Archive for the 'Experimental' Category
When any band says that their new release will be released on 10” vinyl, you get the sense that its not developed enough to be on a full sized 12” or that its going to be weird. Radiohead’s 2011 nearly EP length album ‘The King of Limbs’ is a little of both. Awkward sound clashes open your ears in the opening track “Bloom” are meant to be off-putting with several time signatures going at once, furthering the notion that all 10” records are experimental to say the least.
As for the sound of the album, its rhythmically driven with the bass and percussion taking on some of the largest rolls every for a Radiohead album. The guitar stays in line with the rhythm section, which is powered by loops and sample sounding bits.
The most familiar sounding track by far is “Little By Little” which brings back some memorably warm guitar tones. Thom is such a tease with his melody leading the song anywhere he chooses for it to go. The guitars follow and the head nodding backing beat sounds like a lo-fi recording of a crack pot inventors’ mechanical toy of the day.
I won’t say this is a dance album, but I did almost feel like I could dance to a couple tracks, which is something I’ve never felt while listening to any Radiohead track before. The beats could even be mistaken for a drum line drum-off. “Feral” highlights the beat driven work with minimalist keyboard bass and blip/glitch laid over it.
I don’t know how many Radiohead songs have hand claps, but “Lotus Flower” is the first track I’ve ever heard actual hand claps on. They sit panned left in your headset, but aren’t very produced. At times sound if they were recorded in a hotel room with unexpected echo and thrown in the mix to keep the weird 10” inch vibe going as the tracks become more like recognizable. The odd off-beat hand claps stand as a firm negation of Radiohead being even remotely near mainstream dance music.
No ballads on this album. However, the beat does slow, the slowest track being “Codex” is highlighted with Thom’s vocals and a familiar piano accompaniment. The simple track quickly fades into sounds of insects and nature that beckon the intro of an acoustic guitar for track 7 “Give Up the Ghost”. Vocal parts are split into 3 with a repeated chorus in the left speaker, and a fuzzed out version of the lead in the right with the main voice sitting in the center channel. The most layered track vocally, Give up the Ghost was one of the most emotional cuts painting for me a picture of springtime, surrounded by tall swaying fields.
On the first listen through, “Separator” was instinctively the most memorable. I wasn’t sure if it was because the middle of the album was nearly seamless, or that the experimental form from the beginning had not had time to be soaked up. I really get into the track about halfway through when the dry guitar enters with its loopy section that is much more reminiscent of a math rock band lick that something from former near rock guitar gods once proclaiming that you won’t be a nothing anymore if you just play guitar. A good ending to a good album. I really feel sad as it ends. It is too short my mind tells me. I feel like its really starting to take off and go somewhere, and then its just over. Oh well. Music can’t really transport me out of a cubicle anyways. So if OK Computer was the eye awakening the world needed, then The King of Limbs is escape that we all attempt to make, but can never successfully manage.
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Mighty mesmerizers from Marcia Bassett solo + live with guitars + effects pedals. Side A Glistens with solar power like sunbathing and falling into alpha wave drenched delicious dreams. Oceanic sounds as if suffused with wale songs for a maximalist droner. Side B takes you from drifting to drowning like a percolation pond of power tools. Ambient alien-scape full of mega-intensity. Heavy hypnosis.
Hair Police is a NOISE/PSYCH group out of Lexington, Kentucky featuring members Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes), Robert Beatty (Burning Star Core), and Trevor Tremaine (Burning Star Core). Droning screams, alarm sounding keys, distant drums, and slowly sideways pick scrapes equate to a nightmare of analog terror. Side B is sounds of sullen sunken ship exploration using radiation detectors and underwater saws. The drums leave us and amp tones distort like a trip down a conveyor belt. The final track is an array of lost signals against a constantly swinging rusty gate.
Bi-coastal artists collaborative percussive clash creating the lesser known, yet longer lasting experimental stepchild of Drumline. Unlike that shitty movie, these guys use more sounds, play improvisational self composed pieces, and ahem; a glockenspiel. Mike Pride of New York City, has studied under the likes of Amir Ziv, and more recently, his mentor Milford Graves. He adds sinister vocals at points as well as electronic freakouts, but offers no words. Pride runs the studio FUNHOLE where this album was produced live! Japanese born Marcos Fernandes recently played the KFJC pit (04-2007) and is an active live performer in the San Diego scene. This particular release came from Fernandes and Pride meeting in Japan while both on tour in 2005. They later decided to take a day out of their lives to record this tasteful piece of percussion art fusion. A Mountain is a Mammal starts out with acid jazz fluxations, enters into a 27-minute piece with surprising sounds of bells, and ends with evil earth imploding electronic experimentalism.
Self-released CDR by Providence Rhode Island’s Raphael Lyon, aka Mudboy, is neurotic noiseter with releases on lables (Foxy) Digitalis & Not Not Fun. Mudboy sports custom bent instruments, self-built hybrid electric organ/digital keyboard (called the Mudboy Mini), & even composed/performed on a Wurlitzer for a free live ’05 performance at the PPAC in Rhode Island. This release is the second volume of Mudboy BEATS (series II) feat. DJ Jassy Jexx, and mashes up heavy industrial drone with Freakcore loops, drips and cuts. Two long tracks 20-minute tracks and 2 shorter 4-minute ones dissect heavy hitting bass, hip-hop & obscure sound clips, to construct homeless shelters for lost Burning Man’ers experimental minds.
Four Songs & Ten Inches of the infinite underworld. Seattle is back on the map thanks to warm and fuzzy analog snail-tempo electro tripsperimental drone. Halloween is everyday for members Slicing, and Grandpa whose work never forgets to include a steady beat beneath the psychedelic layers of effects-laden guitars, feedback and illiterate ramblings. And that covers only the first two tracks on the A side. The B-side follows no rules, nor beat and is noisy like an autistic brain seizure. Think of any Japanese B horror movie, layer all their soundtracks and you’ll soon be opening up for slicing G. Dental drills, blister filled embolisms, and botched abortions as a giant mecha-warrior defends his title as world leader against the forces of wind, earth, fire, water and heart.
Drum Machine Mayhem meets electric avant virtuoso guitar. Solo release by NYC’s Mick Barr of Orthrelm, The Flying Luttenbachers (formerly) & Crom-tech (duo with Hella drummer Zach Hill). takes the butt-rock out of metal guitar and births instrumental madness. I challenge any listener to discern time signature in any track. Nine songs (3,4,5,8,9,10,15) are purely guitar as this Fullforce Composer Series release by TZADIK seeks Guitar Hero status among hipsters and D&D fans alike. Produced by John Zorn, expect to be thoroughly impressed and confounded by the speed and compositional creativity evoked through the hands of a reincarnated Chopin or Beethoven.
Two (female) artistically intoxicated folk heroes out of Santa Cruz, CA forcibly mate piano/organ tones with a battered accordion and to produce a tone-deaf clarinet baby. Coulda been the American soundtrack to Amelie. Mismatched lyrics that don’t make sense, are spoken over each other and sung by both Silvie Margot Deutsch (piano) and Zoe Ruth Cusmus Latta (accordion). Songs are sweet and sincere, as erratic as an unrehearsed kids choir with track #2 Little being the ultimate display of their witty sound. I hate to say the term cutsie, but sometimes in many tracks, that’s the only way to describe Belly Boat’s take on Raccoons, love and Agnus Dei.
Drums. Percussion. Rhythm. These make up the base of the organization of sounds known as music. When I was in high school band, there was something special about being a part of drum corps. When we played parades, the rest of the band would shut the hell up every couple of pieces, and let us percussionists show off the precision of rhythm. On Ensemble delivers that mysterious, hypnotic attraction to beats with the release Ume In The Middle. Melding together traditional Japanese Taiko music with modern electro and jazz, the CD delivers delectable beats and blips with a dash of drone.
The album opens up with the first two tracks “Yamasong” and “Hisashi,” keeping it nice and slow with droney chants and traditional-sounding flute. I was fooled into thinking that the rest of the CD would be the same, but I was treated to breakbeat paired with chopped-up samples in track 4 “Hiroya vs. Miniboss,” electro blips and beeps in track 7 “Silverback,” and downtempo instrumental goodness in track 9 “Yamasong (Remix).”
