Month: March 2011
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Nature and Numbers – Happy Phi Day!
I knew about the Fibonacci sequence which starts this film and the golden ratio (which becomes the golden spiral when the Fibonacci sequence is plotted out. and is a ratio used not only in nature but also architecture) but not some of the other mathematics in this entrancing film from Cristóbal Vila. Love the Wim…
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Evolution Control Committee – All Rights Reserved
The CD for this finally arrived a week or two ago and all the 200th episode rush (it’s mentioned in the show, though) I forgot to blog about this – yes Evolution Control Committee aka Trademark G is back with a new album, All Rights Reserved, and like Plagiarhythm Nation before it, it’s a good…
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RIP Smiley Culture
Sad to hear about the death during a police raid of Smiley Culture – ironically best known for his 1984 reggae/proto ragga hit ‘Police Officer’ with Saxon Soundsystem about the ‘sus’ stop and search laws – shame that unlike the funny end of the song this police intervention had a far sadder ending. 🙁 And…
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We Doop Speak Jungle Book!
Someone after my DJNoNo’s heart, and I’m guessing part of the glut of Yolanda Be Cool mashups earlier last year which is why I missed it (tend to switch off after the first few) – which is a shame as this Yolanda Be Cool vs Jungle Book mash by Xam is pure wondrousness, in despite…
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We Speak No Jawaese – G3rst mashes up Star Wars vs Yolanda Be Cool
Check out G3rst‘s funny video mashing Yolanda Be Cool’s ‘We Speak No Americano’ with the Star Wars Cantina theme…one of those times I saw the title before hearing it and simultaneously went DOH why didn’t I think of that and Ooh I can totally hear that working…and it does. Especially love the alternate dialogue from…