Bonkers video from Taiwan documenting Steve Jobs' descent to the Dark Side. It's in Chinese, with Chinese subtitles ....but I'm guessing a dubbed version would make even less sense.


Jun

21

Trainspotting

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Check out this amazing real-time map of London tube trains. It takes a while to load, however, when it does the inner geek does a little dance.


Apr

29

Airspace Rebooted

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Nice little video up at Vimeo tracking the re-start of air travel across Europe - following the monster airport shut down caused by Iceland's Volcano.


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In no particular order: Animal Collective – Feels or Strawberry Jam I remember getting very scared, when I was a kid, that, mathematically, there was only a limited number of songs possible - limited number of notes and limited number of combinations. When would they run out? ARRGGH!!!! Then I heard Animal Collective and I realised it was ....read more


Jul

2

Lovin' An Elevator

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Check out Marco Brambilla's art installation in the new Standard Hotel in New York - a video piece that takes lift passengers from hell up to heaven.

Headline and tip-off nabbed from VSL.


Jun

10

Party Like It's 1996

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Sub Pop have a new sampler up for free download, but rather than link directly to it, I insist you visit the page - which is decked out like a 1996 web disaster.

Tracklist:

Vetiver – Strictly Rule
Handsome Furs – I’m Confused
Mark Sultan – Hold On
Red Red Meat – Gauze
Obits – Pine On
The Vaselines – Son of a Gun
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Iron and Wine – Belated Promise Ring
Tiny Vipers - Dreamer
Zak Sally – Why We Hide
Fruit Bats – My Unusual Friend
Pissed Jeans – False Jesii Part 2
Grand Archives – Silver Among the Gold
Flight of the Conchords – Hurt Feelings

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May

15

You Should Have Seen This

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I don't know who this Greg Rutter chap is nor why he should be the one to tell us what we should or shouldnt do, but he's pulled a list of funny stuff together. That said I've not checked them all...

 


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Talking to a friend about cover versions, he said that his pal always preferred the first version of the song he heard rather than the first one recorded. Anguished, he told how his chum maintained that Jamie Cullum did a better version of High and Dry than Radiohead. With the ‘first past the lughole’ preference in mind, I was intr ....read more


Apr

20

Top 25 fictional ads in sci-fi movies

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Real ads are never as good as fake ads in imaginary movies - as this article points out....


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Mr Perkins opened his first long player - Ash Wednesday - with the immense and emotional ‘While You Were Sleeping’. It’s so good that on listening back it dwarfs the rest of the songs. Second time round and the overall quality and craftsmanship have been taken up a notch or two and the collection feels more rounded, more varied, ....read more


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Best Of 2008 - Locochimpo - 2008

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Albums of the year: Fleet Foxes - every song's a winner on this doozy. Though it's 'Mykonos (Alternative Version)' that gets my vote for song of the year. Vampire Weekend - This lot strike me as being a bit smug, but i guess if you release a debut album this good then you're allowed to be. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - The hits way outweigh th ....read more


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Wilderness - (k)no(w)here - 2008

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It was just before the music stopped on my first listen through ‘(k)no(w)here’ that I thought the first track was going on a bit. Then I read the blurb. “Conceived as one musical piece... The eight identifiable parts of ‘(k)no(w)here’ are not readily separated from each other, such is the flow from and into each par ....read more


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The Lord Dog Bird - The Lord Dog Bird - 2008

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The Lord Dog Bird is the solo alter ego of Colin McCann - the guitarist in the band Wilderness (review of their new album to follow) - and it was recorded at home on a 4-track by the spookily voiced Lord Colin himself. Sparse scratchy droning guitar, vocals and simple drums are the main ingredients here. This bare and basic sound adds authenticity ....read more


Oct

27

Piece Of Ass

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Here's a match - your face and your ass. Turns out chimps take a tush over a mugshot any day.


Sep

26

Redundancy: It Can Happen To You Too

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Bellowhead - Matachin - 2008

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When I was a kid what I knew about traditional folk music was based solely on watching in bewilderment at the people wearing cloth beermat waistcoats who wandered round my home town at the annual folk festival. Nowadays I like a bit of what might be called ‘alternative folk’ - Bonnie Prince Billy, Iron and Wine, etc. Yet, I still d ....read more