July 2005 - Orb - mailman.xmission.com

Fox / News Corp, Inc. to buy MySpace.com
by egyptian zombie robot 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Since a lot of you have accounts on MySpace, you may want to pay attention to this. You may have heard that News Corp, Inc. (i.e. Rupert Murdoch of Fox News fame) is planning on buying MySpace.com and it's parent company. After that story broke, something else came to light: anything you put on their servers they own: "By posting Content on any public area of MySpace.com, you automatically grant as well as represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to MySpace.com, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content to MySpace.com and that MySpace.com has the right to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing." It's not quite that bad (they recently changed their Terms of Use page), but I've got the full story at: http://www.ezrpm.com/about/9/ Near the end of the article are links to some alternatives to MySpace, if your policital leanings urge you to distance yourself and your creative output away from the 'evil' Mr. Murdoch. I thought you might like to know. -- - xenlab - http://www.ezrpm.com/ - http://www.xnlb.com/

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Matthew Herbert releases new album
by egyptian zombie robot 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Check out the write up I did on it: http://www.ezrpm.com/article/67/ Politically it's close to 'Mechanics of Destruction' in it's intent. -- - xenlab - http://www.ezrpm.com/ - http://www.xnlb.com/

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Orb live show sticker
by max0666 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Just saw this on e-bay > ends in a couple of hours: http://snipurl.com/ghxn

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Nina Walsh's Album
by Noraa Selim 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Nina Walsh, of Sabrettes + Sabres of Paradise collaborator + vocalist for the Orb (Ghostdancing + Plum Island) has a new album out http://cdbaby.com/cd/ninawalsh Many will be intrested in a THRASH REMIX (long way from home). Her first track Sail is appearing in the new upcoming orbsessions, although she said this one is a different version. Go get it!!! _____________________________________________________________ Get email for your site ---> http://www.everyone.net

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FTP
by RMStringer 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

It is back up and running, my router reset itself and I just found it. RMStringer _____________________ /!\ Certified Bandwidth Abuser

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Re: stage building
by Alan Evil (lists) 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

>Original Message date : Jul 21 2005, 06:20 PM >From : "Matt Schieffer" >To : "What were the skies like when you were young?" >Subject : [Orb] MC Pitman >Funny stuff. Thanks to those listees who turned me on to them and >GLC. It appears GLC have finally landed in the US because I saw a >live performance of them on Jimmy Kimmel live last week. >Also, for anyone interested in this sort of thing, last Thursday I was >a scab worker at a local music festival. We put together a whole >soundstage with only a few inexperienced volunteers. >http://www.livejournal.com/users/hydrallus/51213.html >Pretty crazy stuff. I do hope you had some people around that knew what they were doing. Too many musicians and others have died because of this kind of thing. All it takes is one ungrounded circuit or a couple of loose nuts to electrocute a singer or drop a 100 pound can on somebody. Google "electrocuted singer" or "stage collapse." Too bad this didn't happen a few hours later than it did: http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0WQAAAOgdF4dK6PXwmVlckVTHD5sZkkpFAsQn!

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(OT) going to Toronto
by P J Kane 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

it's a ways off, but i am heading to Toronto in early September for a little vacation time. looking for recommendations on: - good record shops - good restaurants/cafes/bars - good bookstores - anything else really cool to do while i am in the city i am staying with a friend who lives downtown near a trendy shopping area called The Annex, if that helps anyone know specifically where i will be at. but i will have locals who i can make drive me places... anyway, any help is much appreciated. you can email me off-list so as to not annoy the rest of the people here. thanks. PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org

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Re: [Orb] Orbsessions out on Sep 1st
by P J Kane 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

sweet -- another Orb release featuring Thrash tunes! ahh, the good old days. thanks for the heads up Marcolphus. so, uh, this is a European release right, so it comes out on 1 Sept? (in the US, we write the month first, then the date. Europeans switch that around, so it gets confusing. the easiest solution is to never use a number for the month -- this makes it clear to all parties.) anyway, speaking of Thrash, where is the angry bugger nowadays? PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org

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TK wax?
by John Goelzer 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

> Oh, and btw, Transit Kings t-shirts > are now available to buy! :-) Sorry if this has been covered before, but is there Transit Kings vinyl available? JG

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OT: 2 million USD paid for a beat
by Matt Schieffer 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Thought you guys might like this - its from tinymixtapes.com. I wonder what thrashynobbacunt thinks of this. Almost enough to make him stop teaching music at the local middle school and come out of semi-retirement. ; Headline: Nas Pays Neptunes $2 Million for a Beat, Hungry People in Africa So we've all splurged on a purchase or two before, right? Maybe you paid a little too much for that really kickass piece of nose jewelry because the barbell with the emerald in it was just the right color to enhance your eyes. Or perhaps you bid a little too high on that guitar on Ebay, the one that looks just like the one that the guy in that one band plays. I'll admit to once buying a pound of coffee for $30 because I just had to know what $30 a pound coffee tasted like and, fuck it, I was having a bad week. It tasted pretty good, FYI. Not that it's any of YB. But when it comes to art, is there really such a thing as splurging? Shouldn't the artist do whatever it takes to create whatever it is that they have wrapped up inside themselves that's just itching to get out? Even if it costs the artist a sizable amount of cash? For an answer to that question, look no further than the recent shenanigans of that lovable NYC hip-hopper Nas. Nasty Nas has been hard at work on his next album, allegedly called Nasdaq Dow Jones, and has been searching high and low for the right beats to compliment his mad rhymes. The word on the street has it that Nas got into a bidding war with Puffity Duffity Daddy over what is supposed to be the Holy Grail of beats, a beat by uber-producers the Neptunes. The final bid? $2 million smackers. Nas paid $2 million dollars for a drum track. But it's all about the art, right? Busta Rhymes, a man noted for understatement, had this to say about the beat: "Those drums man, Those drums are fire! If Nas is gonna rap to this beat, it's going to be over. This will be the biggest hit in the history of hip-hop!" The question now is what this moment could mean in the grand scheme of hip-hop. Is this the zenith of the Neptunes' career? Could this be the long heralded end of Nas' tumultuous career? If the song is a colossal failure, P. Diddy will have dodged a very large bullet. Not that he hasn't before. Either way, these events are the makings of a great segment for Michael Ian Black or Mo Rocca to riff on in the inevitable I Love the '00s

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