Archive for July, 2008

New Soul

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Fatlace linked up this AC video that samples New Soul (as wot is used on the mac air advert). I think the eminem/new soul mashup on Feed The Animals edges it in general, but this video is just class (and has a nice little sting at the end, Apple fans).

Short Sound

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Quick mixlet of things I’ve been listening to, inspired by and made during a period of internetlessness caused by BT moving our phone line in the exchange to improve service, but failing to plug it back in the other end.

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Bonzo Dog Doodah Band - Trouserpress (intro)
Lyrics Born - Stop Complaining (Rmx)
Evil Ed ft [...]

And you don’t stop

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

I’m a little bit hip-hopped out after the excellent Rising Styles festival live day yesterday (I’ve got a couple of phone photos on flickr). The ending was admittedly marred somewhat by them turning the sound off on Blaq Twang after his first track - if there was that hard a limit someone should have let [...]

Java on Debian Etch

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I got a bit confused when googling how to install java on Debian 4, but this business seems to work:
vim /etc/apt/sources.list
add non-free to the ftp.debian.org entry:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free

Then
aptitude install sun-java5-jdk
I’ve always been a bit crap at Debian, it never quite works how I expect it to!

Jay-Z Is Diplomacy

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Jay-Z’s appearance at Glastonbury has shown a diplomatic side to young hov that I don’t think has been fully revealed before. After Noel Gallagher made some disparaging comments about his headlining, he came back with a thoughtful and well worded response:
“We don’t play guitars, Noel, but hip hop has put in its work like any [...]