Rhythm transcends stylistic differences and is present in almost all forms of music; therefore, it’s nice to see On Ensemble proving this point with the ability to skip through different types of genres (and varying complexity in the rhythms). For example, track 7 “Silverback” sounds like material by WARP’s Plaid (if they had access to some really cool drums, of course) with the ensemble’s appreciation for IDM, and track 3 “Waiting” included plenty of sunny vocals and bright chords. Track 8 “Bounce Back” is something for drum corps members to appreciate. Combined with a splash of flute, the percussion shows off how On Ensemble plays as one with the precision that all percussionists strive for.
Ume In The Middle is slated to be release May 5, 2009, so keep your eyes open!
Forget what you think you know about electronic music and enjoy something different and refreshing yet freakishly familiar. The Dino Soars offers laid back hip hop beats alongside some sugary dance tracks inspired by the hot days of disco where music wasn’t held back by genres or being typecast as ‘electronic’ ‘indie’ and therefore limited to a esoteric musical audience. For Stegosaurus Rex, every listener is equal and he offers audible appetizers in this, his first of many albums to come. Instead of releasing 4 individual EP albums, this mega CD compiles and mixes them all into something almost random at times, with wild mood swings and gentle downtime.
Listen closely to his single on the album, track #13 “Nowhere To Run” and you may notice similarities to Ladytron’s “Seventeen”, but scarier still is its connection to Crystal Castles and their track “Crimewave“. While the self-titled Crystal Castles album was released one month earlier than The Dino Soars, the single “Nowhere to Run” had been out 2 years earlier as a single. Whether or not they took any influence from the track is inconsequential in the end because the two bands are obviously contemporaries with roots following back to Ladytron, Miss Kitten, and likely Kraftwerk. When asked of the similarities between the tracks however, Steg Rex comments, “I didn’t know who Crystal Castles was 2 years ago when they friended me on Myspace, after I had released the Nowhere To Run Single.” So it is possible that Stegosaurus Rex inspires bands like Crystal Castles. Either way, each band shoots off into different directions as Rex moves into the French inspired disco house realm with amazing cuts like “Fleeting Disco Do” and “Polar”. One of my personal favorites is “Mike Myers”, inspired by Michael Myers Halloween series, its IDM leanings have me respecting Steg Rex’s wide array of musical taste. Check out the video for Nowhere to Run on Youtube.
Re-release of the 1983 cassette comp under Iham Products and FOPI. The album features shorts clips, most under a minute with clips like a 39 second Frank Zappa interview to to a piece by Charles Manson called Charlie and his MAM. Compiled by David Tibet (of Current 93), many are looped, foreign language and mostly of Throbbing Gristle material. This stands as the missing piece of the jigsaw between Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV including rehearsals, radio bytes, phone calls, unreleased demos, interviews and ultra nonsense. The original release was issued in February 1983 as the fourth, and final issue of the Nanavesh magazine (The tape was the issue and didn’t include a written publication with it). The magazine concentrated initially on Throbbing Gristle and with its demise it moved onto Psychic TV. 23 Drifts To Guestling is a retrospective tape of Throbbing Gristle & basically a magazine on tape. It contains an interesting insight into TG with messages from their ansaphone, some material, an interview with Genesis following the ‘Prostitution’ exhibition at the ICA, an interview with American spree killer Gary Gilmore, a chat between Genesis and Monte Cazazza, bits and pieces of songs and a few death threats over the phone. It makes compulsive listening because it’s so strangely put together and it’s a good insight into the character of Mr P-Orridge.
Sorry, there is no sax as the cover art alludes, but plenty o’ speedy tempo, guitar sliding NO WAVE action by this Vancouver BC trio. A-tonally amped, shouting, gorilla style drum spasmatics. The vocals are rhythmically in tune with the drums and other parts of the song rather than offering and steady melody. Check out the included liner notes for you fill typewriter typo lyrics about guns, knives and snakes on one side, and a barrage of band live show posters on the other. During the last few years Shearing Pinx have shared the stage with Gay Beast, Animal, Twin, Lightning Bolt, Health, and Leviathans to name a few. They have an upcoming tour in April of 2008 with headliners AIDS Wolf. Overall, the Pinx sound is anti dance pop music for people who still wanna dance. Powerful screams quickly become trippy instrumentals as side A ends, with side B picking off right in the middle where they leave off. Some howling guitars, play tone plucking, silly slides sonically sweet stuff from Erin Ward (guitar), Jeremy Van Wyck (drums), Nic Hughes (vox/guitar), and Nic’s own label, Isolated Now Waves.
Big hole, white label vinyl, limited, live performance by former Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway and John Wiese of (Sunn O))) back in 2006 in the UK at a place known as Chislehurst Caves. These man-made caves stretch 22 miles long under the eastern suburbs near London, used for such things as mining chalk & flint, they were also used to shelter the Brits during WWII air raids. Even more interesting, the caves are speculated to have been used by the ancient Druids and also by the Romans and Saxxons. From this very rich background it would seem there was little left to accomplish until more recently when the caves began to be used as a music venue. Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Stones, and Hendrix have all played there, and now too have ear-piercingly experimentalists Dilloway and Wiese. Art noise meets electronic crunch. Three untitled tracks totaling over 8 minutes of pure noise in possibly one of the nosiest settings imaginable. Imagine sounds of Satan vs. television fuzz in a battle with loop pedals plummeting asunder with each attack. Frequencies so high they may reinvent hearing by broadening the spectrum of the human ear. Later sounds resemble background tones of the Atari 2600 game Wizards of War. Loopiness to the point of near locked groves, but leave your patience at the door as no track even reaches 5 minutes in length, distance or circumference.
Beautiful Baltimore instrumental duo of Nathan Bell of Lungfish and Arbouretum’s David Heumann. Drifts out and outer into subconscious subspace, 10 strokes above par. Recorded in Kentucky, these men of rock envision a dustbowl full of baritone and orbital spirit guitars, the bowed banjo, and amplified kalimba. If that’s not enough for your tripp into oblivion then your momma taught you wrong, and listen for the sexy trumpet smattered all over the B-side cut Ephaphatha. Themes of flooded spaces with secret hide outs and endless network of sprawling wires like rays of the sun, Human Bell takes elements of Godspeed You Black Emperor and strips them down to the soul. Much like them, it may be difficult to remember much of the melody after even multiple spins, however like their theme, they aim isn’t set to stun. Moody and morose, most build-ups perish as they build, quite opposite of powerfully moving music. Could very well be a good theme to a slow escape, or a lukewarm flood lifting you out of your seat and into the ocean ever so gently, and then leaving you there to float away. Like the best moments in life, enjoyable during the ride, but lost forever after the moment is gone.
Limited press drone dream split between A side Cloudland Canyon of Germany and Midwesterners Mythical Beast. Instrumental track for the kraut droners on the front, while the flip features seductively sad vocals by Mythical Beast’s female lead singer Corinne Sweeney. Haunting and minimal with no drums, she is backed by guitarist Jeremiah Cowlin, and bassist Aaron Hawn. Very serious and depressed sounds without the look at me emo attitude of the mainstream. Slow and steady vintage sounds fill every crack with Sweeney’s low slumbering notes. Mythical Beast will be performing in the Not Not Fun SXSW showcase along with Pocahaunted & Robedoor March 20th 2009. Cloudland Canyon is an analog duo of early-era drone, mixing tribal beats with simple repetitive but building nowave vocal drones over 70’s kraut guitar much like psychsters Ash Ra Temple and Embryo. The only sad part is that they only contributed one track to this split, and it’s also at 45 RPM. Ignoring the lo-fi elements of the recording, their classic sound is massive and methodical, like a trance dance into sacrificial volcano. Faust and German Oak fans will like their work, which has also been released on the Holy Mountain and Kranky labels.
