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The Documentary is probably the best West Coast street-rap album since DJ Quik's 2002 LP Under tha Influence. All of the G-Unit solo albums thus far have been aesthetically unified, rare in hip-hop; the tracks on The Documentary actually sound like they belong on the same album. Dr. Dre produces five of the album's 17 songs, applying his recent stripped-down cinematic style, and many of the other producers imitate Dre's style. Superstar beatmakers like Timbaland and Kanye West hold back on their signature tics, fitting their usual approaches into the album's fabric. The end result is a hard, rich, triumphant sonic tapestry; you can hear every dollar that went into the album.
Read the full review here:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-revie...cumentary.shtml
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Science
Tiny robots made of cells and microchips
Updated: 2:40 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2005
WASHINGTON, - Rat cells grown onto microscopic silicon chips worked as tiny robots, perhaps a first step towards a self-assembling device, researchers working in the United States reported on Sunday.
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They described a new method for attaching living cells to silicon chips. They then got the combined entities to move like tiny, primitive legs.
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The customer reminds me of how I would have handled the situation
It doesnt surprise me that the manager was an idiot. I just spent 4 months getting a credit card from B of A for a client--they thought it was suspicious that my client wanted his credit card delivered to the same address as his checking and savings account!!! -
Anybody got a plane - maybe we can do a BK roundup
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Hi brownting, and welcome to BK. We cover music from Rap to Classical and everyting inbetween. All of us love reggae--how about stirrirng something up for us :scratchin:
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Nice signature, CA! :good job:
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Facing the Sun - Patrick O'Hearn
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Mac
in Kickin' it
what's that supposed to meanRedneck is our resident liberal-hater and trouble maker
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Craig's list is the best!
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Welcome back - we were beginning to worry about you :strumma:
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Timelines - John Serrie (Mirimar)
Some easy listening muzack off the tv, but it features some nice guitar work
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They oughta lay off Fox News, too, while they are at it
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Scumfrog - Simmer
www.thescumfrog.com
from Isaac McCalla
"Simmer" is The Scumfrog's debut solo album, featuring new songs from Scumfrog the Artist instead of Scumfrog the remixer. The Scumfrog (aka Jesse Houk) made his first ripples in the underground scene with "The Watersong" and blast onto the airwaves with Kylie Minogue's "Love at First Sight" remix, which got everyone's attention with its powerful beat and unique structure. From that point on, The Scumfrog was known as a fresh purveyor of deep, dark and funky house music. Since Jesse's conquered the realm of remixing, he's gone on to explore his more artistic, original side.
True to form, Scumfrog's production on this CD strikes the right balance between grunge and clean techno, a magic trick that The Scumfrog does particularly well. With "Simmer," he's created a hybrid of progressive house and 70s glam rock, that makes the songs approachable for a wide range of music fans, who will no doubt enjoy the re-interpretation of classic rock 'n roll attitude. It seems like Jesse is familiar with acts like The New York Dolls and Hedwig, because a lot of the same sensibilities are here. Lyrics like "My pants are leather, my boots are pink, bet your boyfriend don't know what to think" enter that androgynous zone that glam rockers.
You can read more here:
http://dancemusic.about.com/od/reviews/fr/...frogSimmerR.htm
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Overall, the music has an rocking sound and is full of attitude. The guitar work is scorching, live and groovy, creating a live energy unheard of in most house music these days- excepting the current trend of bringing rock into house music. "Simmer" exemplifies that trend, being a prime example of live rock elements finding their way into dance music.
Starting with the opening track "Set It Off" you'll hear gentle, electric keys over a serene bed of strings build into an arena-sized wall of guitars as Scumfrog screams "set it off…set it off" like a true rocker. The second track, "Come On," is my favorite vocal track on the album; the structure is classic, the music borders on punk, the groove is irresistible, and Jesse's vocals sound spot on like a young Mick Jagger.
