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work. buy. consume. die.

40 Watt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:40:26 -0800

UK design studio The Designers Republic has apparently gone out of business after 23 years. Highly visible throughout the 1990's and early 2000's, tDR's work tended towards flashy, blocky shapes, tech-heavy styling and deconstructed images that spawned a host of imitators and influenced the look of the early phase of the web. Perhaps best known for their work on the Wipeout series of games, it was tDR's close association with fellow Sheffield residents and electronic music purveyors Warp Records that gave them heavy exposure to a generation of consumers and produced some of their most memorable designs. Some images from the Designers Republic(mostly album covers, as it's the easiest to link to): Aphex Twin - On EP Autechre - Basscad EP Autechre - Chiastic Slide Autechre - Envane Autocreation - Mettle B12 - Time Tourist tDR in Emigre Magazine Fluke - Risotto Gas - 0095 Joey Beltram - Caliber EP LFO - Advance Locust - Weathered Well Plaid - Spokes Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is The Day...This Is The Hour...This Is This! Seefeel - Starethrough EP Speedy J - Krekc Sweet Exorcist - C.C.C.D. Various Artists - Blech Various Artists - Blech II Various Artists - em:t1197 Various Artists - Ischemic Folks Various Artists - We Are Reasonable People Wipeout 3 Woob - 1194 If you hurry, you might still be able to score some tDR goodies from thepeoplesbureau online shop.

This video contains so much more than flashing lights

blasdelf — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:41:18 -0800

Dancefloor Dale (autoplaying music video) — NSFW after 1:05, and never safe for epilleptics. SFW Intro on YouTube | Polite Dance Song has been featured here before | More Tim & Eric posts… dancefloordale.com is the home of the project, I didn't make it the main link as the video-preview image is spoilerish.

Boards of Canada - Music Videos

bigmusic — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:11:16 -0800

"If the emergence of techno and the proliferation of its related genres thrust DJs and producers into the spotlight, it also spawned artists who, like Kraftwerk before them, chose to remain anonymous and distant. The Scottish duo Boards of Canada (Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison) is a case in point, an even more enigmatic presence on the UK's electronic music landscape than Aphex Twin and Autechre. Eoin and Sandison have consistently minimized their role in the commercial side of music-making and have avoided its attendant lifestyle: They've shunned city life for the rural seclusion of their Hexagon Sun studio and its local collective of artists. They claim to record primarily for themselves and their friends. They have reportedly amassed an enormous archive of unreleased music dating back to the early '80s (numerous apocryphal BoC tracks make the rounds). They seldom give interviews or perform live." Twoism - 1995 Oirectine Iced Cooly Twoism Melissa Juice 1986 Summer Fire Boc Maxima - 1996 Chinook Rodox Video Boc Maxima Nova Scotia Robots Niagara Skimming Stones Sixtyniner Red Moss Concourse Carcan M9 Original Nlogax Whitewater Hi Scores - 1996 Hi Scores Nlogax June 9th Seeya Later Everything You Do Is a Balloon Music Has the Right to Children - 1998 Wildlife Analysis An Eagle in Your Mind The Color of the Fire Telephasic Workshop Triangles & Rhombuses Sixtyten Turquoise Hexagon Sun Kaini Industries Bocuma Roygbiv Rue the Whirl Aquarius Olson Pete Standing Alone Smokes Quantity Open the Light One Very Important Thought Happy Cycling In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - 2000 Kid for Today Amo Bishop Roden In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country Zoetrope Geogaddi - 2002 Ready Lets Go Music Is Math Beware the Friendly Stranger Gyroscope Dandelion Sunshine Recorder In the Annexe Julie and Candy The Smallest Weird Number 1969 Energy Warning The Beach at Redpoint Opening the Mouth Alpha and Omega I Saw Drones The Devil Is in the Details A Is to B as B Is to C Over the Horizon Radar Dawn Chorus Diving Station You Could Feel the Sky Corsair Magic Window From One Source All Things Depend The Campfire Headphase - 2005 Into the Rainbow Vein Chromakey Dreamcoat Satellite Anthem Icarus Peacock Tail Dayvan Cowboy HQ A Moment of Clarity '84 Pontiac Dream Sherbet Head Oscar See through Red Eye Ataronchronon Hey Saturday Sun Constants Are Changing Slow This Bird Down Tears from the Compound Eye Farewell Fire Macquarie Ridge Trans Canada Highway - 2006 Left Side Drive Heard from Telegraph Lines Skyliner Under the Coke Sign Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam remix) Some reviews: Twoism. Boc Maxima. Hi Scores. Music Has the Right to Children. In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. Geogaddi. The Campfire Headphase. Trans Canada Highway. "Now that the show is over and we have jointly exercised our constitutional rights; we would like to leave you with one very important thought. Some time in the future, you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so-called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally-protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you." Previously: 1, 2, 3, 4

Come to Johnny...

afx114 — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:17:47 -0800

Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham strike again. (Come to) Rubber Johnny. More here and here.

Dumb-ass Recording-industry Meat-heads

Blue Stone — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:09:43 -0800

While CD sales in the UK continue their upward march (nearly 8% this year) and UK music retailers show healthy profits, the Record Companies are gearing up to sue their British customers (ala The RIAA). Not all record companies, however, are taking the big stick approach: - Warp Records - (home of Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Chris Morris) steps up to the plate with high-quality music downloads, unencumbered by DRM. Go figure.

iceblink — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 17:13:28 -0800

autechre's new CD/DVD gantz_graf deserves a larger audience than it will most likely receive. not only a brilliant piece of what can be labeled "idm" music, a stunning confluence of hypermodern audio and video artistry.