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- Letters to the Telegraph
- Nokia’s nline Play
- Borough DJ a hit in Germany
- Remix Hotel Atlanta Announces Keynote Speaker Scott Storch New…
- Carling Weekend 2007: Main Stage (Leeds)
- NEWS: GGBT Festival 2007
- Bottled Lightning of an All Time High
Letters to the Telegraph
Telegraph.co.uk – Aug 29, 2007
Both times I was told “All our agents are busy” and left on hold assaulted by electronic music. I think that helps answer the question about why our nation is now lawless. Sandra Reynolds Portland Dorset Sir – In the gun-crime debate we must not tar all policemen with the same brush. Speaking as a police chaplain in the 1980s and 1990s I put the blame for the widespread social breakdown on the slippery shoulders of successive Tory and Labour governments. Their pursuit of perception politics and a softer image based on educational social and criminal-justice policies of guilt-ridden “liberals” has proved destructive of the individual the family and the community.
Nokia’s nline Play
Forbes – Aug 29, 2007
In a bid to find new revenue sources the Finnish mobile phone maker on Wednesday launched a series of Web services under the brand name vi that would allow users of its phones to download music games and maps directly to their cell phones. Nokia’s new Music Store is a direct challenge to Apple’s wildly successful iTunes offering. While its songs might not be cheaper than those on iTunes the service represents a huge step forward in accessibility: IPhone users have to download songs to their computers but Nokia’s vi users can download songs directly to their phones. vi will be available in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2007 but there is as yet no timetable for entering the United States. The company has struck deals with the world’s four biggest music labels Universal Music Warner Music Group (nyse:.
Borough DJ a hit in Germany
News Guardian – Aug 29, 2007
Mister Fusty brain child of Rob Gibson is an electronic music project that has produced an album which caught the ear of German TV and radio. Rob 35 was talent-spotted by Arnd Zeigler a 42-year-old radio DJ and TV presenter from Bremen in Germany. Mr Zeigler discovered Rob’s music online. He said: “I was absolutely fascinated and listened to the CD many many times. “Samples of the music are being used on ‘Ziegler’s wondervolle des Pop’ a radio show on Radio Bremen 4 and ‘Zeigler’s wunderbare welt des Fussballs’ a late night football TV show.
Remix Hotel Atlanta Announces Keynote Speaker Scott Storch New…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 29, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire NEW YRK — Penton Media’s Remix Hotel([TM]) Atlanta presented by Microsoft Beatsource and Akai will return to Atlanta on September 20-22 to the all-new SAE Institute of Technology for three days of music technology product demos industry panels workshops and special guest appearances. The event will feature superproducer Scott Storch production mastermind Hank Shocklee with LRoc The Runners and more; and an expanded list of technology partners. The Remix Hotel provides hands-on access to the technology and equipment. CPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire.
Carling Weekend 2007: Main Stage (Leeds)
Virtual Festivals – Aug 29, 2007
If they were aiming for the showmen of the day crown though Lostprophets put up some stiff competition getting kids up onstage and even covering 'Blue Monday' as a segue into 'Last Summer'. The gloves are off. Clearly by no stretch some significant debts are owed to Trent Reznor for Nine Inch Nails' impact on industrial and electronic music that still haven't been paid after all the acclaim they've been given. After a slow start their live machine cranks up and starts churning out sweet dischordant noise ranging from the almost unbearable and frustrating moments of instrumental abuse silhouetted in neon to the triumphant 'Head Like A Hole' and a heartbreaking rendition of 'Hurt' Reznor backlit against a wall of stars. For sheer emotional highs and lows NIN will be matched by few others this weekend and quite rightly so. Including unfortunately tonight's headliners. The Smashing Pumpkins have a hell of a lot riding on these dates amongst their first in the UK since the band's reformation.
NEWS: GGBT Festival 2007
TAXI Design Network – Aug 29, 2007
Presentations reflections are being given on the area of web-art monumental art film- and video art street art design architecture computer-games photography electronic music and audio art. The festival has 5 exhibitions lectures workshops live-acts a film program live-cinema an experimental music program and in the evenings: Dance Party’s. This years theme: MEDIAPLIS Mapping the City of Tomorrow. Mediapolis shows how popular culture influences the virtual city.
Bottled Lightning of an All Time High
VUE Weekly – Aug 29, 2007
Throughout the course of this album she uses lyrics from “Where Is My Mind?” by the Pixies she covers a Bollywood tune and adds some verses to a five-year-old song by a young Australian rap group. The opening track “Bamboo Banger” uses lyrics from “Roadrunner” by the Modern Lovers Eastern chanting and a sample of Pharrell Williams saying “Come on!” intermittently. Switch who helmed most of the production for this album sets a new standard in modern electronic music by flipping a sound that is never repetitive and structurally innovative. While her songwriting is still relatively limited in scope with half-formed battle cries and pull-up-the-poor proselytizing—”I put people on the map that never seen a map”—she has still managed to stay well ahead of the pack. com The most striking feature of The Historical Conquests f Josh Ritter the latest record from the eponymous singer-songwriter is its diversity. Ritter changes gears more than a truck driver.