Blackberry + McClaren = F1 genius
Blackberry + McClaren = F1 Genius!
Superb viral doing the rounds…
12 things the new Star Trek trailer teaches us…
12 things that the new Star Trek trailer teaches us about the movie
March Playlist
In addition to my regular DJ mixes – I’m also posting a playlist of the ‘other’ music I listen to – to expose some new tunes that tickle my fancy. I’m using the marvellous ‘opentape’, that allows me to easily post a short playlist to my website and for you to listen directly from the site.
This months selection:
- Depeche Mode – Wrong
- Polly Scattergood – I am Strong
- Old School Freight Train – Heart of Glass (great Blondie cover)
- Corin Joel – I kissed a girl (Katy Perry cover)
- Peter Doherty – Last of the English Roses
- The Owls – Air
- Casiotone for the painfully Alone – Old Panda Days
- Band of Horses – The General Specific
- The National – All the Wine
- Emmy the Great vs Young Husband – Burn Baby Burn (Ash cover)
- Ben Lee – Kids (MGMT cover)
- She and Him – I put a spell on you (Screamin Jay Hawkins cover)
Best in the world? Returning…
Some ‘live’ clips and a video are circulating for the first single (Wrong) from the new Depeche Mode album, ‘Sounds of the Universe’ (video is here) – I’m really looking forward to hearing their new material.
Continuing my current nautical theme
“The world isn’t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.” – Raul Ernesto
Jan 2009 – Hope – Progressive House
A touch later than I originally wanted, due to some PC upgrade shenanigans and prolonged editing, but here’s my first mix of 2009.
Hope has some added Obama goodness, and some funky bass heavy tunes for your listening pleasure.
Download ‘Hope’ in 256kbps by clicking here.
Full Tracklist:
- Thomas Schumacher – Picanha (Original Mix)
- Sebastien Leger – Majuro (Original Mix)
- Deadmau5 – Slip (Sebastien Leger Mix)
- Delicious – Bounce (Original Mix)
- Daeadmau5 – Clockwork (Helvetic Nerds Mix)
- David West – Illectronics
- Miles Dyson – Anthem
- Artento Divini – Lupara (Artento Divini Mix)
- Lazy Jay – Float my Boat (Original Mix)
- Sydney Blu – Senses and the Mind (Olivier Giacomotto Mix)
- Ben Delay – Innercircle (Madfish Remix)
- Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar (Dabruck & Klein Remix)
All tracks downloaded from the marvelous Beatport, mixed in Traktor and mastered in Acid
amazing six month exposure photograph
This amazing image took six months to expose – using a pinhole camera
RIP Astoria – another landmark closes…
Tonight sees the sad occasion of a historic london venue closing its doors. The Astoria on Londons Tottenham Court Road is being demolished to make way for part of the Crossrail construction.
I am not one for standing in the way of progress, but this one does cause a little heaviness in my heart, as the astoria has some fond memories for me.
Most recently, I went to see The Dears there, the shallow auditorium holding us close to the stage for a powerful performance for Murray and the band – it rates as one of my favourite gigs ever. But it’s further back in history that the astoria formed powerful memories… In the heady days of acid house I was an aspiring DJ with designs on clubland when i went to meet Nicky Holloway in the club to try and get a gig at (I think) Sin City. I had already been clubbing there as a late teen at ‘The Trip’, but i wanted a gig there so much.
I didn’t get the gig, but I played at the Milk bar, just behind the astoria, and carried on going to huge club nights at the Astoria through the early nineties, whilst at other times it hosted Radiohead, U2 and Madonna – along with Londons biggest gay night, G.A.Y.
Tonight, the venue closes down with a gig curated by Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Guests include JJ72 and My Vitriol.
It was a great venue… And will be sadly missed.
Review – True North : Travels in Arctic Europe
I picked this up in my favourite second hand bookshop before Christmas to fuel my addiction to travel related literature, especially about inhospitable places.
True North documents the writers travels around the countries of Arctic Europe, including Iceland, Greenland, Lapland and Svalbard – and throws some interesting light on these cold and unforgiving countries.
Weaving historical information from Viking sagas and early literature into his travel diaries brings an extra dimension to the standard travel writing and allows the reader some insight into how the history of these countries is closely linked with the history of our own.
Fascinating read – well documented with maps and a few photographs. Available from Amazon here : True North: Travels in Arctic Europe
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