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  1. Re:Puhleeeasse NO! by lavaface · · Score: 1 · on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?

    Board of Canada use Flash to a nice effect to promote their album. Click on "'Hi Score" and play around with it. Bloated? Maybe, but still, you can do some amazing things with Flash. Another link off the top of my head is this interactive kaledioscope. Again, it's fairly useless but nonetheless an example of the diversity of work possible w/Flash. There are plenty others, just find them yourself (or add to this thread!)

  2. I forgot to mention by lavaface · · Score: 1 · on Your Favorite Net.Art?
    The Boards of Canada website is an excellent promotion of their album and intriguing eye-candy as well. Be sure to go to track 4 (hi scores.)

    The kaleidoscopic effect on the photos led me to find this interactive kaledoscope.

    Enjoy!

  3. Re:Techno sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Small Webcasters Sue RIAA

    Try some IDM, then.

  4. Ok, enough with the Club Hitz. Start digging. by Twisted+Logic · · Score: 1 · on Electronic Music 101?
    There are some much more profound artists out there than a lot of people here are mentioning, and I think it's rather shameful that nobody is really searching for new electronic music, and only waiting for the next movie soundtrack or "Electronica" compilation to come out.

    Having said that, I'd also like to say that I hate the term "electronica", as it really only describes the range of electronic music that MTV and MuchMusic dare to tell you about, and doesn't even hope to cover a wider range of electronic music that doesn't necessarily include techno.

    Here are some electronic artists with a bit more diversity:

    Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV)

    Kraftwerk

    Brian Eno

    Laibach

    Nash The Slash

    Coil

    David Thrussel (Black Lung/Snog/Soma)

    Pieter Bourke

    Boards Of Canada

    David Kristian

    cEvin key (Skinny Puppy/Download/The Tear Garden/and more...)

    Brian Eno

    Merzbow

    CPI/DXM

    Tribes Of Neurot

    Lab Report

    Thighpaulsandra

    Atari Teenage Riot

    Now that you've got a real place to start, find out who the artists you listen to collaberate with, and who they are influenced by, and listen to their music too. You'll discover a whole new world of electronic music that mainstream music outlets will probably never even hope to tell you about.

  5. Re:bands by curlyhairedkid · · Score: 1 · on Electronic Music 101?

    THANK GOD I'm not the only one who has experienced the bliss of Geogaddi...

    mmmm...

    website

  6. Electronic music only sharing system by motardo · · Score: 1 · on New File Sharing Networks
    Soulseek lets you search for ONLY electronic music, like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and Others. I have friends that release their stuff on there too

    -motardo

  7. could be good by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 2 · on Review of Pay Napster

    I was thinking Napster was dead and gone but I'm starting to think they might be on to something, especially since it looks like MP3.com is losing its luster.

    The service should allow artists to choose if they want the "secure" wrapper or plain MP3s, and/or the wrapper should be easy to remove (the way Fanning keeps talking about it the wrapper makes me think it will be).

    The system should allow you to identify rips before you download them (ie, there should be "official" rips for each song, preferably at a few different qualities, and that should get passed around, rather than every dork sharing their own "version" of the track full of skips and dropouts and bad encoding).

    And there should be plenty of tools for learning about new music, and ways for artists to promote themselves (hopefully not ending up with big guys shutting out little guys).

    I think might actually turn out pretty good, especially for indie artists looking for distribution. Better than having to set up your own website and pay for bandwidth, and you might get a few bucks. Just tell people, my new track is up on Napster, check it out.

    The Napster brand is pretty strong too, in fact I still use the term "Napster" even if I'm actually using another service.. like, didja Napster the new Boards of Canada album yet?

  8. Memories of something similar: Third Voice by mcc · · Score: 3 · on Don't Eat the Yellow Links


    There once was a program called "Third Voice". Third voice was a browser plugin that basically turned the entire internet into a discussion page. You could place little post-it-note-like thingies onto any website you liked, and any Third Voice user later viewing that URL would see your post it note sitting where you placed it. It did this by storing the post it notes in a central database; third voice would send its home server the url being viewed, and the home server would send back any notes that third voice users had left about this url.

    That's a bit funky, but i think it's a nifty idea.

    People went berzerk. A bunch of people went and sued third voice, claiming 3rdvoice was violating their copyrights, defacing their websites, a billion other things. This despite the fact that the added 3rdvoice content was clearly marked. Armed with misinformation and the thousand stinging nettles of draining litigation, they attacked third voice, upset anyone could "alter the content of" their web page.

    This scares the crap out of me; it serverely bothers me that practically nobody seemed to see 3rdvoice commenting on webpages as 3rdvoice exersizing their constitutional rights to free speech. (OK, maybe i am overreacting. But apathy for free speech issues scares me. Bite me.) I see only two important things here:
    • I have a right to install software on my computer that alters the content i access and view in any way i want, as long as i have permission to view that content in some form.
    • Third Voice has a right to maintain a database where people can comment on various URLs for purposes of commentary or critisism. The fact they display the comments on top of the webpages being commented on makes no difference*, as long as the customers are either clearly aware of what is original content and what is 3rdvoice content or have consented to having the content altered for them. (Yes, of course, the fact KaZaA customers were not fully aware of what it meant that TopText was being installed, or informed during the installation process what the yellow links would mean in future makes everything different, and makes the inclusion of TopText with the KaZaA program, whether legal or no, definitely immoral on the part of KaZaA.)
    Third voice no longer exists. I have not been able to find any hard data on what the conclusions of the lawsuits filed against thirdvoice were. Either way, it is not important; Wired says that 3rdvoice went down for the sole reason that the web advertising market is shit, and legal harrassment was not involved. Sad; it was a nifty idea. Maybe someday we will see a GPLed equivilent?

    -mcc
    Keep in mind that the same people that would keep you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a television program.

    * (Offtopic side-rant: at the least, they have more right to do this than bess has to maintain a database of "objectionable" websites and distribute software which blocks those websites-- the crucial difference being that Third Voice presents their content as opinion, which it is, while Bess presents its content as pure, cold fact despite the fact it may be innacurate. The only objection with Bess would be a) that they misrepresent their product and content to consumers and b) that some school districts and libraries have been forced to install it, against the wishes of the users of those schools and libraries.)