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- Closer Returns With Rolando (UR) 11/04
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- Portishead: Replicants of Funk
- Cosmic dawn – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Barnes & Noble to pen New Store at 3701 McKinley Parkway…
- Judges take opposite sides on legality of uploading music files to…
Closer Returns With Rolando (UR) 11/04
Skiddle.com – Apr 4, 2008
He is well known forhis particularly funky use of Roland’s SH101 analog synth and for hisparticularly emotional and personal melodies and harmonies which have seen himrelease tracks of scene-leading labels like KMSF-Communications 7th City Records and Playhouse Records. His considerable talentshave seen him play at some of the world’s most prestigious clubs andfestivals from Fabric in London to Sonar in Barcelonato Sub Club in Glasgowto The Montreux Jazz Festival to The Fuse-In Festival in Detroit (where his set was voted as the bestof the entire festival). He has worked with legends of electronic music like Laurent Garnier and Jean Michel Jarre and is a prestigiousaddition to the line-up. Joining these twointernational guests will be our acclaimed resident Steve Strawberry and his fellow Tilted Disco tunesmith PaulCoughlan with more than ample support from MiMo & R U Dirty?’s formidable teams of resident DJs. Expect to here the full spectrum of technomusic and tougher underground house over the course of the night and acrossthe 2 rooms.
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ESPN – Apr 4, 2008
n the east bank of the Limmat river the extremely lively Niederdorf district – the oldest in Zurich – is home to a plethora of good bars clubs and restaurants; the hottest spots are on Niederdorfstrasse Munstergase and Limmatquai. Check out X-Tra-Palais – a club restaurant lounge and hotel all in one on Limmatquai. In recent times the former industrial area of Zurich West has become a hip locale for nightowls fueling the city’s reputation as one of the European capitals of electronic music. Akt on Heinrichstrasse is incredibly popular as is the Acapulco Bar on Neugasse. A great place to sit down for a meal in these parts is Besame Mucho an eatery specializing in Mediterranean fare. Although Zurich’s most prominent brewery Hurlimann was swallowed up by corporate sharks in the late 1990s the independent Turbinen has kept up the tradition of fine ales. Fans without tickets should head for the Public Viewing areas the main one sited at Bellevueplatz a square close to where the lake meets the river.
Portishead: Replicants of Funk
Village Voice – Apr 4, 2008
‘s Murmur Revisiting the debut they never quite topped Meet the Web Sheriff Fighting music piracy via ominous blog comments and pre-written apologies n Britney Spears’s Sadly Generic Circus More blandishments from the dance floor Hate to get all nostalgic here but we’ve got to hop on Pop’s time machine and take a whiz back to them kindly ’90s when Portishead first arrived like some new disease dark and sly and killer. People then were just starting to wrap their heads around what computers could do for them—you used e-mail in 1994 maybe. The technology that powered electronic music was similarly nascent (General Schwarzkopf meet General MIDI) and similarly irresistible to thousands who might’ve remained record-store clerks forever were it not increasingly easy to sample a beat and lay a synth line over it. And so came a great rush of house and trance and jungle and techno little fluffy clouds across a liquid sky. Not everyone went to raves in those days but everyone who did went on to start their own. ” 1994′s Dummy wasn’t just the best 5 a.
Cosmic dawn – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Apr 4, 2008
FR decades disco has been one of music’s most reviled genresderided by serious rock fans for its perceived vapidity effeminacyand mindless repetition. Almost 30 years after the infamous Disco Demolition Night atChicago’s Comiskey Park stadium when the public explosion of acrate of disco records sparked a riot that ended in 39 arreststhere is still a hostile knee-jerk reaction whenever the genre ismentioned. Even in the past decade with dance music steadilyinfiltrating rock’n'roll until they have become almost inseparabledisco remains the final taboo. But now it seems a comeback is written in the stars becausethere’s a disco revival looming – and it’s cosmic baby. Cosmicdisco is a newly-minted genre threatening to take over whereelectro-rock left off succeeding the somewhat jockish cult thatsurrounds the likes of Daft Punk Justice and Australia’s ownModular Records scene. Its roots however stretch back to the small town of LaziseItaly in 1979 where at a club named Cosmic pioneering DJ DanieleBaldelli began to combine 12-inch disco singles with Germanexperimental music Steve Reich’s hypnotic classical excursionsand the throbbing pulse of Afro-beat. “I might mix 20 African songs on top of a Korg Electronic Drumsrhythm pattern” said Baldelli in a 2003 interview… Cosmicdisco is a newly-minted genre threatening to take over whereelectro-rock left off succeeding the somewhat jockish cult thatsurrounds the likes of Daft Punk Justice and Australia’s ownModular Records scene. Its roots however stretch back to the small town of LaziseItaly in 1979 where at a club named Cosmic pioneering DJ DanieleBaldelli began to combine 12-inch disco singles with Germanexperimental music Steve Reich’s hypnotic classical excursionsand the throbbing pulse of Afro-beat. “I might mix 20 African songs on top of a Korg Electronic Drumsrhythm pattern” said Baldelli in a 2003 interview. “I would play aBrazilian batucada and mix it with a song by Kraftwerk. I wouldalso use synthesiser effects on the voices of Miriam Makeba JorgeBen or Fela Kuti or I would play the oriental melodies of fraHaza or Sheila Chandra with the electronic sounds of the Germanlabel Sky. This is the essence of cosmic disco taking the exuberantfreedom of classic disco music and adding a darker slower moreexploratory edge. Cosmic the club only existed until 1984 whenpolice stepped in to quash a growing heroin problem and Baldellisubsequently struggled to find DJ work because of cosmic music’sdruggy associations.
Barnes & Noble to pen New Store at 3701 McKinley Parkway…
techwhack.com – Apr 4, 2008
The store?s music department will feature RedDotNet the most advanced listening and previewing technology. RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store sampling up to 270000 music titles by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the company?s online electronic music catalog the store?s listening stations make ?browsing with your ears? a reality. Thanks to the latest technology RedDotNet stations also allow customers to view a three-minute clip of up to 60000 DVDs. The store?s newsstand stocks over 2000 titles including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines.
Judges take opposite sides on legality of uploading music files to…
International Herald Tribune – Apr 4, 2008
At issue in both cases is whether people who initially download or own copyrighted music are legally liable if they leave music files accessible to be shared by others. Peer-to-peer sharing services allow computer users to make files on their PCs available to a multitude of other users. “Both of these rulings are important because it is the first time judges have thoroughly analyzed these questions” said Fred von Lohmann a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation a San Francisco-based nonprofit and online free-speech advocate that filed briefs as an interested party in both cases. Neither judge questioned that copy infringement occurs when people using peer-to-peer software search the Internet for a particular piece of music and then download it without authorization. Today in Business with Reuters… ” The student-defendants could claim “they did not know that logging onto the peer-to-peer network would allow others to access these particular files” Gertner wrote. But Judge Kenneth Karras in New York ruling in a case against a single computer user said just placing a copyrighted music file in a computer folder shared by peer-to-peer software users could amount to illegal publication of it. The music industry has sued more than 30000 people for illegal downloading many of them college students using university Internet services. Many of the cases have been settled by the defendants agreeing to pay record companies a few thousand dollars apiece.