Browse: Culture
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DJ Z Trip’s Barack Obama Mixtape
DJ Z Trip has dropped a free mix encouraging American’s to go out and vote Obama next month. Hop on over to Z Trip’s website for some awesome mash-ups featuring folks like Saul Williams, Jello Biafra, DJ Vadim and others; and don’t forget to register your vote.
I encourage you to download it and pass it [...]
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The Story of Muxtape: What really went down
Justin Ouellette– the owner of Muxtape– has finally broken the silence on what really went on since the RIAA decided they couldn’t live in the same world as his music sharing service.
Ouellette has described how he almost signed a licensing deal with the majors to keep Muxtape alive, how it would have meant comprimising the [...]
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UK Author has Book Suppressed- Publishes it Online
Craig Murray is no stranger to literary suppression.
The outspoken former British amabassador to Uzbekistan was forced to un-publish certain documents which he claimed exposed “Britain and the CIA’s use of intelligence obtained by torture abroad” (which had been legally obtained by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection acts) from his website after legal threats [...]
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Joining the Dots #1: Nu Jazz
This is part one in a series of articles & podcasts by London journalist, radio DJ and presenter Nat Illumine, exploring subgenres which have developed in British electronic music. More info & links on the series here.
“Hip Hop, House and ALL THAT JAZZ!”
The rate that modern music genres evolve is quite astonishing, particularly in [...]
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Bruce Conner, 1933-2008: “Forefather of 21st century art”
Rhizome.org posted an obituary today for Bruce Conner, the Beat Generation film-maker who pioneered remixing audio and video long before music videos and mash-ups rose to prominence in creative culture.
Conner who was aged 73, was considered one of the last survivors from the Bay Area Beat era art scene that included Jay DeFeo, Wallace Berman [...]
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Firefox 3 Goes Live, Breaks Record- Worth the Hype?
Yesterday I was one of eight million people who downloaded Mozilla Firefox 3, a software release so hyped up you’d think that Steve Jobs had whipped it out of his pants.
The open-source rival to Microsoft’s loathed Internet Explorer holds runner-up spot in the browser wars, commanding roughly 18.4% of internet users round the world, compared [...]
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Parklife: Sunday at West End Festival
Glaswegians lounge in the sun at Kelvingrove Park on Sunday after Mardis Gras, part of the West End Festival. Photo: Ron Reid.
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West End Festival
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Veneer Magazine (Pics)
Here are some behind the scene, pre and post creation, pics of Veneer magazine, one of the world’s stranger publications.
Veneer is released quarterly in an edition of 18 issues, before it will be ceased. Full editions sold to the public- that’s you and me- are limited to 300, with a price that fluctuates based on [...]
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RSNO Orchestra Events in Glasgow
Promotional designs for a series of genre-pushing orchestral events held in Glasgow by the RSNO.
Forget the stereotype of classical music as a powerhouse of snobbery. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra have arranged a hat-trick of events which reconsider the modern context of orchestral music, and are taking place in Glasgow in June.
The first event is [...]
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Tips for the Glasgow Film Festival
It always amazes me that in the Glasgow, one type of festival or another is always just round the corner. With the final resonance of celtic and world music still lingering in the city’s collective ears, our attentions are swiftly being turned to the up-and-coming Film Festival, which runs from the 14-24 of February.
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