NEW RELEASE: The Orb – The BBC Sessions 1991-2001. Despite me having the Strange Fruit Peel Session CD from 1991 in my Orb-Collection, this new repackaged and remastered 2CD offering has brought together a large slice of the Orb’s BBC sessions into one easy to listen package. I might be a little cynical about The [...]
16 Oct
The text editor that comes with WordPress 2.6 has some interesting things added. When you have images within the content, you can float them inside the post so that the text wraps around the images properly. You can align the images to be “left”, “right” or “centered”. When you use the text editor to align [...]
16 Oct
Few probably imagined that Stefan Betke’s Pole project would amount to more than a blip (mind the pun) on the cultural radar. It’s hardly dramatic music. It focuses mostly on microsounds, tiny infractions that pierce into the vaguest of melodies, which are themselves accompanied by a sub-bass groove line that is generally more sensory than auditory. A casual [...]
16 Oct
All ways nice to hear new material from one of my early inspirations, in this case it’s Dave Ball of Soft Cell with his co-writer Richard Norris (aka The Grid). They have just released their fifth studio album this year called, “Doppelganger”. This particular track has hints of Dave Balls early work with Soft Cell. [...]
14 Oct
At their Notebook Media event today, Apple announced two new MacBook models which have adopted new all-metal enclosures, improved graphics performance, and glass Multi-Touch trackpads. “Apple has invented a whole new way of building notebooks from a single block of aluminum. And, just as important, they are the industry’s greenest notebooks,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The [...]
by kris
"hmmm , yeah i agree - its cynical and transparent. embarrassing if it had anything to do with me which ..."
19 Oct