There's a difference between seminal/influential/whatever and *really good* recent stuff. So I'll differentiate between the two, and hopefully you can sort stuff out.
Some of the most important albums - to me at least - include the following: Big beat/breaks/whatever: The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole, The Crystal Method - Vegas, Fluke - Risotto Trance: BT - ESCM, Paul Oakenfold - Global Underground New York, Sasha - Global Underground Ibiza (by far the best of the GU series, imho) DNB: LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression (the first volume is my favorite), Roni Size Reprazent - New Forms Turntablism: DJ Shadow - Entroducing, UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Acid House: 808 State - Newbuild Downtempo: Anything by Fila Brazilia, Coldcut, DJ Food, etc. Also, DJ Cam - Mad Blunted Jazz. IDM: Aphex Twin -...i care because you do, Orb - Ultraworld, Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere -or- In Sides, Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children, Autechre - Tri Repetae++,
Newer stuff: Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives is a wonderful experimental hip-hop/glitchy album, if you're into that sort of thing. Dntel - Life is Full of Possiblities is the most utterly beautiful downtempo/IDM album I have heard in the past several years. It gets my highest recommendation. Fennesz - Endless Summer if you're into very static-laden, glitchy, abrasive noise with a kinda eerily nice melody to it at times. Just got into bands like Akufen, an experimental house group fraught with these amazing breakdowns; and Phonecia, a weird IDM-style rhythmic... thing. It's good too.:) Matmos is worth checking out if you're into the stuff way out in left field. They did the production for Bjork's most recent album. Squeaky sound effects abound. I also saw Telefon Tel Aviv, an indie band on the Hefty label, open at a recent show, and they were amazing. Check out their album too. Finally, The Avalanches - Since I Left You is, in my opinion, the most stunning turntablism album of the past five years or so. 900+ records all sampled, with minimal scratching, into this completely amazing mix that has reaffirmed what you can do with a bunch of seemingly unrelated vinyl.
Most of this stuff isn't specific *dance* music, but IMHO the best of electronica isn't stuff you want to shake your booty to. This might be a little bit scatterbrained, but if you start picking up albums that seem to float your boat genre-wise you shouldn't have any big disappointments. If you want more recommendations that are more specific to what genres you'd like (trust me, I have *lots*), please feel totally free to email me.
Hear hear. I go to a college with a slightly insane curriculum, and my classes get out by 2 PM every day. At 2:30, I sleep until about 5ish. This is a Very Good Thing(TM), because I usually only get four hours of sleep a night due to various forms of insane work for whatever reason.
Between the hours of about 2 and 6, I cannot function while awake. It simply does not happen. I like these brief stops in my work in the afternoon, because my dorm is really quiet and, quite honestly, it's the only time I can rest (I live in the party dorm this year, and though it's pure insanity most of the time, people go out to class and work in the afternoon while I sleep).
It's complex, but it works, and it works amazingly well. I rue the time when I will have to get a job in the working world, not because of what I'll be doing (I love my work, don't get me wrong), but because I will have to change my sleeping schedule so drastically that it will be some horrible form of physical torture for me.
I load Slashdot today and I see an advertisment for the Compaq MP3 player, and immediately below, I see the equivalent of "COMPAQ VIOLATES THE GPL DIE DIE DIE!(#&!*$" with the punctuation symbols and everything.
Does anyone else find this even somewhat ironic?!
(sigh)
Hey folks! I work at ticalc.org (and I posted the news item in question), and I have a few more points to add to the fray of discussion here. Hope I'm not afflicted with Late Poster Syndrome(TM):
The device will almost definitely run WinCE as its OS. I have no idea why, and there's no reason from the company (or for the company to do so, aside from mad development cizash from Microsoft). Don't get your hopes up, though. I have a WinCE device (that I got for free, heh-heh) and it's not THAT bad. Just expensive.
Everything has a "futuristic look" these days. Palm V, i-Opener, iMac, et cetera. This is HP's answer to TI's translucent color slide cases. Knee-jerk reaction.
