"A tribute to The Marx Brothers with full reproductions of Books and Articles from Magazines and other Publications that are now 'out of print' and hard to find."
From the treewave webpage:
Tree Wave is a band based in Dallas Texas, created by Paul Slocum and Lauren Gray. The band uses unique instrumentation: music is performed using obsolete computer equipment for instruments. Currently they are using a 1977 Atari 2600 game console, a 1986 portable 286 PC, a 1983 Commodore 64 computer, and a 1985 Epson dot matrix printer. The equipment runs custom music software written by Paul designed specifically for the band The music is probably more organic than you'd expect from the instrumentation.
Although definitely electronic sounding, the music is influenced more by guitar based bands and experimental music than dance or electronica"
Nice synth/electropop with a "Chicks on Speed" esque touch from people named Liz Enthusiasm, the Duke of Pannekoeken, and the other Sean T. Drinkwater. A yamaha qy-70, which looks like a gameboy with more buttons, is the centerpiece of freezepop's songs. They have toured throughout the U.S. and Europe, and have played at the Outsider Electronic Music festival, as well as with such artists as Cibo Matto, Add N to (X), and Momus.
11 MP3 files are offered to download for free at the official webpage. May favourite tracks are " here comes a special boy" and "stakeout (donnerschlag remix)". But I can't stand those remixe they did for Apoptygma Berzerk, that's because I don't like that guy. I used to like that guy, many years ago, but now his voice and the kitschy lyrics are just annoying me.
The MP3 files and lots of info is availible via the official homepage
From southernlord.com: Boris was ultimately inspired by the Melvins (in particular the Lysol album) and Earth. Besides pure heavy riff-droning bombast, Boris adds a unique experimentalist ambience to all they touch. This perfectly explains their involvement and collaboration with such cult-experimental artists such as MERZBOW and Keiji Haino. Every release from this group is different. Each is colossal in it's own right, but Absolutego is the group's finest achievement. Words do not describe this mammoth accomplishment. Earth moving drones swallow the listener whole, then regurgitate you as a mass of sloth like jelly. More Info
Wie der Döner über die Deutschen kam (Döner is the new Schnitzel)
"Der erste Deutsche, der einen kulinarischen Eindruck des Döners mitbrachte war Helmuth von Moltke. Er war als preußischer Militärberater Mitte des letzten Jahrhunderts mit dem Aufbau der neuen türkischen Armee betraut. Er berichtet von einem Kebap-Essen im Jahre 1836 und von seiner Sehnsucht nach Kartoffeln!" Der ganze Artikel
Product Description:
Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. More than 30 million of the 17 Calvin and Hobbes books (all published by Andrews McMeel) have been sold. And now, we're pleased to announce that the entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons will be published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon. Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this edition will include all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication. This is the treasure that all Calvin and Hobbes fans will seek.
From radiofreepolygon.blogspot.com:
"Autechre.ws live broadcast from April 10th, 2005. It's about 305 MB, encoded at 96kpbs mono (which was the original broadcast quality.)" Available via bit torrent here
From timesonline: Her sound is an explosive mix of bhangra, ragga, electro and hip-hop. But underneath her street style, the singer-songwriter behind MIA is a political animal.
She has had more opportunities than most to have her eyes opened to the meaning of life, but for Maya Arulpragasam, the tipping point was surprisingly mundane. At the age of 10, the London-based MC was forced to flee her native Sri Lanka, where her father, a Tamil freedom fighter, remains to this day. Arriving in Britain, she and her mother and two siblings were housed on a notoriously racist council estate in Surrey. At school, the newcomer was dismissed as thick because she couldn’t speak English and labelled the Thing because her surname was too long. Yet her epiphany was all about the colour pink. Read the whole story at timesonline.co.uk
from insound.com:
Antony and the Johnsons present chamber cabaret in darkest blue, creating music that is highly dramatic,
emotional, and lyrical. Compared to everyone from Nina Simone to Lotte Lenya, Antony's voice is hauntingly evocative. The Johnsons, an ensemble featuring a string trio, piano, bass, and drums, lay a foundation of lush yet minimal orchestral arrangements. "Antony & the Johnsons" is a reissue of the group's debut album, which was originally released in 1998 on the London-based label Durtro, which is run by David Tibet of Current 93."
