Contradiction
Posted by Damien Pollet Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:56:01 GMT
…between painful title and tender music.
iTunes goes DRM-free!
Posted by Damien Pollet Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:19:28 GMT
As reported by Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow, Apple announced today that the iTunes music store would soon offer high-quality, DRM-free tunes and videos, starting with the EMI catalog. That’s really great news!
From the PR point of view, I now wonder what Steve Jobs’ thoughts on music post was really… stating his opinion in public to push the majors, or more a kind of early announce to prepare our minds?
Normal Bumblefoot concert in Nantes
Posted by Damien Pollet Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:25:00 GMT
We saw Bumblefoot at “Le Floride” in Nantes last night! This time everything went normally, unlike a certain concert in Paris last spring where his fretless guitar was “lost” somewhere under the stage. Dude… But this time, wow. Some guys in straight jackets were pushed on the scene, untied by the local medics, then played a normal performance ;-) that rocked!
That was the fifth date of the european tour for the release of the new album entitled “Normal”. The lineup is Dennis Leeflang (drums), Joe (bass) and Randy (guitar) from The Nerve. After the concert, we learned that it was only the fifth gig Joe and Randy were playing with Ron! Gr8K also tried to talk Ron into coming here in Rennes, arguing that Matthias Eklundh already knows the place… goody-goody, we’ll see what that becomes ;-)
Update: finally got my hands on a scanner, so… be the truth about my secret identity revealed!
Iconoclast
Posted by Damien Pollet Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:57:00 GMT
This weekend I stumbled on the Assembly 2005 demoparty. And there was this really nice surprise from ASD, entitled Iconoclast, which got the 1st place in the demo compo. Really stunning graphics, not only impressive but just beautiful, progressive rock/metal music instead of the usual techno/trance/indus… Go ASD!
Sadly the demo is win32, but the code is available and there is a video for those who use serious OSes :)
update (nov. 2006) the video link seems dead, see here or go to scene.org and search for iconoclast.
Même du jour: le Bâton Musical
Posted by Damien Pollet Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:24:00 GMT
I had noticed the meme on some other blogs I read, but I didn’t suspect I would find myself in the trajectory of such a musical baton! Turns out that one was thrown by lrz.
Total volume of Music on my computer: just over 30GB
Currently Playing: Behind the Yashmak from Strange Place For Snow by Esbjørn Svensson Trio
Last CD I bought: Heavy Weather and eponym by Weather Report for sure, and maybe Dream Theater’s Awake or Images and Words was in the batch, can’t remember.
Five songs I listen to a lot: Actually I nearly always listen whole albums so I’m not going to list individual songs. Even then, I often have periods listening the same genre, and the last months have not been really fun so that shows a little at the top of the list :-) Anyway, looking at my “most played” smart playlist, I have to admit I see:
- a huge batch of metal: Finntroll, Dimmu Borgir, Death and some others;
- another batch o more progressive/weird stuff, but still quite metallish: Liquid Tension Experiment, Bumblefoot, Dream Theater, Fantômas, Estradasphere, Buckethead… (I’m surprised not to see Mr Bungle here, strange);
- electronic, mostly Infected Mushroom’s trance, but there is some Prodigy, Autechre, High Tone too;
- folk, world: Hedningarna, Gjallarhorn, Ekova, Shooglenifty, Sheila Chandra;
- other genres that I listen less often, but that I do like: Henri Texier, Jaco Pastorius, John McLaughlin, Franck Zappa, Yes, Anime OSTs (Hajime Mizoguchi & Yoko Kanno)
FiveFour people to whom I’m passing the baton:
Bruno,
Pascal,
Thomas,
Nicolas.
PS. computer music PhD students that happen to have graduated yesterday are hereby pressed to put their broken templeet blog back online, thank you :-P
Jad Zooïd tipping point?
Posted by Damien Pollet Mon, 09 May 2005 10:30:00 GMT
Jad Zooïd is a jazz-rock trio from Rennes I discovered at the music day 2003, then saw again one year later at the Jazz à la Harpe festival 2004, where they kicked some a**es until late in the nightmorning, as if Médéric Collignon hadn't done so enough just before.
Well it seems they have an album in the works!
High Tone and solex
Posted by Damien Pollet Sun, 08 May 2005 14:51:00 GMT
High Tone played a damn powerful set last night at the 38th Rock'n Solex festival, transmutating the electronic dub from their albums into raveparty-esque beats!
Too bad we nearly had to fight our way into the concert... hopefully next year's organisation team will remember that only one entry for 4000 people is not enough. For their defense, that was the first time the festival was so big, and the concerts were a big success.
Oh, and the festival is primarily about Solex competitions :-)
