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Philip Glass - Music in 12 parts
Hard work. Kurt and I attempted so see the entire piece last night at the Barbican. We managed the first half which was 1.5 hours and whilst being in awe of complexity and the sheer effort being used to manually repeat the same chord for 45 minutes without a break by half time we could face [...]
Continue reading...Massive Attack - Blue Lines
25. May 2006
Upon finding out that a colleague at work had not heard it, this album is, to quote my lovely wife Cathie: The Greatest Album Ever Ever Ever Recorded and to think there are people in the world who have never heard it is v. sad She has a point.
Continue reading...UK live and streaming Drum and Bass
15. January 2006
I stumbled upon http://www.ukbassradio.co.uk tonight and it looks pretty good. I normally use Drum and Bass arena if I want to listen to a stream but that site has two problems: They’ve obviously gone for Windows at the back-end so I have to use media player, which is not ideal There is no live stream, one has to [...]
Continue reading...No more CD’s
23. October 2005
Hooray! This morning I finished ripping all of our CD collection into iTunes. It’s taken months, mainly because there were huge gaps where I just couldn’t be bothered but now it’s done and it was really worth the hassle. The stats are: 35.06 GB 57.9 days worth 8343 tracks 655 Albums (this includes EP’s and singles) 329 artists Next thing is to do a [...]
Continue reading...Junglism
10. September 2005
My Knowledge Magazine subscription ran out 2 years ago and they didn’t bother to remind me to renew, so I forgot…and now it’s two years later. Well anyway, I’m (very slowly) ripping off all of my CD’s to MP3 and had another spurt tonight. This combined with the iTunes 5 release means that I’ve been [...]
Continue reading...The History of NWA
18. May 2005
No radio, no television and no publicity. “Straight Outta Compton” sold 3 million records. A most excellent article that goes into some detail about the history of NWA http://www.daveyd.com/nwalatimespt1.html
Continue reading...Straight outta compton
12. May 2005
The NWA classic Straight outta compton not as we know it.
Continue reading...Sharing iTunes over different subnets
1. November 2004
Not possible apparently. This post mentions work arounds for Mac, but I need to figure something out for windows.
Continue reading...I’m expressing with my full capabilities
1. November 2004
Household Ackroyd/Beale hac decided to drag itself into the 21st century by digitising all of it’s music. Full signoff from Cathie, not just me. We both feel that we’ve neglected to keep up with new music due to our OH FUCK! introduction to parenthood2 2 years ago. Anyway, I’m now listening to “Straight outta compton”, NWA. [...]
Continue reading...Eminem mosh
29. October 2004
Eminem mosh Something tells me that he’s anti Bush A bloody good tune too
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