Hope these both prove helpful. Though there's the possibility that it will run Pocket Linux in ADDITION to WinCE, it looks like WinCE is around to stay. *sob*
It looks like there's a little opening (certainly large enough for me to work my hands under) at the base of the cube for cables and such to come out of the bottom. Seems that I could stick my hands in that wedge, tilt it on its side and catch the top side on the opposite end with my other hand.
I don't think the people at apple were THAT stupid... after all, the cube IS only eight inches to a side. It's not that large and unwieldy.
A mirror of the Apple G4 cube's QTVR movies can be found here. You can rotate and poke around the cube and the pro mouse. Darn server being hammered to heck...
Like it or not, the Internet was not designed to operate on conventional phone lines. Sure, people are getting along fine on dialups, but bad mean corporations like AOL are making it mad easy to get online thru your dialup, while sufficiently screwing over many broadband providers ("Cable? I don't want some weird guy to destroy my house just for a cable modem that might not work")... at least as far as how they're perceived by the public.
When cable, DSL, or even ISDN (which I've been on since the dawn of time, it seems) becomes the de facto standard, I'll be happy. Until then, the concept of dialup connections is simply too horrible for me to stomach, no matter how sweet (or less bitter?) the bandwidth may seem.
Anyone see the movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Ed Wood (yes, of the movie of the same name)?
It's a black-and-white B movie from 1958 (link): it's also supposed to be the worst movie in all existence. For example, during one scene they have a spaceship that's obviously two paper plates glued together, and you can see the fishing line, and there'a a shower curtain in the background! AND, DURING THE WHOLE THING, THEY TRY TO BE SERIOUS!
[sarcasm]Obviously, there has to be a connection between this Plan 9 and the movie. Oh, those silly Bell Labs people!:) [/sarcasm]
Mention Microsoft acquiring anything, even if Bill Gates just acquired a box of cereal for his morning breakfast.
Mention the words "Open Source." Anywhere. (Note -- this has worked. I've posted two articles, one that mentioned Open Source and one that didn't, on the exact same topic. Guess which got accepted =P)
Use a three-letter acronym, such as RMS or ESR. It doesn't matter if it has any relevance to anything you're talking about.
mp3-1.mp3 : Metallica - Enter Sandman.mp3 mp3-2.mp3 : u-Ziq - Brace Yourself, Jason!.mp3 mp3-3.mp3 : Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings.mp3 mp3-4.mp3 : Nine Inch Nails - Pilgrimage.mp3 mp3-5.mp3 : Dr. Dre - Whatever The Hell Dr. Dre Writes.mp3
and so on.
Insidious, isn't it? And they won't be able to check every one, because people can constantly set it up different ways. Of course, this would only work on files that share things OTHER than mp3's, but it would work nonetheless.
It's like the "spam" email addresses on Slashdot: every one can be (very easily) made a different way.
Just last week (or two), the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago unveiled the largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton to date. Called Sue, the project took many months and many millions of dollars to complete.
This helped many scientists gain added insight into the structure and composition of the T-Rex and other dinosaurs. Fun stuff.:)
Let's say I'm somehow transmogrified into the head of Chicago's public works department. Use your imagination.
I give several thousand dollars to a project to revamp a dilapidated street corner in the Loop section of downtown Chicago. It's successful. Now we have a nice beautiful street corner where people are free to lounge around and do whatever people usually do on street corners in downtown Chicago.
One day, Mr. Bad Man breaks into FBI headquarters, steals top-secret documents, flies with them in hand to O'Hare Airport, takes the Blue Line El down to the Washington stop, walks over to the local Kinko's Copies(TM), makes several thousand copies of the secret documetns in question, and proceeds to then give copies of said information on said beautiful street corner to the people, thus jeopardizing the entire populace of America and threatening our national security.
In short, he is a "clear and present danger."
Now why the heck would the Government sue Chicago's public works department for building a nice street corner for the person to be all mean and nasty on?!
Sorry, this is just my rationale with the entire Microsoft(R) thing, deal with it as you want. It just seems incredibly pointless when you consider that analogy:)
Bah. Just get a car MP3 player for less money. Linux-based ones cost less than $400 in hardware, counting an old monitor. Just slap a 486 or low-end Pentium together.
