The summer sun seems to have penetrated even the pissed off perma-haze that surrounds Clipse. “Fast Life,” apparently the first single off the upcoming official Re-Up Gang album, is a seasonally driven celebration of easy-livin’. Well, almost — even over Scott Storch’s skittery synths, straight out of a Lamborghini cruising down South Beach, the Brothers Thornton still indulge in some coke talk: “Tell the Feds to take mo’ pictures, I smile for the cameras / My niggas hold keys like janitors.”
Monday, 30 June 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Pram To Release New Remix EP
Pram are releasing a new remix EP next month as a five-track 12" and download.
The band themselves offer one studio recording, which is 'Beluga' - as taken from 'The Moving Frontier' album.
The remaining four songs are remixes of the same number, as reworked by Domino label mates Psapp, Grandmaster Gareth, Godsey AKA Cherrystones and Modified Toy Orchestra.
Pram release the EP on July 21st.
12" Tracklisting:
A1. Beluga (album version)
A2. Beluga- Psapp remix
A3. Beluga- Godsey remix
B1. Beluga- Grandmaster Gareth remix
B2. Beluga - Modified Toy Orchestra remix
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Gong
Artist: Gong
Genre(s):
Rock
Experimental
Rock: Electronic
Discography:
E2x10=tenure
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Zero to Infinity
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Live to Infinitea
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Gong Est Mort
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
You Remixed Phase 2
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
You Remixed Phase 1
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
A Wingful of Eyes
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Time Is The Key
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Shapeshifter
Year: 1992
Tracks: 21
Expresso II
Year: 1990
Tracks: 6
Gongmaison
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
Second Wind
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Downwind
Year: 1979
Tracks: 7
Planet Gong (Live)
Year: 1977
Tracks: 6
Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life
Year: 1977
Tracks: 9
Live Etc
Year: 1977
Tracks: 3
Live
Year: 1977
Tracks: 7
Gong Est Morte
Year: 1977
Tracks: 10
Gazeuse
Year: 1976
Tracks: 6
Shamal
Year: 1975
Tracks: 6
You
Year: 1974
Tracks: 8
Live Au Bataclan - Paris
Year: 1973
Tracks: 1
Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2)
Year: 1973
Tracks: 15
Angel's Egg
Year: 1973
Tracks: 15
Continental Circus
Year: 1971
Tracks: 4
Magick Brother
Year: 1970
Tracks: 10
Daevid Allen
Year: 1966
Tracks: 2
The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)
Year:
Tracks: 6
Paragong - Live '73
Year:
Tracks: 1
Flying Teapot
Year:
Tracks: 3
Camenbert Electrique
Year:
Tracks: 11
Camembert Electrique
Year:
Tracks: 11
Gong slowly came together in the recent '60s when Australian guitar player Daevid Allen (ex-Soft Machine) began making music with his married woman, isaac Bashevis Singer Gilli Smyth, on with a shifty lineup of supporting musicians. Albums from this geological period include Magick Brother, Mystic Sister (1969) and the impromptu wad seance Bananamoon (1971) featuring Robert Wyatt from the Soft Machine, Gary Wright from Spooky Tooth, and Maggie Bell. A unwavering lineup featuring Frenchman Didier Malherbe (saxophone and reeds), Christian Tritsch (bass part), and Pip Pyle (drums) on with Allen (glissando guitar, vocals) and Gilli Smyth (space whispering vocals) was officially named Gong and released Camembert Electrique in late 1971, as comfortably as providing the soundtrack to the cinema Continental Circus and music for the album Obsolete by French poet Dashiel Hedayat.
Camembert Electrique contained the number 1 signs of the band's mythology of the peaceable Planet Gong populated by Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and Octave Doctors. These characters on with Zero the Hero ar the focal point of Gong's next three albums, the Radio Gnome Trilogy, consisting of Fast Teapot (1973), Angel's Egg (1974), and You (1975). On these albums, agonist Zero the Hero is a space traveller from Earth wHO gets mazed and finds the Planet Gong, is taught the slipway of that humankind by the gnomes, pixies, and Octave Doctors and is sent back to Earth to spread the word around this mystic planet. The band themselves adoptive nicknames -- Allen was Bert Camembert or the Dingo Virgin, Smyth was Shakti Yoni, Malherbe was Bloomdido Bad de Grasse, Tritsch was the Submarine Captain and Pyle the Heap. Over the course of action of the trilogy, Tritsch and Pyle left and were replaced by Mike Howlett (bass part) and Pierre Moerlen (drums). New members Steve Hillage (guitar) and Tim Blake (synthesizers) linked.
After You, Allen, Hillage, and Smyth left the chemical group referable to originative differences as advantageously as tiredness. Guitarist Allen Holdsworth linked and the ring drifted into virtuosic if uninventive jazz spinal fusion. Hillage and Allen each released various solo albums and Smyth formed Mothergong. Nevertheless the trilogy lineup has reunited for a few one-off concerts including a 1977 French concert documented on the splendid Tam-tam Est Mort, Vive Gong album. Allen too reunited with Malherbe and Pyle as well as other musicians he had collaborated with over the years for 1992's Shapeshifter record album. Hillage too worked as the ambient-techno false name System 7. A number of Gong-related bands feature existed over the geezerhood, including Mothergong, Gongzilla, Pierre Moerlin's Gong, NY Gong, Planet Gong, and Gongmaison. During the new millennium Gong material continued to be released, including Live 2 Infinitea issued in come down 2000, as comfortably as legion reissues. I Am Your Egg appeared in 2006 from United States of Distribution.
