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GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA STYLE WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
CONSUMING CULTURE, SPITTIN' HYPE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...
1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus"
(Island)
Favorite Kicks ...
Adidas "Adi Color Winner"
-- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.
Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
(Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!
Overheard...
Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:
"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"
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Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X
Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP
Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine
Resources Directory [Beta]:
TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.
Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.
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July 06, 2003
Paris: DJ Kicks
Touched down at CDG International a week ago and headed straight to a fave cafe in St. Germain des Pres to begin our caffeine-shopping blow-out in the French capital. Yeah, baby, the hunt was on for crisp new warez just as the summer sales season was kickin' it into a highgear. If there was one French word that got burned into our retinas it was "soldes." Paris was on sale, and we were ready to drop some Euros on some choice merch.
The first stop was a record store called Jazz Ensuite where he hooked up with Mattias Gomez. He's the guy sitting behind the counter manning the turntables, taking notes, and sneaking cigarettes in between spins. Gomez plays in a band that creates long experimental tunes that fuse jazz and '70s German electronica (think Can, Damo Suzuki, Kraftwerk, et. al.).
Jazz Ensuite has a large collection of vinyl spanning all kinds of jazz, blues, gospel, and Latin recordings. The only good vinyl Mattias says is hard to find in Paris is bossa nova stuff.
"All the best bossa nova recording on vinyl have been snapped by Japanese collectors...the best records are in Japan now." Gomez says he's about to make another of his regular record-buying visits to Tokyo later this summer. In the meantime, he's plugged us into some new discs coming out on some French labels, notably from Comet Records.
Paris has an in-touch Afro music scene issuing top product. We really liked Comet's series of afro-jazz compilations, especially the second volume called simply "Another Collection of Modern Afro Rhythms," with tunes from Letta M'Bulu, Antibalas, and Marius Cultier." Wicked, mate. Wicked!—Le Kid Shibuyanaise
Posted by at July 6, 2003 03:02 PM
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