Quick bite to eat...

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Didn't intend to do another RSA one, but this has just dropped and it makes you think, that said, it is Zizek (who has a mad nervous tick that makes you think he is under the influence of a certain narcotic).



Quick note about Google Images which has been tweak recently if you didn't know. Best viewed in Firefox. Basically its added a couple of really cool little tricks that mess with your head a bit if you even slightly wonder how they did it.

So for example, search for "cake". Then if you see on the left hand side you can filter by colour. So say orange cake, or green cake.
Then search for something like the "Golden Gate Bridge". Hover over an image you like, and a link should appear saying "similar"... and it will search for images for images from the same perspective for example. So if there is a picture you like, but is blurry, you could find a sharper picture this way.

Finally a golden little statement that a colleague passed my way:

"I had a terrible childhood. People used to cover me in chocolate, cream and stick a cherry on my head. Life was tough in the Gateux."

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Latest tracks by toot!

All of these need some work, on the mix side especially. Planning to get some nice monitors soon and sort'em out proper.

An introductory duo

Yo yo yo. Saludos a todos!
This is good. I very much like the middle eastern sounds that crop up on this track:



Then, this is the latest of the Animate series from my work:

Chip off the old block...

Recent Obsessions

Last post for a while as I'm away, so I thought I'd pop down a few tunes I've been wearing thin recently.

First, The Unthanks, with a bit of folk goodness:

Then Metronomy, with, well, this:

The Knife: Colouring of Pigeons

And finally, a bit of Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra

Digital Highs

Read this article today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10668480 .....Sounds like something out of Brass Eye

The Books

I like The Books a lot.

furthermore

Yes toot! and mitchos muchas gracias

Worth checking out the xx mashups with biggie, this one is a good example, the minimalist xx sound works well with the biggie vocals

Also, this radiohead remix of everything in its right place by gigamesh. Check the music ninja
to get it

TOKiMONSTA

This lady's making some excellent soulful, electronic, hip hoppy beats.

Gravel...

Bonjour tout le monde. I thought I would kick off my contributions with someone who is news to me but I suspect old news to most people In The Know, the tobacco enriched vocal chords of Mr Gil Scott-Heron. I just got back from Melt Festival in Germany, where Chris Cunningham ended his VJ set with a remix of New York is Killing Me, which I thought was awesome. However, for now content yourselves with the original until the video inevitably appears on the interweb.

For those of you with a penchant for old timey blues, here are two classics of the genre, Skip James with his Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues, and the perhaps lesser known Snooks Eaglin with St James Infirmary. Apologies for YouTube-only links.

Finally, I posted this on facebook a while back, but I still love it. Inherently cheesey, but a video that nonetheless makes me smile excessively.

gotta start somewhere

So for the first item on the blog, an old name on the UK hiphop scene...Skitz
Worth a listen I think..

Also, I thought some of these colour photos of the world in the early 1900s were pretty amazing

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