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Song For The Open Road video – Kairos 4tet and Omar
Websites Kairos 4tet Naim Jazz What an unlikely pairing – big-haired saxophonist Adam Waldmann with über-chilled soulman Omar. Rumour has it they met at the 2011’s MOBO Awards, where Waldmann was collecting the gong for Best Jazz Act. Two years later we have Song For The Open Road, a track that’s a foretaste to Everything […]
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TDK Boombox / Life on Record range – audio systems
TDK’s Life on Record range audio gear revisits the ’80s for inspiration Website Ziba TDK, a company better known for analogue cassette tapes, is launching Life on Record, a glossy black range of products made with the help of Portland-based design house Ziba. “Digilog” — a mixture of “digital and analogue” — is the term […]
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Jawbone Jambox – wireless Bluetooth speaker
Headset-manufacturer Jawbone releases the Jambox, a cute wireless speaker that doubles as a speakerphone Info Price: approx. $199.00 (£160.00) Websites Aliph Fuseproject Aliph, a company better known for its Bluetooth headsets, has expanded into the audio world. Its Jawbone Jambox is a compact speaker designed by Yves Béhar, founder of the acclaimed San Francisco-based […]
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Influencers: How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious – documentary
A film exploring how trends and tastes permeate from the Big Apple Websites Influencers film R+I Creative Ostensibly this short documentary from Paris-based indie filmmakers R+I Creative intends to find out “what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious… in music, fashion and entertainment”. Set in the Big Apple, […]
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All-in-one audio systems – high-end hi-fi
A look at why exclusive hi-fi brands are embracing the iPod generation Info Naim Uniti Star From approx. £3,299.00 Linn’s digital-streaming systems start at Approx. £1,750.00 Arcam Solo Music / miniBlink Approx. £1,299.00 / £90.00 Back in the ’80s when CDs began superseding vinyl among music lovers, the question raging among audiophiles was which format […]
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Dieter Rams designer profile – product design
Exploring the work of product designer Dieter Rams who has influenced tech trailblazer Apple Website Vitsœ The world may drool over the clean, sleek creations of Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, but Dieter Rams was espousing the virtues of good design decades before Ive was even born. From 1955 until […]
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Pacha Ibiza Chillout Classics album preview – various artists
Introducing a triple helping of tried ‘n’ tested downbeat tunes As the title of this CD suggests, this is a selection of laid-back tunes customarily spun at the latter end of a night of sweat-inducing, high-tempo house. Their raison d’être was all about bringing clubbers down as the Ibiza sun rose. Among the scores of well-known […]
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Andy Gilmore artist profile – geometric illustrations
Profiling the work of New York designer Andy Gilmore who creates geometric illustrations for the likes of Wired magazine and The New York Times Website Andy Gilmore For a while, this designer from Rochester, New York, has been creating ripples in the art world. Many of his complex, geometric images resemble etches produced by Spirograph […]
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Margaret O’Rorke artist profile – light sculptures
Profiling the work of Oxfordshire potter Margaret O’Rorke who makes porcelain light sculptures Book Clay, Light & Water (A&C Black) Website Margaret O’Rorke Margaret O’Rorke is an unassuming potter who makes striking light sculptures. Since the early ’80s, she’s been producing translucent porcelain pieces from her UK studio in Oxfordshire. In the mid-1950s, she […]
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Rollover movie review
Did the panned ’80s flick foresee the financial meltdown? Economists have, with some justification, been criticised for not foreseeing the current economic crisis. Hollywood, it seems, may have done a better job. Flawed financial thriller Rollover culminates in the collapse of world currencies as the value of stock markets plummets. In 1981 when it was […]