you know that 4pm "slump" that you hit at the office.. like when your blood sugar is low and the coffee machine is broken and you're itemizing out the contents of your paperclip dish and the minute hand on the clock REFUSES to move despite your jedi mindtrick attempts to fast forward yourself to the nearest happy hour? it is around these times lately that I like to have a little "inter-office dance party." This basically involves sitting in my swivel desk chair, and rock out to tracks that would normally I think be reserved for the dance [...]
pic=dirtydirtydancing In this day and age of instant gratification, oneupsmanship and competition with an impersonal foe, it's refreshing to actually hear something new, something familiar, yet irreoncilably different. Something that you have never heard before. I'm talking of course of that wonderful thing- a good remix of a good song, heard unexpectedly and for the first time. That's exactly what happened in Camden on Sunday, at surely the sweatiest and most populated room per square inch in London at that very moment in time, when Simian Mobile Disco dropped this track at Blogger's Delight [...]
In the last four months I've spent more money on medication than on music. This is not okay. I'm sick, again, for the 80th time in the past four months and frankly am getting for lack of a better word, sick of it. So I'm working from home today, and it's been a good opportunity to re-listen to a lot of the music I've been digging as of late. It's been a while since I've posted any MP3s, mostly because I don't have my library at work. When I'm at work, I'm usually trying to focus [...]
Okay, so Galactic was on day two after El-P, but I didn't have the picture ready until now. Woody checked them out before falling asleep standing up again. Wait a second... that show was at 1:00am, so it was technically day three. Day three was our best day of SXSW 2007 thanks to NY2LON , Le Tigre, and Brooklyn Vegan . They had a great venue for their day party at Habana Calle with one outdoor stage and one indoor stage. Inside had an open bar with the NCAA games on, free [...]
One of the bands to perform at SXSW early on Thursday was the electro-band Datarock. Borrowing from a mixture of influences which include Devo, Talking Heads and Happy Mondays, they have mastered the DIY approach to musicianship. They're shows have...
Jaaa! datarock har legat på min ipod ett jävla dag nu och de verkar bli hype igen (vet inte om de har vart hype nångång men för mej) den låten som rulla mest var " Computer camp love "som är skit bra!... jag ska se om jag hittar den låten men om inte så får ni försöka få tag påden själv.. Datarock - Fa fa fa Datarock - I Used to Dance With My Daddy nää fan jag hitta inte den! [...]
Einige Monate lag die Website des King Kong Klubs ein wenig brach, doch nun wird sie wieder engagierter betreut und mit Updates bedacht. Um die Rückkehr würdig zu begehen hat das KKK-Team einen SXSW-Doppel-CD-Sampler, komplett mit Cover und Artwork, mit legaler Musik zusammengestellt. Mit dabei u.a. Voxtrot, Black Tie Dynasty, Youth Group, Datarock und vieles andere Schöne mehr. Link zur Downloadseite des Samplers (linke Spalte) MP3-Download Datarock «Fa fa fa» MP3-Download Lodger «I love death»
Interesting bit of trivia - with the exception of the trip back to the hotel last night, I have gotten lost every time I've gotten into my car. Not entirely my fault - they're closing all different streets at different times this year than last. But for someone who sort of thinks they know their way around downtown Austin by now, it's a bit embarrassing. Anyway. Yesterday afternoon was spent at the famous Antone's club (famous to blues fans, anyway) with the Spaceland/LiveDaily party that I was ostensibly co-presenting. Twelve hours [...]
Difficile de garder quelques morceaux au milieu de 739 artistes et 3Go de musique offerts ... Qu'importe ! J'ai utilisé une méthode scientifique qui a fait ses preuves : Un très rapide browsing des noms d'artistes présents sur la liste 2007 du Sxsw Une première sélection de noms connus Une relecture pour voir si certains ne seraient pas passés à travers ce premier filtre ; absolument nécessaire Puis, comme au milieu des bacs d'un magasin de [...]
The meme going around with all the protests for Bush's South American tour has been Bush as Hitler. To be honest, this has me a little confused. Whatever you think about Bush, he's not an actively evil person. He's more of a bumbling moron who means well. I admit that I gave these people a lot more credit than they deserve. There's been a terrific price paid for such legitimately good things as a free Kurdish people and a freer Iraq. Then again, the idea that people still think Hitler is bad is probably a good thing. Since [...]
