Archive for August, 2009
The State of Indie Film | grooveTEK.net
The articles that I’ve chosen for review are by Anne Thompson, columnist for Variety. Both articles detail the facts of Indie decline and are well worth your time.
Full StoryLes Paul passes at 94 | grooveTEK.net | grooveTEK electronica music
GrooveTEK electronica music Anyone that’s seen or heard a guitar, has seen or heard a Les Paul. Paul, a superb guitarist in his own right and pioneer guitar designer was one of the driving forces at the beginnings of Rock and Roll and the Guitar Age. We’ll miss you and that excellent playing man.
Full StoryVideo of the Week – Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone.
I never heard of Calvin Harris music before until I found him on Gizmodo.com last night where he was doing Humanthesizer Performance Relies on 15 Bikini-Clad Ladies. Yeah that’s right, he was running feedback sensor cable from the body of the Bikini Ladies to the synthesizer unit and the booty groove started. It’s cool thing to [...]
Full Story‘New Radiohead song’ leaks online – Reading & Leeds Festival Festival News – NME.COM
NME.COM A song strongly suspected by many fans to be new from Radiohead has leaked online. The song, the MP3 of which bore the title ‘These Are My Twisted Words’, has been posted on YouTube – click on the video below to hear it.
Full StoryPunk meets Islam for new generation in U.S. – CNN.com
(CNN) — The guitarist stands in front of a mirror messing with his mohawk. The drummer strikes a wild tempo. The singer rips off his T-shirt and begins to scream the lyrics. Basim Usmani is bassist for The Kominas, a group that blends traditional sounds with punk rock beats. They’re young. They’re punk. And they’re [...]
Full StoryU.S. Web-Tracking Proposal Raises Privacy Concerns
The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with “cookies” and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.
Full StoryThree days of mud and music at Woodstock in 1969 | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Forty years ago — Aug. 15-17, 1969 — thousands of people descended on Bethel, a small, rural New York town to see rock gods Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and the Who. The skies opened and the ground underneath bare feet turned into a giant muddy pit.
Full Story[8.15]Artificial Intelligence 3: Pirate Party ft. Johnny Armstrong, CJ Clark, R-KATYP3, Antiphase | liz revision |
Liz is having a party. If you’re in Chicago on August 15th – Drop by.
Avast, pirates! Bring a CD/ DVD of your art, music, videos, photos or anything cool you have the right to distribute on Saturday Aug. 15 5o Ai Lounge. It will be uploaded to subVariant.com where anyone can download it.
Talking like a pirate not required. Arrr.
Full StoryThe Spoof : BBC Blames Bristol Band Massive Attack for Twitter Crash
The BBC has decided that the Trip-Hop/Electronica band Massive Attack were responsible for the intentional Distributed Denial of Service assault on the Twitter website. It is thought that the band may have been attempting to stop Twitter users from continually asking “what’s that music on that TV show/film/advert” and never finding out the answer.
Full StoryYouTube – JUNO REACTOR – Rotorblade | grooveTEK.net
Rotorblade from the 1995 “Beyond The Infinite” Juno Reactor Album
Juno Reactor is one of those bands that has sparked so much in all of us; one of the premiere electronic music artists of our time.
Take another listen to this track and discover just how excellent this electronica is, even after all this time. And Astralseeker has created an excellent vid that perfectly compliments the mix.