Lovely low deep male vocals (provided by Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten) float in ambience, minimally droning with surprise beats. Recorded in Berlin, this German foursome is made of 2 percussionists, Tony Buck & Steve Heather, along with guitarist Martin Siewert, and zietblom on bass. Trippy drugged out feel to much of the album with fuzzed out one note surf style guitar delayed fuzz solos leading the way like a super stoned version of Green Milk from the Planet Orange. Mathematical plays with timing and meter on the lap steel guitar along with a percussive eastern vibe make heaven a much easier place to reach. Relaxing vibes are at a peak with the two guest vocal cuts Scarlet Woman and Prince Priest. But beware; sweet heaven is full of demons just like anywhere as luscious vocals turn into nightmarish Golem growls. Side B opens up nearly 4 decades ago into an age where 6-minute intros in rock music was the norm. Keyboards and industrial cymbal hits join the infinite fretless foundation of sadness envisioned by the band. With their musical canvas they paint landscapes with more freedom and even less optimism than Philip Glass’s audial work in the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi.
1990’s Psych-rock-garage group from Harrisburg Virginia made up of members Sexua on vocals, Lmil on drums, Kshake on guitar and Ame Dread on bass. Part gimmick band, the groups thing was to dress up in different costumes for each show, as they did a puppet show one time and wore only vines another. Featured on this album is a cover song of the 70’s psych group Ultimate Spinach cut Hip Death Goddess (Ballad of the). The recording is by Warton Tiers who also did many of the early Sonic Youth albums. Its god a bit of the Sonic Youth and Fall vibe to it but without the seriousness to continue doing the act for more that the few years they were together as a college band at James Madison University. Think of a milkshake gone bad, left out on its own in college, getting drunk and figuring out how to make a lasting impression upon the world, and the audio slop will begin to make sense. The packaging for the original vinyl release which I unfortunately did not get, included a 3-D poster of the group, gorilla 3-D glasses (w/ scratch and sniff banana), chopsticks, a 12-page booklet full of art, a mermaid drinking glass companion, a hot dog bag, a 2nd poster/insert, and a nudie Teen Beat matchbook with the wise words “Relax Brother Relax” scrawled upon it. Most tracks on the album are short demo sounding chucklets and included as a bonus track is the last track, a live recording called Cave Bacon, Volume 3 which includes captured sound of about 4 minutes of vinyl crackling and the end of a vinyl.
Fusing improvisational Java music performance and electronic composing is Gregory Taylor of Madison Wisconsin. This is his first musical work, piecing this 7 track CD together live by creating samples and loops of an improv. electronic composition in the vein of Post Modernist and gamelan style music theory. Ambient and soft sounds ring like a cross between soft glass harps and organic wooden church bell. Glitch influence breathes lightly over the entire album that is free from silence and seamless throughout. Minimalistic in ways much like Brian Eno yet closer to Phillip Glass, Taylor uses synth tones performing in both Indonesian pentatonic scales Slendro and Pelog. Many of the track titles come from the Javanese note names of the Slendro and Pelog scales whose 5 notes were named after body parts. Note #2 – gulu – meaning neck, note 3 dada – is the chest, note 5 – lima – is hand or five fingers, and - nem,- note 6 referring to the male genitalia. The scales sad sound sets the mood of this album as its use in countries such as Bali were for cremation ceremonies. Celebrating Indonesian traditions and expanding it into the digital age, watch out for the easy New Age classification of his 25 year devotion to the sounds of Java.
Bienvenidos a Miami as Will Smith would say, yet somehow this trio didn’t hear him and dumped a blown out garage band in your lap full of cute art J. K. Rowling-esk lightning bolts, robots assembled out of the remnants of The Brave Little Toaster and as promised, bunnies. Drumstick hits tap out the start of this recently made OOP 7” delivers the robotic electric side of the bunnies. Loopy varying speed vinyl sounds with vocoder vocals and rock loops like Trans Am if someone made them record on a 4-track. The 2nd track features a short punk track with snotty Vandals style lyrics about how its “not about my sweater, not about my shoes…. I’m wearing beautiful pants”. Glad to know life is so simple over in Florida. Flip this over to find subtle psych behind bass driven lo-fi garage like slower instrumental Clash meets a druggier instrumental version of The Cure. Fun times ten as the album ends with some planned or unplanned cell phone to speaker interference. With all the choices of sound directions to go in, the Bunnies leave you wondering if in the future they’d rather open up for Abe Vigoda, Moldy Peaches, or Justice.
Blame Xiu Xiu for being so good that that they will have follower groups for the next 20 years. Eyes is one of those bands, but thankfully they don’t even try to polish themselves and come off sounding much more like I.B.O.P.A. the earlier project of Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart. The group is a duo plus many, made up of Nail In The Coffin label head Jorge Tapia and William Harris. From their Midwest headquarters in East Molina Illinois, Eyes aren’t your average corn herders, with their heads stuck in cassette tape culture a indicated by the infinite amount of OOP releases and lathe cuts on their discography, not to mention an upcoming comp alongside artists Zombi. They’ll have upcoming shows with the Chinese Stars and are inspired by Sun Ra as you can hear from the acid jazz breakdown of track 5. Soular Lust. Much of the other sounds on this album tributes 80’s electronic and New Wave with hyper Halloween tremolo vocals and over-amplified everything (piano, guitars, drum machines). Expect the tremolos to keep coming with each track in the album as if an old sweaty pair of yellow and black adidas sweatpants anthropomorphized into a rainbow garden of gay core fannypack dance team hand slapping professional B-boy image assistants, who’s primary duties include making sure everything you drink is fluorescent and no actual beads of sweat form on foreheads across the nation.
Decade long droners stoners Japan’s own space super fab five take psychedelic turns at speeding you through long drip out trips in long movements around 8 minutes a piece and as long as 22 minutes! You may notice this release includes vox/drummer Pikachu who sings beginning of end of movement 2 with her Native American chantingin the right channel while singing on the left. Also the prog, one cannot forget the progtastic way in which the band behind her keeps the livid rainbow forms floating in your cornea. Don’t miss out on the ultracheese classic Casio keyboard sounds in movement one. And while over 3/5ths of the bands members are bearded, do not underestimate the potential hidden beard factor which Pikachu, a current member of the band Afrirampo, may have. For those who just want a small scoop, skip to the shortest movement #4, at 4 minutes including amazing Glockenspiel performance you’re psych-tooth will fall out before you even leave the meth lab. Are these crazy band members just another innocent surf band or are they lifted spacemen drifting into the depths of darkened obscurity? Either way enjoy on your upper/downer of choice and be prepared to have your mind reprogrammed by hyperactive braintrolls with severe ADD.
FYI: Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno differs from the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. not only in line-up but also in style of music. The Cosmic Inferno generally plays much heavier, hard-rock inspired psychedelia, and experiments more with effects pedals. (wikipedia)
IVG is the third release by French label Poutre Apparente featuring more than a baker’s dozen of tracks split between various artists. This CD version put out by Born Bad Records (tracks are in a different order) is for those who prefer listening digitally to their experimental music. The themes and sounds of the CD are certainly disparate, spread across the release in haphazard fashion. Blending together tracks from some of the most experimental of the avant-garde artists of the time, IVG shows us the temporal uncertainty of an almost undefinable genre, being created in a time that was post-industrial, post-modern, and certainly post-punk. Instead of being melded together as a cohesive movement, the electronic, poppy, and punky tracks on the CD are like islands reaching towards each other through the receding waterline, almost-but-not-quite joined. In this same way, we see all the different types of influences to New Wave/No Wave on the release. A few different tracks stand out for different reasons. For example, track 4 “Indicateur Ou Drageur” by Nini Raviolette references French mod pop and 1960s rock ‘n’ roll with its fuzzboxes and heavy reverb. Track 11 “La Roue De Bicyclette” by D.D.A.A. is a droney, minimalistic presentation of hypnotic repetition. Finally track 12 “Le Manoir Du Chat Noir” by Atom Cristal is quite synth-heavy, exploring the on-the-verge world of synthpop atmospherics and analog drum machines. IVG is by no means an easy listen, and even at its roughly 40 minutes might seem lengthy. However, with each new listen, one can find beauty and musical order in the apparent abrasiveness of the tracks, and come to understand a whole era of music a bit better.
Bitcrush is a solo project of Mike Cadoo, focusing upon rock-based musical elements. Shimmer And Fade is a remastered reissue of the 2005 digital release of the same name (this time out on CD, limited to 1000 copies) and it includes 4 bonus tracks. The art references the original, but it is slightly different, being a bit cleaner.
