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Röyksopp - Melody A.M [2001]

In case any of you guys don't watch TV here is a treat.

Lets backtrack to 2006. GEICO was comming out with its catchy new star, The Caveman, well listen to this commercial titled "At The Air Port":


You are listening to Remind Me by Röyksopp released as their fourth single.

Melody A.M. is the debut album of Norwegian duo Röyksopp. Songs from this album have been used in television adverts and computer games"Eple" was licensed by Apple and used as the introduction music for the Mac OS X v10.3 Setup Assistant A remix of "Poor Leno" was featured in the SSX 3 soundtrack.

So if your interested listen and if you like it buy it.

For testing purposes the following link will take you to it.

Enjoy

“Left versus right” labels should be left aside in Latin America

The wittiest of the Marxes (Groucho, not Karl) said famously, “I wouldn’t join a club that would have me as a member.” It is an often-used quote that fits well with news about Cuba coming from a meeting this week of the Organization of American States in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Hillary Rodham Clinton faced a harangue from OAS members demanding that Cuba be invited to become a member of the organization. A New York Times piece about the meeting said this:

"On one level, it seems a sterile debate: Cuba has said often and loudly that it does not want to rejoin the organization. But on a deeper level, the meeting has showcased Latin America’s resurgent political left, which has seized on Cuba as an issue with which to press the United States."

How much does this involve the misapplication of those overused words, “left versus right?” It can also be argued that all of Latin America yearns for a different relationship with the United States under the new presidency of Barack Obama. Cuba has diplomatic and trade ties with something like 170 countries around the world — left, center and right.

Back in Washington, the dominant move for a change in stagnant and stymied Cuban relations comes from the offices of Republican Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, who only Rush Limbaugh might try to label as a leftist. Lugar doesn’t support OAS membership for Cuba, but he calls for rethinking U.S. relations with Cuba.

The OAS is a sideshow compared with appeals from Lugar and others, including U.S. businesses looking to open Cuba as a lucrative new market. Meanwhile, a majority of Americans and even a majority of the Cuban-American community in the United States support an end to the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo of Cuba.

So whether or not Cuba is invited to join the OAS, the focus is on Washington: How quickly and to what extent will the Obama administration promote the changes that appear close at hand?

- Peter Eisner

100 New Nuclear Reactors

Shinichi Maruyama

Shinichi Maruyama started his professional career in Tokyo in 1993, 10 years later relocating his studio to New York City in search of more global opportunities. Specializing in splashing and energetic movements within shots Maruyama has become highly sought after for his expertise in this field expanding his career into Europe in 2005.

Shinichi Maruyama was born in 1968 in Nagano, Japan. Surrounded by beautiful mountains, in High School he became immersed in mountain climbing, and wanting to preserve the stunning landscapes began taking photographs.

Upon graduating college he joined Ima Co. assisting their 15 still life photographers where he discovered the many different professional facets of creating an image. In 1993, working with an 8x10 camera Maruyama became independent winning the ’99 Japan Magazine Advertisement Prize planning-advertisement section award.

He began taking photos for his personal project “Into the Spiti Valley”, a documentary work about Tibetan culture in India, the exhibition later opened in 2001 along with the publication of two books “Into The Spiti Valley” and “Spiti” In 1998, he joined Hakuhodo Photo Creative and became involved in advertising campaigns for Japanese companies winning the New York ADC Gold Award for an advertising campaign for a satellite broadcasting company.

In 1999 realizing the possibilities of digital photography and Photoshop Maruyama began creating his work using digital cameras. Maruyama has been involved in many worldwide advertising campaigns utilizing his expertise in ice, liquid/splash, and specializing in movement in his works. Years of lighting research and the advances in retouching have made it easy to have a strong idea of exactly how a photo will look even before the shoot begins, but in photographing liquid and subjects in movement, it is impossible to foresee what the end result will be, and it is this spontaneity that enables Maruyama to have more fun creating his work.


While Maruyama enjoys the excitement of collaborating with creators from around the world, one thing is always on his mind, that feeling he had back in high school, when he was photographing whatever he wanted to...he is now working on his personal projects and aims to have an exhibition of this work.

Zero 7 - Simple Things [2001]

Country: UK

Genre: Downtempo, Future Jazz, Trip Hop

It's a soulful mix of soul, jazz and electro. The vocals are great (although personally I'm not particularly fond of Sia Furler at certain moments) and the arrangements are right on the money for this type of "retro-techno" sound. I sometimes get confused if it's a smooth jazz combo trying to be electronic or an electronic group trying to be smooth jazz. In The Waiting Line and I Have Seen are the best ones I suggest you begin with those.

Song List :

1 I Have Seen (5:07) Vocals - Mozez

2 Polaris (4:48)
3 Destiny (5:37) Vocals - Sia Furler* , Sophie Barker
4 Give It Away (5:17)
5 Simple Things (4:24) Vocals - Mozez
6 Red Dust (5:40)
7 Distractions (5:16) Vocals - Sia Furler*
8 In The Waiting Line (4:32) Vocals - Sophie Barker
9 Out Of Town (4:47)
10 This World (5:35) Vocals - Mozez
11 Likufanele (6:11)
12 End Theme (3:39)
13 Salt Water Sound (5:30)
14 Spinning (6:03) Vocals - Sophie Barker
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Collapse Under The Empire - Systembreakdown

[2009] Systembreakdown

Country: Germany
Genre: Post-Rock/Instrumental

Collapse Under The Empire is an instrumental/post-rock band from Hamburg/Germany. They formed 2007 and released their debut album „Systembreakdown“ (2009) on their own.

Most of the songs are alternating between electro-bleeps and powerful guitar explosions combining epic guitars with chilled electronic elements. In one year’s time they have self-released their debut LP “Systembreakdown”, using pianos and synths with guitar-battering crescendos. “Systembreakdown” may only be about 40 minutes long with no nine-minute epic, but it packs a lot of beauty and emotion.Nevertheless Collapse Under The Empire stick to their own style and do not want to emerge as a knock-off. With their mixture of instrumental post-rock they are trying to make a cut above the uniform pulp and put their own stamp on it.

Official Website
MySpace
Last.fm

Tracklist:
01 Monumental Sequence
02 Sky Falling
03 Innocence
04 The Taste Of Last Summer
05 Quiet Dimension
06 Environmental Obsession
07 Turn
08 Depending On You
09 Further Than The End Of The World
10 Buried In Pieces


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http://rapidshare.com/files/207525992/Collapse_Under_The_Empire_-_Package__192kBit_.rar

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A New Beginning

After extensive thought I have decided to make a blog, welcome. In it we will delve into all thing that interest me including photography, music, culture, events design, urbanism, politics, the fine thins in life and any other thing I might think is interesting.

If you know me you also know how ADD I can be and most likely I will not follow any particular order or subjects. I guess then that what I will be posting is whatever I find interesting. I will keep this short and begin on my project.

Enjoy!