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    • Amon Tobin – Out From Out Where

      by David Gluzman

      Excite your senses..
      From an original Jazzy sound back with Bricolage (June 1997) Monsieur Tobin has managed to move farther (Permutation 1998) and farther (Supermodified 2000) away towards his own unique sound. His latest release is certainly no disappointment, yet shows that Amon Tobin is still growing as a musician.
      Back From Space is an amazing album …

    • V.U. – Seven Grain

      by a parallel mechanic

      Crispy, funky organic beats and treats from the Bay Area..
      As smooth as it sounds, even if it is your favorite genre, you cannot listen to studio-only produced downtempo and hip hop all the time. That is why the music from the eight piece ensemble V.U. (which stands for ‘Variable Unit’) is a breath of fresh …

    • Can You Do Something?

      by MaxPower

      MP’s get thousands of letters a year and most MPs can’t even show up to all parliamentary sittings let alone read my letter on a certain issue. Sure they have lackeys and university political science volunteers to sift through their mail, but they probably don’t care about any one letter more than the thousands of pieces of junk mail the average person gets in a year…

    • Audio R4NT

      by Crom

      We live vicariously through all these sad documentaries, while clutching hopelessly to our sense of security like a childs safety blanket. I think we’ve grown so detached from our neighbors and co-workers that we glue ourselves to the tube and witness these things in some attempt to understand them..

    • A View of Armageddon

      by MaxPower

      The force of the explosion may make a crater up to a mile wide and to a depth of one hundred feet. Millions of tons of pulverized earth, stones, buildings and other materials are drawn up into the fireball and become radioactive. Some of the heavier particles spill out around the point of explosion. The rest are sucked up into the mushroom cloud.

    • Danger T-Mobile Sidekick

      by Anil Dash

      A super geek who’s looking for a replacement for a cell phone that I hate because of its shitty UI. And everyone I know’s been hyping these things for what seems like years, to the point where I stopped reading about it because I knew I’d get sick of your toy before it was even released..

    • Grocery Shopping: A treatise on tactical espionage

      by Crom

      A place where only those with the strongest wit and fastest reflexes will survive; so to make the grocery shopping experiences of the future easier I’ve compiled several techniques for coming out on top of the food race..

    • Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

      by Terence Leung

      With the alternative-tortured soul-rock music market in the UK well covered by Mercury Cold Prize pets Travis, Beth Orton, Starsailor, Elbow, David Gray, Turin Brakes and company; certain conventions can be placed on what Jack Black’s character Barry from High Fidelity called “Old Sad Bastard Music.”
      There are rules that are very stringent and deviants will …

    • Thievery Corporation – The Richest Man in Babylon

      by a parallel mechanic

      Thievery’s tempo has slowed down and for the most part steered away from the bossa nova&house vibe which were the more prevalent themes on their 2000 “Mirror Conspiracy” release. Not that the bossa nova stylings weren’t appealing and fresh at the time, but this whole “nu jazz” movement has been played out a bit too …

    • Switchblade Comb

      by Crom

      If you can’t hack it to the point where you let your kid die, or beat him, or abuse him in any fashion, then you’re out of the game. It’s obvious that you’re a fuck up and don’t deserve the trust of the majority in taking care of another human being..

    • Why I will never buy Maxtor ever again

      by David Gluzman

      This really boils my blood, not only has Maxtor not lived upto it’s service, warranty or customer satisfaction, but now I would have to spend MORE money (about 20 bucks) in returning a drive..

    • Let’s Slap a Tax on that Puppy

      by MaxPower

      If I am going to go out and buy a sports car for 150K, do you think I care if it has a 5000-dollar gas-guzzler tax? Uh no. Just as like I don’t care about the gas mileage, who cares if it gets 1 mile to the gallon. I’m cool..

    • Walk Away

      by Crom

      ..So many people speak of a job that’s more then a job. Something they can care about. And, any job is pointless if you care nothing for it. Unless you’re whole motivation is to receive that glorious pay cheque every 2 weeks.

    • Special Feature: Music / Video Promos

      by Ninja Tune

      Courtesy of Ninja Tune, we have an absolute belter of an audio / video extravaganza to offer www.r4nt.com readers: DSP, Mr.Scruff, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, Pest, Chocolate Industries, Super Numeri, Dj Vadim & Funki Procini.

    • Apple iMac

      by Quasor

      Think Different.
      I’m a Windows/PC user. I write web applications for a living and the closest I’ve come to a Mac in the last 2 years is dropkicking a Tangerine iMac test machine. I’ve pretty much always dismissed Apple software as being a toy; their Operating System has sucked for the past 20 years. However recently, …

    • Movie: xXx

      by Crom

      The highly anticipated sequel to Fast and the Furious…. No wait. Like a few people I was eagerly anticipating the release of Triple X. Being an avid follower of bad movies I was expecting a bad plot, bad acting, huge stunts and tons of references to “Extreme” sport culture. And boy was I given all …

    • Nightmares on Wax – Mind Elevation

      by a parallel mechanic

      So I’m reading the review of ‘Mind Elevation’ in MIXER magazine and they write: “If you liked [N.O.W.’s 1995 release] ‘Carboot Soul’ then you probably won’t like the new album.” Then again, MIXER had P. Diddy on its cover claiming that he “invented the remix” (take that, Al Gore!), so what the hell does MIXER …

    • Oasis – Heathen Chemistry

      by Terence Leung

      Ok folks, I don’t know how else to say this, so I’m just going to say it: This “album” is pure shit.
      Pure, obsolete, runny and unholy shit.
      Is it all you need to hear then? Sweet merciful crap, review over.
      Wet, lather, rinse and repeat review. As a matter of fact, you can do the same to …

    • Bird Watching

      by David Gluzman

      ..the fact is men MUST checkout any hot chicks within their viewable area..