Moving on to the music, the CD begins with dissonant, droney guitars layered over each other, signaling the album’s mood, austere and introspective, and set over sludgy, spacey rhythms. Distant and melodic, Cadoo’s music slowly explores harmonies and textures without making the music too experimental and unforgiving. Reminiscent of rock/metal-based shoegaze projects such as Jesu, Cadoo favors instrumentals over vocals, and makes sure that guitars don’t overpower the sound, using them only as a way to layer smooth, complex polyphonies over each other. The tracks also incorporate Cadoo’s previously honed skills and know-how of breakbeat rhythms and glitchy production. While most of the tracks are Warp-worthy, the real gems are (surprisingly) the tracks that sound a lot more rock than electronic. Warm and optimistic, they are listenable and easy to follow. For example, track 3 “No Bridge No Water” is a five-minute exposition of brightly melodic synths and strong alternative rock guitar riffs. More pop-structured than the other tracks, the song unabashedly skirts the line between accessibility and sophistication. Track 10 “When Swallowing Becomes Difficult” sounds like something off Ghostly International, being cute yet introspective, with a touch of bittersweet euphoria. These two tracks stand out from the others and bring to the album a bit of avant-pop energy from within a much more downtempo sound.
Marvin Ayres is a British composer of ambient soundscapes, mixing together minimalistic, yet dynamic melodies that swirl around different genres. A master of polyphony, Ayres draws from the harmonic traditions of Medieval plainchant, to the glory of Renaissance vocal works, to the ultra-experimental pieces of the musical genius Gyorgy Ligeti. By combining the breathtaking beauty of repetitive melodic themes with the movement of sound flowing in and out of dramatic tension, Ayres creates music that resides between glorious and muted, pious and indifferent, beautiful and worn. The CD opens with “Androgynous Weave,” an almost perverse reversal of the sacred minimalism of Arvo Part. Repetitive and hypnotic, it certainly leaves a mark on the mind, but with a decidedly barren tone. Track 8 “Do You Hear Me Now?” sounds like Medieval plainchant, but with a beautiful mix of polyphony, building up to an almost sacrosanct wall of piety, but pulling us out of our dreams of the old by layering a thick barrier of reverberation and clean-cut audio. Most of the CD brings a sense of barrenness and austerity to the listener, with a slight touch of pessimism. However, by listening close, one can find the shimmering light of emotional apex at the beginning of track 2 “Soured Alchemy,” bringing to the audience a sense of finality and peace, executed beyond the bounds of temporality.
Two experimentalist groups from New Jersey collaborate in “Hear Less/ No Good Trying:” Dälek, an alternative hip hop duo comprised of MC Dälek as vocals and Oktopus in production, and Ifwhen, ex-All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors with Merc (guitar, production, vocals), Kentaro (bass), Mary MacDowell (keyboards, viola), and Yuko Sueto (optical controller).
“Hear Less (Seymour)” opens with a twang of a guitar, grinding bass, a jarring organ, and drumbeats, set in minor key. This track exudes a dark atmosphere, reminding you of original hip hop meets Phantom of the Opera. Both groups are influenced by shoegazer band My Blood Valentine and it shows in this opening track with the distortion and droning riffs during the bridge, emulating The Beatle’s psychedelic rock song “Revolution 9.” In the end, the jarring organ and bass are emphasized in a repetitive, dissonant melody that eventually dissolves with the guitar ‘twang’ heard in the beginning.
The second track “No Good Trying” opens with a heavy bass like the first track, a drum machine and acoustic guitar which emphasizes the percussionist techniques, similar to Kaki King’s “Ritual Dance” as heard in August Rush. The melting styles of Dälek and Ifwhen produce yet another song that brings about a feeling of inertia or reverse momentum. When they introduce an electric organ, it gives the song a Celtic feel. The bridge shifts from a slower tempo hip hop to a faster vibrating organ blending with keyboard and guitar, bringing in a jazzy ambience seemingly set in 3/4 time. Beginning with guitar riffs and ending with cymbals, this is another experimental track fusing sampling and shoegazing.
The third track is a Deadverse Remix of “No Good Trying.” Opening with celestial keyboard, drums and intensifying echoing vocals, the song eventually distorts the vocals to the point of incomprehensible language and dissolves completely. In the last track, the Deadverse Remix of “Hear Less” opens with lyrics sung in echoing acapella. The drums enter, as the song alternates snippets of an electric organ and a pan flute set in different beats, creating yet another psychedelic ambience.
Overall, the collaboration of these amazing experimentalist and alternative hip hop groups produce unique industrial hip-hop, effectively using their sampling and shoegazing to exude a dark atmosphere of dissonant and amorphous sounds. Yet, it only makes you want more of this fusion of alternative hip-hop and psychedelic rock.
Unsettled On An Old Sense Of Place is a release by Gustavo Aguilar, experimental percussionist. Throughout the CD, Aguilar pieces together different bits of avant-garde electronic, jazz, and percussion to create challenging tracks of various lengths. Although comprised of only 6 tracks, each track contains plenty of complex ideas made for the listener to digest. Aguilar employs the help of other very accomplished artists to help with vocals, strings, and a variety of other instruments to bring forth the essence of tonal balance through the scraping, the tapping, the plucking, of various materials. In track 2 “Contrafactum For Scelsi,” Aguilar puts his percussionist tendencies to use as he taps out a series of sounds from the different surfaces available on a guitar, going beyond what is normally thought of as playing (on the strings). He shows off his virtuosity in percussion by showing us syncopated, accented notes, building in intensity as he presents the whole range of energies present in such a performance. Track 6 “Wendell’s History” is a track featuring poet Wendell Berry’s work, crisp vocals layered over hypnotic, sparkling glockenspiel-playing. Quite possibly the most amazing track on the CD is track 4 “Dirac’s Theory,” (named after physicist Paul Dirac) a unique 3-minute long drum solo. Playing only a snare drum, Aguilar shows us once again not only his virtuosity on percussion, but also the possibility of sounds that exist (or can exist) within one single instrument. The tracks on this CD might be slightly abrasive at times, but they certainly yank the listener (and the musician) out of their comfort zones, showing them the possibility of sounds that are not popularly utilized.
Wildly schizophrenic, Venetian Snares latest offering Detrimentalist can best be described as auditory cocaine. Alone, all nine songs are 4-6 minute breakcore panic attacks, yet when listened to in order an uncanny cohesiveness emerges. As a genre breakcore has an incredibly liberal interpretation, but Detrimentalist may be one of its few quintessential examples. Uninhibited and wildly abstract, the album thrives in its own recklessness. It is laden with arcade style passages and will sound familiar to anyone who has played UGA’s video game Rez, in fact I’m damn surprised Venetian wasn’t on that soundtrack.
Any album with a song named “Poo Yourself Jason” must be approached with a degree of levity, but don’t be fooled into thinking that Venetian’s not going to deliver some epic cuts. Namely the culminating “Bebikukorica Nigiri,” which I’m certain would be the song playing if MegaMan and Link were ever fighting to the death on top of a New York highrise. “Nigiri” differs from other tracks because it has a motive which comes back more ornamented and inspired each time around. Yet, the contrapuntal textures Venetian massages into songs like “Sajtban” and “Circle Pit” demonstrate his versatility and are equally engaging.
Detrimentalist’s longest and most sporadic track is “Flashforward,” a 400 second tour de force reminiscent of the earlier, rawer Chemical Brothers. “Flashforward” is in effect a microcosm of the entire album; Atonality coaxed into confluence by an artist who is often eccentric, but never dull.
Lucibel Crater is a New York 3-piece band, cranking out bits of funk and jazz elements along with some indie shoegaze. The Family Album is a 10-track exploration of eclectic elements coupled with lush instrumentals and Leah Coloff’s singing/spoken word. Oftentimes moody and mysterious, the music definitely does not drag. For example, track 6 (”Blue Stationwagon”) is a long jazzy instrumental piece, sounding like semi-improvised explorations of sound set on top of brilliantly frenetic drumming. If The Doors had known shoegaze, they might have made something like this, bringing a harder edge to “Riders On The Storm.” Track 9 “Swimmers” broods on for the first 3 minutes of the track; the guitar theme then mixes with the drums at the 3-minute mark, congealing into a catharsis of dissonantly beautiful melodies, before abruptly ending at around 5:30, shaking the listener out of its kaleidoscope of manic action. The best piece on the CD is arguably track 7, “Where You Are,” showing off Coloff’s excellent vocal talents and enveloping the listener with a haunting, repetitive melody. Perhaps not as focused as it could be, The Family Album nonetheless showcases the project’s excellent musical ideas.
