Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for a ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Marko: … Good luck.

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3 Albums for 2011

We’re New Here by Jamie xx & Gil-Scott Heron

Don’t get me wrong I’m New Here was great, but this took it to a whole new level. It single handedly (almost) laid the ground work for the rest of the year’s electronic releases.

Black Up by Shabazz Palaces

A hip-hop album which sounded nothing like it’s peers, after the infiltration of “club” beats and big synths in the genre, Shabazz Palaces turned around and ran in the opposite directions producing the freshest hip-hop album for the past decade(?). Minimalist, bassy, jazzy in equal measure, easily my favourite album released this year.

summvs by Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Not much to say here, breathtakingly beautiful as their previous collaborations have been; though this was possibly the most melodic.

… and for 2012

Portico Quartet are releasing a new album, entitled Portico Quartet. It’s going to be amazing. To quote kisharang on Portico Quartet’s last.fm page (scroll down):

So I saw them live yesterday (Gaume Jazz festival) and they played all new material, which was radically different from their older stuff, much more electronic, even leaning towards intelligent dubstep in moments. Duncan even played mostly with electronic pads, didn’t even have a real bass drum or snare. Still really good stuff though, they’re just way less “jazz” now. New album just might be their Kid A!

Oh and with any luck Deltron 3030 will release Event II, don’t hold your breath though it has been coming out for the past few years and still hasn’t materialised.

Inspired by Frank Chimero’s Eleven Albums for 2011.

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So it’s one of those days when people post Jimmy Wales photos. See exhibit a) and b)

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They say if Europe goes ahead with it’s solution then Britain will be left on the sidelines. While the middle collapses. That’d be awful; we’d be left there watching everyone else, collapse.

I hope that doesn’t happen.

Ian Hislop on last week’s Have I Got News For You

Posted 2 months ago

Black Up by Shabazz Palaces has got to be the album of 2011. I don’t think there’s enough time left to better it. They brought a totally different vision to hip hop.

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Bradley Wright: Using Dropbox as a Git repository

So last month I wrote a bit about setting up your own personal Git repositories on a Linux box, and how to use that for sharing code.

I’ve had a slight epiphany since then: what if I just used the awesome Dropbox (my referral link, if you’re likely to sign up) to share Git repositories…

This is great for when you’re working with someone who doesn’t want to sign up for an account on Github, but you still want git. I’ve made a ruby script which does all of the steps called gitboxify.

Posted 2 months ago with 153 notes reblogged from intranation

And Tumblr of the week goes to MOUSTAIR.

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Paco De Lucia & Al Di Meola - Mediterranean Sundance

I’m totally obsessed with this song at the moment. Mind blowing.

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The Visitor Portico Quartet

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It’s almost like someone melded jazz and electronic music (to some small degree) into something of pure beauty. Portico Quartet, how is it that I only found out about you two weeks ago? ‘cause I’ve been missing out.

Posted 4 months ago