MP3Car.com has some great examples and resources. One of my friends has built a mp3 car for $0 in expenses. It runs DOS 6.22 and I've seen it - it's damn leet;)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:56:36 -0500 Subject: Re: V.F.T.H. From: Jon Katz [jonkatz@slashdot.org] To: Nick Disabato [nickd@nickd.org]
Hey Nick, I don't know for sure..I didn't choose the voices selected, and names aren't being used..I'll try and check.. --
slashdot.org
ICQ: [deleted] AIM: [deleted]
> From: Nick Disabato [nickd@nickd.org] > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:40:24 -0500 > To: jonkatz@slashdot.org > Subject: V.F.T.H. > > I just saw on/. that you're releasing VFTH in paperback form. > > I was Nick from Chicago in the second of your three articles. I was just > wondering if I actually got in there. > It's okay if I'm not, but it would be pretty interesting if I was. > > Thanks:) > > -- > Nick Disabato [nickd@ticalc.org] [http://nickd.org] > News Editor, Featured Programs, Room Service > the ticalc.org project - http://www.ticalc.org/
Slashdot Mirror
There's a difference between seminal/influential/whatever and *really good* recent stuff. So I'll differentiate between the two, and hopefully you can sort stuff out.
...i care because you do, Orb - Ultraworld, Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere -or- In Sides, Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children, Autechre - Tri Repetae++,
:)
Some of the most important albums - to me at least - include the following:
Big beat/breaks/whatever: The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole, The Crystal Method - Vegas, Fluke - Risotto
Trance: BT - ESCM, Paul Oakenfold - Global Underground New York, Sasha - Global Underground Ibiza (by far the best of the GU series, imho)
DNB: LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression (the first volume is my favorite), Roni Size Reprazent - New Forms
Turntablism: DJ Shadow - Entroducing, UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Acid House: 808 State - Newbuild
Downtempo: Anything by Fila Brazilia, Coldcut, DJ Food, etc. Also, DJ Cam - Mad Blunted Jazz.
IDM: Aphex Twin -
Newer stuff:
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives is a wonderful experimental hip-hop/glitchy album, if you're into that sort of thing.
Dntel - Life is Full of Possiblities is the most utterly beautiful downtempo/IDM album I have heard in the past several years. It gets my highest recommendation.
Fennesz - Endless Summer if you're into very static-laden, glitchy, abrasive noise with a kinda eerily nice melody to it at times.
Just got into bands like Akufen, an experimental house group fraught with these amazing breakdowns; and Phonecia, a weird IDM-style rhythmic... thing. It's good too.
Matmos is worth checking out if you're into the stuff way out in left field. They did the production for Bjork's most recent album. Squeaky sound effects abound.
I also saw Telefon Tel Aviv, an indie band on the Hefty label, open at a recent show, and they were amazing. Check out their album too.
Finally, The Avalanches - Since I Left You is, in my opinion, the most stunning turntablism album of the past five years or so. 900+ records all sampled, with minimal scratching, into this completely amazing mix that has reaffirmed what you can do with a bunch of seemingly unrelated vinyl.
Most of this stuff isn't specific *dance* music, but IMHO the best of electronica isn't stuff you want to shake your booty to. This might be a little bit scatterbrained, but if you start picking up albums that seem to float your boat genre-wise you shouldn't have any big disappointments. If you want more recommendations that are more specific to what genres you'd like (trust me, I have *lots*), please feel totally free to email me.
Score: 5, Funny
3, sir! 3, Funny, sir!
:)
Hear hear. I go to a college with a slightly insane curriculum, and my classes get out by 2 PM every day. At 2:30, I sleep until about 5ish. This is a Very Good Thing(TM), because I usually only get four hours of sleep a night due to various forms of insane work for whatever reason.
:)
Between the hours of about 2 and 6, I cannot function while awake. It simply does not happen. I like these brief stops in my work in the afternoon, because my dorm is really quiet and, quite honestly, it's the only time I can rest (I live in the party dorm this year, and though it's pure insanity most of the time, people go out to class and work in the afternoon while I sleep).
