Tag: Scotland
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Jean Jacques Ondioline
In a follow up to the previous Jean Jacques Perrey memorial post, I’d never heard his album/piece “Prélude au Sommeil”. Ian Fondue posted this excellent list of the greatest electronic albums of the 1950’s and 1960’s (listeners to the podcast and mixes would already be familiar with many of these, I was quite surprised at…
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Brexit at Stiffany’s
What can I say? I Went To Glasto with Kirk and All I Got Was A Post-EU Neo-Fascist Mess of a Country. Should’ve got a t-shirt. (Actually on theme I wore my two cowboys Westwood-copy on Saturday, sadly it doesn’t stand up to mud well o.O) Not wanted to post here (I did on my…
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Everything must go
I’m having a massive sale of my unused gear over at eBay including a lot of my podcasting gear – Marvin is being sold, my Korg PXR4 mobile podcasting rig that I used to podcast from a field in Canada, a bathroom in Spain and rainy Scotland! my Mackie mixer, my Audio Technica ATR2020 condenser…
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Trophic cascades
Although apparently simplified, and also contested by some, the story of how wolves introduced to Yellowstone is a fascinating one, and a reminder that even the less palatable or human-friendly parts of the ecosystem have a surprising role to play, good and bad. Quite often good since humans have taken them out over a short…
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Don’t vote for Tory or UKIP lies
There’s an election coming up on Thursday in the UK, and it’s disturbing how short people’s memories are. Scare stories about SNP-Labour coalitions when I seem to remember both the Lib-Dems and Tories denied they would go into a coalition in the run-up to the last election (Pro-Tip: no-one ever agrees to a coalition before…
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Watching Apple & Scotland with Russell Brand
Amazing that Apple has so much money offshore it could end world poverty in a heartbeat (monitor)…and I find it odd the conversation about the iCloud hacks has avoided talking about NSA and spying implications for cloud storage (which Russell isn’t interested in covering, which I understand as it’s a bit of a sideshow issue…