There was only one IE option I was missing in Firefox. This was the capability to save whole webpages as a single file. But now there is a Firefox Plug-in for that purpose. I's a bit hard for me to explain the whole thing, so head over to the plug-in's webpage and read the whole story
Berliner Stefan Betke's deceptively simple layering of deep bass, ghostly synth echoes and the crackle of a malfunctioning Waldorf Pole filter fused postmodern digital "glitch" music with analog music tradition, brilliantly channeling the form and texture of Jamaican dub into abstract ambient music. Tracks like "Fremd" and "Tanzen" have the familiar elastic rhythm of reggae, with bits of static and barely audible keyboard bubbles doing the work of drums and guitars, but Pole's reference points are usually more subtle than that.
Review from Wire, August 2004:
Normal Music have a very nice take on glitch, as evidenced on Brev (Zero Moon 3" CD), their way of subverting the autonomy of beat regularity, as well as their approach to the dubly layering of various analogue and digital noises, put them far ahead of a largely sleepy herd. The basics here get so cracked at times that I imagine this'd be capable of breaking people's bones on the dance floor if played at the right time and volume. Cool! - Bryon Coley
Violet is the current moniker for solo works by Jeff Surak, who has played in such projects as v., Normal Music, Critikal, Second Violin, -1348-, and New Carrollton and a multitude of collaborations and is also head of the label zeromoon.com . Organic irrational compositions, using electro-acoustic instruments and tape/cd/vinyl manipulations. Violet has performed across the USA and in Europe. <a href=swen.antville.org">More
During the last few weeks, because of the death of John Peel, lots of People where posting a link to radio plus which is supossed to link to "Peel Sessions". But as stated on this great webpage, it is linking to single tracks of bands which had a Peel Session. The linked tracks aren't those from the Peel Session. A Peel Session is a whole show, isn't it?
'Daniel Biro has a distinct passion for the Fender Rhodes electric piano, which can be heard swirling, stabbing and chiming with considerable subtlety throughout this sequence of six freeform compositions. The results of a single session with guitarist Rob Palmer in which both musicians draw upon a wide range of loops and effects, each untitled piece projects a deep sense of introspective warmth.' (The Wire)
From THE WIRE webpage: As an accompaniment to Matthew Wuetrich's look at the new generation of musicians to emerge from Finland in The Wire #250 December 2004, we present a number of tracks provided by some of the bands interviewed in the feature. Download here
I was looking for some information on one of my favourite tv shows (dead like me) on the internet. The show isn't on german tv, but it is "available" on the internet :-)
So I came across the webpage of Showtime US and this is the message people from the old europe are getting:
We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States.
Autres Directions in Music is a french netlabel. I think, it's my favourite netlabel so far. I only listend to the first 2 releases yet, but that's only because I liked them so much they were constantly repeating for the last week.
To our Western eyes the Dude of The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) looks like a slobbish, lazy, hippie hold-over, decades past his prime. [...] In a Buddhist understanding, the Dude is not lazy: he just doesn’t concern himself with unimportant things, or at least important things in the Western sense. Money seems of little value to the Dude. He isn’t employed and he doesn’t care to be. He even ultimately resists the temptation of the ransom money. More
From the Zeromoon homepage: ZEROMOON label features recordings from 1983 to the present, spanning industrial, post industrial, ambient, harsh noise, glitch, improv, free, surrealist and sounds that fall outside of any established genres. In other words, lots of experimental sounds for your listening pleasure.
The entire archives of zeromoon is being placed online. This collection features classic material starting from 1983 released by Watergate Tapes plus exclusive new mp3 only releases by zeromoon.
Zeromoon is a netlabel I came across a while ago, but didn't found time to listen to. Now that I am spending two hours sitting in a train every day, I have plenty of time reading and listening.
Zeromoon releases are harsh and noisy. Not realy "looking out of train windows and listening to music stuff". Well it depends on what area the train is driving through.
Currently Zeromoon releases blocking my Winamp playlist. If you are into "industrial" or noisy stuff, try Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink. But even the the Zeromoon people seem to know, that man also need to relax: This release was recommended by the archive.org stuff and I also think It's a very nice release: Volga - Kiasma. Successfully combining experimental electronics with contemporary dance rhythms and original Russian folklore, Volga is a unique project on the Moscow music scene. Pagan psychodelia, shamanism, authentic melodies and lyrics from ancient Russian texts (12th-19th centuries) are mixed with urban aesthetics and contemporary video art to make up the essential components of Volga performances.
Roy is also a well known writer/peace activist. One of her first essays was in response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The essay, titled The End of Imagination, is a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection "The Cost of Living," in which she also begins her crusade against India's massive hydroelectric dam project. Since that time she has devoted herself solely to non-fiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for humanist causes.
Arundhati Roy Reading From "The God Of Small Things"
Ebook Downloads
I collected all the articles she wrote for "Outlook India" during August '98 and April 2003 and converted them to a handy book-style pdf file.
ROY
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Excerpts (128kbs downloads) of live sets recorded at The Wire's second Adventures In Modern Music festival at the Empty Bottle, Chicago September 2004. All sets recorded by Malachi Ritscher/Savage Sound Syndicate.