    • Insider Trader Living

      by Crom

      ..The judicial system of North America is a deflated tire, on a broken down buick. Rusty doors and broken off side mirrors, complimented by a fat, lazy, stupid, on the take, son of a bitch driving it..

    • Interview: Public Enemy’s Chuck D

      by Terence Leung

      ..In an online interview arranged by their new label Koch International two weeks ago along with a panel of journalists, we chatted with Chuck D about Public Enemy’s new album Revolverlution, hip-hop’s future, record labels and Michael Jackson.

    • Scissorkicks – Live Mix at the grill (blizzarts), Montreal

      by David Gluzman

      The last time I went to get groceries I casually poped in this album, then found myself getting to safeway in record time. This album is full of phat breaking beats, and just makes you want to drive like a maniac. Possibly a good thing, but I’m sure your parents would disagree. Loud music combined …

    • Beth Orton – Daybreaker

      by Terence Leung

      Goosebumps. That is what the album opens with: big, gigantic, and spiky Goosebumps. Headlines should read: Huzzah! Melody not yet dead! Long Live The Orton of Beth! And they will, well… at least here they will.
      The 51-minute Daybreaker launches with the haunting Paris Train, which fits the smoldering backdrop with a rickety train percussion track …

    • Powerpuff Girls – The Movie

      by Wartank

      Here is a story of how great things come in small packages – I’m speaking both of the teensy size of the movie’s namesake ass-kickers as well as the densely packed cinematic artifice. The Powerpuff girls are pint sized but immensely powerful, and the movie is barely 70 minutes long but is effectively a challenge …

    • Soda Pop will destroy the universe

      by Crom

      ..They’ll battle it out over the precious remaining ingredients in the world, and kill each other for last drops of caramel colour..

    • The 6 ½ reasons I woke up drunk in Perkins

      by Crom

      ..what chain of events were so skewed as to leave me stranded at a all night diner, a long way from home, extremely inebriated and with little to no recollection of the past 24 hours..

    • The Future of gaming

      by David Gluzman

      ..Killing 50 or so people in a random arena, or clicking to death an opponent in a RPG is just pathetic. *Yawn* I don’t have the time or energy to devote building up skills (character stats) in different games.

    • R4ndom R4nts

      by The Wandering Wasabe Wayfarer

      ..At some age, likely shortly after puberty, all rational thought and brotherly love flees the body, giving way to selfish concern and mob mentality. The older one gets, the more prominent the effect..

    • The Collapse of Capitalism?

      by MaxPower

      ..People who have lost their savings in the Enron collapse had put all of their cash into Enron and never invested in any other companies. Its called diversifying baby, spread the risk out, putting all you financial eggs in one basket is akin to committing economic suicide.

    • Star Wars – Attack of the Clones

      by Wartank

      One thing I can say is that I was certainly quite surprised coming out of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
      I was surprised that the title, shunned for years by nerds worldwide, was actually quite fitting in describing this confused, high-tech A/V hack job, frankensteined from 10 vastly superior films, and carrying no …

    • Rogers/Shaw Hi-Speed Internet

      by Crom & D4V

      D4V: Claim: Unlimited High Speed Internet Fact: Unlimited hassles guarantee
      Crom: You know, I remember when I got my iStar account; I thought I was in paradise. When I got my High Speed cable, I thought I’d walked into the greatest show room on earth. Instead, I’d walked into a shit sandwich, and we all had …

    • NEC FE950+ (19″ CRT)

      by David Gluzman

      Quick Specification breakdown:

      18-inch viewable screen size
      0.25- to 0.27-millimeter dot pitch
      1,792 x 1,344 maximum resolution at 68 Hz refresh rate
      OptiClear viewing; antistatic, antiglare screen treatment
      Compatible with PCs and Macintoshes

      I remember when I bought my first NEC monitor in 1995; $1200 and I was sitting in front of a brand new 17″ Multisync M700. The M700 …

    • Insomnia (Movie)

      by 4CS

      The film was slow… with little drama.
      What’s worse, you have seen all the clichés in this film many times over. Let’s review: our hero, played by Al Pacino, is a decorated cop whose rep is on the line. Swank plays the rookie who has “followed EVERY case…” of our hero. The cop who accidentally (?) …

    • Dj Shadow – Private Press

      by a parallel mechanic

      Survey says…good album! Shadow manages to maintain his style from his 1996 “Entroducing….” release without sounding dated. Shadow fans will not be disappointed.
      Here’s a track-by-track size-up:
      1. Letter from Home – This is kind of random. Apparently, this was the way to communicate with a loved one over long distance back in the day. Just another …

    • Mike Who?

      by Kobayashi

      The separate weigh-ins and the line of security officers separating the two men in the ring only served to heighten my disappointment as there were no riots or body parts removed during the fight..

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