track#
song name
track time
1
Set It Off
(6:16)
2
Come On
(3:08)
3
Simmer
(3:58)
4
Domino
(4:48)
5
Bacon
(7:02)
6
8 Days, 7 Hours
(4:25)
7
F Karma
(6:28)
8
One Thing
(7:23)
9
Music Revolution
(3:14)
10
Beauty
(6:51)
11
Come On (New York Mix)(*)
(7:38)
12 (CD 2)
You, Me & The Music (the Scumfrog's Vocal Mix)
(6:38)
13 (CD 2)
Learning to Fly (Dub
(5:41)
14 (CD 2)
I Like the Way You Touch Me (the Scumfrog Remix)
(5:28)
15 (CD 2)
Free as the Morning Sun (the Scumfrog's Remix)
(5:57)
16 (CD 2)
Loving the Alien
(7:41)
17 (CD 2)
Switch (the Scumfrog's Deep Miami Dub)
(6:11)
18 (CD 2)
Days Go By (the Scumfrog's Vocal Mix)
(7:15)
19 (CD 2)
Jungle of Mirror (the Scumfrog's Remix)
(5:39)
20 (CD 2)
Sunshine (the Scumfrog's Remix)
(5:54)
21 (CD 2)
Music Revolution
(6:05)
22 (CD 3)
Deep Sleep Dub
(6:43)
23 (CD 3)
You're Not Alone (the Scumfrog's Dub)
(7:06)
24 (CD 3)
In the Beginning (the Scumfrog's Remix)
(6:58)
25 (CD 3)
Andante (the Scumfrog's FF Tusson d'Or Mix)
(5:53)
26 (CD 3)
We Love You
(8:34)
27 (CD 3)
Love at First Sight (the Scumfrog's Beauty and the Beast Vocal Mix)
(6:37)
28 (CD 3)
On the Floor
(5:38)
29 (CD 3)
Feel Alive (the Scumfrog's Remix)
(7:32)
30 (CD 3)
Keep Control (the Scumfrog's Remix)
(5:23)
31 (CD 3)
Never Enough (the Scumfrog's Antidote Dub)
(4:40)Amsterdam native Scumfrog (born Jesse Houk) is a successful progressive house producer and remixer who had three of his productions simultaneously in the Top Ten of the Billboard club chart. After numerous DJ sets in his homeland, Scumfrog moved to New York City in 1997 and recorded his debut single, "The Watersong." Three years later he was touring with superstar DJRoger Sanchez while his version of the Rolling Stones' "We Love You" was on top of the U.K. charts. Soon Annie Lennox, Missy Elliot, and Kylie Minogue were hiring him for remixes, but it was his mix of David Bowie's "Loving the Alien" that brought the most attention. In 2003, Effin Records collected 20 of Houk's productions and remixes for the double CD Extended Engagement, while BBC Radio aired Scumfrog's first Essential Mix. ~ David Jeffries, All Music Guide.
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/arti...3047535,00.html
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Gone Forever by Ulrich Schnauss
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Little Child Running Wild (king Britt Scuba Mix) by Curtis Mayfield
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ScumFrog - Come On
Memory Gospel - Moby
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Registration is the devil.
You dont have to register. All you have to do is watch a short commercial...
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The scandal sheet
Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater.
Read the dish here:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/...ndal/index.html
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There is a mathematical connection to music. How it configures to what we like is another question. But I'd love to look at their analysis...
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Like 50 Cent before him, the rapper Game, Dr. Dre's newest protégé, has followed this successful blueprint to the letter. But for all the similarities, Game, a 25-year-old from Compton who was born Jayceon Taylor, says he will not be measuring himself just against rappers when his debut album, "The Documentary," arrives this week.
You can read more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/arts/music/18game.html
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A computer program is changing the face of the music business by allowing record labels to predict a hit at the click of a mouse. Is this the death of pop as we know it, asks Jo Tatchell, or a new hope for unsigned bands everywhere?
Monday January 17, 2005
The Guardian
The magic ingredient set to revolutionise the pop industry is, simply, a piece of software that can "predict" the chance of a track being a hit or a miss. This computerised equivalent of the television programmer Juke Box Jury is known as Hit Song Science (HSS). It has been developed by a Spanish company, Polyphonic HMI, which used decades of experience developing artificial intelligence technology for the banking and telecoms industries to create a program that analysed the underlying mathematical patterns in music. It isolated and separated 20 aspects of song construction including melody, harmony, chord progression, beat, tempo and pitch and identifies and maps recurrent patterns in a song, before matching it against a database containing 30 years' worth of Billboard hit singles - 3.5m tunes in all. The program then accords the song a score, which registers, in effect, the likelihood of it being a chart success.
Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/st...1391951,00.html
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Nine-year-old girl crashes while driving for drinking father
18 January 2005
By ANDY WALLACE
An out-of-control car that ploughed into the side of a Papatoetoe house was driven by a nine-year-old girl whose father was in the passenger seat beside her.
Police say a man, two young children and a woman, believed to be an aunt, were in the car when the accident happened on Saturday evening just over a week ago. They say the man had been drinking and had given the car keys to his daughter.
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Toronto Man Is Charged With Choking Coach to Unconsciousness
Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- A Toronto man, angry that his son didn't play in a minor-league hockey game, was charged with choking the team's coach until he lost consciousness.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...C4&refer=canada
It doesnt surprise me that the manager was an idiot. I just spent 4 months getting a credit card from B of A for a client--they thought it was suspicious that my client wanted his credit card delivered to the same address as his checking and savings account!!!
Asian Tsunami "wonderful opportunity" for the US
in General News
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I cant think of a worse choice of words... She probably would have said the same thing if WMD's ever actually blew up...