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April 03, 2006

Ninja Tune Zen TV II Timetable up

Just a quick one to let you know that the timetable for this Friday's Ninja Tune extravaganza (see here for an earlier post) is now up on the Beatink website.

As always, there are a couple of annoying clashes, but that's kind of inevitable when you have multiple quality acts spread over three stages in a single night. The big three don't overlap, though. I think I'm going to be aiming for DK, then 30mins of Daedelus, then Matt Black's DJ set, then the first half of Jon More's DJ set, then probably the entirety of the Hexstatic, Coldcut and Kentaro sets in the main hall. Possibly I'll squeeze in little trips to the Spank Rock live set, if only to catch a glimpse of their much-vaunted Air Cock Thrust manoeuvre (don't ask; click if you must, but don't ask) in the raw. Also I'd quite like to catch bits of Skalpel and Rainstick Orchestra. And Dom. Ok, fine: I want to see EVERYONE. Curse this whole being-in-one-place-at-one-time thing.

If you don't already have tickets, grab 'em while you can. I think Lawson and Ticket Pia stop selling them a couple of days before the gig, so go go go.

Posted by chris at 04:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)

April 01, 2006

Assorted linkery for April 1st (no, really)

Hah, yeah, I could sit on the sofa and read these magazines, or I could actually spend the entire evening surfing the interwebnet. Top picks:

• 15 best skylines in the world [via kottke.org]
• Anime movie primer Plus! Similar guides to a further 43 cinema genres [via kottke.org]
• Mind the step
• International phonetic alphabet [via plasticbag.org]
• Canned coffee. I was introduced to this site back at one of the first blogmeets I went to, late last year, but never got around to mentioning it. Never mind; here it is now. This is brilliant.
• Three Gawker Media sites - Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Kotaku - break the news that Earth has been suddenly overwhelmed by zombies. But it's business as usual at the three blogs. Some highlights:
  
  • After Z-Day, Sony Confident There Will Be No PS3 Shortages
  • Why does Del.icio.us only allow the ‘brains’ tag?
  • Use Google Maps To Track Zombies In Your Area
  • Zombism obviating social networking services
  • Crowd Control: Toro Lawn Boy 10367
• Actually, here's a whole list of sites running April Fool's gags.

Posted by chris at 11:56 PM | Permalink

Byte Size 060401 at Bar Aoyama

Fans of fucked-up laptop techno should get along to Bar Aoyama tonight for Byte Size 060401.

Not sure I'll be able to make it, as I'm now very firmly installed on the sofa with a pile of magazines to read through while the missus is out at a hen night. That's how we mice live it up here at Tokyo Tales Towers when the cat's away: The Economist, Empire, and Edge.

Posted by chris at 06:21 PM | Permalink

Sony to Ditch UMD Movies?

I wondered if this might happen: UMD Movies for PSP Now on Endangered Species List

And now, yet another attempt to force users into purchasing proprietary formats comes back to bite them on the ass. Well done, Sony. How long before they just split the company right down the middle?

NB: The article doesn't explicitly mention the UMD's future as the media for PSP games, only movies...

Posted by chris at 12:25 PM | Permalink

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