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[Via The Oregonion]

The goal of Los Angeles electronic duo the Crystal Method’s new release, “Drive: Nike + Original Run,” is a complete cardio workout.

Judging by the floor of energized dancers at 1:30 a.m. Saturday night at Ohm: mission accomplished.

In the early ’90s, after partnering to form the Crystal Method, Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan managed to bring a rockier edge to the blooming electronica age and to put at least two American faces to dance music, which is still dominated by European artists.

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[tag]crystal method, scott kirkland, ken jordan, electronica, dj, turntable, gap, itunes, nike [/tag]

[via NYtimes.com]

Sabina Sciubba, in an interview with Winter Miller of the NY Times, articulates and pontificates about her favorite musical artists.

Sabina Sciubba, the singer-songwriter of Brazilian Girls, talks a mile a minute — in several languages, fluently. Ms. Sciubba, 27, was born in Rome, which accounts for her Italian. Her father is German, which does not account for the Portuguese, Spanish and French she picked up along the way. Her linguistic ease has a delightfully polyglot effect on her lyrics. In “Jique,” which kicks off their September release, “Talk to la Bomb” (Verve), Ms. Sciubba (pronounced “SHOO-bah”) begins a sentence in French, shifts to Spanish and concludes in German.

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[tag]Peaches, electro, rock, Sabina Sciubba, Brazilian Girls, Jique, electronica, osymyso, kudu, kinky, goldfrapp [/tag]

[via courier-journal.com]

The French media are reporting that authorities found more than 100 tabs of the club drug ecstasy in “Margaritaville” singer Jimmy Buffett’s luggage.

Buffett was temporarily detained at Toulon-Hyères International Airport in France after customs officials found the pills.

According to the New York Post, Buffett, 60, was on his way to the resort town of St. Tropez, a popular getaway for the glitterati, when he was busted.

[tag]Jimmy Buffet, France, esctasy, St. Tropez[/tag]

[Via ninemsn.com.au]

Police have targeted a Melbourne rave party, arresting 35 people for drug offences.

The ravers were part of a group of about 7,500 who attended the God’s Kitchen dance party at Melbourne Park on Saturday night.

Police with sniffer dogs targeted people entering the dance festival and found some with ecstasy and speed.

Senior Constable Mia Paterson said police welcomed the small number of arrests.

“Police are generally happy with the crowd behaviour,” she said.

The God’s Kitchen event has recently been held in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.

[tag]God’s Kitchen, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Ravers, Melboune, Ecstasy, Speed, MDMA, Police[/tag]

[Via Gizmodo.com]

A retro stylin’ turntable in the type of design that you see on some kind of hip-rich teen movie, the Rega P3 is nonetheless quite the state of the art audio equipment– that is– if you can live with the almost a grand in dollars price point for something that plays only records. But then again, something like this isn’t for everyone but the most die-hard of the ultra suave (and rich) audiophile. Someone who probably has temperature controlled record room along with the midget live-in assisstant who has a vaguely european accent.

[tag]raga p3, turntable, rb300, vinyl, records, dj[/tag]

[From Club Triubune]

ClubTribune.com has an excellent article on two Ipod related mixing devices, comparing the Numark vs Gemini mixing consoles. The conclusion? Not something for professionals, but it may have its niche as the popularity of Digital audio players increase in the long term. Much as with growth in CD based turntables, digital audio may be the future (if sound quality worries you, uncompressed or high quality compression may beat that).

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[tag]ipod, ipod mixing, Numark, Gemini[/tag]