Melbourne’s DJ Plead melts Middle Eastern percussion into contemporary club structures on this mind-altering mix. Jarred Beeler, aka DJ Plead, has been challenging Australia’s club scene for years now, first as part of trio BV (Black Vanilla), then in percussive dance duo Poison and more recently as DJ Plead. Now based in Melbourne after relocating…
via FACT mix 717: DJ Plead — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
Against the Clock is a series where we give an artist 10 minutes in the studio and see what they come up with. Up this week is Night Slugs co-founder James Connolly (aka L-Vis 1990) working under his house-focused Dance System alias, which he recently revived after a lengthy hiatus with a brilliant EP on Modeselektor’s…
via Dance System – Against The Clock — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
Recorded with the help of a software model programmed with 10 hours of improvised recordings using wood, metal and drum skins. Emptyset, the experimental duo comprised of James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, have developed a machine learning system for Blossoms, their second album for Thrill Jockey. Programmed using a collection of existing material from the duo,…
via Emptyset turn to machine learning on new album Blossoms — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
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People organize events on Facebook all the time. But rarely do 1.5 million RSVP to attend. Yet that’s what happened when three pseudonymous users created an event to “storm Area 51,” the secretive military base in southern Nevada that has long been associated in the pop culture imagination with extraterrestrial activity. Now, the Area 51…
via How the Area 51 Raid Meme Became the Biggest Joke in the Galaxy — TIME
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Area 51 has been shrouded in mystery for decades, so it only makes sense that the rumored alien secrets held within the remote desert site would get a reboot in the social media age. The internet has been invaded by Area 51 memes inspired by a joke Facebook event to take over the secretive military…
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As the U.S. commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Apple took to the internet to give audiences a peek into the first of its new Peanuts series, “Snoopy in Space.” The series will follow Charles M. Schulz’s characters as they take a field trip to a NASA location where Snoopy and Woodstock are…
via Apple gives a sneak peek of its new Peanuts series with ‘Snoopy in Space’ trailer — TechCrunch
SpaceX’s test vehicle, a small-scale demonstration craft for some Starship components, caught fire after what appears to be a fuel leak or dump following an otherwise successful static fire test last night. It’s not clear why the craft suddenly burst into flames, or whether it was seriously or even superficially damaged. The “Starhopper,” as SpaceX…
via SpaceX’s ‘Starhopper’ bursts into flames during static fire test — TechCrunch
The man who wrote a 50-year-old message in a bottle found on Wednesday has been tracked down. ABC located Paul Gilmore, who wrote the letter when he was 13, through his family in Australia and England, who say that he’s currently on a cruise in the Baltic and he doesn’t know his letter has been…
via A Man Who Wrote a Message in a Bottle 50 Years Ago Has Been Found — TIME
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