Depeche Mode mini album

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Depeche Mode are to release a new 8 track mini album on December 8th in time for their forthcoming UK tour.  The album features track pulled from their recent ‘Sounds of the Universe‘ album as well as some special remixes. The full track list runs:

‘Fragile Tension’ – radio mix, ‘Hole To Feed’ – radio mix, ‘Perfect’ – Roger Sanchez Club Mix, ‘Come Back’ – SixToes Remix, ‘Fragile Tension’ – Laidback Luke Remix, ‘Hole To Feed’ – Popof Vocal Mix, ‘Fragile Tension’ – Peter Bjorn And John Remix,  ‘Hole To Feed’ – Joebot Remix

Watch for Depeche Mode new releases at Amazon here.

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

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My favourite bit is about 1 minute in with Animal.

Gomez @ Southampton Uni



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Originally uploaded by Phil & Catherine Wilkins

Photos from Gomez’ gig at Southampton university on my flickr site. Admittedly taken with the Samsung Soul mobile, which to be frank isn’t that great for this sort of thing.

A reasonable gig, but I’ve seen Gomez perform a lot better. he big surprise of the night was Frightened Rabbit, the support band who put in a very impressive support set. This is a band with lots of potential.

Amazing piece of video

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The warped media industry

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a rather good article about the frustrating and crazy behaviour of the media industry (film, TV & music) towards innovation and technology. Although a lot of this is not new thinking it is well expressed, and also highlighted in the light of the fact that recent findings have shown Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) actually have helped advertising not hindered it.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/dvr-tvs-new-bff

Cookie Monster ……

Free Joseph Arthur tracks

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Free Joseph Arthur downloads according to his website …

“Do you have friends whom you know will love the music of Joseph Arthur? Send them a message using this form and you’ll receive a free mp3 of the track “Can’t Let You Stay,” one of the bonus tracks from the newly released Nuclear Daydream re-issue! Be sure to let them know that if they join Joseph’s Mailing List they will receive a free mp3 of Joseph solo performing “Slide Away” from the Montreal Jazz Festival from July 4th, 2008, only available for signing up on the mailing list. For those of you already on Joseph’s Mailing List, you can fill out the mailing list form again and we’ll send you a link to download the mp3. We’ll make sure you only receive one email copy of Joseph’s newsletters.”

http://www.josepharthur.com/

Where science meets music & video with brilliant results

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I cam across an amzing site, that has combined video clips from science documentaries such as Carl Sagans’ stunning Cosmos with music, with the video samples having their images and audio very cleverly massaged to meet the tempo of the music.  The clips are such that the science still makes sense ….

If you’d like to see more then where you can download quality versions of the video or just audio.

Stephen Fry on technology and its impact on culture

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This ia brilliant video of Stephen Fry discussing technology and how it has affected culture.  A recommended 12 minutes.