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“basing on speculative fiction captions collected by Jane Hu (http://www.theawl.com/2012/08/a-timeline-of-future-events), the visualization analyses 62 foretold future events. For each event the visualization highlights typology (are they mainly social, scientific, technological, political?), year of the prediction, genre of the book and age of the author, while dividing them into positive, neutral or negative events. In the end, good news: in 802.701 the world will exist and everything will be more or less ok.”
Bombay Bicycle Club - Video Games (Lana Del Rey cover)
They say that the world was built for two; only worth living if somebody is loving you.

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“Devil wears Prada but not this Pope”
“My very own arrangement for Jazz Quartet (Alt.Sax.,Piano, Vibes, E-Bass) of the first part of Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps”. It’s just an exported version of the Sibelius-File, I hope I can bring up some live performance recording shortly.” David Cariano Timme.
The Droids beamed down to planet Earth in the year 1978. Yves Hayat AKA Droids, was a young label manager at the seminal French disco label Barclay in the seventies. ‘Star Peace’, originally released in 1979, is his concept to the classic sci fi movie ‘Star Wars’ out that year. Featuring the French space synth classic ‘(Do You Have) The Force’, in both parts, this LP goes from strength to strength with spaced out lullaby’s ‘Inner Space’ & Tchough Fou’, before kicking back into the groove with ‘Be Happy’ an assault to the senses with its manic synth lines running riot over heavy funk overtones. The flip kicks off with ‘Shanti Dance’ parts 1 & 2, sleezy robot-funk work outs that are inter-joined to make a 6 minute continually evolving piece of music. The closing eight-and-a-half- minute Renaissance De L’Amour is a tour de force of cinematic synthscapes, bleeps, bloops and world rhythms, before dropping in the drums 6 minutes in to ignite any dancefloor. This is light years ahead of its time.
music of Droids in SoundCloud
(Source: mp3olimp.net)
Chris d’Eon vuelve a la carga con el tercer volumen de su serie “Music For Keyboards”. Los dos movimientos que componen esta sinfonía para MIDI, según su autor, evocan las nociones de nacionalismo y patriotismo que en su día alimentaron el trabajo de compositores como Jean Sibelius, Aaron Copland, Mussorgsky o Rimsky-Korsakov. El canadiense, como acostumbra, ha querido compartir con todos de forma gratuita esta nueva vuelta de tuerca a su imaginario clásico. Se puede descargar la pieza siguiendo este enlace.