Producer Simon Smart’s project Sonanaut is focused on music that could be classified as ambient house/acid jazz chillout. Not quite as funky as Ninja Tune (acid jazz), nor as mainstream-sounding as Naked Music (deep house), and certainly not as experimental as Eno (experimental ambient), Smart crafts music that rests between all of these genres, incorporating clean, layered soundscapes along with some dubby beats and slow, sludgy trip-hop sonic aesthetics. In addition, he samples other sources to link to the bigger musical community. Track 8 “Don’t You Know?” is quite possibly the best one on Sinking Upwards, and brings together beautiful electronic drumbeats, phased-and-filtered synthesizers, and complex harmonies, into a piece reminiscent of some of Morgan Geist’s more abstract work. Through Smart’s smooth movements and transitions between tracks, we hear rehashes of musical themes that make up the core of previous tracks on the CD, bringing compelling coherence to the entire release. This is definitely good music for chillout fans, and many others will be interested in the collection of Sonanaut music videos as well.
The misguided trio who is actually a 5-piece has done it again, but this time on 12 inches of fury. Monkey Power Trio gets together once a year and spends a few days writing and recording original songs. Their 2007 release “House of the Mechanical Sun” is actually made up of 2 recording sessions from 2005 and 2006, which took place in Minneapolis and Oregon. They decided to ditch cover art and have commandeered old Beatles, Hitchcock and kids record jackets for the limited to 150 release I was fortunate to come across. As usual the bands songs are all a bit off and many from the Oregon session are accompanied by a fancy song flute. Their rap song ‘Another Year’ puts them in the indie Weird Al realm. ‘Meaty Girls’ may get a chuckle out of your gut but I still think NOFX did the fat girl praise better. I like Monkey Power Trio’s more innocent songs, like ‘Hop On The Monkey Bus”. Its like those Six Flags commercials where someone so stupid and creepy looking is dancing and flailing their arms so maniacally that you can’t help but wanna join them. Tracks like ‘Little Billy Oshin’ just plain scare me. Do they have something against Billy Ocean? I wouldn’t want that fuceker living in my foreskin! His “Jewel of the Nile” soundtrack hits were enough for me. It’s too bad this isn’t a cd, since it flows well from start to finish. Perhaps all guilty pleasures include vinyl in some way shape or form. Oh yea, “I live in the suburbs, I drive everywhere, my back always hurts and I’m losing all my hair” sounds like Happy Monkey Trio is content in Orwellian 1984.


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Born 11 November 1959, in Paris.
Painter, illustrator. Landscapes, landscapes with figures, architectural views, ruins. Stage sets.
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Brent oil crude futures eased slightly on Monday, as last week's weaker data lingered over a market thinned by public holidays in the United States and Britain.
Oil came under pressure last week as data showed China's factory activity declined in May for the first time in seven months and U.S. manufacturing grew at its slowest pace since October. The United States and China are the world's top two oil consumers.
(Read More: Outlook for China's Economy Just Keeps Getting Worse)
Producer cartel the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Counties (OPEC), is odds on to leave output policy unchanged, say delegates who attend meetings.
As a risk factor for oil markets, its May 31 gathering in Vienna barely features on traders' radar.
"There is a risk that prices go down due to demand concerns and that OPEC is unlikely to change anything at the meeting this week," Carsten Fritsch, oil analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt said.
One reason is that Brent oil prices are very close to top producer Saudi Arabia's favoured $100 a barrel, meaning the producer with the most sway is unlikely to call for a production cut.
"People will slowly move towards $100 a barrel at the end of the week unless something unexpected happens in the financial markets or geo-political landscape," Fritsch at Commerzbank said.
Data last week also showed stockpiles of gasoline in the United States are close to the highest level for this time of year since 1999.
(Read More: Shale Gas Could Be UK's New North Sea: Report)

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Eight graves full of murdered women found in the backyard of a former policeman in El Salvador
Jose Cabezas via Reuters Police in El Salvador investigating the double homicide of a mother and daughter have made a gruesome discovery when they unearthed a mass grave made up mostly of women in the yard of a former police officer. Authorities reportedly uncovered the underground cemetery this week during an investigation into former policeman Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez on suspicion of the murder of a 57-year-old woman and her 26-year-old daughter, which the former policeman allegedly admitted . Chavez, 51, had a rap sheet that included allegations of sex crimes. Osorio Chavez’s home in Chalchuapa, about 80 km from San Salvador, was searched as part of the investigation when police said they found what appeared to be uneven and soft ground. They found eight separate graves with, according to them, more than a dozen bodies each. Local media claim that police said sexual violence was involved in the disappearance of the women. “The central axis of the investigation is sexual violence,” Graciela Sagastume, the prosecutor leading the investigation, told reporters. The former cop and 10 others have been arrested in what police see as a violent sex and murder ring in which women, and possibly young men, have been suffocated. Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro suggested the depth and complexity of the secret burial site indicated the complicity of more than one person. None of the suspects in custody have so far shed light on the matter. A number of people with missing loved ones gathered on Friday at the cop’s home with photos of loved ones in hopes of identifying a dead body. It is believed that many burial sites are at least two years old or older. Osorio Chavez was fired from local police in 2005 after admitting to being a sexual predator. “He told us he found victims on social media and looked for them, luring them with the American dream,” Police Chief Mauricio Arriaza Chicas told reporters. “This psychopath has been detained and I think 99% of the people who helped him have been detained.” Two dozen bodies were exhumed as of Friday, but police believe there may be 40 or more. Authorities say it could take a month to unearth all the dead. For more, visit The Daily Beast. Get our best stories delivered to your inbox every day. Register now! Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside delves deeper into the stories that matter to you. Learn more.


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Photographing landscapes is among the most pleasurable kinds connected with photography. Nearly you have the chance to acquire gorgeous pictures for the friends or perhaps office, although you can produce canvases, large prints and also gives for people. Exactly how to take good scenery depends on a small number of really considerable things. Often the light an individual shoot inside and your standard zoom lens happen to be the two primary attributes that create stunning scenery photos.
Two Ways To help Take Much better Landscape Photos
First, prior to I go into detail about these a pair of strategies, let’s examine the way to take photos of landscapes. You will need to a digital video camera that will is able to be attached to a good tough tripod. Then of course an individual need a tripod. Some sort of tripod is what offers you very sharp plus clear photographs. We usage a tripod for scenery scenes because you want in order to be able to keep the camera devoid of digicam movement. Having a digital camera that is completely at a standstill allows us in order to get tack razor-sharp images in many various forms of daylight.
A shutter let go cable is one a great deal more ingenious tool that is often a new huge part of working out your landscape picture taking techniques. The shutter release cable is a little cable with a press button from one end. A person can sign up for the cable connection into your digital video camera and activate the shutter release, simply by pressing along a push button on the end of the remote cable television. It will eventually mean that you do not have to be able to come straight into contact together with your camera at all. This particular increases your potential for having even sharper photographs.
Contacts for Photographing Areas
At this point that you have your current digital camera, tough tripod and remote shutter cord remote shutter cable tv, what do we do nowadays? Now we come in order to our standard zoom lens. There will be many different types involving lenses regarding photographing areas. It can be hard to choose one if a person have not have felt knowledgeable photographing landscapes before. 1 of the most outstanding and sharpest lens is usually called a prime contact lens. This means it does not move out in addition to in. It isn’t capable of. It remains at a unchanging key length. As a outcome of this immobility, your panorama photographs turn out to always be sharper plus clearer in comparison with if you employed a zoom zoom lens.
If you need to take pictures of a major, extensive look to the landscape images, then We advise exploring on your own digicam manufacturer’s wide position and ultra wide viewpoint contact lenses. A wide position lens is certainly some sort of focal length of regarding 24mm to 40mm. A great super wide angle contact lens is even wider and can be with regards to 14mm-17mm. There are a good lot of improved lenses to select.
