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Baldwin Brothers – Cooking with Lasers
Fuzzy breakbeats AM Gold style.
“Cooking With Lasers” would not necessarily be my first choice for a living room listening selection. But I would definitely take this album on a wild’n crazy road trip with the boyz. Those sexy Baldwin Brothers. Here’s what they might have said they did:
‘That’s Right’ – This is quintessential highway driving … -
…With a Fistful of Napalm®
..How come I’m not out right now on the streets of Calgary, with an AK47, listening to a police scanner, just waiting to grease some people?..
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The Social Experiment
..Every time I would pay for something on my credit card I would then make sure to act cool and make sure to sign absolutely nothing like my proper signature. The results I may say were quite interesting..
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Communication is Key
..My friend and I are no longer friends because I became angry in regards to her behavior, lack of communication and lack of respect for my feelings
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Why I love Free-dom
..Free software, pirated movies, and of course, Mp3’s are all available without too much difficulty or technical know-how..
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Ill at ease
..the Internet is vastly an unregulated medium, there is almost a sense of anarchy in that people feel it’s their right to put forth unauthorised and inappropriate information into the public domain..
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Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (PC)
D4V: Being a huge StarWars fan for many a year, I greatly anticipated trying out my own personal light-saber. Thusly picking up a copy of the latest from Lucasarts was in order. From install to uninstall please read on to find out more about this 1st person shooter with a twist.
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Desmond Williams – Delights from the Garden
Hi-fi riddums from the Jamacian Garden…
Before releasing this record, Desmond Williams had already made a name for himself in downtempo circles by playing bass, guitar, and keyboards on Thievery Corporation’s 2000 masterpiece ‘The Mirror Conspiracy.’ He is also credited as the main sound engineer for that entire album. In ‘Delights of the Garden,’ Desmond took … -
Aim – Hinterland
Hip-HOP.
No Restric-TION.
‘Hinterland’ is an eclectic (to the extreme) menagerie of heavy hip-hop beats on the English trip-hop tip. The album hits you like a watered down Massive Attack, but this isn’t meant to be a slight on Aim. The space created in the songs allows for jazzy instrumentation (guitars, piano, horns, and xylophone) to flourish … -
Diamond in the shit
..The sad part is that somehow, even if I were to bomb all the theaters , a la Capone boot liquor styles, they would somehow make some money off this piece of shit.
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Warning: Arm Flapping Leads to Heart Attacks
..How can anyone be certain that when I take my car for a spin I am contributing to the end of the world?
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Consumerism
..Some punch the clock at a higher frequency so that they can make an extra buck in order to buy a new $50,000 car. Problem is they already drive a two year old $45,000 car!
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The Stolen World of Cartoons
..Time to gather your quilt, shuffle to the kitchen, pour a bowl of cereal containing one part Shreddies, two parts sugar, and park your 70lb. ass in front of the TV for the next five hours for a morning of glorious cartoon heaven…
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Wreckless (Xbox)
D4V: Once again we’ve fallen easy pray to a game with huge hype and crazy techno music. A few months back when I first scoped out the scene on this game, I thought it looked like yet another version of GTA3, except all you did was ram stuff with you car. Cool premise in theory …
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Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Sunshine recordings with gyroscopes and dandelions.
Boards of Canada fans have been waiting fours years for a full length follow-up to the then-startling ‘Music Has the Right to Children’ LP that was put out in 1998. The Scottish duo teased underground enthusiasts with a few re-issues and even an EP last year, but the highly anticipated … -
Tosca – The Different Tastes of Honey
Dubby precision percussion at its best.
First there was ‘Suzuki,’ a stellar downtempo album put out by Tosca (who is compiled of the duo Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber) in 1999. Then there was the ‘Suzuki in Dub’ release in 2000 which had the likes of dZihan+Kamien, Baby Mammouth, and Deadbeats remixing the original Suzuki classics. … -
Stepping Up
It would be nice, once in awhile to have someone assume you actually know something, and that you weren’t hired on to do the job because you’d work for a tuna-salad sandwich everyday..
