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One of my first sources of music (and inspiration for new artists) on the internet has been Radio Paradise. During the years Radio Paradise kept on impressing me with an outstanding soundtrack for studying/working/training hours, and the magic keeps on rolling every day.

Just for your information this has been the playlist so far this morning:

• The Cure - The Love Cats
  
• Quetzal - Planta De Los Pies
  
• Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
  
• Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
  
• U2 - Magnificent
  
• The Caesars - Jerk It Out
  
• Ray Barretto - A Deeper Shade of Soul
  
• My Morning Jacket - Touch Me
  
• Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
  
• Madness - One Step Beyond
  
• Gogol Bordello - Tribal Connection
  
• Paco De Lucia - A Pesar De Todo
  
• Charlie Musselwhite - Que Te Parece, Cholita
  
• Rolling Stones - Miss You
  
• John Butler Trio - Zebra

You have just to love it. Thanks Radio Paradise, for keeping on rocking (any given day)!

Did I mention it is commercial free and it’s fully listener supported? If you like it be sure to support Radio Paradise.

I’m a habitual listener of Jamie “jwz” Zawinski’s DNA Lounge podcast, actually it provides a soundtrack for my running (and coding) sessions, in recent news I discovered that:

The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is trying to put DNA Lounge permanently out of business. They are accusing us of “running a disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals”, and are trying to permanently revoke our liquor license.

So this morning I did a small donation, good deed of the day FTW. (plus if I will ever go to San Francisco I’d like to visit one of the best underground clubs on earth)

Support DNA Lounge: Legal Defense Fund.

Best of Bootie 2008 is out… hell yes!

Here comes the track listing:

1. Party Ben - Bootie Intro
2. DJ Tripp - Paper Rump (Wreckx-N-Effect vs. M.I.A.) - Santa Cruz, CA
3. ComaR - I Want You D.A.N.C.E. (Justice vs. Jackson 5) - Paris
4. Lobsterdust - It’s Fun To Smoke Dust (Queen vs. Pastor Gary Greenwald vs. Midfield General) - New York City
5. Earworm - No More Gas (Rihanna vs. Kardinal Offishall vs. Akon vs. Ne-Yo vs. Estelle vs. Pussycat Dolls vs. Leona Lewis vs. Danity Kane vs. Madonna vs. Timbaland vs. Justin Timberlake vs. Lupe Fiasco vs. Matthew Santos vs. Britney Spears vs. Flo-Rida vs. T-Pain) - San Francisco
6. STV SLV / The Hood Internet - Shut Up, American Boy (Estelle vs. The Ting Tings) - Chicago
7. DJ Zebra - Roxanne Should Be Dancing (The Police vs. The Bee Gees) - Paris
8. Overdub - Come As The Starlight (Nirvana vs. The Supermen Lovers) - France
9. DJ Y Alias JY - Duffy Train Running (Duffy vs. Doobie Brothers) - Munich
10. DJ Magnet - Chicago Bump (Bootie edit) (Chicago vs. Amanda Blank vs. Spank Rock vs. Bloodhound Gang vs. Greg Kihn Band vs. Detroit Grand Pubahs) - Denver
11. DJ Shyboy - You Spin Me Upside Down (Diana Ross vs. Dead Or Alive) - Los Angeles
12. Divide & Kreate - Dance Dreams (Lady Gaga vs. Eurythmics) - Stockholm, Sweden
13. ABX / The Hood Internet - Bonde Do Roll Out (Ludacris vs. Bonde Do Role) - Chicago
14. DJ Fox - Low Dog (Bootie edit) (Flo-Rida vs. The Stooges vs. Dakar & Grinser) - San Francisco
15. The Illuminoids - Gimme Shelter (Illuminoids remix) (Rolling Stones) - Los Angeles
16. Divide & Kreate - Until It Talks (Metallica vs. Coldplay) - Stockholm, Sweden
17. A Plus D - Believe In Sexual Eruption (Snoop Dogg vs. Cher) - San Francisco
18. Totom - Every Kind Of Creep (Zebra remix) (Radiohead vs. Robert Palmer) - France
19. Earworm - If I Were A Free Fallin’ Boy (Beyoncé vs. Tom Petty) - San Francisco
20. Brat - Easy Heaven (The Cure vs. The Commodores) - Los Angeles

By the way, Happy New Year!

Got hit by a huge laziness and procrastination (illness powered) wave…

…now it’s time to get back to blogging.

By the way, this is one of my favourite Beatles’ videos.

Who said math can’t be funny? This is the definitive t-shirt for music snoobs.

Nothing is any good if other people like it. We’ve just proven it mathematically. I have a theory that the only thing cartoonists bothered learning in math class was Venn Diagrams.

via Fun with Venn and Euler Diagrams , via del.icio.us popular.

Some of the best mashups DJs realized a damn nice tribute to Chemical Brothers, 2 CDs, very high quality (320 kps): Block Rockin’ Boots, a good way to "boot" the week.

A preview of the track DJ Moule : Papa Was A Chemical.

via Giavasan.

I listend to this song saturday morning while driving to Ravenna on Virgin Radio Italy (perfect soundtrack for a geeky birthday).

“Hail to the Geek” by Deaf Pedestrians

I got a spiderman t-shirt
I got Converse that are rotting off my feet
I got a bad mustache
a reoccurring rash
and not a lot of cash
I spend it on my stash
Man it’s good to be a geek

Well it’s good to be a geek
It’s good to be a creep
It’s good to draw my pictures
that no one will ever see.
It’s good to be a geek
It’s good to be unknown
It’s good I’m never waiting
right beside the telephone
Cuz no one ever…

(you can listen to the full song on Deaf Pedestrians - MySpace and find full lyrics via a google search on lyrics deaf pedestrians hail to the geek)

NiN, Free Agent, what else to say… amazing news!

This is the official announcement from NiN web site:

08 October 2007: Big News

Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the
following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally
free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have
been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the
business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very
different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a
direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.
Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008,
exciting times, indeed.

posted by Trent Reznor at 10:45 AM. 766 Comments

I spot an interesting trend.

I’m currently (beta) testing Jango: the quality of the songs and the reccomendation engine is pretty amazing, althought the variety of artists/songs in the database is not yet very wide (compared to last.fm), it is in constant increase, and I found two artists I did’t know, a more accurate analysis of the service in a following post. I’ve two beta invites left, the quickest commenters get the invites via email.

These seems to be great news for the music distrubution market:
“Amazon mp3 BETA - Play Anywhere, DRM-Free Downloads”

(via All Things Distributed: Amazon MP3 by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels)

The store is well integrated in the Amazon look and feel and very easy to use, search, get recommandations, pre-listen(, buy, and download). As icing on the cake, album purchases are “really” album purchases and you get a substantial discount by buying the album as a whole; for example you spend 9.49 $ and save 13.28 $ on the purchase of Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years.
Sound quality is good (256 Kbps avarage bitrate) and no DRM make it a really appealing service.

The (not so) bad news are: the album purchase requires the installation of the “Amazon MP3 Downloader” only available on Windows and Mac, not that bad because a Linux client is in development.

The REALLY bad news are: I wasn’t able to fulfill my purchase because Territorial Restrictions make the purchase available available only customers located in the United States (DOH! - no forseeable bug fixes).

5. Territorial Restrictions

As required by our Digital Content providers, Digital Content will, unless otherwise designated, be available only to customers located in the United States.

Bottom line: I can buy a physical book and have it delivered across the ocean, but I am not able to have digital content delivered through the Internet. Really Really Disappointed.