Knuckledragger

6 1/2 minutes of awesome. Today only:

I own Nothing Lasts, which has Dead Drop on it. I ripped it at some point. Currently it's on my external FLAC drive and on on the lappy. Not gonna lie, I haven't listened to it in ages. I'll have to dig it out and give it a (HDD) spin.

The pisstake, part two. Quite a bit longer, but distressingly similar. Steve has been branching out.

And now, for the opposite of the Ambient/IDM thread: This is quite the piss-take, I must say

I downloade paulstretch for OSX a while back, around the time of the ZOMG Justin Beiber @ 1/8 speed = Sigur Ros phenomenon. I used it on a few gabba tracks to odd and amusing effect. One of these days I might get around to post some expamples. Don't hold your breath on that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mg2UXWcZ9E Baked Beans were a trio of German ambient composers. They put out two albums on the short lived Recycle of Die label in the mid 90s, and one more a different label toward the end of the decade. Physical copies of their CDs are stupidly hard to find, but in the age of FLAC most of their catalog is attainable. This song was my first exposure to their music. It was included on the Eye-Q compilation pictured in the video, which actually had some distribution in the US. As it turns out, the song is one of Baked Beans' strongest works, and is dedicated to Heinz Roth, the founder of Recyle or Die. Like many (most) ambient works, it's a bit slow to start. When it finally gets to where it's headed, this song displays some pretty fantastic analogue synthesis. Well worth 11 1/2 minutes of one's time, provided the listener is in a quiet, relaxed atmosphere. Then again, I dunno, this track might work with closed to cans to block out a noisy and hectic workplace.

w00t. Just upgraded my MB from 2GB to 4GB of RAM. Installation was a relatively painless process ...once I started reading the installation guide for my model MB. The performance difference is noticeable, particularly if I want to run FFX and (anything else). Edit: The most difficult part of the whole process was booting my my old XP box and wading through the month's worth of updates it wanted to install first before I open a browser and look at the sodding install guide.

47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”

The middle one. Better known as: Not a deterrent for everybody...

Holy shit is the Shpongletron awesome. Dusty, I hope you went. Photos forthcoming later. Right now I am tiiiiiiired.

For those of you that use Steam, Plants vs Zombies is on sale for $3.40, Mac and Windows. Cheaper than a crack addiction, and more gripping too.

Wow. Justin could use that as an advertizement for the hithertofore undiscovered Minecraft/Stat demographic.

Um. WAT. The cover to Jean Michel Jarre's Oxyegene, done in Minecraft.

Thanks, adktitan! That's now how Dr. Seuss drew him. Muad'Dib!

Shpongle (Simon Posford) playing live (DJing his own tracks, usually) surrounded by a ginormous multi-screen video projection system. The video artist is Zebbler Peter Bredovsky, who was the man behind the 2007 Boston "terror scare."