from discogs.com :
"Daniel's recording alter-ego Frivolous captures a romantekly influenced montage of the most cutting edge production technics with an old soul mentality. Along side his still rather bizarre performances, is the incorporation of classic instruments and vocals into an environment built on experiments with glitchy cut-up funk and found sound."
China Miéville is my Sci-Fi author of the moment. I only read one of his books (Perdido Street Station) so far, but his other books are on my list of books to read.
Perdido Street Station takes place in the fictional town of New Crobuzon. The town is a stinking moloch, modeled after London. The residents are humans, wingend creatures, little goblins, scientists, magacians and lots of other crazy folk.
One ofthe maincharakters unintentionally sets free a bunch of soul sucking creatures. With the help of some friends, a giant dimension hopping spider and a living garbage dump he's trying to capture those beasts.
The story needs a couple of pages before it lifts of, but his extraordinary language also made this part worth reading. I didn't like everything in the book. For example the living garbage dump, I think that's an unnecessary "charakter", the story wouldn't suffer without it.
The book doesn't have a happy ending, I usually insist in happy endings, the world is grim enough so at least books should offer some soothing, but still this is one of my favourite SciFi books so far.
Perdido Street Station has one several prices. In Germany the book and also its translator won the "Kurd Laßwitz Preis 2003" for the best foreign SciFi book.
Note for the german edition: Amazon is offering a special edition of the book. The normal german edition for bookstores contains of two volumes, but the one Amazon.de is seling is a single volume hardcover edition, for only 10 EUR! The original english edition is a single volume too
Podcasting will soon break out of the "pod" and onto the public airwaves.
The world's first all-podcast radio station will be launched on May 16 by Infinity Broadcasting, the radio division of Viacom.
Infinity plans to convert San Francisco's 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content. The station, previously devoted to a talk-radio format, will be renamed KYOURadio.
Infinity, one of the country's largest radio operators with more than 183 stations around the country, will invite do-it-yourselfers to upload digital audio files for broadcast consideration by way of the KYOURadio.com website.
Warp records is now selling digital downloads of Autechre also in the losless flac format. The quality is supposed to be the same as a CD (as far as I know), but a flac file only needs half the memory a regular wav file needs. To listen to flac files, usualy a plug-in for the media player of your choice is needed, which is available for every of them.
via oreilly.de :
"Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to maximize the effectiveness of Firefox, the next-generation web browser that is quickly gaining in popularity. This highly-focused book offers all the valuable tips and tools you need to enjoy a superior and safer browsing experience. Learn how to customize its deployment, appearance, features, and functionality."
Samples:
Hack 27: Fix Web Servers to Support Firefox Content
Hack 31: Take Firefox with You
Hack 43: Waste Time with Toys and Games
Hack 44: Tweak and Troubleshoot CSS Designs
Hack 69: Make New Tags and Widgets with XBL
Hack 92: Get a Custom, Prebuilt Version Read the sample chapters here
I compiled ten tracks by netaudio artists. The list was done while I was writing my final paper for my university. That means all the tracks are somewhow soothing.
You can view the list and download the tracks here:
phlow.net
Two tracks are only availible via the whole release. Those two tracks are indicated with a *
www.indymedia.org.uk :
"This is a 1949 NBC radio adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian nightmare: 1984
The acting may be dated, but the cautionary message remains just as chilling...so, turn up the sound, dim the lights, and remember... Big Brother is watching you!"
A fiercely confrontational avant-garde performer noted for her wailing, four-octave vocal range, Diamanda Galas was born and raised in San Diego, California. The daughter of Greek Orthodox parents, her singing was roundly discouraged, although her prowess as a classical pianist was nurtured; ultimately, her strict upbringing resulted in a reckless, drug-fueled youth prior to her entrance into the University of California's music and visual arts program.
RSA Films, employer of Chris Cunningham have updated his Showreel. You can now watch plenty of his video clips he did for people like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Madonna and some of his commercials at the RSA homepage. Or donwload directly from here
China Miéville is my Sci-Fi author of the moment. I only read one of his books (Perdido Street Station) so far, but his other books are on my list of books to read.
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A fiercely confrontational avant-garde performer noted for her wailing, four-octave vocal range, Diamanda Galas was born and raised in San Diego, California. The daughter of Greek Orthodox parents, her singing was roundly discouraged, although her prowess as a classical pianist was nurtured; ultimately, her strict upbringing resulted in a reckless, drug-fueled youth prior to her entrance into the University of California's music and visual arts program. 
