Swoon 222 - February 25, 2008 James Zabiela - Phaser Fire (Renaissance)
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross (Reef Caribbean mix) (Border Community)
Andreas Henneberg - Waters (Pierce remix)
Nemesi - Jurassico (Prins Thomas mix)
Partial Arts - Telescope (Kompakt)
Rabbit Season - Some Ships We're Landing
Fidgital - In A Strange City (Fidgital)
Nick Muir - G Platz (Pig and Dan mix) (Audio Therapy)
Navid Tahernia - Mylikestyle (Kompakt)
Exercise One - Diversion (LAN)
Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework) (m_nus)
Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (Rekids)
Pigon - Promises (Dial)
Lee Jones - Aria (Tiger Stripes) (Aus)
Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Astralwerks)
Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton rerub)
Iblamerobot - We Get Eyes
Holy Fuck - Echo Sam (Young turks)
Junior Boys - The Equalizer (Domino)
Shriekback - My Spine Is The Basslien (K7)
Larry Tee - I Love U
Tzadeka - Round Robin (Little Whore)
Barnyard Drama - The Blues

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Labels: dance, dj, electro, Music, Swoon, Tech-house, Techno, Tracklist

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  Larry Tee's 'I Love U' video. Pushing cute and catchy to the extreme:




From Missingtoof.

Labels: dance, electro, House, Music

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  Last night's lunar eclipse Saturn at left, Regulus at top.


A widefield view during totality.

Labels: astronomy, photography, physics, science

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  Swoon 221 - February 11, 2008 Fairmont - All Good Things (Border Community)
Apparat - Over and Over (Shitkatapult)
DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - It's You (Project)
Mathew Jonson - Real Dreams (Wagon Repair)
Samim - Heater (Robidog mix) (Get Physical)
Legion of Green Men - (Post Contemporary)
M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language (Senor Coconut mix) (Get Physical)
Vector Lovers - Lateshift (Simple)
Ben Klock and Marcel Dettman - Dawning (Revisited) (Bpitchcontrol)
Animal Collective - Peacebone (Pantha du Prince remix) (Fat Cat)
Force of Nature - Still Going (Transmute remix) (Mule)
Peter Grummich - Therapy (Franklin de Costa rmx) (DoC)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Different)
Mandy vs Booka Shade - O Superman (Get Physical)
Tiger Stripes - Mad At Me
Maxime Dangles - Agujas (Kompakt)
The Mole - Crackbeat (Wagon Repair)
Deadmau5 - Not Exactly (Mau5trap)
Long Distance Runner - Los Nihongoristas (Existential Sounds)
Azeda Booth - Aislinn Bos, Y (Azeda Booth)
Tzedeka - Boogie Man (Little Whore)
Rabbit in the Moon - Dubassex (Contagious)

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Labels: dance, dj, Music, Swoon, Tech-house, Techno, Tracklist

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  Facebook count good!

Labels: internet

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  Housewatch episode 4.12 Last night's solution to House was incredibly easy to understand, so I'll focus a bit on physiology instead.

The woman (Sarah Silverman's sister for those of you not watching the credits) had nephroptosis, or floating kidney. Everytime she stood up, her kidney slid down lower into her pelvis. She lost blood pressure, and she fainted and her breathing stopped. It's called orthostatic hypotension. The kidney is suspended in the pelvis by connective tissue. It can move easier than most organs. Since we can bend at the waist, this is a good thing.

So, why were they saying everything was backwards? In a healthy person, when you stand up your heart rate and blood pressure go up a little. If they didn't, you'd faint. With the head now above the heart, it takes more work to get blood to the brain, so the heart pushes a little harder, and then circulatory system tightens up a little, so the blood is less likely to trickle backwards.

Labels: biology, HouseMD, medicine, television

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  Mobilee - Back to Back 2
Mobilee has released its second compilation. Like the first, it's two discs, the first unmixed, the second mixed. GummiHz is in charge of the compilation and mixing.

This compilation showcases how Mobilee has evolved since the first Back to Back. Where the first compilation was mostly tech-house, this compilation features much more variety. On the unmixed disc there are different genres, ranging from Pan Pot's laid back housy "Faces", to the unusual minimalism of Sleeper Thief's "Cenotes". In between, there are quality tracks from label owner Anja Schneider, with "Belize", the omnipresent Sebo K's "Too Hot", and two exclusives from GummiHz, (real name Alexander Tsotsos).

On the first disc, I like "Faces", Marc Antona's heavily-looped "One More Sugar" and "Cenotes" best.

On the mix, GummiHz pulls together 27 tracks from Mobilee's back catalog. As you'd expect from so many tracks, they go by pretty quickly, and there's often three playing at the same time. But GummiHz is a skilled mixer/editor, and there are plenty of fine moments in the mix, if you are a fan of German minimal, tech-house and techno. I am, so I enjoyed it a lot.

Labels: dance, dj, House, minimal, Music, Tech-house, Techno

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  Swoon 220 - February 4, 2008 DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - Angel's Part
Fairmont - I Need Medicine (Border Community)
Frank Martiniq - Cuesta Verde (Boxersport)
Bjoern Stolpmann - The Space Between
Pigon - Promises (Dial)
Force of Nature - Sequencer (Stefan Goldmann mix)
Lucio Aquilina - My Cube (Cocoon)
Pierce and Twirdy - Cuaba (Babicz Style in Full efx)
Stewart Walker - The Stiff Materialist (PRS)
Ricardo Villalobos - Primer Encuentro Latino Americano (Fabric)
The Mole - Baby You're The One (Wagon Repair)
Etienne Jaumet - Repeat Again After Me (Ame remix)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Mark Knight remix) (Different)
Dot - Fire Red (Immigrant) (free download)
Junior Boys - Double Shadow (Kode 9 remix) (Domino)
Animal Collective - Safer (Fat Cat)
Venetian Snares - Personal Discourse
Plaid - Super Positions (Warp)
Aphex Twin - Meltphace 6 (Warp)
Friends, Lovers and Family - Dark Fader (Law & Auder)
Chromeo - Call Me Up (Kill the Noise remix) (free download)

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Labels: dance, dj, dubstep, Music, Swoon, Techno, Tracklist

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  Roegones vs. Vogons It turns out Roegone's (crazed anti-choice 527 group) have a lot in common with Vogons.

Vogons (from wikipedia):

According to the series, far back in prehistory, when the first primeval Vogons crawled out of the sea, the forces of evolution were so disgusted with them that they never allowed them to evolve again. Through sheer stubbornness, though, the Vogons survived, wrecked the planet, and emigrated en masse to the Megabrantis cluster, where they form most of the Galactic bureaucracy, most notably in the famous Vogon Constructor Fleets (which allows them a socially-acceptable way to spend their time demolishing things).

Roegones:

"THEY STARTED A FIGHT WE PLAN TO FINISH." [sic]

But really, I just wanted to be the first to have Roegones and Vogons in the same post.

Labels: internet, news

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  Periodic table as prints Nature's The Great Beyond blog points out a periodic table made by print makers. A lot of them are cool, especially since it's hard to inspired by Praseodymium and Cesium (below).



Wired also had an article on alternative periodic tables two years ago.

Labels: chemistry, physics, science

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  Anna's hummingbird Nature's The Great Beyond blog has an interesting post about the Anna's hummingbird. It seems its mating calls are generated by its tail, not its mouth or wings. It's a (so far) new and unique way of bird communication.

Journal article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Encyclopedia Brittanica video of hummingbird flight.

Labels: biology, evolution, sex

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