come in...

S'cuse the auto play nature of this embed, but i'm realy on this set of sounds at the mo' and thought it well worth the promo.

... that's amoré

I'm thinking of producing a run of V.Day cards using this image with a music chip that plays that tune by Dino. Too gritty, you think?>> Tune [.wav]

>>> ROME (Reuters) - Call it the eternal embrace.

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, hugging each other.

"It's an extraordinary case," said Elena Menotti, who led the team on their dig near the northern city of Mantova.

"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging -- and they really are hugging."

Menotti said she believed the two, almost certainly a man and a woman although that needs to be confirmed, died young because their teeth were mostly intact and not worn down.

"I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited. I've been doing this job for 25 years. I've done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites," she told Reuters.

"But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special."

A laboratory will now try to determine the couple's age at the time of death and how long they had been buried. <<<

John Lennon - Give Me Some Truth

nuff said.

nightmare twister

see a few more of these impudent pieces based on Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare.

Check the real thing here at Tate Britain:
"Gothic Nightmares explores the work of Henry Fuseli and William Blake in the context of the Gothic – the taste for fantastic and supernatural themes which dominated British culture from around 1770 to 1830."

making a mental note (and checkin' it twice)

If anyone that i know is passing by, i'm here to tell you that i've been needing a set of these for some time now.

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a brief de-brief

After finding that if you begin ringing up ppl with offers of a spare ticket to someone they've never heard of mere 3 hours before the show starts you're going to be going on your own...

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Hi peeps,

Yep sorry all, that WAS short notice... that what happens when my life
is not in order. i can see it now.

Anyway, this was what was going on in case any of you'd like the de-brief... of plat du jour live on oct 3rd london at the barbican hall [there are track samples on the following sites which'll save mailbombing your in-trays with i guess]

see - http://www.platdujour.co.uk/
for more background
see - http://www.magicandaccident.com/matthew_herbert.htm
for it is he of which i spoke.
Dressed in the kind of white wellies you'd wear in factory farm and sporting a what looked like a mad dr frankenstein-syle combover and in a big pin-stiped brown apron (i think; need contacts soon i tell ya) Herbert orchestrated all the sampled sounds as they were shunted to him from various band members into a fkd up mad ass electro swing thing ...
And was petty damn fine, in spite of no live chickens on stage - mind you that would have run counter to the whole ethos of the work when i think about it. The real live cooks though, stage left of all the samplers and sequencers and wotnot, looked like strangely trim versions of french and saunders in their chef's whites as they pottered about. You'd think i could describe all the aromas that came wafting up to the circle as al the music was going on but alas no:
nose still on the mend after 20 years of smoking... there was a touch of fried butter then later melted sugar. Apples had been handed out at the interval prior to all this going on and Herbert directed the audience to a series of bites from them - the sounds were sampled and folded into the tune An Apple A Day...
You're better off reading the platdujour site i cant really do it justice.

There's a full tune here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A5110363

Before all that though Mugison did the opening set and he was a real treat as i was not expecting a support act.
yeah i'm teasing ya now.... can't be helped i'd barely heard of the guy myself (once maybe)
Icelandic
www.mugison.com
A one man sonic frenzy of chopped blues acoustic guitar and live samples together with a fine standup sensibilty.
he offered himself up as "a crazy monkey" to anyone in the audience that had an after-party they were going to...

...oh smiles!

From my nose-challenged perspective he was the better live act for when it comes down to it really.
You get the chance you go see him if only to scream along to that so-called difficult tune "i'm on fire!". [quicktime required]
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mood swing 2

mood swing 2; captured with the damn k700i. More over at vimeo.

tracking air - (Found a vid posting site)

this will be a collection of mildy diverting 10 second clips taken when i've [obviously] lost the will to concentrate on personal growth.