Phonoverbände nehmen sechs Produkte aus den Charts
Der Bundesverband der Phonographischen Wirtschaft hat sechs Produkte aus den Musikcharts genommen, nachdem sich ein Verdacht auf Charts-Manipulationen gegen den Musikproduzenten David Brandes erhärtet habe. Bereits im März 2005 war ein entsprechender Verdacht aufgekommen. Mehr bei Golem.de
"Google Desktop Extreme provides an interface to the Google Desktop Search Engine, which adds unique functionality to make your searches faster and more productive. Features include real-time feedback (searches as you type), auto-complete, sorting, grouping, and filtering of search results."
From the MIT webpage:
"The whorls and swirls of color may look like something by art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt, but the winning images from MIT's annual 8.02 "Weird Fields" contest are really computer-generated visualizations of vector fields.
To help students understand electromagnetic force fields, Professor of Physics John Belcher and colleagues at the MIT Center for Educational Computer Initiatives developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like," he said."
50 People see.. is a beautifull set of computer generated images which remind me of painings by Rothko and Turner.
The creator about his technique:
"I wrote a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags. No human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images."
Jason Salavonsays:
"MTV compiled a millennium list of the "Greatest Music Videos of All Time". Each of the videos in the top 10 of this list were digitized in their entirety. The individual frames from each video were then simplified to their mean average color, eliminating overt content. These solid-colored squares were then rearranged in their original sequence and are read left-to-right, top-to-bottom."
Flickr, without the Flash
"Flickr is a popular photo hosting service that uses embedded Flash files as part of their interface. On every page, there will be a little delay while a new Flash file loads.
Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript."
"In the lates 1980's and early 1990's, members of the usenet community put out a series of cassette tapes (and finally a CD in 1992) with original compositions. These tapes were put together primarily by people frequenting the rec.music.synth and rec.music.makers newsgroups. Some of the other newsgroups (e.g. rec.music.jazz) put together their own tapes. Everyone wanted to show their 'best stuff', presumably, so the quality of the music and recordings is quite high, and there are a wide variety of styles and techniques"
"Best Buy customer Mike Bolesta simply wanted to purchase a car stereo. After being assured that a particular model would fit, he realized the Best Buy sales rep was incorrect (this sounds familiar). After being told the installation fee would be waived due to the error, he was able to get the correct stereo. When he got home, he received a call from Best Buy saying he needed to pay the fee. Upset about the horrible service he received, Mike decided to pay the $144 charge using only $2 bills. Now, there is no law against this. $2 bills are still legal tender here in the United States. He handed over 57 bills, and should have been able to be on his way. Instead, he was asked accusingly if they were real. Then they called the cops." More info
Dark ambient music which uses lots of unusual sounds, the soundtrack of a strange imaginary movie.
"One winter's night, ... " is the second release of Elín Anna Steinarsdóttir, from Reykjavik (Iceland). A long piece (22 minutes) that works as a perfect sequel of her first album released on Entity ("Impressions").
In this work, Elín deepens all the elements that are latent in her previous production: field recordings, found sounds, waves of well elaborated noise, electronic textures. The use of the dramatisation and her conceptual sense allows her to build bridges between different languages, bringing to us powerful, intense electroacoustic music."
"For those who miss the voice of sanity mingled with the music of nosebleeds, this site provides an archive of past programmes for listeners across the world to download and enjoy."
"[no.signal] is a london-based cell focusing on the production and organisation of ad hoc 'experimental' music projects. Its intent is to increase the interconnectivity between the London art/music community whilst presenting specific projects abroad, privileging cross-cultural artistic collaborations."
no.signal also has a show at radio Resonance FM. I 've not found the time to listen to the shows of Resonance FM yet, except for the archived ones at the wwww.thewire.co.uk webpage. Now I discovered that no.signal also offers downloads of past shows to download.
