This video documentary, produced and originally released in 1993, has a ton of great footage and interviews from all members of the band from their inception through 1993's Tabula Rasa.
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The box cover depicts what could be a strange retro-digital flower with
Buddhist temples pictured in the background. The writing is entirely in
Chinese, with something which loosely translates as "electronic prayer
machine" on the spine and on the back a list of good things about
buddhism (being nice to others, not killing, etc,...) and the all
important "Made in Hong Kong."
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Our kindergarten teachers always told us how we should be sharing, but
the RIAA would have you believe otherwise. Looking at any recent
major label release, the packaging is pretty much destroyed now with
big blocks of text, an FBI symbol and a warning. Unfortunately,
monster megalith Sony BMG isn't out to warn the consumer or provide any
information that they're illegally loading "malware" (malicious software) onto unsuspecting
machines.
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Truman Capote elegantly described the brutal murder of a family in the midwest through his famous book In Cold Blood. The book birthed a genre: the "nonfiction novel" by means of poetic license: making a very
cold, dark story something captivating enough to win the affinity of the
public, and that's exactly what Bennett Miller does with his movie Capote.
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Intone, the current umbrella record label Richard H. Kirk (of Cabaret Voltaire) releases music under, has announced fortcoming releases for 2006 including Chapter Two - Live in the Earth by Sandoz in Dub, URP 4 (Unreleased Projects 2003-2005), and an as yet untitled EP for the label Dust Science.
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Consider yourself fortunate. Since you're reading these words you
have access to a computer, the Internet, and an endless repository of
film, music, art, and culture. It wasn't always this easy.
In the 1930s, Henri Langlois founded the Cinémathèque Française, both
an archive and a theater, holding on to every film he could get his
hands on under the
notion that all film had some value to society.
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Boston residents can tune into Brainwashed peeps Jon Whitney and Nick
Feeley every Monday morning now from 7-10 [EDT] (Jon) and 10-12 (Nick)
on 90.3 FM. Remote residents can tune in online to WZBC by clicking here
(it should open in your iTunes or WinAmp). It's commercial free
and it's live! Request lines are now open! (Remember to add 5
hours if you're in the UK and subtract 3 hours if you're in California!)
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We all know by now how the major labels fuck all their artists over and fuck
all their customers over but now they're trying to fuck over their
promotional outlets!
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Richard Zvonar, the composer and innovator of electronic music, died this August 3, 2005. Richard worked with me on Wild Women with Steakknives, Eyes Without Blood, Tragouthia apo to to Aima Exoun Fonos, and Panoptikon, which we were planning on
redoing this year.
redoing this year.
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Nekesa Mumbi Moody has just published an article on how "Best Of" albums are not so great these days.
But have they -ever- been? She identifies who's doing it all wrong but
bands and labels are often confronted with the task of "how to do it
right." Here's a helpful guideline to anybody faced with making a
compilation.
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This past week, Sony BMG agreed to pay $10 million in fines over their
illegal Payola practice. Payola is as old as the recording
industry itself and is basically another way big business labels fuck
everything up for the rest of us.
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This is the second album in a series of three in which McKenziecollaborates with Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós. The double CD comes inthe same style of package as the other Hafler Trio voice series, eachrelease consists of music made entirely from the voice of oneindividual (Blixa Bargeld and David Tibet being the othercollaborations).
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