BETAMAXNOMATES
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This:

Greatest song in the history of everything.

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This site is amazing. A collection of photos from abandoned places around the world. Won’t even bother trying to describe them here – besides I’d have to type 1000 words for each one. Just click the link and be suitably blown away.
Par exemple:

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Lovely (albeit oddly unsettling) stuff here from Mitchell & Webb:

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So next week I shall be DJing at the fifth Tokyo Laptop Battle. Rejoice sinners!

If I understand the brief correctly I shall be playing before, during and indeed after the ‘battle’ proper. So it’s essentially an extended BETAMAXNOMATES set interrupted by some bouts of laptop-based lunges, parrys and reprisals. The spectacle of Laptop Battle truly [...]

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Podcast time once more! In this episode we’ve got the lowdown on the Tokyo Laptop Battle – an innovative new electronic music event happening Friday June 19th in Super Deluxe in Nishi-Azabu. There’s an interview with the organisers, Matt and Claudius, not to mention a unique ‘ethniglitch’ mix from Matt’s alter ego Control Freak. Be [...]

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And so the Little Boots album arrives at last. Is it all we (I) could have hoped for? Well, yes. And no. Yesandno.
Like pretty much every other album these days about half the tracks on here have been floating around in various forms for about a year now. Still, it’s remarkable how generally cohesive the [...]

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Farewell James! The Apprentice, alas, will be significantly less quotable now that you’ve gone.

Neither of the finalists (Kate and Yasmina) are much cop really but I’d prefer Yasmina to win, if only because she seems to have a bit of personality and – from certain angles, in certain lights – is actually quite attractive.
Here’s (I [...]

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As if one retina-scorching vidular extravaganza wasn’t enough, The Alchemist has done it again, this time slicing and dicing the highlights of the Made In Glitch Valentine’s Day Party at La Fabrique in Shibuya. Featuring some knob-twiddling, pad-hammering theatrics from Rob Speakerbruiser, Mochipet, DJ Ken One, Matt B, Lucca, and of course my bad self, [...]

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