Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Barbican 27 Feb – 23 May...

Been having a lot of fun with a Popcorn Hour 200 Networked Media Tank . I use it to play art house DVDs and started off pumping video files from my PC to it via FTP. Only really worked once I fixed its IP address and allocated it via my Internet Service Provider control panel. Config details were sketchy and...

Thanks to Dazed Magazine for pointing out this most enjoyable Alice mashup by Fagottron. The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Alice,...

Discovered a new music website 8Tracks. Similar to Blip.fm but with more ability to create and listen to playlists.    Who said the age of the cassette compo was dead? Technorati Tags: 8Tracks, Blip.fm, Music, Social Media, Web...

This site is superb fun! It’s like playing Grand Theft Auto but with no need to ‘Twoc’ a car for new tunes. Also reminds me of the days when people made compilation cassette tapes…. Technorati Tags:...

LPCoverLover.com There’s been something of a buzz on Nielsen’s data for US music sales in 2008. Not surprisingly it shows CDs hit by purely digital music, but also a sharp increase in LP sales. Lucas Mearian’s article Back to the future: Vinyl record sales double in ‘08, CDs down is...

A thoroughly entertaining snippet in the Gruaniad this morning (nicked from the Irish Times) on the reception of Punk and the Sex Pistols by the Irish authorities and how Anglo Saxon ribaldry upset their Celtic delicates. Recently released Irish government papers reveals what in 1977, the Garda...

Those creators of the future Gartner have posted a valediction for bidding mourning for the CD. The precogs say that this should be the last christmas for the format: 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs. Having spent a most pleasant time with the people at Dada Records in Chiswick just before...

They really should know better, in fact I’m sure they do know better, but such is the grime of corporate sponsorship that such items get promoted. In the same show that features Henry Kloss‘ legendary Tivoli Model One, a radio that looks so nice that Paul Smith used to sell it; GeekBrief TV go...

The ever commercially minded BBC is sitting on an audio goldmine. Why have a Corporate Audio Brand that sounds like a 1970s soap opera when you can mine the motherload from the BBC’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop? If you want to hear what I mean, then, simply take a trip to Dinosaur Gardens where their...