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.
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Where’s Fluke…try 2BitPie.
The upside to the high gas prices is that more companies are poping up trying to find alternatives, both alternative fuels to oil, and alternative means of making oil.
This story is the latter. Bio Fuel Systems, a Spanish company, has come up with a way of getting oil from plankton using an electromagnetic field, solar energy, and the magic of photosynthesis.
The company has not refined the crude oil product yet, but do claim that it is better for the environment as it is more productive, contains fewer contaminants, and would reduce CO2.
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Oil from plankton.
I want to ride this thing around a big city at night (Tokyo, New York, etc) while listening to Fluke.
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Music Motorcycle
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/
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Screaming Masterpiece DVD, Bjork, Sigur Ros
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.
Check their site for ticket information www.exitfest.org.
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Exit Festival, Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans, Pet Shop Boys
If you’re one of the lucky ones whose got an XBox 360, prepare for a year of free shit. Epic has teamed with Microsoft of offer the owners free music and high-def music videos from their list of emerging artists to be downloaded via the XBox Live system. Each month one artist will be chosen, the first one is Natasha Bedingfield.
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XBox 360
As advertised.
Sony announced that their PS3 will launch in November of 2006, just in time for the holiday rush…or 1 year too late?
The PS3 will play Blue-Ray discs, PS1 & 2 games, and will attempt to take over the world once 1 million of them are plugged into the Internet.
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PS3
While the manufacturing of the high-definition DVDs apparently have been pushed out, Netflix has readied itself for the new format.
If you will be purchasing a HD DVD player, and have a Netflix account, you can log into your account and select and option that will allow you to rent the HD DVDs when they have them.
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HD DVD
While Warner Brothers teased us with a March 28th date for high-definition releases on DVD, they’ve since retracted stating it’s too soon.
They have not given us a new date.
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HD DVD
The rumor mill has Sony announcing the release date of their PlayStation 3 on the 15…so come back Wednesday, we’ll post what we learn then.
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Playstation 3, PS3, Sony