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This Wacky Package dates from 2004, the first year the parody trading-card series was brought back after having been retired in 1991.
Wack Packs, in they years they appear, provide a cultural parallel …
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere:
● New Online Remix Community, and Its Founder’s Thesis (remixin.com): One initial impression: in a neat act of playing egg'n'chicken, on the remixin.com website's navigation bar, the "Remixes" category precedes the "Songs" …
Crud. Did I totally miss Jim Jarmusch’s Limits of Control? It doesn’t appear to be playing anywhere in or near San Francisco any longer. #
Saturday morning sounds: whirring laptop fan means laptop is dying means much file-transfer effort …
A record shop that doesn’t sell records. Instead, it’s an art installation. From the press release:
For The Shop, the archives of the Chemnitz-based Raster Noton label will be presented at e-flux in the form of a record shop, albeit …
Just this morning, Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle uploaded a free MP3 to the excellent audio-showroom service that is soundcloud.com. At his soundcloud.com/chris_carter page, there are now two free files …
John Kannenberg is moving from Chicago to Ann Arbor to pursue an MFA in the Art & Design program at the University of Michigan. The founder of the great netlabel Stasisfield (stasisfield.com), and a talented musician, he has spent …
Michael Raphael moved from the midwest to Brooklyn recently, an event he described as a “homecoming of sorts.” He commemorated his first weekend in his adoptive borough with a pair of field recordings. Both were recorded in the same spot, …