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Delia Derbyshire / Warp
Lost Delia Derbyshire "experimental dance" recording from the late 1960's. Derbyshire says "Forget about this, it's for interest only". Paul Hartnoll, says "That could be coming out next week on Warp Records." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm -
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Went out to see Scotland Yard Gospel Choir last night, not knowing much about them. Was very pleasantly surprised, they turn out to be a very Pulp/Smiths-influenced band, with the same style of self- and everybody-else-deprecating lyrics. Weird hearing Jarvis Cocker intonation from a Chicago local. Their MySpace samples don't give a flavour of ( Read more... ) -
More fun with video processing
A Makefile which allows you to drag and drop youtube URLs from (e.g.) Firefox to a subfolder, then run "make all" and magically they get turned into ipod-friendly .mp4 files. Tested under Ubuntu Linux. The youtube-dl package does the youtube preprocessing, followed by mencoder grinding away. The sed options took a while...
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More memery
martinskidmore writes a followup to his previous post, suggesting a round of the ever-popular game of "I can't believe they didn't include X", where "they" is Acclaimed Music's top 107 albums of the 1990s, and X is Orbital. How could you include Leftfield, but not etc. etc ( Read more... )
