FSP 1.1

BMW iPod control in steering wheel

The first seamless integration of iPod and automobile. Connect with your music like
never before. With the installation of an integrated adapter developed by BMW and
Apple -- now available for the BMW 3 Series, X3 and Z4 -- you can control your
iPod through the existing audio system and multi-function steering wheel. Which
means no loss of power. No loss of sound quality. And no loss of control.

Links: Motoringfile and MacMinute.

Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY

Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES'
flash videos remind me of Bob Dylan's
Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Examples: 1, 2, showcase fast paced
text over sultry Nina Simone vocals.

Not Really Indian.

Not Really Indian (might be switching to TypePad at om.typepad.com/nri/)
ponders life as an Indian Californian.

Having grown up in a era of inquiries and commissions to determine
what Canadian really means as a culture and an identity, I can relate
to the sardonic dual boast and confession of being not really Indian.

NRI has good taste in music too. A good thing, since there's not enough
downtempo deep house on Clear Channel.

Apple Music

My first night with the Apple Music store was a month ago.
This post is mostly about my 1980s-centric taste with a few
usability issues thrown in. I'll highlight my top five pics
for Gothamist.

Looking back, I see I owe my tastes to the CBC's Brave New Waves
from about 1983 to 1988. That nightly show was (and to an
extent, still is) a testament to how much you can do with a
small budget spent wisely on research (beyond a subscription
to _NME_, but that's a starting point beyond most radio producers'
grasp) rather than on C-list celebrities and promotion.
Huge thanks to show co-founder, and first producer and host
Augusta LaPaix.

Another legacy of my listening to BNW is that its airtime of
11:30 PM - 5:30 AM forever conditioned me to be a non-morning
person.

In the Apple Music Store I first searched for and didn't find:

Cabaret Voltaire
Radiohead
The Fall
The The / Matt Johnson Update: now found
Nina Hagen. I want her _New York_ or _Smack Jack_ at karaoke.
Aphix Twin
Dead Can Dance
Prodigy -- from _Smack My Bitch Up_ and before
Housemartins
Beautiful South
Wise Guys
MC 900 Foot Jesus
Einsturzende Neubauten top 5 nominee: YÜ-GUNG (FÜTTER MEIN EGO)
Coil
Wire
Chemlab
23 Skidoo
Rita Mitsouko
Nurse With Wound
Portion Control
Mitsou (but searched for _chinois_ and was recommended Vanessa Mae)
Up Bustle and Out
Modernettes
Corsage
Princess Superstar
Genesis P-Orridge / Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle / Chris & Cosey

I did find:
Carole Pope's _High School Confidential_ is there, but on a _Queer as Folk_ soundtrack.

Joy Division and New Order top 5 nominees: Transmission (JD and NO, but the garbled JD edition was better), Crystal (NO)

People who bought Crystal Waters's _100% Pure Love_ (round and round and again) also
bought Traci Lords, who sounds like Tangerene Dream.

LL Cool J's _Bristol Hotel_, *clean* version only

Usability Issues: the web of nested and overlapping music genres
are underutilized. In addition to a
people who bought/like THIS also bought THAT
there could also be a THIS sounds like THAT.
For example, there's no listing for crunk or gangsta genres.

I miss Net Radio 365's (circa Nov. 1999) genres:
jungle acid house trance drum and base downtempo big beat big break
24 types of Ibiza mix club music

The Streets's _Original Pirate Material_ says every track is 30 seconds long.
top 5 nominee: Let’s Push Thing‘s Forward

I search for
Offspring (who really should win a Grammy)
Chemical Brothers
Madonna

I find no spell correction of elton jon to elton john

I do find at least _The Beautiful South_ and _The Pet Shop Boys_.
I can sort results by time and find the longest re-mix.

The search by song tiltle feature uncovers some interesting
cover versions.
David Bowie's _See Emily Play_ (original by pink Floyd) was good.

Bauhaus
The Crystal Method top 5 nominee: High Roller as an example of found sound vocals/narration.
Dr. Dre insrumentals (I thought this was a joke)
lots of Rush
a good collection of _Blur_ top 5 nominee (too many songs to specify)
Velvet underground was a staff recommendation
a great _Who_ collection
MC Lyte (a guilty pleasure)

The store needs a power search:
by year actually released,
by track length (search for tracks longer than 7 minutes)

If I can get extended mixes for $1 I will buy.

Ministry's _Twitch_ I may buy. top 5 nominee: Everyday is Halloween

Need to bookmark, and sort bookmarks of songs, artists, ablums, and tracks.
A wish list, and also a way to compare, is the track on, eg
the _Modulations_ soundtrack the same as on my album ?

I's a way to highlight and select text before copying it out of
the main iTunes window.

Lady Madonna

I searched for sex worker in the NYT, and the first
match was Madonna. Why search for sex worker ?

Excerpts from the review of the Material girl:

As she blankets the media yet again, Madonna is the exact opposite of a
politician striving to stay "on message." Madonna's priority is to keep people
watching whatever she does; she maintains a presence, not a message.

...

A few weeks ago, Madonna withdrew her original "American Life" video
because, she said, she was worried that it might be misinterpreted during
wartime. It had intercut a fashion show of camouflage fantasies with images of
bombs and destruction, and it ended with Madonna tossing a grenade that was
caught by a George W. Bush look-alike. He opened the top — it turned out to be
a cigarette lighter — and nonchalantly lighted a cigar.

Madonna told VH1 that the video, made before the war with Iraq, was meant
to insist that viewers should "stop being distracted by all of your entertainment"
and try to avert a war. Having the grenade turn out to be harmless was, she
said, "wishful thinking, symbolically, that we could find a different way to deal
with our conflicts with Iraq." But the video could also have been seen as a Bush
endorsement (he could bravely defuse a grenade) or a callous equation of
dancing and preening with bombings.

...

The music of "American Life" continues Madonna's collaboration with the
ingenious French producer Mirwais Ahmadzai, who produced the album "Music"
in 2000. It uses a similar mixture of acoustic guitar-picking, ticking drum
machines and swooping, buzzing synthesizer lines. The guitar signals the
sincerity of a singer-songwriter, while all the gizmos add the retro catchiness of
the synth-pop music now being revived under the name electroclash.

Bigger screenshot:

SOMA FM grooves

SOMA FM is back. Alas beloved CliqHop is gone, but Groove Salad lives on Shoutcast.

streaming music

Update 2002 Nov 30: SOMA FM is back on air.

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