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CD’s are dead. I have lived through the death of records, yep, 7 inch, 10 inch and 12 inch varieties, cassette tapes / DAT / and 8 track cassettes. All gone or going. Music has cast off all physical constraints and leaked out into the ether. Its in the cloud(s) now.

I present the impossible mix. Impossible, why? Why because its 97 minutes and 2 seconds long. 15 minutes too long to burn to a CD. I have been making all these mixes CD length. It’s a good discipline as it forces me to cut out the duds, the tracks that are only so so. I cheat sometimes, I cut off the ends of songs, I cross fade. But come 81 minutes and 30 seconds most CDR’s give up the ghost, you get a ‘bad burn’, a disk that probably won’t play in a CD player.

No more!

#austra, #baths, #bruce-springsteen, #computer-magic, #fiveng, #funland-superquest, #happy-birthday, #james-pants, #john-maus, #luminary-youth, #maria-minerva, #metronomy, #museum-of-bellas-artes, #poitier, #spirit-spine, #starfucker, #sun-airway, #the-radio-dept, #young-galaxy

More Nuggets coming along, here are ~~three~~ two more in the works. Also working on a drum based mix (for Annabelle) and a Reggae mix to go with the excellent BBC series screened recently…

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A totally preposterous discotheque

Razvan Effenberg, Suddeutsche Zeitung

‘An obelisk of noise that rose rudely above the treetops of the Bialowieska Forest, the Endless House project shone for a mere six weeks in the spring of 1973. The outlandish brainchild of wealthy audiophile/maniac Jiri Kantor, its stated mission was "to become the cradle of a new European sonic community… a multimedia discotheque" that should "surprise and delight" artists and dancers alike. For all the wide-eyed optimism of its manifesto, however, the enterprise was never unknowing in its flirtation with disaster and self-destruction. The brilliant Czech may have made his millions as the midas-touched entrepreneur/taste-maker behind Paris-based magazine Otium International, but Endless House was always a vanity project as irredeemably vain as its maker…’

Released 02 April 2011

#big-troubles, #blue-hawaii, #boundary-jim, #brian-eno, #cluster, #edgar-wappenhalter, #harmonia, #kites-sail-high, #moebius, #nicole-atkins, #pandit, #rasmus-folk, #sky-stadium, #splash-wave, #teams, #teen-daze, #the-octopus-project, #the-radio-dept, #woven-tales

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Nuggets 161 – electro rock & the death of the cd

Nuggets 140 – Brian – aka, Hey Paul, where are the other Nuggets?

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