It's complex, but it works, and it works amazingly well. I rue the time when I will have to get a job in the working world, not because of what I'll be doing (I love my work, don't get me wrong), but because I will have to change my sleeping schedule so drastically that it will be some horrible form of physical torture for me.
No, I'm not kidding. I'm that weird.
...was also interviewed by the corner monkey at waferbaby.
I load Slashdot today and I see an advertisment for the Compaq MP3 player, and immediately below, I see the equivalent of "COMPAQ VIOLATES THE GPL DIE DIE DIE!(#&!*$" with the punctuation symbols and everything.
Does anyone else find this even somewhat ironic?!
(sigh)
- The device will almost definitely run WinCE as its OS. I have no idea why, and there's no reason from the company (or for the company to do so, aside from mad development cizash from Microsoft). Don't get your hopes up, though. I have a WinCE device (that I got for free, heh-heh) and it's not THAT bad. Just expensive.
- Everything has a "futuristic look" these days. Palm V, i-Opener, iMac, et cetera. This is HP's answer to TI's translucent color slide cases. Knee-jerk reaction.
Hope these both prove helpful. Though there's the possibility that it will run Pocket Linux in ADDITION to WinCE, it looks like WinCE is around to stay. *sob*Or "occupant!"
That way, occupant@* and resident@* can be filtered out, and I won't need to worry about junk mail!
(sigh) When will government and corporations realize the pointless frivolity of such ventures? Why do you think things like Hotmail and Juno exist?!
I LOVE THIS IDEA! There's nothing like the possibility of having an email address like:
8 @usps.gov
303_north_seminary_avenue_park_ridge_il_60068-304
Finally, all my dreams of owning an email address have come true!
MetaBaby has the same thing: pages which are modifiable or creatable by just about anyone.
It was nominated for a Webby Award last year for best personal site. Slashdot was nominated (and won People's Choice) for Community.
It looks like there's a little opening (certainly large enough for me to work my hands under) at the base of the cube for cables and such to come out of the bottom. Seems that I could stick my hands in that wedge, tilt it on its side and catch the top side on the opposite end with my other hand.
I don't think the people at apple were THAT stupid... after all, the cube IS only eight inches to a side. It's not that large and unwieldy.
A mirror of the Apple G4 cube's QTVR movies can be found here. You can rotate and poke around the cube and the pro mouse. Darn server being hammered to heck...
Like it or not, the Internet was not designed to operate on conventional phone lines. Sure, people are getting along fine on dialups, but bad mean corporations like AOL are making it mad easy to get online thru your dialup, while sufficiently screwing over many broadband providers ("Cable? I don't want some weird guy to destroy my house just for a cable modem that might not work") ... at least as far as how they're perceived by the public.
When cable, DSL, or even ISDN (which I've been on since the dawn of time, it seems) becomes the de facto standard, I'll be happy. Until then, the concept of dialup connections is simply too horrible for me to stomach, no matter how sweet (or less bitter?) the bandwidth may seem.
MP does mean "member of parliament."
Anyone see the movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Ed Wood (yes, of the movie of the same name)?
:) [/sarcasm]
It's a black-and-white B movie from 1958 (link): it's also supposed to be the worst movie in all existence. For example, during one scene they have a spaceship that's obviously two paper plates glued together, and you can see the fishing line, and there'a a shower curtain in the background!
AND, DURING THE WHOLE THING, THEY TRY TO BE SERIOUS!
[sarcasm]Obviously, there has to be a connection between this Plan 9 and the movie.
Oh, those silly Bell Labs people!
Video Violence
Bloody Birthday
Violence Schmiolence
Let's Play Pretend!
And, probably the most ironic, hilarious, and appropriate one:
The Longest Line
...but isn't this more of a YRO topic than an Ask Slashdot? Just seems silly to me under that category.
Mention two Linux companies merging.
Mention Microsoft acquiring anything, even if Bill Gates just acquired a box of cereal for his morning breakfast.
