This is a bit of an experiment..
Must have albums – it’s a tumblr blog of all my favorite albums ever. Tumblr turns out to be pretty cool, very quick and seems to do absolutely everything. Highly recommended!
This is a bit of an experiment..
Must have albums – it’s a tumblr blog of all my favorite albums ever. Tumblr turns out to be pretty cool, very quick and seems to do absolutely everything. Highly recommended!
Once in a while, a fantastic piece of open source software comes along. Just the other day, banshee 1.0 was released. I must say, I’m *very* impressed. It’s like a much better, really great iTunes. With the addition of video it now covers pretty much everything I wanted in a media player thingi for Linux.
Check it out: Banshee 1.0!
Here’s a site worth checking out:
Boltfish recordings.
They offer cd quality mp3s of almost all of their releases with the option to buy the CD for a realistic price should you feel the tunes are worth it. They have been around for some time, so I guess it’s working! They do chilled out electronic music, worth a listen.
SubSpace FM, a long running project of mine and a few other people is finally coming to fruition. It’s basically an internet radio station, except we play good tunes! Tune in now to our shoutcast stream, highly recommended as at the moment it’s my personal CD collection which I must say is most wicked.
While extracting one of my favorite cds today and noticing it had heavy scratching on it, it occured to me it might have loads of errors while extracting. So I thought “I’ll just run an md5/sha1 checksum on it and verify it against CDDB’s checksums…” CDDB doesn’t have checksums for cd tracks. This is crazy.
I might have to set up my own database….if I ever get time.
Please let me know if you know of one.
Update:
So anyway, I had a look at md5 sums, to see if they’re the same on different cd rom drives. They are, but as commented below, you need to provide the drive offset. Me and some other guy called Michael are looking into it. As for the actual database…I had some thoughts on that, but it’s a pretty big project. Not sure what actions to take with limited time.
Update 2:
Found a database, although it’s not online, and it’s windows only…not really the cddb way. Have a look at accuraterip.com. More soon.
Mylo – Destroy rock & roll
Recently aquired this album, sounds pretty cool, some kind of progressive funky house mixed in with some more chilled out tracks.
Sounds very much like Daft punk – Discovery swished around with Røyksopp – Melody A.M. – well, that’s what I think!
8/10.
A track from Boards of Canada’s new album ‘The Campfire Headphase’ has been released on the Bleep website. It only costs 99p, that’s the same as a rubbish burger from McDonalds.
The album is due for release on the 17th of October. I for one cannot wait.
While you’re waiting and wondering why I’m making such a fuss, why not check out some previous releases? Highly recommended.
An old friend of mine known as DJ Swoop from London will be playing in the second round of the Corona world DJ competition in a couple of weeks. I’ll be going, which is always a bonus!
So if youre up for some top quality house mixes and a bit of a laugh, try and make it:
The Beach Club, Brighton
Friday September 16th @ 9pm
Best of luck Swoop!
I’ve been offered a chance to help with a quite well established site called tesselate which is primarily an electronic music review and preview e-mag type thing, although it also has various news articles and stuff also. I’ve also offered to give Sam who runs it a hand with giving the site a tech overhaul. It’s already quite popular which is nice!
More reviews soon!
James and I have recently been chilling out in our computer room to the likes of Club 977 – 80’s radio, it’s great (ish). Doesn’t only play the 80’s you hear on Ocean FM all the time.