Camera Settings Intended for Landscape Photography
There can be never any ideal digital camera setting up for a scenery shot. Even though there usually are some accepted rules for you to produce landscapes. To begin with the use of landscape picture taking is to create excellent, clear images using wonderful light. Before we have directly into light, My partner and i want to simplify that a smaller fstop is usually what landscaping shooters photograph at. A new smaller f stop, this kind of as F22, is precisely what is regarded as a best fstop for countryside. This is purely because it helps all of our camera for you to focus suitably in the yardage. If you are taking pictures from the medium distance connected with ten to 20 or so meters away F13 or perhaps higher performs absolutely top quality too. You will naturally have to take your lights into consideration.
What regarding shutter acceleration? How fast or slower does of which have to be. When you have a tripod and even shutter cable, your shutter is not really one of typically the major important factors the fact that consider precedent in your current landscape digital photography. As longer as you have your current shutter release on a new acceleration that will not blur due in order to wind, and then chose the medium speed.
As i blast landscapes in the early morning, for instance 7am when the particular light can be breaking through, I might chose F16 and 1/125th regarding the second. I will select an iso of concerning 100 and 400. Our iso depends on the particular light of course. The higher the iso a lot more your current colour will be afflicted.
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My spouse and i have to come fresh. I am surprised right now there is not more composed on illumination for scenery photography because it is incredibly main. I’ve decide to produce regarding it last due to the fact My spouse and i want to focus your own awareness on it. I want the idea to be with you the almost all. It really is the most essential aspect of landscaping firing.
The reason why a good landscaping photo looks consequently attractive and beautiful will be because of often the lighting style. Without excellent lighting a new landscape photo will consider lifeless and lacking in interest. And no amount regarding cool apparel will fix this issue.
The biggest time of day to consider pictures of your panorama arena is in typically the early morning as well as late afternoon. This gentle light source is called sweet gentle. You will find that the light is definitely soft in addition to gently brilliantly colored. At this period of day the light, colours and tones give your scene a totally various appear to the particular heart regarding the day. Shooting inside mid summer sunlight could easily create undesirable shadows, washed out and about colorings and a total lack of interesting depth. Filming in www.lawnservicekaty.com gives us back these soft colours, muted shades and gentle skies. At this time there are usually no challenging and horrible shadows ruining our panoramas.

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The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) and Planet Ark Environmental Foundation (PAEF) are pleased to confirm the Federal Government has today committed $3m to support four new recycling education and resource recovery projects in Australia. The funding is part of the Federal Government’s $203m package announced today in Melbourne to increase recycling and reduce waste, protect Australia’s unique threatened species and restore our waterways and coasts, and will provide essential resources and support to drive the delivery of the 2025 National Packaging Targets.
The National Consumer Education Program will receive $1.1m to create a consistent national approach to consumer education on reducing, reusing and recycling packaging over the next four years. This program will extend the reach of the Australasian Recycling Label Program, an evidence-based labelling scheme that was launched by the Hon Melissa Price in September 2018 and has since been adopted by more than 200 Australian organisations. This new funding will allow the program to expand and include away from home recycling, the use of recycled content, compostable packaging and encouraging reduction and reuse behaviours.
A further $1.6m in funding will support the development of a Circular Economy Hub, a new online platform and marketplace that will help drive innovation in the transition to a circular economy in Australia. In addition to highlighting the latest sustainability education and resources, the site will match buyers and sellers in waste resources to help them identify products with sustainable materials, including recycled content. This online marketplace functionality will help to build the critical end markets for recycled products in Australia and provide essential education to the supply chain about the availability of sustainable options.
The Regional Model for Soft Plastics Recycling project is a partnership between APCO and the Plastic Police, a program developed by Cross Connections to promote regional collection and recycling of soft plastics. The Plastic Police program is currently operating in the NSW’s Hunter Region and will receive $150k to explore opportunities for expansion, including deployment in other regions.
Finally, a further $150k will be provided to the Remote and Regional Waste Collection Partnership, a project aiming to support governments and communities to address the challenges of waste and resource recovery in remote and regional areas.
Brooke Donnelly, CEO of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation commented: “We are delighted the government has recognised the value of the ARL and the other connected projects that APCO and our partner network is committed to delivering. This funding will enable us to continue our collaborative work with industry and our partners to ensure that we meet the 2025 targets and continue to work toward achieving a circular economy in Australia.”
“The Circular Economy Hub will provide businesses with the knowledge and tools needed for their transition to a circular economy,” said Paul Klymenko, CEO of Planet Ark Environmental Foundation. “An important element will be the Circular Economy Marketplace, which will act as the B2B ‘eBay’ for the circular economy. Planet Ark is thrilled to have been entrusted with the development of these vital tools.”


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Gluten Free Dominos Pizza copycat
A delicious gluten free version of the famous Domino's thick crust pizza
Servings: 2-4 people
- 2 cup gluten free flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1/2 cup cornmeal for tossing
- 1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum (omit if your blend already contains it)
- TOMATO SAUCE-
- 1/2 cup canned crushed tomatoes
- 1 cup tomato puree
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1/4 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon ground oregano
- 1/8 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/8 teaspoon dried marjoram
- pinch teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- 1 1/2 cups reduced-fat mozzarella cheese (fancy shred)
- GARLIC SAUCE FOR CRUST-
- 2 teaspoons butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon dried parsley (crushed)
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- In a medium-size bowl, place the flour, xanthan gum, yeast, and sugar, and whisk to combine with a separate, handheld whisk. Add the salt, and whisk again to combine well
- To the flour mixture, add the 2 tablespoons of olive oil and the water in a steady stream then mix with a spoon or fork to combine. Stir or beat constantly while streaming in the water and continue stirring until the mixture begins to come together. If the dough seems super sticky, add some more flour a tablespoon at a time, and stir to combine. Press the dough into a disk.
- Place the dough in another medium-size bowl and drizzle it with olive oil. Turn the dough to coat it with oil. This will prevent a crust from forming on the dough while it is rising. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in a warm, draft-free area to rise until doubled in volume (about 1 hour).
- Make the sauce by combining the crushed tomatoes with tomato puree in a blender. Blend on medium speed for 30 seconds. Combine tomato sauce with other sauce ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat. When the mixture begins to bubble reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and cool, then chill in a covered container until you make your pizza.
- After the dough has risen, wrap it in plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour before rolling it out. To make pizza, roll between two pieces of unbleached parchment paper. Create a crust by rolling in the edges, brush the dough with olive oil, and blind bake it at about 400°F (that is, bake it plain, before topping it) for 5 to 7 minutes, so the crust begins to crisp.
- Then, top it with sauce, cheese, and whatever else you have in the fridge, and return it to the hot oven until the cheese is melted, another 5 to 7 minutes. Allow to set for 5 minutes before slicing and serving.

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text: Metropolis Monte Carlo (MMC) can be a highly inefficient simulation technique when only a small fraction of an energy surface is populated and barriers between low-energy regions are high. In such cases, previous knowledge of the surface (e.g. low-energy conformations of molecules) can be used to preferentially sample the significantly populated regions. In this work we present a new MC method for accomplishing this goal. We term the method JBW for Jumping Between Wells. The JBW procedure operates by locating the various conformations of a molecule and subsequently driving an MMC-like simulation to jump repeatedly between them. Using simulations on 1- and 2-dimensional potential surfaces and on n-pentane, the JBW method is shown to generate ensembles of states that are indistinguishable from the canonical ensembles generated by classical MMC in the limit. Integration of JBW into the recently described MC/SD hybrid simulation algorithm enables rapidly converged simulations of conformationally flexible molecules including cyclic molecules in all degrees of freedom. The new method (MC-(JBW)/SD) gives converged comformational populations at a rate that is essentially independent of the energy barriers between conformations. We use the method to evaluate free energy differences between the conformers of various substituted cyclohexanes and of the larger ring hydrocarbons cycloheptane, cyclooctane, cyclononane and cyclodecane on several widely used potential energy surfaces. Such conformational free energies are compared with simple molecular mechanics steric energies both with and without rigid rotor-harmonic oscillator free energy corrections. In general, we find that assumptions of harmonicity do not lead to good approximations of the actual anharmonic free energies. In the case of cyclohexane derivatives at room temperature, the MC(JBW)/SD method is estimated to generate converged ensembles of all conformations at a rate ~106times faster than methods based on simple molecular or stochastic dynamics.