Mention the words "Open Source." Anywhere. (Note -- this has worked. I've posted two articles, one that mentioned Open Source and one that didn't, on the exact same topic. Guess which got accepted =P)
Use a three-letter acronym, such as RMS or ESR. It doesn't matter if it has any relevance to anything you're talking about.
All someone needs to do is rename the files on their server to:
00index.txt
mp3-1.mp3
mp3-2.mp3
mp3-3.mp3
mp3-4.mp3
mp3-5.mp3
where in "00index.txt" it lists the files:
mp3-1.mp3 : Metallica - Enter Sandman.mp3
mp3-2.mp3 : u-Ziq - Brace Yourself, Jason!.mp3
mp3-3.mp3 : Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings.mp3
mp3-4.mp3 : Nine Inch Nails - Pilgrimage.mp3
mp3-5.mp3 : Dr. Dre - Whatever The Hell Dr. Dre Writes.mp3
and so on.
Insidious, isn't it? And they won't be able to check every one, because people can constantly set it up different ways.
Of course, this would only work on files that share things OTHER than mp3's, but it would work nonetheless.
It's like the "spam" email addresses on Slashdot: every one can be (very easily) made a different way.
Just last week (or two), the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago unveiled the largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton to date. Called Sue, the project took many months and many millions of dollars to complete.
:)
This helped many scientists gain added insight into the structure and composition of the T-Rex and other dinosaurs. Fun stuff.
If it hasn't been Slashdotted to all hell yet, here is the actual link to the server in question.
Oh, and if you want badly drawn comics, Friend Bear looks like it's entirely drawn in MS Paint.
Hilarious, twisted stuff.
As a parallel to last week (or whatever was the last round of quickies)'s Pay Lars, now you can Sue Lars!
Fight the Man!
Let's say I'm somehow transmogrified into the head of Chicago's public works department. Use your imagination.
:)
I give several thousand dollars to a project to revamp a dilapidated street corner in the Loop section of downtown Chicago. It's successful. Now we have a nice beautiful street corner where people are free to lounge around and do whatever people usually do on street corners in downtown Chicago.
One day, Mr. Bad Man breaks into FBI headquarters, steals top-secret documents, flies with them in hand to O'Hare Airport, takes the Blue Line El down to the Washington stop, walks over to the local Kinko's Copies(TM), makes several thousand copies of the secret documetns in question, and proceeds to then give copies of said information on said beautiful street corner to the people, thus jeopardizing the entire populace of America and threatening our national security.
In short, he is a "clear and present danger."
Now why the heck would the Government sue Chicago's public works department for building a nice street corner for the person to be all mean and nasty on?!
Sorry, this is just my rationale with the entire Microsoft(R) thing, deal with it as you want. It just seems incredibly pointless when you consider that analogy
Bah. Just get a car MP3 player for less money. Linux-based ones cost less than $400 in hardware, counting an old monitor. Just slap a 486 or low-end Pentium together.
;)
MP3Car.com has some great examples and resources. One of my friends has built a mp3 car for $0 in expenses. It runs DOS 6.22 and I've seen it - it's damn leet
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:56:36 -0500
/. that you're releasing VFTH in paperback form. :)
Subject: Re: V.F.T.H.
From: Jon Katz [jonkatz@slashdot.org]
To: Nick Disabato [nickd@nickd.org]
Hey Nick, I don't know for sure..I didn't choose the voices selected, and
names aren't being used..I'll try and check..
--
slashdot.org
ICQ: [deleted]
AIM: [deleted]
> From: Nick Disabato [nickd@nickd.org]
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:40:24 -0500
> To: jonkatz@slashdot.org
> Subject: V.F.T.H.
>
> I just saw on
>
> I was Nick from Chicago in the second of your three articles. I was just
> wondering if I actually got in there.
> It's okay if I'm not, but it would be pretty interesting if I was.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Nick Disabato [nickd@ticalc.org] [http://nickd.org]
> News Editor, Featured Programs, Room Service
> the ticalc.org project - http://www.ticalc.org/