My latest ear addiction is Drone, and there isn’t even a damn CD yet. Drone is an electronic music artist in the glitch style. It’s very cool, catchy and progressive stuff.
There’s a very cool video by Drone of the song Strange Craft on Youtube, and below for lazy people:
Drone also has a Myspace page where you can listen to the following tracks:
Pulsar
Robotic Fantasy
Strange Craft
Floorrocka
World Trade Center
Healing My Toothache
Now I don’t have a MySpace account mind you (yeah, the only one?) so I can’t contact Drone to beg for a CD of his stuff. Shit, I’d pay if I knew who to pay. So, Drone, if you’re reading this, put some info up on your MySpace site on how to get a CD or email me at dan AT agentdesign.net. There’s money waiting for you.
Samsung’s cool new double-sided cell phone/MP3 player, the SPH-M620, or Ultra Music, is listed on Sprint’s website. While it isn’t listed as for sale, or detailed, it is labeled “Coming Soon” in Sprint’s Game Lobby.
It’d be nice if Samsung’s website would give us some details, like an available date…or even month.
D²
Samsung’s Ultra-Music (SPH-M620) on Sprint’s website.
Amazing, fantastic, exciting news. Rage Against the Machine is reuniting for the 2007 Coachella festival. They will be playing on Sunday, April 29th.
Other performers include: Bjork, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, DJ Shadow, Benny Benassi, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tiesto, Air, Paul van Dyk, and more listed on the official Coachella site.
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Coachella 2007 Lineup - Rage Against the Machine reunites!
Love the electronic band Fluke? Me too. Absurd, Atom Bomb, the whole Puppy album, their work on the Matrix films, all great stuff. If you miss ‘em, then maybe you haven’t been looking in the right places.
Fluke is now 2BitPie, and their album 2 Pie Island is a worthy successor to Puppy. Fly grabs you from the start and gets you movin’. Colours starts with sounds that bring me back to the Matrix, but the vocals are more mature than what I’m used to for the group. Soto Mundo gets me moving again big time. And they end with After Hours a nice trip of beats.
Called Screaming Masterpiece the DVD highlights the music, much of it electronic, that has come out of Iceland. It went on sale yesterday. The musicians featured are Björk and the Sugarcubes, Sigur Rós, Múm, Bang Gang, Mugison, Minus and Slowblow and others. It can be purchased here: http://www.sodapictures.com/
Imagine seeing, oh, around 600 performaces at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia over, say, three days? That’s the Exit Festival! And it’s happening from July 6th through the 9th.
Some of the confirmed artists playing on the 18 stages (yes, 18) are Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans, Pet Shop Boys, Ritchie Hawtin, Nick Warren, Suzanne Vega and Dave Clarke. More will be announced soon.
What I would give to be at this show. To see Massive Attack then Tool would send me in a spiritual upward spiril that I may not be able to return from. That’s what’s happening at Coachella this year (on April 30th).
Other bands of note at the two day festival (April 29-30) are Daft Punk, Mogwai, Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Paul Oakenfold, and Coldcut.
April 25th the next DJ Tiesto album, In Search of Sunrise 5 - Los Angeles, will be released.
Below is his tour schedule to promote the album:
March 18th - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 20th - Tokyo, Japan
March 31st - Manila, Philippines
April 1st - Seoul, South Korea
April 4th - Hong Kong, China
April 6th - Shenzen, China
April 7th - Guangzhou, China
April 8th - Hangzhou, China
April 9th - Bejing, China
April 13th - Bangkok, Thailand
April 14th - Singapore, Malaysia
April 15th - Taipei, Taiwan
April 20th - Bali, Indonesia
April 21st - Jogjakarta, Indonesia
April 22nd - Jakarta, Indonesia