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Speaking of Gasol's future, he recently expressed his desire to stay with the Lakers organization after the final year of his $19.3 million contract expires next summer, according to Eric Pincus of the Los Angeles Times:
I would love to play for the franchise that I love playing for, that I’m proud to be a part of. It would be great to continue to play for the Lakers.
Gasol’s willingness to remain with the franchise even after being benched last season proves he is a consummate professional. He told Pincus that he holds no hard feelings after being benched by coach Mike D’Antoni in an effort to bring Dwight Howard’s offensive game to life:
I understood and understand it was a difficult situation for a lot of people, to make things work. As difficult as it was at times, now it's behind us and all we can do is focus on the present and what's coming. I don't hold grudges. I really don't get stuck in the past.
With the Howard saga in their rear view mirror, the Lakers are now focused on returning to the NBA Finals with the players that have stayed.
But team management is not being narrow-sighted in its efforts. In fact, it is shooting for the stars.
According to ESPN, the Lakers are planning to pursue elite free agents like LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony next summer. James is reportedly expected to “use the same guiding principles that he had back in 2010: the talent on the prospective rosters and the chance they can lead to multiple chances at championships.”
As it stands right now, though, the Lakers' roster may not be appealing to LeBron or any of the other top-tier free agents. However, the willingness of Kobe Bryant and Gasol—both up for new contracts next summer—to accept less-fruitful contracts, may help convince a superstar or two to land at the Staples Center for multiple title runs before Bryant retires.
Bryant is planning to play two or three more seasons, but it’s always possible that he would stick around longer in the right situation.
Making a play for one or two max-level players will take some scrupulous financial work by the Lakers. However Steve Nash’s $9.7 million salary could be voided under the league’s new collective bargaining agreement. As a result, the Lakers could spread that money out over three years on the books, opening enough cap room to potentially sign two max contracts.
The team also has nine players that will become unrestricted free agents next season. If Gasol and Bryant are signed to favorable deals, the possibility will certainly be there for the team to make a splash.
Either way, without Gasol’s commitment and hopeful willingness to sign a favorable contract, it would be a lot harder to orchestrate the type of offseason coup the Lakers are reportedly brewing.
*All contract information used in this report was provided by Spotrac.com.

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” His insurer, Safeco, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual, fees 13 per cent much more for your 30-yr-previous feminine Risk-free driver in his neighborhood than inside of a zip code next page with comparable possibility in Woodland Hills, a predominantly white suburb in north La.
You may listen to the protest: “Why is the neighboring county getting a new high school when ours is older?” And, relying upon geography, many product sales taxes can be averted. This isn’t only a “case” of liquor runs from a single New England condition to a different, wherever alcohol taxes are decrease. With ten million men and women, Ga has passed New Jersey since the tenth most populous point out in America. Still, any time you see how shut downtown Atlanta is on the Alabama line (55 miles) and its different exurbs are to the Tennessee and South Carolina lines, one particular can certainly envision massive purchases and various searching sprees taking place outdoors the condition if Ga revenue taxes have been to rise substantially. Columbus, Ga has a massive population because of Fort Benning, and Alabama is true future doorway. Ditto Augusta, with Fort Gordon with South Carolina correct following door. Savannah has Fort Stewart and South Carolina is right up coming door, and Jacksonville just a zip down I-ninety five. So, lack of gross sales tax income is a real possibility, and in some cases cash flow taxes for individuals who commute from close by states. Is really a a person-hour commute from northern Jacksonville to southern Savannah worth it to avoid wasting on cash flow taxes? A lot of people vote with their gas pedal. It is a massive difficulty in New England as well as the tri-condition regions of Ny city and Philadelphia, nonetheless it can even show up in Ga, that's the largest point out by land mass east from the Mississippi River (no fair, Michigan and Florida, we don’t desire to hear regarding how A great deal coastal drinking water is within your boundaries, no less than not In regards to home taxes). The solution is mostly to possess unique and organization taxes which can be a mixture of average home taxes, reasonable money taxes, and average income taxes. It lessens the incentives for income tax and income tax avoidance. Should really far more types of home be topic to home taxes? If Indeed, what varieties?
A teenager driver could possibly get an automobile insurance plan coverage of his own, but when he’s less than 18, a dad or mum or guardian signature is required within the policy because insurance policies is usually a lawful deal. Even though you are prepared to indication over the coverage by using a youthful driver, Remember that it’s less expensive In the event the teen is additional towards your policy as an alternative.
A Travis County district court decide dominated within the insurers’ favor, stating they'd “put up with irreparable harm from the absence of A brief injunction.”
OHgunner claims: September four, 2012 at 11:01 Whilst time is on the essence, normally driving on your own/loved 1 for the medical center in a everyday living or Dying scenario can tilt the size far more in death’s favor. Driving yourself: you have no way of being aware of when that blood loss will be more than enough to make you move out and eliminate control of your vehicle.


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Can Tim Howard Save the 4th of July?
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NewsBreaker Apr 08 '14
Teen Rachel Canning is back in the news after posting pictures on Facebook showing her drinking and hanging out with her banned boyfriend. It was the same one who reportedly caused the rift and entire lawsuit against her parents.

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'Highest IQ Man In The World' On Colleges: 'They're A Breeding House For Parrots'Chris Menahan
Mar. 22, 2018
Leftists Rage After NYT Reports The 'Happiest Of All Wives' Are Religious Conservatives
Justin Trudeau Threatens 'Consequences' If Social Media Sites Don't Ban All 'Hate Speech'
NYT: 'Pregnancy Kills. Abortion Saves Lives.'
Dutch Asylum Minister Resigns After Getting Caught 'Hiding' Asylum Seekers' Crime Rates
The New York Times' Narrative, Mapped Out
Christopher Michael Langan has been called the "smartest man in the world" for having an IQ said to be anywhere from 190 to 210.
In this piece from Scout Productions, Langan says colleges are a "breeding house for parrots," democracy is a recipe for rule by "mediocrity" and says if he ran the world he'd institute a benign "anti-dysgenics" program.
Though the piece was shared just recently, I'm guessing the interview was filmed around ten years ago, I can't find an exact date.
Langan these days runs a 140 acre horse ranch in Missouri and posts on Quora.
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STOCKHOLM, 22nd October, 2012 – To celebrate the Blu-ray release and the 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s beloved classic film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, five Madame Tussauds locations including London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney and Hollywood today launched an astonishing wax likeness of the eponymous hero in his own set bringing to life one of the movie’s most iconic scenes.
Guests took Elliott’s place in the scene that saw E.T. and Elliott soaring on a BMX against the backdrop of a stunning full moon, which was recently voted by fans as Universal Pictures’ most memorable movie moment. All of the figures were created in London by using detailed information sourced by Madame Tussauds’ world renowned artists.
E.T. fans will be able to relive this classic scene and many others, with the first ever release of the film on Blu-ray, featuring never-before-seen footage from the film set including an interview with director Steven Spielberg.
“We are delighted to be welcoming one of the greatest movie characters of all time to the attraction. We’re also absolutely certain that our guests are going to love the unique opportunity to ‘star’ in one of the most famous films ever made.” said Nicky Marsh, Madame Tussauds Global Marketing Director
Eddie Cunningham, President, Universal Pictures International Entertainment commented, “E.T. is one of Universal’s most iconic and beloved characters, and in this our 100th Anniversary year, it is fitting that he is brought to life by Madame Tussauds in their attractions around the world this October. The interactive experience at Madame Tussauds, together with the first ever Blu-ray release of the film, will truly capture E.T. and bring to life this unforgettable character.”
The figure was first perfectly sculpted in clay and then moulded in wax. A team of expert colourists then used oil paints to perfectly recreate E.T’s unique complexion. The entire process took around two months and cost £50,000 to produce.
In 1982, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial became the biggest blockbuster of the year, debuting at number one around the world. A testament to its enduring appeal, it remains one of the most successful, well-loved films for the past three decades and will continue to inspire generations to come.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial will be out to own for the first time on Blu-ray on October 31, 2012.