Please visit Elbo.ws . It's worth it. It is so worth it. You gotta wonder how Cheney is going to feel about all this. News is leaking out of ABC studios that they might look to repurpose some Lost footage as a half-hour lighter side version of the show. The show's ratings have been dropping precipitously this season. In other news, as a resident of New York City, we have been amused by recent New York worst-of lists . To wit : [...]
SXSW plans: The whole big BIGSTEREO family arrives in Austin on Tuesday. Please give us a shout for our telephone numbers if you wanna hang out, dance mad, be crazy. Rchrd Oh?! is dj'ing at NOON on Friday, March 16th at Factory People . Come out and show yourself and buy some new clothes and listen to some hot music. And I've had a few email requests asking for recommendations and where we'll be at. Generally, I don't know where I'm gonna be five minutes from now. And there is just way [...]
Sunday mix EP our bandwith is back and better than ever "Computer Camp Love" - Datarock (one of the best songs ever posted on a blog) "Neon Bible" - Arcade Fire "Heal" - Catherine Wheel "She Was a Girl She Was in Love" - Matt Baldwin "Shooting Star" - Elliott Smith "Brass Ring" - The Broken West [...]
Auf das texanische South by South West (SXSW) Festival ist doch immer wieder Verlass. Auch in diesem Jahr tritt eine schier unüberschaubare Menge an Bands an. Das erste Mp3-Promotion-Paket, das seit ein paar Tagen als legaler Torrent umherrschwirrt, ist schwer: 3,5 Gigabyte für 739 (Siebenhundertneununddreissig! ) Mp3s. Da fällt es durchaus schwer, die wirklichen Perlen aus diesem Klangmeer zu fischen. Ich habe mich mal in die Fluten gestürzt und folgende Musik an die Oberfläche befördert. Nach absolut subjektiven Kriterien. Natürlich: (more...) mp3 , musique [...]
On this day in 1978, the first ever computer bulletin board system (or CBBS in geek speak) was established right here in Chicago by local computer hobbyist Ward Christensen. According to Wikipedia lore, the idea had been floating around for some time amongst Christiensen and his fellow colleagues, but it wasn't until they got snowed in from a record setting blizzard early that year that they had the time to hunker down and crunch out all the code for the project. So, in honor of this truly geek-tastic moment in computer history, we present this week's [...]
If you live in San Francisco you know the Mezzanine is consistently providing entertaining musical acts & alcoholic beverages for you to spend you paycheck on. Here's a peek at the new calendar, plan your life & checkbook accordingly. Thursday, February 15, 2007 | Switch / Solid Groove (Dubsided) Next Thursday Switch a.k.a. Solid Groove a.k.a. Dave Taylor is coming to town! Switch is a producer & also runs the label Dubsided which is home to Herve, Dj Fame & of course Switch. [...]
DOWNLOAD: Datarock - Nightflight (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Datarock - Maybelline (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa (MP3) Datarock, October 20, 2006 ( CRED ) WHAT IS "NEW RAVE"!!?? Why does Wikipedia even say that " Datarock is a norwegian New Rave band"? I mean I know people are using the expression - especially when referring to the Klaxons (who Datarock has toured [...]
Things have been quiet on the Making Time front since the beardy boozed-up get-down of New Year's Eve. But now things are stirring again at RVNG headquarters, and Philabuster's here to give you the straight poop before anybody else. First, flip your calander over to March and circle Friday the 30th. That's when Norwegian geek squad (and last weeks' Friday Freakout featurees) Datarock will be responsible for completely raddening your evening over at Pure. And if you're ready to write these guys off as just another 8-bit electro-pop outfit, then you need to check out their slinky, [...]
When an e-mail from Playboy pops up in your music blog's inbox touting something called "Rock The Rabbit", it's difficult not to be just a little incredulous. Logic tells you it's an announcement about Staind and Hoobastank co-headlining some charity gala for faulty implant victims. On the other hand, there's a decent chance there are semi-nude pics of hot women on the other side of that mouse click, so logic is quickly abandoned...
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