Bleep, Warp’s online mp3 store is offering a special compilation for download. The email states that I can forward this to my friends, so why not post it here?
Happy 2006!
As a New Years gift to all Bleep subscribers we have put together a FREE 9 track compilation featuring some artists to watch this year. This is not available to anyone else.
To download the release, click this link – http://www.bleep.com/bleeps06
Contributing artists and labels incude Dexter (Clone), Jimmy Edgar (Warp), Mara Carlyle (Accidental), The National Trust (Thrill Jockey) Kero (Detroit Underground), Wisp (Sublight), Battles (Warp), Nectarine No9 (Creeping Bent) and Skeletons & The Girl Faced Boys (Ghostly).
The release is priced at zero: click “Buy Mp3 Release 0.00″ to add to basket and hit ‘Checkout’ on the bottom right. No payment details are needed, just an email address and password from new users, existing users login as normal.
Feel free to forward this to friends – they can subscribe to the newsletter themselves and recieve similar regular updates from Bleep throughout this year at http://www.bleep.com/newsletter or by sending an email to news-on@bleep.com
Have a prosperous and fulfilling year,
Bleep x
Bleep is amazing. They offer legal, DRM free, high quality mp3 downloads of Warp releases and affiliated labels, much of it out of print or hard to find.
From a BBC News article titled “100 things we didn’t know this time last year”:
4. An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine.
There is no link to a qualifying story from there but it begs the question, why don’t we see more of these low selling albums in the stores? I refer mainly to local acts and newer albums by international artists and independents. I understand that many older albums by well known artists may fall into that sales bracket as well, (eg: Roxy Music’s first album, while great, isn’t that popular anymore) but how about offering more room to new music?
The always interesting Things Magazine has a good little blurb on King Kong, the Empire State Building and Modernism.
Oh, and by the way I loved Peter’s remake. If you didn’t then you just don’t get it.
For Christmas this year I was the lucky recipient of a Rival CrockPot. My main motive for wanting one of these was to make Congee. After looking around for some recipes it became pretty evident that you really can’t screw Congee up. Add enough water, throw in a few tasty bits. You’re there. The only problem I ran across was that most of the websites that offered Congee recipes had the rice:water ratio wrong. (Say THAT five times fast!) Most said you needed a 1:6 or so ratio, I found a 1:8 is probably more like it. So here is what I ended up doing tonight, and it made a pretty tasty soup. These ingredients are not what I had put in at the beginning, but it is what I ended up with, it was sort of a trial and error thing to arrive at this.
First I put this in the slow cooker:
1 cup rice
8 cup water
1 teaspoon fresh ginger – diced
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 a block of vegetable bouillon
5 tablespoons soy sauce
a half cup leftover turkey from xmas dinner
I let this cook for two hours on high, then I put in some Bok Choy and some snow peas. Then I let that cook for another hour.
It could probably cook longer, and I will let it go for awhile yet, but I was impatient to try it out.
Some sites that helped me:
Chinese Congee at inmamaskitchen.com
Congee@Everything2.com
Congee for Survivalists
Too often things that look good on the internet tend to be shit once you get them home and shoddy manufacturing can be the ruin of a great concept. I don’t hold all the hope in the world that these are going to be amazing, but they look kind of fun. Of course, they will also probably look pretty dorky and if it rains you had better have a hood on, but still I am interested.
If you were lucky enough to get a 2005 mixdisc at Joel’s party, then you might want the tracklisting. Enjoy.
Click to make it more legible.
so now that the world has caught up with RSS, the feed is back. Link it to Safari or Firefox or IE7 or your favorite feeder. But don’t expect a podcast or any other trendy shit along with this. You are lucky I am updating for the time being.
I am totally in love with my computer again. it is like I just got a new amazing invention that can SAVE the things I got on the internet. Imagine if the internet was invented before the hard drive. that was the sort of thing I was dealing with. That revelation, and the fact that I doubled my music collection overnight. Just when I was used to the fact that the only music I had in listenable form was from after 2003, aside from the newest Sigur Ros and Madonna, both of which I had won from the Calgary Sun, I suddenly have another 4300 songs to choose from. And once again you can watch me as I listen to music on last.fm.
I still have much work to do on the computer, like install CS2, VectorWorks and Quicksilver, but that will have to wait until after the Powerbook and I make-out for awhile.
My effing hard drives are at the FedEx depot in Calgary, but they didn’t get delivered today. They have been there since 9AM and FedEx didn’t have time to get them to me? Here I am, no plans tonight and I could have sorted out my computer. Then tomorrow, when I actually have things I want to do, I’ll have them. I should just be happy they replaced them in the first place.
The blog gets a redesign and I promptly forget about it. Sorry kids, I have been rather ambivilent about entering anything here. Winter blahs get ahold of me and I tend to not feel like anything I write or thing is worth reading by anyone else. It’s something I need to get over.
A catch-up for those that don’t know the score:
Bad news: My hard drive died (my NEW hard drive!!!) Good news: It, AND the old one that I took out of the Powerbook is covered under warranty. I get TWO new hard drives! They are on their way to me as I type this. My application to U of C is needed by February 1, so I am pooping my pants waiting for these things.
So, just to let you know, Toshiba has shitty hard drives, but their 3 year factory warranty is awesome.
I am totally broke at the moment, so if you are not a blood relative of mine, don’t expect a very good xmas gift. I will try to get some mix CDs (the last refuge of the broke music nerd) done for you if the drives get here in time.
And I don’t promise that I will update this more often, but I will try real hard. There is a way for you to be notified by email when I update this thing, if you want email me and I will put you on the list. I will try to get a RSS feed linked here too.
Love and Kisses,
M
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