September 15th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Chris
Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better
A consortium of media companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox, HP, Intel, Lions Gate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign and Warner Bros plan to create a digital video ‘ecosystem’. This new digital framework, essentially an online virtual storage library containing a digital rights locker, would be in direct contrast to Apple’s iTunes vendor-based model. The consortium will call itself Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE) and their goal is to create an “uniform digital media experience”. More specifically, it would give the media producers more control over the media rather than leaving that in the domain of online retailers like Apple.
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Posted in: Music, Technology
Tags: drm, iTunes, Music
September 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Chris
A decade ago, he was playing keyboards for the pop band D:Ream at the 1997 victory party of New Labour at the Royal Festival Hall.
Next week, he will be the photogenic face of particle physics when the biggest experiment on Earth is switched on in Geneva.
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Posted in: Other, Technology
Tags: big bang, d:ream, hadron
September 6th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Chris
Cactus island are back with their entire back cat available for download plus 2 new releases!
welcome back! we’ve been away for a while doing that “real life” thing whilst applying some time to a restructure here on the island. a few changes (..which you’ve probably noticed already):
a new site – we’ve had the decorators in and jazzed the place up a bit. we’ve kept it clean and simple as always as well as adding some essential features such as a better page layout for releases and an rss feed to help you keep up to date with news from the island.
a new shop - you can now purchase your essentials directly from our back catalogue and future releases ranges in digital DRM-free FLAC or MP3 format as well as straw donkeys and sombreros (no!, not really!)
yvat’s album “tear duct” is available in CD digipak as well as the compilation “brittle behaviour” which is a standard CD package with stunning artwork by malota for £7.99 each with FREE postage worldwide!
yvat’s album “tear duct” is available in CD digipak as well as the compilation “brittle behaviour” which is a standard CD package with stunning artwork by malota for £7.99 each with FREE postage.
Technorati Tags: cactus island, maps and diagrams, smeg, yvat
Posted in: Electronic/IDM, Music
Tags: "cactus island"
August 11th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris
Blamstrain have thrown up a downloadable free mp3 album, also available as flac or on cdr, should you wish to donate.
get it!
Blamstrain - Finnish electronic music:
Posted in: Electronic/IDM
August 5th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris
Delicious Minimal House Grooves
After an absence of far too long, Benfay makes a welcome return to Thinner. His last appearance on the netlabel was in January 2005 when he teamed up Irish singer Alice Mackay on the “Lighthouse EP” [THN068] delivering four tracks of vocal minimal house. Now, two and one-half years later, he’s back with “Born on a Houseboat” where the houseboat is a metaphor for a “floating community sharing a love for one style of music.” The style here is nearly a half-an-hour’s worth of delicious beat-laden grooves and urbane minimal house contained in four tracks.
Thinner/Autoplate - Thinner Releases - THN096
Been keeping an eye on these releases, freebee tracks arent usually up to much, but some of their releases are pretty good… chekit
Posted in: Electronic/IDM
August 5th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris
Lights Out Asia - Tanks and Recognizers:
Lights Out Asia’s long awaited sophomore outing Tanks and Recognizers hits the pavement today. You can grab a copy on CD over in our mailorder or you can download it now for that oh so special feeling of instant gratification. We also have available for a very limited time in our mailorder a special LOA pack that includes both of their releases (Tanks and Recognizers and Garmonia), a 11X17 poster and 1″ button.
Nice, only on track 2 so far though 
Posted in: Electronic/IDM
June 25th, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris
noticed bjork used this at Glastonbury this year, a bit of investigation leads to….
The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?media
Posted in: Electronic/IDM
April 1st, 2007 / No Comments » / by Chris
Cable Modem Troubleshooting Tips: Web Proxy Caches:
winn-cache-1.server.ntli.net
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