Elegant Machinery & other: April 2008

Monday 28 April 2008

Regan and Thrills on Shortlist longlist

Irish people artists Fionn Regan and The Thrills ar among the 54 acts of the Apostles on the longlist for the prestigious Short list Euphony Plunder in the US.
Regan is longlisted for his debut album 'The End of History' piece The Thrills are longlisted for their latest album 'Teenager'.
Among the book of Judges of the 2008 prize are C. P. Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci.
Ten acts of the Apostles will be shortlisted for the awarding early on in 2008.
Cat Major power south Korean won the Short list Music Award last year for her album 'The Greatest'; previous winners include Damien Elmer Leopold Rice, TV on the Radio, Sigur Ros and Grind.
Among the other acts of the Apostles on the 2008 longlist ar: Colonnade Fire ('Neon Bible'), Bjork ('Volta'), Eddie Vedder ('Into the Wild' soundtrack), Feist ('The Reminder'), Josh Ritter ('The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter'), Kings of Leon ('Because of the Times'), MIA ('Kala'), PJ William Harvey ('White Chalk') and Wilco ('Sky Blue Sky').

Thursday 24 April 2008

Dopplereffekt

Artist: Dopplereffekt

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Techno

Discography:

Linear Accelerator

Year: 2003
Tracks: 6

Myon-Neutrino [12'']

Year: 2002
Tracks: 2

Scientist [12'']

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Scientist [10'']

Year: 2001
Tracks: 2

Dopplereffekt is as yet another robotic electro act from Detroit to record aboard Drexciya, Ectomorph, and Flexitone. As is equivalence for the cut in the Motor City electro picture, identities are unidentified, only the emphasis on precise metal drum scheduling and personal personal effects sounds scantily a year or 2 removed from the definitive electric-funk years of 1982. Dopplereffekt debuted in 1995 with a mini-LP for Detroit's Dataphysix judge, then released 2 EPs for the judge during 1997: Infophysix and Sterilization. The multitudinous German references reflect the group's fascination with the serious music Kraftwerk goodness. After "Sterilization" was included on several mix in albums, DJ Hell contacted Dopplereffekt and released the Gesamtkunstwerk digest through his international Deejay Gigolo adjudicate in 1999. The treasonably name Japanese Telecommunication emerged in latterly 1999 to expiration the Insurrection Sun mini-LP through and through the erstwhile Ann Arbor-based Intuit-Solar Records.

Lucas

Officials confident of Oscars deal

Organisers of the Oscars remain confident that this awards ceremony

Thursday 17 April 2008

Irwin family launch Australia Zoo dolls

Tv set star Terri Irwin and her children Bindi and Robert have launched a freshly kitchen range of their Australia Zoo toys in Newly House of York.
Terri Irwin, whose husband Steve was killed by a stingray piece filming an underwater infotainment, wheel spoke most her children's experience of snake bites during the launch.
Speechmaking about her four-year-old boy Robert, she said: "He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit."
"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,' so I assured Henry Martyn Robert I wouldn't in reality let him act with venomous snakes," she said.
She too revealed that her nine-year-old daughter Bindi was first bitten by a serpent when she was just now 18 months old.
Bindi said of the toy dog launch: "It's every little girl's dream to take an claim lookalike skirt. It's amazing."