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This great blast from the past came on while running today.

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:30:26 -0700

This great blast from the past came on while running today.

♫ Listening to SOTO_260411 on exfm

Sat, 07 May 2011 17:11:18 -0700

♫ Listening to SOTO_260411 on exfm

New elbow. Nice! david-noel: Elbow | With Love Uh wow, didn’t...

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:51:13 -0800

New elbow. Nice!

david-noel:

Elbow | With Love

Uh wow, didn’t know they dropped a new album, added to the Spotify queue. Thanks, Kirk.

kirklove:

With Love - Elbow

More Elbow goodness from their latest album. I like to think Guy was thinking of hanging out with me (Love is my last name) when he wrote this and how awesome that would be. ;)

Got turned on to this Johann Johannsson track when I heard it in...

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:14:24 -0800

Got turned on to this Johann Johannsson track when I heard it in the background of the Battle:LA trailer. It’s really beautiful. In fact, the whole (wonderfully titled) album IBM 1401 A User’s Manual is bloody marvelous! I love it when I find old gems like this…

Continuations: Time for Google to Step up Payments

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:57:39 -0800

Continuations: Time for Google to Step up Payments:

continuations:

Apple app store subscription policy is a clear case of overreaching. I have written before about how I don’t think the 30% take rate for Apple is justified or sustainable. Extending that pricing to an ongoing relationship is particularly problematic. The argument — made by no less than Jobs…

Is IE9 a modern browser? NO

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:57:00 -0800

Is IE9 a modern browser? NO:

HTMl5 is all the rage when talking about modern browsers but what I care most about is CSS3. IE9 won’t support…

CSS3 Transitions

CSS3 Text Shadow

CSS3 Gradients

CSS3 Border Image

Basically some of the best parts of CSS3, WTF Microsoft?

This. I congratulate the IE team for improving IE9 so much over it’s development. But seriously, what the fuck. You’re going to get it almost to the level of a real modern browser that provides it’s users with a real web experience like it’s meant to be displayed… Then you suddenly give up. Someone, somewhere, in the team that caused this to happen needs to be promptly fired.

"Roughly 4-10 trillion songs have been downloaded illegally vs about 4 billion legally."

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:37:36 -0800

“Roughly 4-10 trillion songs have been downloaded illegally vs about 4 billion legally.”

- Music Piracy | bijansabet.com

fred-wilson: Without Thinking - The Streets - Computers and...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:31:23 -0800

fred-wilson:

Without Thinking - The Streets - Computers and Blues

my current obsession. i must have listened 20-30x on soundcloud last week.

it came out in the UK this past weekend. I became a pirate to get it in the US and documented the torture involved.

I love the streets. Witty, musical and they make me want to dance. This is awesome.

My Bloody Valentine [Only Shallow] Never has noise been so...

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:36:00 -0800

My Bloody Valentine [Only Shallow]

Never has noise been so musical as when it is created by MBV. Loveless is an amazing wall of sound at once energising and heat-breaking. I only wish there was more for us to listen to.

La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier Such a beautiful track. The...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:34:52 -0800

La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier

Such a beautiful track. The soaring string arrangement would make it worthy of an entry in this list on its own, but when you add in the lazy-funk drums and the whimsical, poetic lyrics this is an all out winner. Sebastien Tellier is, by all accounts, a little barmy and I find his music somewhat hit and miss, but some people are made for a purpose, and this song is his.

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - Spirutualized [I...

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:12:00 -0800

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - Spirutualized [I think I’m in Love]

A symphonic trip through noise and melody. Touching, snarling and endlessly imaginative. Truly this is music for astronauts.

fred-wilson: Age Of Consent - New Order reblogging emily for...

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:30:46 -0800

fred-wilson:

Age Of Consent - New Order

reblogging emily for the song of the day on fredwilson.fm

"The early symptoms of decline in a computing platform were very subtle, and easy for a business..."

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:24:12 -0800

“The early symptoms of decline in a computing platform were very subtle, and easy for a business executive to rationalize away. By the time the symptoms became obvious, it was usually too late to do anything about them.”

- The RIM platform is very sick, maybe terminal

Mobile Opportunity: What’s really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it)

headshearts: Glaciers of Ice //// El Michels Affair Wu Tang...

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:06:54 -0800

headshearts:

Glaciers of Ice //// El Michels Affair

Wu Tang collaborators and makers of stunningly atmospheric soul. This stuff has made my day/week/month/year. Full band story here.

gregbabula: Silestone ‘Above Everything Else’ Watch the video...

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:02:10 -0800

gregbabula:

Silestone ‘Above Everything Else’

Watch the video below entitled “Above Everything Else” by Alex Roman and then recoil in disbelief when we tell you the entire thing is computer generated.

Lali Puna [Faking the books] Lo-fi, downtempo, German electro...

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:47:30 -0700

Lali Puna [Faking the books]

Lo-fi, downtempo, German electro pop. I only have a small collection of tracks from Lali Puna, but they keep me coming back, again and again. Beautiful suff.

PS - sorry for the loooong break

Brian Eno on the agro pills. Most excellent.

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:22:33 -0700

Brian Eno on the agro pills. Most excellent.

New Sufjan. This is awesome! fred-wilson: I Walked - Sufjan...

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:21:50 -0700

New Sufjan. This is awesome!

fred-wilson:

I Walked - Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz

new sufjan has leaked. loving it.

gregbabula: New Twitter Design Based on the Golden Ratio “From...

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:15:38 -0700

gregbabula:

New Twitter Design Based on the Golden Ratio

“From Pythagoras to Darren Aronofsky, the Golden Ratio — an irrational mathematical constant found in everything from art to architecture — has come pretty far. Lately, it was apparently the basis of the design for the new Twitter.”

fred-wilson: Like The Wheel - The Tallest Man On Earth -...

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:30:28 -0700

fred-wilson:

Like The Wheel - The Tallest Man On Earth - Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird

new Tallest Man

i dig the barking dog in the background about 2 mins in

must have been recorded in his home studio

Nice chilled out song.