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second lives. ‘a revelatory journey through the electronic looking glass of alternative life online, where 35 million people around the globe abandon reality for a virtual life.’ radio 4′s book of the week.
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helen from creative york was in the studio with us yesterday as part of the ‘creative surgery’ drop-ins creative coast is offering. we took the opportunity to play her some home-grown scarborough music, namely ‘finding our way back home’, the debut lp from adverse effect. adverse effect is one of kista’s projects – check out his myspace page and listen to the very fine ‘talk with god’ featuring tableek (Maspyke, New York). it’s received some deservedly good reviews.
ulla ulla ulla…
after i watched the 1950′s version of the classic “War of the Worlds” over the weekend and finding out that Rob had never heard the Jeff Wayne musical version i felt it necessary to bring in the remastered double album. memories of my mum listening to this on vinyl came flooding back…obviously i had done something very wrong when i was young as this is possibly the scariest album ever created. if martians did come i don’t even think they’d be as frightening as this album. i’m not sure of Rob’s opinion of it but i know me and Adrian enjoyed it.what makes this album so good is how “accurate” the martians seem…i think i’d actually feel ripped off if a martian came and didn’t scream “ooooooooolllaaaaaaaa” at me from his fighting machine. the only downside to this remastered version is the tacky remixes slapped on the end…one is in a reggae style…REGGAE?!?! i don’t think its possible to pick a less applicable genre of music to add to this album. even nursery rhymes would convey fear, panic and destruction of the entire UNIVERSE better than this UB40-like addition.so after skipping the remaining “ulla ulla ulla Ibiza Banging Mix” we sat back and remembered that the martians weren’t here and that that was just a cracking album.what we’re listening to [1]
the fun thing about blogs is the little insights into people’s lives. now we’re not going to be posting our most intimate secrets, but we thought it would be fun to give a little insight into life at electric angel hq. so what aural delights are we subjecting rob (our work exp. student) to this week?
there’s always at least one aimee mann album in the studio cd rack. ‘whatever’ was her first solo album and has some great songs. some people think she’s a bit depressing – we tend to think she’s just rather wry. always good for sing-a-longs.
this was the first elvis costello album i bought. ‘mighty like a rose’ is equal parts tenderness and bile – he just spits the lyrics out in places. a lot of people say his earlier stuff is best, but i think this sounds fantastic.
i first heard this when bradford library had a diverse vinyl section and i would pop down on my lunch break – it had loads of classic stuff, most of it probably original releases but that was before i got too geeky about things like that. anyway, i didn’t ‘get’ soft machine then, but now i think this is wonderful. that said, this is the nearest to prog-rock we get in the studio thank goodness – unless you count radiohead.
