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[kingandy]

My Mum has a new computer. It is better than mine, despite being a Dell. I am being sorely tempted.

Raj continues to play up in the radio department. He was so offended by Radio 1 this morning that he just cut the sound for about ten seconds.

The department got chewed out (politely, since we are the most important people in the company) yesterday for attendence, punctuality and time wasting. I do waste a fair amount of time on the intarweb, but since I am almost always in on time and have taken about three days sick in the last year I feel I am winning on points.



You are Frida Kahlo! You are an artistic,
passionate, vulnerable person, with openly
bisexual tendancies and were the first womyn to
have her own gallery show in Mexico. You slept
with ... Trotsky?


Which Western feminist icon are you?
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I spent much less time on this quiz than I did on any of the ones involving attractive men ... ahum.


Had "Chateau" running through my head all through last night. It's one of those ones that doesn't naturally end, being composed of an eternal loop and a distinct end sequence (like Clubbed To Death by the same composer, which just goes around and around in the clubby bit until it suddenly switches to the strings/piano bit to wind down, or Battle Without Honor Or Humanity, which could easily just go back to the strumming bass guitar after the final orchestral hit).

Right, let's get that playing again, shall we? Nice.

EXTRA: Lunar Colonies a-go-go!

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[kingandy]

It is good to plug into while I work. Currently I am listening to the CD that I compiled to play during fight scenes in geek (track listing here).

I don't tend to go for bog-standard "dance" music as such - I like a bit of variation, a bit of melody. Can't stand the stuff that just repeats over and over for 16, 32, 64 bars at a time (designed, as I understand it, for the drug-addled youth). I thought I had found a name for my "niche" yesterday; one of the (double) tapes I bought in Morrisons was called "Trip Hop", which sounded about right. On listening to one side of one tape it's almost there; it starts off with Bentley Rythm Ace, which I do like, but then it loops it around and plays a bunch of crap over it and it all goes a bit mad. Will listen to more of it on the way home tonight and see if the rest of it is any good.

"Chateau" is the music from the fight scene in the Chateau (spluh) from Matrix Reloaded. It is composer Rob Dougan's first foray into scoring for film, and is very fine indeed. His earlier track, Clubbed To Death, was featured in the first Matrix movie; you can hear the repeated themes and developed context. (It's also developed in his other Reloaded track, "Furious Angel", which I need to copy over again next week because it got corrupted on my MP3 stick.) "Chateau" speaks to me of continuation and progression and ass-kicking goodness.

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Of dance music I like to go for trance type mixed with a little funk. Genre's like Acid Hip-hop and Chill Out Trance (rather than Ambient - which is just that). It goes well with coding although occasionally I do find I need leave electronica land and listen to some rock, accoustic or classical music just to blow away the cobwebs.

You may want to have a look at some of my collection in the usuall place (if you can handle ogg files). I think you would like James Zabiela, Nightmares on Wax, and possibly some of the more lively Kruder and Dorfmiester mixes. They are all under the Artists directory.

I'm currently going a little old school and listening to some Leftfield :-)