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Perfect song length proven by Science!

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Just go and read this - otherwise I’d have to paste the whole thing in here - it’s all gold!
Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven by Joshua Allen at The Morning News.
He even provides a mix of 2:42 songs for your aural pleasure at Muxtape.
Enjoy!
Bill

New Velvet Underground track! No, really!

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

From Dead Flowers:
I’m not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It’s the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins […]

If you (like me) couldn’t make it to the Cure in Auckland in August…

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Here’s the next best thing (kinda)! Download the entire gig (all 35 tracks) here from Kiwi Concerts, a newish blog ‘celebrating great concerts that took place in New Zealand’.
There’s some other good stuff there too, such as this Wellington gig from the Mozfather himself in 1991, the Zep from 1972 (!!), and plenty more […]

New Bloc Party Video, NME album download & more!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

You can see the video for the new Bloc Party single Flux (due out in the UK on November 14) right here.
An intriguing tale of love and robots (plus giant monsters) set to a pounding Moroder-esque Eurobeat with a slightly vocoder-ed Kele. Fantastic! And well worth a look.
Also from the NME, you can download […]

If you only have one hour of your life to listen to the Beatles…

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

…your prayers have been answered! The complete Beatles catalogue sped up 800% to fit an hour long mp3.
Details here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html

Surprisingly enough, it’s pretty tough to listen to, but, things get more interesting/better when these sped up tracks are slowed back down again. Here’s Revolution & there’s a couple of other links at the site worth […]

It’s Just Like A Cassette, But Not!

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

From here:
Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s?
If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette tapes.
If you miss making mix tapes this product will inspire you again!

Haha, I’m unsure what to make […]

Synth Pop/Electronic History Lesson for download!

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

There is an excellent early electronica/new wave/synth mix available for download here: http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=12
This is a fantastic sampler of late 70’s/early 80’s electronic, minimal synth, synth-pop music. Includes The Associates, OMD, Paul Haig, Thomas Leer, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, John Foxx and much more. It was put together by New York DJ & Acute Records supremo […]