. We got Time Out 'club of the week' almost every month. Thanks Dave 👍. I thought we had incredible musicality, but then I am  biased 🙄.

Can I ask my friends, and anyone who has bought a ticket already to share this to friends, and ask them to share it too, to give people who don't really know Kinky Malinki a bit of a little taster of what it's all about musically, and as a vibe ❤️.

That way, we can try to recreate that family feeling we always had, all those years ago. We would love your friends, and their friends to all come. But it will sell out next month as a huge amount of our original crowd are coming ❤️.

The extended early Bird tickets sold out completely within 48 hours, so those who know me, who bought tickets, again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and I can't wait to see you all on the dancefloor ❤️💃🏻🕺. Love to you all. 

If you didn't get an early bird, 2nd release tickets will now go on sale on Thursday, 30th Novmber.

You must purchase an advance ticket if you want to attend the party. And a party and a half it will be!  

Sign up now to gain early access to our 2nd release tickets by clicking on this link:

 https://bit.ly/KM25_sign_up!

We hope to see all our partying friends from over the 25 years that Kinky Malinki has been a part of London's club culture. I think this will be a night we will all remember for a long time! Get a baby sitter and bring trainers and paracetomol. 

Mixed with love 💃🏻🕺🎶❤️. 22 beautiful tracks that give me Goosebumps as if from 2006/7 😊.

Tracks by -

Mark Knight and Beverley Knight - I Wanna be Your Lover
Yam Who? - Let's go Together
Tenobi - Sublime (Dr Packer Remix)
Benny Mussa - If you Want
DJ Meme - Any Love (Muthafunkerz Electrodisco Remix)
Joey Chicago - Bomb the Bass
Kiko Navarro and DJ Fudge - What you Love
Hotmood - I'm Talking to You
DJ Mooch and Ellis Miah - Send me Some Love (Jagg Mix)
Donna Allen - Joy (Alan Dixon Remix)
N.W.N - Sunshine
Emmaculate - Do it (Kenny Dope Mix)
DJ Pope Loving You (Jazz & Groove Mix)
Urban Blues Project - Deliver Me (DJ Meme Remix)
Crackazat - I'll be There
Dave Lee - Latican Boogie (Crackazat Remix)
Lynn Lockerby and Rhemi - Warning
The Sunburst Band - Garden of Eden (Dam Swindle Remix)
Tom Bug - Love Will Shine (Brian Tappert Remix)
Modaji - Things You Do 4 Me (Crackazat Remix)
Groove Addix and Annette Taylor - Faith (Rocco Rodamaal Remix)
Eric Kupper - Blissed

The Return of Jay Friction - The Sound of Kinky Malinki 🎶🔥

Kinky Disco Series 1 🕺💃🏻🎶❤️.

These mixes are a celebration of the fact under Pauls guidance, KM will reach its 25th Anniversary in March 2024.

2nd release tickets for Kinky Malinki’s 25th Anniversary will now go on sale on Thursday, 30th Novmber.

You MUST purchase an advance ticket if you want to attend the event. 

Sign up now to gain early access to our 2nd release tickets by clicking on this link: 

https://bit.ly/KM25_sign_up 🎫🔥😄

It was a popular night with the guys and girls in its heyday, and that was very likely because we played quality feel good house music pretty much all night long, with a disco, piano driven or vocal edge and a good beat 🕺💃🏻🎶❤️

These mixes are nothing more than my interpretation of the music policy from back then, and a mixture of new and old tracks, many that you'll likely hear at the Anniversary Party.

If you like the mix, please give it a share 🙏 

if you like what you hear and want to come to the 25th Anniversary, be sure to get a ticket on the 30th as the first release sold out in less than 48 hours.

And please, please do give it share.  Much love ❤️ 

Tracklisting - 

Hot Toddy feat Karen Harding - So Good
Aline Rocha - WTF
Re-Tide - Deep in my Soul
Sonic Soul Orchestra feat Kathy Brown - Good Inside
DJ Duke - Can you Feel it (Roy Davis Jnr Mix)
Funkybeat feat Angela Johnson - Waiting on a Love
Sgt Slick feat Karina Chavez - I Thank You
The Agenda - Versatile (Jay Vegas Remix)
Tertulien Thomas - Hide your Love (Shane D Remix)
The BC Crew - Grace (Young Pulse Full Journey Mix)
Steve Silk Hurley - The Word is Love
Illyus and Barrientos - Wait
Emiliano 90 - Love Undefined
Mike Millrain - A new Dawn
Tom Novy - My Loving
Din Jay - Deep Inside (Marc Cottrell Jacked Mix)
Niles Cooper - Lead me Home
Melba Moore - My Heart Belongs to You (Ferreck Dawn Remix)
Donna Allen - He is my Joy (T.Markakis Remix)
Urban Blues Project  - Your Heaven (I Can Feel It) (Micky More and Andy Tee Remix).

Before MC

DJ RevPlaytime