Paul's Boutique - Complete and Annotated Paul's Boutique is the Beastie Boys' second album, and is still loved by many. Now you can see how it was done. Every single sample and reference has been figured out and annotated.
From Accordion Guy.  ¶ 4:30 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  How to start with new authors An eternal problem: you hear about a new author, but you don't know where to start in their oeuvre. Debbie's Idea aims to help you out with recommendations. From Freakonomics.  ¶ 12:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 127 - January 23, 2006 New Order - Temptation (Factory)
Caribou - Medium Sized Working Dog (Domino)
Isolee - Face B (Playhouse)
Das Bierbeben - Staub (Robag Wruhme mix) (Mute)
Orb - Kan Kan (Kompakt)
Sascha Funke - Semi (Kompakt)
Ada - I Love Asphalt (Areal)
Moby - Dream About Me (Sebastian Ingrosso mix) (Mute)
Sharon Phillips - Want 2 Need 2 (Trentemoller mix)
Joe Silva - How I Feel (Purespace)
Switch - Get On Downz
King Unique - Flashing Lights (Junior Boy's Own)
Luc - Things That Block (Aagoo)
Aoki Takamasa and Tujiko Noriko - When the Night Comes (Fat Cat)
Margo - Les Nuages (Chez Moi)
Another Electronic Musician - These Given (n5md)
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Naa Er Druene Paa Sitt Beste (Eskimo)
The Black Dog - Sudden Intake (Dusted)
Eccodek - Spacehall Dub  ¶ 11:50 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  A rare miss for the Astronomy Picture of the Day The Astronomy Picture of the Day has been my home page for years. It's interesting, accurate and well-explained.

Today, they had a rare miss. In explaining Deinococcus radiodurans, a microbe that can tolerate environmental extremes, they say "Amazingly, they even have the ability to repair their own DNA, usually with 48 hours."

This isn't so amazing. Except for viruses, every organism can repair its DNA. They have to, otherwise they'd all die pretty quick, or have cancer sprouting from every pore.  ¶ 9:44 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Real Climate people are the nicest people See how nice the people at Real Climate are? They spell check for stupid people.

Oh I see. A web blog solely created to debunk and discredit the opinion on human induced global warming as it represented in the book "The State Of Fear" written by Dr. Michael Crichton, who in his numerous speeches on this subject, states over and over that science should have nothing to do with politics and visa versa, creates an alliance with one of the most far left political bash fest blogs found the world wide web. Keep up the good work!And I would bet my house you won't post this comment unless I dare you. I am a regular old house
wife from the good old state of California, who has been following this issue of GW and it's mis-use (as in my children's classes at school) for a few years now.

[Response: Solely to combat Michael Crichton? Hardly. The low level of understanding on this issue in much of what passes for public discourse is a much bigger target than just his (admittedly egregious) example. We've been interviewed my many different media organisations - of which DKos is just one - and if anyone else asks we'll talk to them too. (Oh, and just to show good will, I even corrected your spelling). - gavin]

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  RA: Resident Advisor - Richie Hawtin creates 9:20 for the XXth Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony - Music News RA: Resident Advisor - Richie Hawtin creates 9:20 for the XXth Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony - Music News

Whatever it ends up being or sounding like, it has to be an improvement over Tiesto's Olympic mixing at Greece 2004. I look forward to seeing it.  ¶ 10:21 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 126 - January 16, 2006 - Tribute to Mark Spoon Mark Spoon of Jam & Spoon died last week of heart failure. I played some of Jam & Spoon's best as a tribute.

Speedy J - The FUN Equations (Plus8)
The Black Dog - Remote Viewing (Dusted)
Caribou - Handelschnapper (Leaf)
Luc - Do It Just
Static - Never Never (City Centre Offices)
Consider It - This Risk
Aoki Takamasa and Tujiko Norika - Doki Doki Last Night
AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb (Warp)
Jam & Spoon - Stella (Sony)
Jam & Spoon - Odyssey to Anyoona (Sony)
Jam & Spoon - My First Fantastic F. F. (R&S)
Jam & Spoon - Stella (Eternal Basement mix)
Jam & Spoon - Follow Me (Sony)
Age of Love - Age of Love (Jam & Spoon's Watch Out for Stella mix) (React)
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Horseback
Malcolm McLaren - Madame Butterfly
Margo - 1 2 3 (Chez Moi)  ¶ 9:09 AM 2 Comments Links to this post

  Celestron's SkyScout Celestron is coming out with the SkyScout in March. It's a pretty cool looking and sounding device, although the only thing that matters is how it works at night in the dark and I'll believe it when I see it (and hear it).

It combines GPS, some sort of optical sensor(?), and database to tell you what you're looking at in the sky with text and voice recordings.

I'm an experienced amateur astronomer and I know the sky quite well. But there are still some constellations that flummox me, and this could be a neat gadget, especially if it can tell me the difference between the fainter stars in a constellation, say the difference Epsilon and Iota Ursa Majoris.  ¶ 3:20 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  A reading on the return of 24 And yea, it came to pass that the return of Jack Bauer was imminent.

Lo! a new season of 24 was about to begin. Yet, the nefarious forces of evil, led by Bears and Panthers, intruded into his return. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, riding their steeds Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and Nexium, delayed his coming by 12 minutes, to toot their foghorns of post-game analysis.

Mercifully, the gnashing of teeth was short, and so it came to pass, the book of 24, chapter 5, verses 1 and 2 were unleashed upon the masses, and they were satisfied!  ¶ 2:22 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Mark Spoon of Jam & Spoon dies Mark Spoon died this week of a heart attack. He was half of Jam & Spoon, a German trance duo. They were hugely influential in the early 90s as an inventor and innovator of the trance music genre.

