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‘Spring Love 2010′: free festival in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo (April 3-4)
Last year saw around 40,000 people gathered together for music, dance,...
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3D Audio, and Binaural Recording
One of the dafter things they teach in physics classes is that because humans only have two ears, we can only hear location...
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Welcome Chess and Hope
The RSPCA at Potters Bar run the most fantastic animal rescue facility, Southridge Animal Centre , where they look after over 250 animals including cats, dogs, hens, donkeys and more. It was an eye opener, visiting this place last week because the level of care is extraordinary. Cats are kept in individual pens with...
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Cabaret Voltaire – Microphonies (1986)
Cabaret Voltaire in their so called commercial period, produced two albums of scintillating brilliance, this was the second and spawned two near identical near hits, ‘Sensoria‘ and ‘Do Right‘. This music stands alone in the annals of electropop in combining minimalist electro beats with a genuine feel for the funk. There is a swing...
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Autechre – Oversteps (2010)
Labouring under the mantle of ‘intelligent dance music’, Autechre have studiously built a reputation as innovators, continuing a line which includes Tuxedo Moon, Cabaret Voltaire and Shriekback as much as it does Amon Tobin and Boards of Canada. This album is considerably more subdued than some, containing interludes of almost ambient quality, but it...
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Goldfrapp – Head First (2010)
We just loved the eighties at Chimera Mansions and Goldfrapp’s sly appropriation of the riff from Van Halen’s mighty ‘Jump’ just makes us, well, jump for joy. If the pastoral interlude of ‘Seventh Tree’ served notice that, in case we had forgotten the majestic ‘Felt Mountain’, Goldfrapp are not just a run of the...
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Patience R.I.P. (March 15 2010)
This is not a story for the faint hearted. On Monday night, Patience, a charming, affectionate and much loved cat, suffered a fatal heart attack. I held his head in my hand as he died. After about thirty seconds, as I peered stunned into his sightless eyes, he coughed and convulsed a second and...
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Virtual Lego
Someone's finally come up with the "killer application" for VR and computer-augmented reality.
It's buying Lego.
You walk into a participating Lego shop, pick up a box of
Buttocks a-go-go
Modern dance. Who, what, why? Questions left unanswered last night, despite two hours of dancing, prancing and bouncing to the unmelodic strains of a central heating system. Eat your heart out Margot Fonteyn, this was more nutcase than Nut Cracker. There was lots of running on and off stage, standing like a coat hanger...
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