Tamlyn

This month’s mixtape comes to you from Durban, South Africa. Actually I’m back in London now but I made it while I was there last week. It’s a collection of my favourite original film scores: tracks which were produced for a particular film. Bonus points for spotting the three tracks which were not composed for the film in which they were used and the one track which was not used in the film it was composed for!

Just after reading Ryan Carson’s two posts about airport advertising, I was in Johannesburg airport yesterday and noticed these:

The clever bit is in the placement. Jo’burg airport is currently undergoing a big extension project during which time there is a long walk between the international terminal and the domestic terminal. All along the walk, these huge adverts for Jonnie Walker provide encouragement with their slogan “Keep Walking”. Other quoted persons included Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela and Yoda.

Every time a new storage technology comes along someone predicts that in 1000 years time, mankind will have lost the knowledge of how to read today’s CDs/DVDs/memory sticks/whatever. Some people call this data rot or bit rot and claim we’re better off writing everything on paper.

And then you see this BBC news story explain how we’re currently using a Diamond synchrotron (whatever that is) to read 1000 year old books written with apple juice on bits of cow without even opening them.

I don’t think there’s much risk of people in the next millennium not being able to read what we wrote in this one. The question, perhaps, is would they want to?

From the sunny climes of Corsica, comes this second installment. Enjoy it! Back in London tomorrow morning and going straight to Notting Hill to catch Norman Jay in the sunshine… ah, Good Times.

Download Podcast 2 – “Public Health & Safety” Edition and/or subscribe to it in iTunes.

1. LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (Intro & First Movement)
2. Edwin Birdsong – Cola Bottle Baby
3. Hyper – Cascade
4. Skeewiff – Man of Constant Sorrow (Kraak & Smaak Remix)
5. Dave Brubeck – Unsquare Dance
6. Alex Gopher – Carmilla
7. Hot Chip – My Piano (Dub)
8. Moby – Go (Vitalic Remix)
9. Depech Mode – Personal Jesus (Dirty South Remix)
10. Noisia – Yellow Brick
11. Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio in G Minor

I’ve become totally addicted to podcasts recently. Commuting to Sheffield every week gives me plenty of time on trains and as I listened to the great OLO Radio podcast I thought to myself “Hey, I could do this!”. However it wasn’t until another day as I listened to the Diesler podcast that i thought to myself “Hey, I should do this!”.

So here it is, download Podcast 1 – “Is There Anybody Out There?” Edition.

There’s no real theme, it’s just stuff I quite like. I’ll try and do these monthly from now on so be sure to subscribe to the iTunes feed for automatic updates. Please let me know if you enjoyed it!

Track list:

1. Jape – Floating
2. Toots & The Maytals – 54-46 Was My Number
3. Who Made Who – Space For Rent
4. Nine Inch Nails – All the Love in the World
5. Quarks – I Walk (Superpitcher Schaffel Mix) (edit)
6. Europe – The Final Countdown (edit)
7. Toecutter – Come on Barbie
8. Soulwax – E Talking
9. The Sounds – Tony The Beat
10. Livingroom Rockers – LightaCru
11. Ray Barretto – Pastime Paradise

The Big Chill have tagged each of the artists playing at the festival this summer on Last.fm. Then at the foot of the lineup pages on the site they link to the radio player for that tag: main stage lineup, sanctuary stage lineup… So simple, yet so effective. What better way to get you in the mood?

Out with CMSMS, in with WordPress. Yay!

Please bear with me during the transition.

London is good.

Work is good.

Play is good. 

Life is good.

We left Split on the overnight ferry and arrived in Ancona the following morning after a reasonable night’s sleep on a bench on the deck. Miraculously there was a direct train from Ancona, on the east coast of Italy, to Orte, a not-very-big town on the west coast. We had a four hour wait in the station yet very nearly missed our train due to the ingenious platform numbering system: there are two of every platform. To cut a long story short, (there’s a first time for everything!) we were waiting on platform 3 on one side of the station whereas our train was at platform 3 ovest on the other side of the station. Apparently ovest means ‘west’ which doesn’t make much sense since there isn’t any other direction you can go by train from Ancona. So anyway we made it to Orte where we were met by a lovely young lady who simply said “Sonica? This way!” and guided us to a waiting coach. Neat.

Well once my feet had healed enough for me to walk around a little I got to explore Sarajevo and I absolutely loved it. I can’t even say exactly why but I loved it so much I’m seriously considering moving there!