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Eric Prydz cancels Australian tour | Beatportal:

Much to the chagrin of his fans down under, electro powerhouse Eric Prydz cancelled his Australian tour yesterday due to his fear of flying.

Scheduled for seven dates in both Australia and New Zealand, the tour was to kick off in Sydney tonight on New Year’s Eve and wrap up in Auckland on 10th January 2009.

Click through for a full statement from his agency.

Says his management, Mainstage Artists:

“It is with great regret that we must announce that Eric Prydz has not travelled to Australia. It has been well documented that Eric has had a history of air travel issues and regrettably after having boarded his flight in London he had to leave the flight and was unable to re-board.

Another flight was then re-booked for the following day but again after boarding the flight, a panic attack ensued and he again had to leave the airplane, it was then decided to abort the tour. This is huge disappointment for all concerned, especially Eric and he sincerely apologises to all ticketholders of his scheduled events.

We can only apologise to Future Entertainment who have done everything in their power to make these shows possible and have been nothing less than professional throughout.”

Amazing Grace Techno - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

A Look Inside a Facebook for the Filthy Rich | Epicenter from Wired.com:
Recession — and social network glut — be damned! Frank DeRose, managing partner of Ferrata Capital Management, plans to invest at least $1 million into Total Prestige, an invitation-only networking site for one of the world’s most underserved internet demographics: the super- and super-duper rich.

I’m waiting for 50 cent to get on this…

awesome!

Five Reasons Computers Are Female | Funtasticus.com Humor & Fun Blog:
November 24th, 2008 (Posted by maverick)

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.

2. Even your smallest mistakes are immediately committed to memory for future reference.

3. The native language used to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.

4. The message “Bad command or filename” is about as informative as “If you don’t know why I’m mad at you, then I’m certainly not going to tell you.”

5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

“Cocaine’s one hell of a drug..”

ok, maybe not the killers themselves, but MTV did, MTV asked Exyzt (the guys who designed daft punk’s LED pyramid) to use one of their designs for the killers for an MTV award show, but they declined… so MTV got some guys to copy it. It is a sickkk ass design

here’s the original

here’s the Killers’

he’s just tryin to branch out and expand his business guys… still very very very funny

Computer Music:
Justice admit to stealing samples

Dirty dance-meisters Justice have admitted that they don’t clear all their samples. While not clearing samples is hardly unusual, admitting it certainly is, particularly when the source of the samples includes big names like Queen, 50 Cent and Slipknot.

“They are such short samples no one can recognise them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice,” explain the French funksters in an MTV interview.
tisk tisk tisk guys, what a horrible example you’re setting for producers, if hip hop guys have to clear even little drums hits like snares and such, you guys should do the same, using stuff without permission isn’t cool

Props to Speedy J, this is an awesome concept

Speedy J changes electronic music LPs forever | Beatportal:
Dutch techno pioneer Jochem Paap aka Speedy J has always pushed the boundaries of techno further than most (word has it Richie Hawtin’s current DJ set up was conceived by Speedy J), and now he is set to change the way electronic music albums are constructed forever.

For his next LP Speedy J is inviting producers worldwide to submit parts and loops to him which he will use to create a collaborative album of epic proportions.

It’s an ambitious project that has never been tried before on such a scale.

By harnessing the collective creativity of electronic music producers around the world, Speedy J will be producing an album that’s not so much his, but rather an LP by the global techno community.

Speedy J is merely the conductor (but he’s fine with that).

Producers are free to submit basslines, drum loops, sound effects - any conceivable audio part - via the online collaboration tool Soundcloud through his website.

Speedy J will then take the parts that he likes and build tracks out of them to create an entire album.

The project will be released on his label Electric Deluxe and the collectivisation approach will also trickle down through the album’s profits, which will be split 50/50 with all the artists that appear on the album.

This collaborative approach is very much a product of our time, made only possible through the continued digitalisation of our world.

It is the embodiment of techno.