Ulrich Schnauss

   
Artist: Ulrich Schnauss

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Dance
   Other
   Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Quicksand Memory Ep

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4


   
 Goodbye

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 Remixcollection

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 18


   
 A Strangely Isolated Place

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Far Away Trains Passing By

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 6

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A more or less secret producer from Berlin, Germany, Ulrich Schnauss debuted under his have discover in 2001 with Far Away Trains Passing By. Released by City Centre Offices, the album ostensibly came from nowhere and wound up on several journalists' year-end favorites lists, impressing many with a beguiling story of charm that referenced the shimmer of the Cocteau Twins and the ticktack mining of the Black Dog. A Strangely Isolated Place followed in 2003, which was much closer to shoegaze than U.K. techno. Schnauss has besides had his work force in a number of other projects, including Hexaquart (minimal techno-house) and Ethereal 77 (drum'n'bass), in addition to technology work for a number of other artists.

Terminator - Special-effects Wizard Winston Dies At 62

Stan Winston, the special-effects wizard, whose work was seen in such films as The
Terminator, Jurassic Park, Aliens, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, and,
most recently, Iron Man, died Sunday of multiple myeloma at age 62 at his
home in Malibu, CA, his company, Stan Winston Studio, said Monday. In a statement,
Steven Spielberg said, "My world would not have been the same without Stan. What
I will miss most is his easy laugh every time he said to me, 'Nothing is impossible.'"




17/06/2008

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R Kelly acquitted

It took six years to bring him to trial but less than 24 hours for a jury to find R Kelly not guilty of having sex with an underage girl. The Grammy award-winning singer dabbed tears from his eyes and thanked Jesus as he was cleared of all 14 counts relating to child pornography at Cook County court in Chicago on Friday. The charges related to a video that prosecutors alleged showed Kelly, now 41, engaging in numerous sex acts with an underage girl. Both the singer and the unnamed girl, who is now 23, deny their involvement.

One of the prosecution witnesses who claimed she had had a three-way sexual encounter with Kelly and the girl in question was labelled an extortionist by the defence, who claimed she sought money from Kelly in exchange for her silence. The prosecution also claimed it was a near impossibility that the tape had been tampered with, while the defence showed the jury their own version of the tape in question after they had doctored it in an attempt to bring the authenticity of the tape into question.

In the end, it appeared to come down to whether the jury was convinced it was the underage girl who appeared in the video. One juror told reporters: "You want to be 100% sure it's Kelly and (the alleged victim). What we had wasn't enough." Another said: "All of us felt very much the grayness of this case." Associated Press report that a vote taken just a few hours before the acquittal had seven jurors voting not guilty and five voting guilty. None of the five jurors who spoke to reporters after the verdict wanted to be identified. The singer would have faced a jail sentence of up to 15 years if found guilty.

Following his acquittal, a spokesman for the singer released a statement saying: "When all the facts came out in court, he would be cleared of these terrible charges. All he wants to do is move forward and put it behind him."

R Kelly is due to release a new album in July.


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Far-Less

   
Artist: Far-Less

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Pop
   Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Everyone Is Out To Get Us (Unmastered)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 A Toast to Bad Taste

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


   
 Everyone Is Out To Get Us

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Turn to the Bright

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6

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Priding themselves on organism difficult to classify, Virginia's Far-Less create their case-by-case sound by conflux elements of stone, metal, and pop together with a positive edge. The band's v members -- Brandon Welch (vocals), Ray Felts (drums), Joseph Powers (bass), Jordan Powers (guitar/vocals), and Mark Karsten (guitar) -- title influences across the circuit card from Shadows Fall to, oddly sufficiency, Huey Lewis. They first base formed in 2001 as a trinity with Felts and the brothers Powers advent together following the dying of other region bands. They independently released the Emerge EP that same year, and fan-turned-vocalist Brandon Welch entered the lineup before long later on.


A more sonically focussed EP, Apossibility, was released in 2002, and Far-Less continued to build a whole fan base across Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. About a year after Welch's arrival, the grouping yielded its commencement uncut, Broken Hearts Unite, issued on Silent Uproar Records and produced by Jamie King. Label heads showed interest upon the album's spillage, and the guys wound up signing with Tooth & Nail in the go down of 2004. Not wasting away whatever time, they quickly released the Turn to the Bright EP that November, a more mature songwriting endeavour that therefore brought brocaded expectations for February 2006's Everyone Is Out to Get Us. A Toast to Bad Taste followed in 2007.





Silent Circle

Bill Miller

   
Artist: Bill Miller

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Spirit Rain

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Loon, Mountain And Moon

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 8


   
 Healing Waters

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Ghostdance

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Ohgr

   
Artist: Ohgr

   Genre(s): 
Experimental
   

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Discography:


   
 Sunnypsyop

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11

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Nivek Ogre was the snarling part behind Canada's ferocious industrialists Skinny Puppy, and afterwards their dying in 1995, he was already tinkering about with various medicine projects. Together with manufacturer Mark Walk (Pigface, Ruby), he designed the unit of measurement called OhGr. The new soubriquet, which had been in the whole works scarcely prior to Skinny Puppy's end, did not get wind the light of day until the late '90s imputable to contractual play with Rick Rubin's American Recordings. Ogre had hoped-for cathartic the debut album entitled Welt that same year, only music industry politics and egos played into ignoring the book. It wasn't until 1999 that Ogre's effectual bindings to the record society expired and Welt was eventually rescued. Tracks were revamped and OhGr inked a deal with Spitfire Records or else, and the album was issued in February 2001. Far more positive and motivated compared to the age he spent with Skinny Puppy, Nivek Ogre appeared thrilled with his OhGr and eager to make it worthwhile.