Downloads:
Blevin Blectum 22 Sep. 2004 Listen (8.5mb)
Oxbow 22 Sep. 2004 Listen (4.3mb)
Lasse Marhaug 23 Sep. 2004 Listen (10.6mb)
Borbetomagus 24 Sep. 2004 Listen (10.2mb)
Thomas Brinkmann 24 Sep. 2004 Listen (13.4mb)
Keith Fullerton Whitman 25 Sep. 2004 Listen (5.6mb)
A four part radio series based on the State of Song article that appeared in The Wire issue #243 May 2004. The article surveyed a wide range of alternative, underground and outsider music to uncover 60 idiosyncratic takes on the songwriting tradition, and the radio shows playlisted songs discussed in the article, including music by This Heat, Pandit Pran Nath, The Stooges, King Tubby, Skip Spence, Terry Riley, Incredible String Band, Super_Collider, Devandra Banhart, Alice Coltrane and more.
The shows were commissioned by Radio Scorpio, an independent station based in Leuven, Belgium, and were originally broadcast in May 2004 in the station's Question Mark slot.
Frank Bretschneider is one of the most important German composers of Experimental Minimal electronic music today making the most of a computer-aided virtual modular synthesizer system.
Bretschneider founded the Rastermusic label along with Olaf Bender in 1996 with the main interest of releasing repetive minimal-music following the direction of Pop and publishing series with a focus on a specific philosophy of music/sound composing. In 1999 the label fusioned with CARSTEN NICOLAI's Noton label becoming Raster-Noton, becoming one of the most influential Experimental music labels in this day and age. Bretschneider's other parallel projects are Komet and Produkt. Taken from the "Techno GUide"
Alva Noto is the pseudonym of German audio-visual artist Carsten Nicolai. Born in the east German city of Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1965, Nicolai first studied architecture and landscape design before pursuing an interest in the theoretical properties of sound and space. Resettling in Berlin in the early '90s, Nicolai founded the experimental music label Noton.Archiv Fuer Ton Und Nichtton as a platform for his conceptual and experimental musical concerns.More
Only a few weeks before the late great John Peel died, he honoured Lali Puna by inviting them for a Peel Seesion. It was recorded in BBC's studio 4 in London on sept 30th. The band performed ''6-0-3" from their debut "Tridecoder", "Small Things" from their latest album "Faking The Books", as well as the exclusive song "Past Machine" and "Nin-Com-Pop" from their second album "Scary World Theory". The show has been aired last week. It will also be online until nov 9th at the following link
Download stuff like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 or Eminem's Mosh from internetvetsfortruth.org (Never Forget). From the website:
"Never Forget brings together full movies and video clips to help you make the right choice on Tuesday."
After his tenure as guitarist in the great no wave band DNA and punk-jazzers the Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay formed the equally exciting and (pun intended) ambitious Ambitious Lovers, while also being involved with the earliest incarnations of the Golden Palominos. Lindsay, a native of Brazil, began conflating the Brazilian pop music of his youth with the sonic density and avant-garde urgings he pursued as a member of the Lower East Side noise rock scene. Read More
Swans are considered one of the most influential NYC bands to come out of the early 80's. Co-conspirators, M. Gira and Jarboe (now re-located to rural Georgia), continue to create fiercely individualistic music of varied and colliding textures and moods. Their astonishing output since Swans inception in 1982 has seen them progress constantly, veering wildly from proto-industrial grind, to slab-of-noise militant disco, to darkly ambient acoustic songs and back again - ripping apart all genres. More
'Daniel Biro has a distinct passion for the Fender Rhodes electric piano, which can be heard swirling, stabbing and chiming with considerable subtlety throughout this sequence of six freeform compositions. The results of a single session with guitarist Rob Palmer in which both musicians draw upon a wide range of loops and effects, each untitled piece projects a deep sense of introspective warmth.' (The Wire)
From THE WIRE webpage: As an accompaniment to Matthew Wuetrich's look at the new generation of musicians to emerge from Finland in The Wire #250 December 2004, we present a number of tracks provided by some of the bands interviewed in the feature. 
To our Western eyes the Dude of The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) looks like a slobbish, lazy, hippie hold-over, decades past his prime. [...] In a Buddhist understanding, the Dude is not lazy: he just doesn’t concern himself with unimportant things, or at least important things in the Western sense. Money seems of little value to the Dude. He isn’t employed and he doesn’t care to be. He even ultimately resists the temptation of the ransom money. 
A four part radio series based on the State of Song article that appeared in The Wire issue #243 May 2004. The article surveyed a wide range of alternative, underground and outsider music to uncover 60 idiosyncratic takes on the songwriting tradition, and the radio shows playlisted songs discussed in the article, including music by This Heat, Pandit Pran Nath, The Stooges, King Tubby, Skip Spence, Terry Riley, Incredible String Band, Super_Collider, Devandra Banhart, Alice Coltrane and more.
Frank Bretschneider is one of the most important German composers of Experimental Minimal electronic music today making the most of a computer-aided virtual modular synthesizer system.
Bretschneider founded the Rastermusic label along with Olaf Bender in 1996 with the main interest of releasing repetive minimal-music following the direction of Pop and publishing series with a focus on a specific philosophy of music/sound composing. In 1999 the label fusioned with 
After his tenure as guitarist in the great no wave band DNA and punk-jazzers the Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay formed the equally exciting and (pun intended) ambitious Ambitious Lovers, while also being involved with the earliest incarnations of the Golden Palominos. Lindsay, a native of Brazil, began conflating the Brazilian pop music of his youth with the sonic density and avant-garde urgings he pursued as a member of the Lower East Side noise rock scene. 