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““This one puts out 5,000 watts and cost about $4,000,” said Nick Ragbir, 18, tinkering with his two-wheeled sound system, with its powerful amplifier, two 15-inch bass woofers and four midrange speakers. It plays music from his iPod and is powered by car batteries mounted on a sturdy motocross bike.”

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The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this November into December, focusing on the 8-bit scene - musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and across the United States.

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(just fyi, the website is way, way hard to read.)

One of the Big Four labels is apparently unhappy with its return on investment when it comes to funding industry trade groups such as the IFPI and RIAA. British label EMI, which was recently purchased by a private equity fund, is reportedly considering a significant cut to the amount of money it provides the trade groups on an annual basis.”

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Sweet. After reading the incompetence of people in charge of the record labels, its nice to see what is the new distribution method push it even farther. Rock on my sweedish brethren.

The Pirate Bay goes Web 2.0

“click on an audio torrent and (in some cases) you’ll get an option to view “detailed artist info”, which brings a neat list of albums and songs by that artist, a tag cloud of related artists, and an embedded Last.FM radio widget which lets you listen to the artist right on the spot. 2.0, baby!”

Try them out, they should be showing up now. Any comments that were posted are now showing. sorry for the delay in the fix.

Much like Xeno9’s mix below, im not a big fan of house any more. It’s usually not something i can sit and listen to for any long period of time, and when it gets to a bpm that’s danceable, i usually find myself wanting to find another club to go to. It’s usually just not my thing. Ok, my own tastes aside, I thought that Gabe’s “Learn to Love Yourself mix” was pretty damn good. The mixing was flawless, and the track selection didnt make me want to hate house as per usuall. Much like his Drum n Bass mix, this would go perfect for a night out at a lounge. It’s something i wouldnt even mind playing in the background as i try to get some work done. If youre a house head it’s a must have, if not, it might be the one house mix you could have in your collection to mix it up and not piss off the guests at your party with all your Led Zepplin and covers of Ah Ha.

1. Flow 9
2. Technical/mixing 8
3. Replay value 6
4. Track listing 8

Total: 7.75/10