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Yahoo! Closing Geocities Later This Year. Oh No!

Published on April 27, 2009 in music, news and random news. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

porksword

Well, there you go, after once being the 3rd most popular website on the internet and Yahoo! aquiring it for something like $3 billion USD, Geocities is going to close. Normally i wouldnt give a shit but this particular free web host holds a special place in my heart. You see, it is the home of The Official PorkSword Homepage.

Not only does this mean that the site will close and the homepage, which has been there for 10 years (!!) will be no more, it will really actually be totally no more as i have no idea what the login details are for the site so I have no way to save the data. Unless of course i manually save every bit of it, but i wont do that cos that is lame.

So, to all you PorkSword fans out there, and i know there are… some, this year will be the last year you can view our homepage so make the most of it! In my opinion this is “out of line”.

EDIT: fuck it. what was i thinking? i’ve downloaded the entire site using a nifty little application, so now all we need is a domain to bung it on. I could just throw it up on one of mine but i feel we need our own such as www.porksword.com. Unfortunately, that site is already registered and parked as a gay resource site hah.  I have put in an offer to the owner on sedo.co.uk. Will see if i get a response!

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Tune of the day – Odyssey – Expressions

Published on December 1, 2008 in music, tune of the day and youtube. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .


Label: 720 Degrees
Catalogue: 720002
Format: 12″
Release Date: 1997

http://www.rolldabeats.com/release/720_degrees/720002

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a new top ten

Published on November 10, 2008 in music and top ten. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

not for any particular reason, here are some of my favourite things in no particular order.

xela – my rap
trentemøller – while the cold winter waiting
lusine icl – abaft
aphex twin – vordhosbn
venetian snares – Öngyilkos Vasárnap
metamatics – giant sunflowers swaying in the wind
radiohead – go slowly
arc lab – sveta
ndelay – generic host process
sense – plink

and one more cos it’s rad.

xela – quiet night

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google trends, dubstep vs drum n bass

Published on July 5, 2008 in music. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

So, i had a quick look on google trends just now for a laugh, and it revealed to me not only that Google really is obsessed with stats, but also that dubstep is kicking drum & bass’s arse.

If you study the chart above, you can see a distinct decline in drum n bass’ popularity. If i was a nerd, i would probably draw some lines indicating the steady downward trend. Luckily for you i am a bit of a nerd so you can find said lines on this picture, here.

There is no search data for dubstep before 2005, and a small trickle of news related data from early 2004 when the sound was quietly gaining worldwide attention. But it’s at the start of 2006 it really starts to take off and not until around November 2007 dubstep, as a search term takes the lead. This corresponds with a sudden surge in news reference volume, where it pushed above drum n bass briefly, causing the search term to reach upward and break through.

Other search terms yield similar results. All pointing toward the decline in the number of people searching for dnb related terms.

Here you can see, again there is absolutely no search data before 2005. Those letters represent news results corresponding to the search terms, which is pretty nifty. The start of Q4 2006 is marked by this article in pitchfork by Blackdown’s Martin Clark.

Here are some results broken down by region. You can see the UK dominating on both.

Oddly enough, New Zealand with a population of something like 3million people, has the second spot. They love it.

Anyway, i’m kinda sick of typing lol. So you can see all this live on Google Trends site here. You do have to sign in to Google to see the extra stuff.

Now after i started typing this i had a bit of a look at how Google Trends works, all this probably isn’t actually what i am interpreting it to be, taking into account scaling etc. But its nice to speculate a bit!

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Flippo Mix (dub, techno, dubstep etc)

Published on March 19, 2008 in music. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Flippo has done a new mix. It is very nice indeed.

Starts off slow 80bpm eventually works through super-minimal dub techno, a bit less minimal-ish techno, and dubstep and miscellaneous beats. Thought there might be some sounds in there some of you haven’t heard so decided to upload and share it. I don’t smoke anymore but if I did I’d definatley blaze up before listening to these tunes, particularly the first half :hint: Very Happy

Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Batta — Music Hit You — [Burial Mix]
Flippo — Flood — [dub]
Pole — Rondell Zweii — [Kiff]
Pole — Silberfish — [Kiff]
Deep Chord Presents: Echospace — Aequionoxiuim — [Modern Love]
Deep Chord Presents: Echospace — Aberaxas — [Modern Love]
Gus Gus — Sleepytime — [4AD]
Thom Yorke — Cymbal Rush (The Field Late Night EssenUnd Trinken remix) — [XL]
Rhythm & Sound w/ Shalom — We Been Troddin — [Burial Mix]
Maurizio — MØ6A — [M]
MLZ — M-brane — [Modern Love]
Rhythm & Sound — See Mi Yah (Hallucinator remix) — [Basic]
Deep Chord Presents: Echospace — Empryean — [Modern Love]
Rhythm & Sound — See Mi Yah (Basic Reshape) — [Basic]
Burial — Distant Lights — [Hyperdub]
Pinch — Lazaus — [Tectonic]
Shackleton — Blood on my Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocolypse Now Mix) — [Skull Disco]
Lusine — Weaver — [Ghostly International]
Spherix and Flippo — .001 — [dub]
Ruckspin feat. Ras Spear — Ceasless — [Ranking Records]
Quark and Ruckspin — Tablage — [Ranking Records]
AC23 — Love Her (Flippo’s Winter Dub remix) — [forthcomming Formant Recordings]
Lusine — Haze — [Ghostly International]
Flippo — Sleep — [dub]

1:08, 192 kbps, 94 meg

http://dubstep.com.au/mixes/Flippo_March_08_Mix.mp3 < for the lowndoad..

… but, having said that, this is what it would look like if you were a small water-proof dog living in a bowl of lime cordial, in a dark warehouse under a lamp. You look up into the light, waiting for the monkey people to sprinkle shortbread crumbs in to feed on…

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