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Anjunabeats Rock My World
Anjunabeats are a great british trance label, home of (amongst others) Above & Beyond. I just got hold of a copy of a compilation of theirs (Anjunabeats Volume 2) and it’s really excellent vocal, melodic stuff. Anyhow, I was looking for some of their stuff online to download, and I discovered that they sell downloads straight from their own site. I wish more labels did this – I can understand not wanting to lose commission to places like BeatPort, but at least give us a way of getting the tunes without paying through the nose to ship vinyl around the world! So go check out their site, and buy something – I recommend Smith & Pledger/Forever.
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UK Election 2005
I’m British, and I’m sure a lot of the people reading this are too. Unfortunately I left it too late to register for a postal vote for the upcoming general election, but maybe some of these links will be useful to those who are registered.
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Sound Activated Lighting
For a while now I’ve been vaguely thinking of adding some sound activated lighting effects to my playroom. While I’m spinning some tunes it would be nice to have some kind of club-like lighting going on. It seems however, that this is a market waiting to be tapped. I’ve found numerous suppliers of actual club lighting, but they are big, ugly, too bright, too hot and noisy (motors & fans). I’ve also found a few sound activated neon kits originally designed for cars and PC cases. These look interesting, but I’d need to do a fair bit of wiring myself, and they just switch neon tubes on and off to the sound. I’d rather something a little more dynamic than that.
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Xbox 360 – Engadget
So Engadget have leaked pics of what (might be) the new Xbox360. Certainly better looking than the old beast of a console! EA currently have a commercial on their site which shows the first footage from a game for the 360 – Madden NexGen. I have to say I’m not into sports games but the graphics look pretty impressive. MTV are showing the first official look at the new machine on May 12.
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Scratchophone
Scratchophone is an interesting DJ/gadget site. They are mainly focused on an experimental, wearable turntable (pictured), but they also have general articles on the increasing convergence of old skool vinyl and digital technology.