EastEnders star missed Palmer & Owen

Former 'EastEnders' actress Natalie Cassidy has said that she missed working with soap stars Patsy Palmer and Sid Owen during their absence from Albert Square.
The 24-year-old star, who recently left her role as Sonia Fowler in the soap, told The Sun that she would have loved to be on set when the two stars returned.
Cassidy said: "It was frustrating they came back after I left. It would have been great to work with Patsy again."
Speaking about her own decision to leave the show, she said: "I feel like that door's closed now and I need to go and do other stuff."
However, the actress didn't rule out a return to the soap in the future, saying: "Bianca and Ricky have been gone for nine years. They've gone out, done their stuff and come back. Maybe in nine years I might go back."

Girl Talk Releases "Pay What You Want" Album Today

Girl Talk has today (June 19th) released his new album 'Feed the Animals' as a "pay what you want" style release, where you can name how much you think the download is worth - even if it's $0.00.

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Available through this this link, the fourteen song long-player (tracklisting below) is available as 320 KBPS MP3s, or for those who donate $5 or more, will get high-quality lossless FLAC files as well as a single file that contains the whole disc.

Those who feel $10 or more is a suitable sum for your copy of 'Feed The Animals' will get the above, as well as an option to have Illegal Art send you a physical CD version (for $3 shipping) when it is released on September 23rd.

Wham City will issue a vinyl edition later this year.

Feed The Animals Tracklisting:

1. Play Your Part (Pt. 1)

2. Shut The Club Down

3. Still Here

4. What It's All About

5. Set It Off

6. No Pause

7. Like This

8. Give Me A Beat

9. Hands In The Air

10. In Step

11. Let Me See You

12. Here's The Thing

13. Don't Stop

14. Play Your Part (Pt. 2)

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Pitbull

   
Artist: Pitbull

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 The Boatlift

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


   
 El Mariel

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 21


   
 Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera) [VINYL]

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 5


   
 Welcome To The 305

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Money Is Still a Major Issue

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Freestyle Files

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


   
 M.I.A.M.I.

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16

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When the Southern-flavored political party rap called crunk took over urban wireless in 2004, Miami rapper Pitbull decided it was sentence to seek stardom. The fashion Pitbull sees it, "crunk ain't nothin' but bass voice music slowed down." Miami bass music, that is, the tolerant Pitbull grew up on. His parents were first-generation Cuban immigrants wHO didn't let their boy forget nearly his culture. They needful him to con the deeds of Cuban poet José Martí, and Pitbull understood the power of words right away. Southern acts like Poison Clan and Luther Campbell were early influences, just as he grew, the edward Young rapper got off on to the G-funk sound of the West Coast and the New York City level of view Nas brought to the game.


Pitbull got involved in the game himself when he started appearing on Miami mixtapes. A group meeting with Irv Gotti resulted in zilch, just before long Luther Campbell called on the rapper to appear on his "Popsicle" unmarried. It brought Pitbull to the attending of the Diaz Brothers direction team, wHO introduced the rapper to the king of crunk, Lil Jon. A Pitbull freestyle landed on Lil Jon's platinum-selling Kings of Crunk album in 2002, and the rapper's "Oye" track appeared on the 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack in 2003. Ready to subscribe to it all the way to the top, Pitbull unleashed his debut full-length, M.I.A.M.I., in 2004 on the TVT label with the Lil Jon-produced single "Culo" ahead the way. Soon Pitbull was making node appearances on tracks by everyone from the Ying Yang Twins to Elephant Man. The 2005 compiling Money Is Still a Major Issue equanimous the best of these collaborations along with some remixes and unreleased tracks. In 2006 the single "Bojangles" prepared fans for his future record album, El Mariel. As the album landed on the shelves it was proclaimed that his next attempt would be totally in Spanish and highborn The Boatlift.

Conchords included in Emmy shortlist

BREAKING NEWS: Kiwi comedy show Flight of the Conchords has been included in a shortlist of the top 10 comedy shows vying for television's highest honours at the Emmy Awards.

Flight of the Conchords - created by Kiwi folk-comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement - is included in the shortlist for best comedy show, also featuring heavyweights Entourage, Weeds and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

For the first time ever, Emmy organisers unveiled a list of the top 10 comedies and dramas competing to be nominated for Emmy awards.

Traditionally, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences does not reveal its shortlist of the 20 shows under consideration for best drama and best comedy series nominations, which this year will be announced on July 17.

The list of 10 drama finalists includes one previous Emmy winner for best drama series, the castaway thriller Lost, and three other past nominees - ABC's courtroom saga Boston Legal and two medical shows, the Fox hit House and ABC favorite Grey's Anatomy.

The critically acclaimed but low-rated series Friday Night Lights also made the cut, as did the serial killer drama Dexter.

Rounding out the roster of drama finalists were four more cable shows - new period piece Mad Men, the legal drama Damages, historical romp The Tudors and the final season of The Wire.

The top 10 comedies feature six programs by broadcast networks, 30 Rock and The Office, as well as bawdy sitcom Two and a Half Men, animated series Family Guy and newcomer Pushing Daisies.

HBO dominated the four cable TV comedies on the short list with veteran programs Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage, as well as recent arrival Flight of the Conchords.

They are joined by Weeds, about a pot-dealing mum.

The top 10 shortlists were determined by votes from the entire television academy, and now go to "blue ribbon" panels of academy members who will judge the contenders.

Results from the academy voting and the panel voting are then averaged to determine the five nominees for each category.

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on September 21, and will also include awards for TV actors, actresses, mini-series, made-for-TV movies and a host of other honours.

McKenzie and Clement are currently in America working on the second season of Flight of the Conchords.

-With Reuters





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