Recent content by Torben Grut

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    A shock of the old (music cassette)?

    Thanks alot for the link gabriel, it was very appreciated! Apart from that, what would your estimations be on the actual amounts of cassettes (and for that matter compared to CDs, vinyls etc.) sold globally? How are for example BASF and Maxell (both in business) cassette sales figures nowadays?
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    A shock of the old (music cassette)?

    So, I recently found this amazing http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/ blog that most of you perhaps already know. Plenty of interesting obscure african music I can totally recommend, and supposedly most of it recorded on tape. Apart from downloading some fifteen hours of nothing short...
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    The Blackdown and Dusk album

    Re: Blackdown - please clear some messages in your messagebox, it's apparently jammed as of now!
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    The Death of Oink

    Alternatives Fancy some Waffles?
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    scandinavian synth-pop

    Since the perhaps best swedish synth-pop artist in my opinion hasn't been mentioned yet, here goes: Nicolas Makelberge "If You Knew"
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    font ID

    maybe this could help? http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
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    what did you listen to today?

    "Definitive Swim", Def Jux/Adult Swim collaboration. Why not "Adult Jux"? All ten songs available here: Definitive Swim
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    Jarred Diamond - Guns Germs and Steel

    First of all, sorry for the hard to understand english. My argument is based on that I think it's arbitrary of Diamond to use northern Africa as a part of Eurasia as well as a part of Africa, whenever one or the other suits his theory. If I find his argument for the crops being more convincing...
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    Jarred Diamond - Guns Germs and Steel

    Well, there is the a contradictory problem of the continental definitions for instance. This is espescially concerning in the case of Northern Africa (north of Sahara), which, when needed as biogeographical evidence for Diamonds thesis is seen as a part of Eurasia, but is categorized as a part...
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    Pan's Labyrinth

    SPOILER? Couldn't agree more! I also saw it as one of these too-made-up-for-future-release-as-mission-in-a-video-game kind of scene (complete with time trial, specific quest and monster villain), which made it very unscary, despite the well made set up. Apart from the girl, I also found her...
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    Bay Area Rap

    A more Bay Area than Hyphy-related question, but any news on what happened to Romanowski and Future Primitive Sound? I weren't too interested in their dj sets but found the "Party in my pants"-record as well as Dj Zeph-album really worth a listen.
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    AJP Taylor

    Another recommended book on the matter is "Origins of World War I" by Ruth Henig, which includes a summaric view of the most often stressed causes of the war, the historic pretext as well as a round up of the historical debate. A bit more extensive than the wiki-article above, yet handy and not...
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    what if there is no next BIG thing?

    Why couldn't Ghostface have had a hiphous-remix on his latest 12", dammit! :mad:
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    what if there is no next BIG thing?

    A small step for hip house... The way I see and hear it, hiphop in these days is getting faster and faster with genres like hyphy, baltimore and grime for example. Apart from that, Busta Rhymes samples Daft Punk, Ghostface does dance music-remixes, Missy Elliott's into Cybotrons "Clear"...
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