In the long run, they will always be remembered for "Stella", which sampled the beats from Moby's "Go!", "Follow Me", which at 12 minutes long, was way longer than anything else being released at that time, had a huge two-minute long breakdown, and even sped up at the end. Finally, there will always be their remix of Age of Love's "Age of Love", best known for its acidic buzzing and choir vocals, which is still played out regularly.

Expect to hear all these on next week's Swoon.  ¶ 9:59 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 125 - January 9, 2006 - Best of 2005 Decomposed Subsonic - Atlantic View (Ware)
Ellen Allien - Come (bpitchcontrol)
Ladytron - International Dateline (Ryko)
AFX - VBS.Redlof.B (Rephlex)
Susumu Yokota - Purple Rose Minuet (Lo)
The Black Dog - Drexian City R.I.D.E. (Dusted)
Richard Devine - Sigstop (Sublight)
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (Feedelity)
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Bookashade - Body Language (Get Physical)
Matthew Dekay - Bad (DK)
Client - Radio (Rex the Dog mix) (Mute)
Yoshimoto - Do What U Do (Trentemoller mix) (Uno)
Ethan - In My Heart (Back Yard)
Holden & Thompson - Come To Me (Last version) (Loaded)
Kylie - Giving You Up (Alter Ego mix) (Parlophone)
Slam - This World (Wighnomy Bros. mix) (Soma)
Max Mohr - Old Song (Kompakt)
Royksopp - What Else is There? (Wall of Sound)
The Orb - Because/Before (Kompakt)
Jamie Lidell - When I Come Back Around (Warp)
Caribou - Brahminy Kite (Leaf)  ¶ 8:56 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Diplo at the Guggenheim An unusual location, for sure, but Diplo played the Guggenheim Museum. Here's some pictures from Peter Steinberg.

His setup seems to be two turntables, mixer, laptop and sampler or effects box, the picture is too small to tell.  ¶ 10:31 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Funny transcription errors with Jenn Sterger More funny transcription errors, this time with hottie Jenn Sterger. She says her breasts are real, then goes on to talk about what a great doctor she had:

*OK, the tough question that you probably hate to hear… but everyone wants to know. Are they fake?

No. They are real. Real expensive. Seriously. I get asked this a lot. I don't really understand the fascination. I mean, I love boobs as much as the next person, but to be obsessed. Never. I just chalk up all the questions to having an amazing surgeon. I'm sure he is enjoying all the free press he is getting, as almost any message from a girl on my Facebook.com is always about, I WANT YOUR DOCTORS NUMBER! It’s kinda flattering. But you will get your occasional haters. If the only way you can insult me is by pulling the "fake boob card," by all means …get some new material buddy. How original. Hey, it was MY money, a great investment, and damn it, ‘I am gonna shake what the doctor gave me.’ It doesn't make me shallow that I have them. I had just spent so much money on the guys I was dating, that I never did anything for myself. So finally, I was just like- what the hell- go for it. Best decision ever. Period.

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  Techno events this week Some techno going on in Toronto and Niagara this week:

two events in association with www.lomography.com - the canadian lomographic embassy will be on hand to raffle off some super dope Lomo Cameras.

Wednesday, Jan 4th, 2006 at The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. W. Toronto
Thursday, Jan 5th - The Niagara Artists' Centre, 354 St.Paul, St.Catharines

toronto event from 9pm-2am, niagara event from 8pm-midnight$5 admission at the door, cheap!

live music by:

Karri O. - abflug, resopal, plong! - live bumpin' tech house - Helsinki, Finland
Akumu - spider records, mutek '05 - live textural ambient music - Toronto
dj sets by:
DJ Task aka Tom Kuo - wab! i, foundation, minimal.ca - techno - Toronto
DJ Machine aka Marinko - ghetto$Y$TEM - electro disco - Niagara  ¶ 9:29 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 124 - January 2, 2006 John Dahlback - The Bad Giant (Huntemann mix) (Giant Wheel)
Cirez D - Teaser (Vendetta)
Fabrice Lig - Thru Your Soul (Ray Gun)
The Spoons - Nova Heart (Redanka mix)
Funk d'void - Barnabeats (Octave One mix) (Soma)
Invisible Inc. - Stars (Ambient mix) (Sumsonic)
Kosmas Epsilon - Feed Me Acid (EQ)
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (Feedelity)
M83 - Don't Save Us From the Flames (Superpitcher mix) (Mute)
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Bookashade - Body Language (Get Physical)
Williams - Piccadilly Circuits (Get Physical)
Ellen Allien - Magma (Bpitchcontrol)
Argy - Love Dose (Luciano mix) (Poker Flat)
Loco Dice - Jacuzzi Games (Ovum)
Fatboy Slim - Everybody Needs a 303 (Skint)
Atlas - Beauty (Jackpot)
Lustral - Everytime (Yunus mix)
Terry Grant - I'll Kill You (John Debo mix) (Bedrock)
Resistance D - Cosmic Love (Cyclotron)
Kylie - Giving You Up (Alter Ego mix) (Parlophone)
Ladytron - High Rise (Ryko)  ¶ 9:10 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Quantum Diaries have ended Last year, the people at interactions.org, a physics website, decided to celebrate the World Year of Physics by having a bunch of physicists blog for one year. It was called Quantum Diaries, and now it's over. The blogs were in many different languages.

In the end, of the English posters, I ended up following Cailionn O'Connell, Sarah Phillips and Gordon Watts the most. Here are their respective final posts: Cailionn, Gordon, Sarah.

A few are going on to blog more. Others are quitting. In any case, all the Diaries will remain up and open for inspection and remembrance.  ¶ 11:07 AM 0 Comments Links to this post