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Anna K Hagnefur, PR Manager Universal Pictures Nordic
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About Universal Pictures International Entertainment
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) is the international home entertainment division of Universal Pictures, headquartered in London and headed by President, Eddie Cunningham. UPIE markets and distributes all Universal new releases, catalogue, special interest and local content titles, as well as some third party product, via direct operations in the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, New Zealand and Japan. UPIE also has distribution partnerships in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Russia, and sells and distributes home entertainment product via licensees covering another 55 territories.
UPIE is part of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Comcast Corporation owns a controlling 51% interest in NBCUniversal, with GE holding a 49% stake.
About Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds has attractions in London, Hollywood, New York, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Vienna, Blackpool UK, Sydney 2012 and Florida in 2013, with interactive figures and experiences built around fame and celebrity. In London, guests can get up close and personal with incredibly lifelike replicas of 21st century stars like Kate Moss, Johnny Depp and Amy Winehouse, brave the scariest Chamber Of Horrors yet, complete with actors as bloodthirsty serial killers and take a time-travelling taxi ride through 400 years of amazing London history.
MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS is the leading name in location-based, family entertainment, and has seen the most successful and dynamic growth of any company in the sector over the last five years. Europe’s Number 1 and the world’s second-largest visitor attraction operator, Merlin now operates over 74 attractions, six hotels/two holiday villages in 17 countries and across four continents. The company aims to deliver memorable and rewarding experiences to its 43.6 million visitors worldwide, through its iconic global and local brands, and the commitment and passion of its managers and more than 16,000 employees. Merlin Entertainments operates the following attractions - SEA LIFE, Madame Tussauds, LEGOLAND, The EDF Energy London Eye, Dungeons, Gardaland, LEGOLAND Discovery Centres, Alton Towers Resort, Warwick Castle, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Heide Park, Earth Explorer, Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Wildlife World, Sydney Tower Observatory and Skywalk, Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Encounter Underwater World, Oceanworld Manly and Hamilton Island Koala Gallery. All brands which are distinctive, challenging and innovative – and which have great potential for growth in the future. Visit www.merlinentertainments.biz for more information.


The July issue of Global Perspectives sums up the results of the G8 summit in L'Aquila and looks at the future of the global governance summit architecture.
According to some authors the G8 has still a potential as a political and security forum. Nonetheless it should seek to reform the international organizations to bring them in-line with the changed global power balance. According to the German Chancellor Merkel, quoted in a contribution, the G8 should be a body for discussion, consensus building and statements while the new G20 format should make decisions.
The Joint Political Declaration of the G8 stated that the Heiligendamm Process which aimed for structured dialogue between the G8 and the G5 (Brazil, South Africa, China, India, Mexico) should be re-phrased Heiligendamm-L'Aquila Process (HAP). It should continue substantive dialogue among the major economies and provide careful reflections on long-term questions regarding the G8-G20 constellation.
Possible themes for the HAP agenda could be freedom of investment to mutual benefit; the role of innovation and technology in the process of sustainable and socio-economic development; a strategic approach to development and its social dimension; assistance to vulnerable states; food security and reform of relevant organizations; and energy.
Also in this issue an opinion article by Thalif Deen who attacks the hypocrisy of the Western nations who compare their financial efforts to fight the global financial crisis with their aid commitments in order to reach the MDG targets.
Global Perspectives is a bi-lingual (English/German) joint production by IPS Inter Press Service Europe and the Global Cooperation Council, published by Globalom Media. The monthly editions on various themes of international cooperation and development are downloadable for free.
See also the Euforic newsfeeds on IPS Europe and global governance
by Martin Behrens


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St. Francis High’s boys basketball team snapped its four-game skid by winning its Pacific Coast Athletic League Cypress Division opener, 61-44, over visiting Pajaro Valley on Monday.
Joey Garibay led the Sharks with 22 points. Lawson Orradre scored 15 points and played a big factor in his team’s rebounding success and Isaiah Gonzales added 14 points.
Pajaro Valley was led by Brian Gallardo with 17 points followed by Brian Chavez with 10.
The Sharks (9-4, 1-0) host Watsonville (5-9, 0-0) on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Pacific Collegiate 80, at Trinity Christian 61: Sophomore guard Malachi Douyon scored a career-high 39 points and the Pumas won their PCAL Arroyo Division game Monday.
The Pumas’ stingy third-quarter defense gave them the cushion to give everyone significant playing time.
Ibrahim Alivov and Joe Peters each scored eight points for PCS. Andrew Hubbell added seven points and six rebounds.
PCS (6-5, 3-0) plays at Pacific Point on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Pacific Point 74, Kirby 52: Junior guards Kevin Jones and Anton Orme shined for the Griffins in their PCAL Arroyo Division loss Monday. Jones had 16 points and three assists and Orme had 12 points, 18 rebounds and four steals.
Kirby (3-6, 1-2) plays at Anzar on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Pajaro Valley 3, at Monterey 0: Junior striker Kevin Rincón scored twice, giving him 14 goals on the season, and added an assist as the streaking Grizzlies won their PCAL Mission Division opener Monday.
Juan Mora also scored for the Grizzlies (6-2-2, 1-0-0), who are unbeaten in their past six games and have outscored opponents 22-2 in that span with five shutouts.
Alan Bedolla and Luis Velázquez each recorded assists.
The Grizzlies host Gilroy on Saturday at 5 p.m.
Cal Lutheran 81, at UC Santa Cruz 79: Kaylee Murphy had 22 points and 19 rebounds in the Banana Slugs’ narrow loss at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Monday.
CJ Catina scored 14 points for UCSC and Ashley Kowack added 11 points and seven rebounds. Reserves Savannah Henson and Zion Gabriel each scored nine points. Maddy Miller and reserve Aubrey Wagner each scored six points.
The NCAA Division-III Banana Slugs (7-9) play at D-II Chico State (10-5) on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Natalie Ruhl scored 29 points to lead the Regals (5-8).
At UCSC 82, Bethesda 34: Ashley Kowack scored 20 points to lead the Banana Slugs at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Sunday.
Reserve Amanda Inserra had 12 points and five rebounds for UCSC. CJ Catina scored nine points and Kaylee Murphy and reserve Zion Gabriel each score eight. Murphy also had 10 rebounds.
USA Surfing Prime Steamer Lane Santa Cruz: Caitlin Simmers of Oceanside took double wins in the Girls Under 14 and Girls Under 18 divisions at the third stop of the West Coast Toyota USA Surfing Prime Series season at Steamer Lane on Sunday.
The highest wave score of the event – a 9.6 — went to San Clemente’s Sawyer Lindblad. Her brother Taj Lindblad earned the highest wave score of Day 2 – an 8.3.
Santa Cruz’s Keanna Miller took third in the Girls U18 and fourth in the Girls U16 divisions.
Taro Watanabe of Malibu won the Boys U18 title and Tanner Vodraska of Camarillo won the Boys U16 crown.
Jak Ziets of Santa Barbara won the Boys U14 title and Soquel’s James Daniel took second.
Hole-in-one: Santa Cruz’s David Wilson aced Pasatiempo Golf Club’s 200-yard third hole with a driver on Monday. It’s his first ace.
Baseball clinic: Cabrillo will host a free clinic on its baseball field for players ages 4-12. The camp runs from 1-3 p.m. on Feb. 16.

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Temple Cloud Vacation Packages
Many of Bristol’s most interesting sights are close to Temple Cloud, making it a great place to base yourself while you are in town. The Stanton Drew Stone Circle and Radstock Museum are amongst the many best places to explore here. Two other worthy points of interest you’ll find close by Temple Cloud are Downside Abbey and HorseWorld.
If you are travelling with kids, give them a chance to let off some steam at the family attractions nearby. Take the family to a visit to the Bath City Farm in Bath, and see some interesting creatures.
A great way to experience the countryside is to grab your golf bag and head to the area’s excellent golf courses like the Saltford Golf Club and the Knowle Golf Club.
Spend an afternoon with fellow sports fans at Bath Rugby Stadium, Bath, cheering on the popular Bath Rugby. If you want to endear yourself with the locals, wear navy and white, the colors of the Bath Rugby.
Finding somewhere suitable to stay around Temple Cloud couldn’t be easier. The Winford Manor Hotel - Bristol Airport, the Ston Easton Park, Radstock and the Best Western Plus Centurion Hotel, Radstock are just three of the best places to find a warm welcome and a good night’s rest.

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