Monday, 16 June 2008
Ananda Shankar
Artist: Ananda Shankar
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Ethnic
Discography:
Sa-Re-Ga Machan
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
Snow Flower
Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
Ananda Shankar
Year: 1970
Tracks: 8
Melodies from India
Year: 1968
Tracks: 18
Walking On - The Ananda Shan..
Year:
Tracks: 11
Walking On
Year:
Tracks: 11
Ananda Shankar, nephew of world-famous sitar player, Ravi Shankar, never quite matched the success of his uncle, only made a important impact in the '70s psychedelic resistance scene by combination Western electronics and Indian music to create instrumental jams and moody soundtracks.The boy of famed classical dancers caught the entertainment industry bug in the late '60s and traveled to Los Angeles, where he played with rock musicians (including Jimi Hendrix) at the elevation of the psychedelic movement. At long time 27, he sign-language a apportion with Reprise Records world Health Organization released his debut self-titled album; a coalition cult classic that combined Hindustani music with psych-rock and included sitar-heavy versions of "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Light My Fire." After inadequate Stateside record gross sales, Shankar returned to India and began constructing 1975's Ananda Shankar and His Music, a blend of savage funk beats, keyboards, and traditional Indian instruments. From 1978 to 1981, he recorded cinque conceptual records: Republic of India Remembers Elvis (Indian versions of Elvis standards), A Musical Discovery of India (an enterprise financed by the Indian tourist board), Missing You (a dedication to his parents), the space-themed 2001, and the jungle safari-tinged Sá-Re-Gá Machán. In the mid-'90s, a new generation of DJs and musicians plant an abundance of samples in his discography, and when Blue Note released the 1996 compilation album Risque Juice, Vol. 1 which featured two of his dance tracks, "Streets of Calcutta" and "Terpsichore Drums," a reawakened interest in his music light-emitting diode to a tour-slot in Peter Gabriel's Womad festival and some other aboard Asian turntablist DJ State of Bengal. This collaboration resulted in 2000s Walking On, featuring Shankar's sitar virtuosity motley with bachelor launchpad breakbeats and trip-hop. Sadly, he never byword the sack of the album, due to a sudden nub attack at eld 56. In 2007, Fallout Records reissued Ananda Shankar and His Music, with Sá-Re-Gá Machán with India Remembers Elvis tacked on as bonus tracks.
"Love the One You're With" by Emily Giffin tops Amazon.ca books list
TORONTO - Here are the 10 bestselling fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending June 3 from Amazon.ca
FICTION
1 (2) Love the One You're With - Emily Giffin (hardcover)
2 (1) Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Core Rulebook Collection - Wizards RPG Team (hardcover)
3 (-) When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris (hardcover)
4 (4) Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer (hardcover)
5 (5) Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella (hardcover)
6 (3) The Host - Stephenie Meyer (hardcover)
7 (10) Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Player's Handbook - Wizards RPG Team (hardcover)
8 (-) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet (paperback)
9 (-) Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich (hrdcover)
10 (7) The Shack - William P. Young (paperback)
NON-FICTION
1 (1) A New Earth (Oprah Edition) - Eckhart Tolle (paperback)
2 (6) Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (paperback)
3 (4) The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch (hardcover)
4 (5) The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle (paperback)
5 (2) The Holmes Inspection - Mike Holmes (hardcover)
6 (8) In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan (hardcover)
7 (-) Audition - Barbara Walters (hrdcover)
8 (-) Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food - Gordon Ramsay (hardcover)
9 (-) Understanding Exposure - Bryan Peterson (paperback)
10 (-) The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss (hardcover)
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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Ani DiFranco ramps up summer outing
Ulrich Schnauss and Longview
Artist: Ulrich Schnauss and Longview
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
What Happened When Longview And Ulrich Schnauss Converged
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
 
White House - Mcclellan Admits He Gave Media False Info
Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan admitted Sunday that he had "unknowingly"
presented "false information" to the news media about President Bush's Iraq strategy.
"I was part of this propaganda campaign, absolutely," McClellan conceded on NBC's M
eet the Press as he continued to promote his new book, What Happened: Inside
the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. McClellan, who has
been criticized by both the right and the left for not having voiced his objections while still
part of the president's inner-circle, indicated that he agreed with those critics.
"The most important lesson" that he came away with, he said, "is that it's important
to speak up at the time and I was young and I probably should have spoken up about
some of these issues sooner." Meanwhile, reporters Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay
of the Knight Ridder newspapers (purchased by McClatchy publications) who challenged
the president's policies on Iraq beginning in early 2002 have criticized TV repo
rters who challenged McClellan's assertions that they did not ask him the right questions.
On the McClatchy blog (http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/nationalsecurity) the
two outlined some of the questions that went unasked (except by them) in the run-u
p to the invasion and call the reporters' denials "Hogwash! HOGWASH."
02/06/2008
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Jessica Alba gives birth to a girl, Honor Marie Warren
LOS ANGELES — Jessica Alba and her husband, Cash Warren, are new parents.
The 27-year-old actress gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Honor Marie Warren, on Saturday, her publicist, Brad Cafarelli, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Cafarelli didn't provide further details.
Alba and Warren wed last month after becoming engaged in December. They met on the set of the 2005 film "The Fantastic Four," which co-starred Alba. Warren was a director's assistant.
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Tim O'Brien
Artist: Tim O'Brien
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Traveler
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Two Journeys
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The Crossing
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
Red on Blonde
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
Leela James