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The Canadian Century
..In an era of natural resource shortages Canada will have the world by the proverbial balls..
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Unlock the Secret Money Making Power of the Internet
..how exactly could I have been intimately familiar with the workings of the on-line world, and have missed this money making magic..
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CBC Olympics
..I’m on this station to watch some athletes slobber all over themselves whilst in burning agony of their event..
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Article #1
..Money tells us how to dress, how to socialize, how to live, where to work and even how to act. In short we have given money way too much power..
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SSX Tricky (Xbox)
Crom: Having played our one Xbox game to death, a fresh one was needed. In the boredom of a Sunday night, we needed something fun, we needed something…tricky. And, we set sail for the nearest Buckluster, and picked up SSX Tricky, snowboarders delight. A crazy mix of big airs, cool tricks, and bad music.
D4V: Ah … -
Zero 7 – Simple Things
For those who were disappointed in the noble risk that the French band Air took in their “10,000 Hz. Legend” release last year, then this is the album for you. Not necessarily anything new or innovative here, but Zero 7’s “Simple Things” flawlessly rips off sounds from the [1998 Air album] “Moon Safari” hi-fi. Maybe …
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Tristeza – Mixed Signals
I’m a huge fan of sleep. There’s nothing like it. There’s nothing better. Nothing better than a 19 hour slumber, which usually results in an unholy dreamlike haze (in which some people call “headaches”, but I digress) that I’ve somehow over the course of my existence, associated it as a “good thing“.
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Gotan Project – La Revancha Del Tango
Being that they call themselves “Gotan Project,” one would think that the music created by the trio Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Muller, and Eduardo Makaroff was an experiment of sort and in ways it sure is. By using the bandoneon (played by Nini Flores) and violin (Line Kruse) in almost of all of these …
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Sucks to Your Valentines Day-Mar!
…You have a boyfriend. You have a girlfriend. I am happy for you… for the most part…
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Fireball X10
…No one is buying this thing, everyone I’ve ever talked to hates the company for their incessant advertising campaign…
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Friends don’t let friends buy brand name computers
…brand name computers are good for two kinda people, newbies, and old people…
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Crap and the City
The onslaught of garbage on at 2 a.m. is a graduate paper unto itself, and amidst this flow of electronic crappica resides the evil known as sitcoms…
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Post University “Life”
The day finally arrives when you complete your last exam and promptly head to the nearest bar to celebrate by drinking until you can’t walk straight, then drinking some more…
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Product Labelling: An Exercise in Corporate Obfuscation
…the same people who drink Evian water because that’s good for you, and also enjoy the many health benefits of smoking…
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Old Skool Movie Review: The Natural
Old Skool Movie Review
This months classic: The Natural
The American pastime: Baseball. There have been countless movies about the game, and the history of players fiction and otherwise. Few of them are worth watching, or even writing about, but the one that stands out amongst them all is this one. More then a movie about baseball, … -
Halo (Xbox)
D4V: We finally got our dirty fingers on a super crazy all black big hype X-Box during the holidays. Thusly it seems fit that we review the main title available for this M$ console… Halo.
Crom: Much hype has surrounded Halo, since Bungie announced the game almost 2 and a half years ago. … -
Music: The Avalanches – Since I Left You
The Emperor’s New Clothes?
The Avalanches sure have been getting some good promotion- there has already been write-ups on this Australian five man DJ team in Mixer, Urb, Spin, and Rolling Stone. Everyone seems to be praising “Since I Left You” for its cut-and-paste production; critics are proclaiming the Avalanches as a fresh new postmodern sound … -
Originality, the forgotten lore
…It seems that anytime a movie deviates from the expected outcome, it’s considered a marvel of cinematography…
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