tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102748792011-11-30T09:31:07.643-08:00Chris Case's Blog ZoneFLOATING WORLD WEBnoreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10274879.post-19642576904599020512011-11-19T22:30:00.001-08:002011-11-19T22:46:47.413-08:00

The middle portion of this mix is quite high-intensity, and it mellows out for the final quarter...

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What kind of creature is this?

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So-titled because of the scattering of ethnic-flavoured pieces throughout,  but it's not as purely ethnochill a mix as the title might suggest, ranging from ambient to moderately full-on.

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Here's a mix made some time ago of favourite tracks from the CD series "Excursions In Ambience". It has a distinctly ethnic flavour, but not exclusively...

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The Maharaja Palace was a notorious guest house in Tokyo in the 1990s, occupied mainly by trance party lovers, who had an ambiguous, to say the least, relationship with the almost absentee management. This is a parody of the Maharaja Palace Rules which I wrote and distributed to all the rooms in the middle of one dark and potentially stormy night.

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This is a mix I made of music suitable for all your gyreing and gimbling needs.  "`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,  And the mome raths outgrabe."Jabberwocky-Lewis Carroll-

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Here's a short (15") DJ mix from some years ago with a bit of a Gaian message amid some trancey old school tracks. Click on the DivShare logo if you want to download...

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DJ Chris dawn set at Rainbow2000's Hakusan party back in the late 20th century.I have been told many times that this was one of my more inspiring sets, so I think it's a good thing to offer for Xmas listening. Lots of simultaneous playing of 2 or more tracks... I'd place it in a genre I'd call Energetic Chillout..

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One of the most interesting DJ gigs I have had was when I was invited to perform with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert hall in Tokyo. Three DJs were asked to perform live, mixing whatever they chose together with the orchestra. I cannot remember the names of the other two DJs at the moment, but the three classical pieces chosen were a Satie "Gymnopedie", Ravel's "Pavanne Pur

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I I recently came across this anecdote about my Uncle Martin, a man I wish I had known better.  Attending Cambridge on a music scholarship (his Bach was excellent), he was a protege of J.B.S. Haldane, took a double first in biochemistry, and disappeared off to Africa... <p><p></div>&

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Here a few pix taken years ago on several trips to India..

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I've been looking for this recording for years, having first heard it as a teenager. Dylan Thomas reads Henry Reed's "Chard Whitlow", a brilliant parody of the T.S. Eliot of "Four Quartets". I've made it into a video... 'Chard Whitlow' (Mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript) As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and to-day I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was

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Here's a single-track mp3 of a compilation CD I made called Partita Brandy, distilled from Glenn Gould's complete recording of Bach's Partitas. It's a selection of the most exciting rhythmic and melodic pieces, totally without baroque cliche, music that in forty years of listening I have never become tired of, and which I have found my friends with trance and ambient tastes also can enjoy.

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I was fortunate to be invited to play ambient music at the Tanabata Festival on August 26th at Tenkawa Benzaiten Shrine in Nara, famous for its association with music and dance. I played meditative ambient in the main shrine , after which the seats were turned around for the main ritual. In the late afternoon and early evening, everyone went down to the river, where Guji-san led the bonfire

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Of the various recordings of tribal trance sets I have played, this one most approximates what I would play if I were DJing at one of the eclipse parties. If you didn't attend one, play this nice and loud and imagine.... It begins with a call to the tribes, who gather and dance themselves into a state of full-on trance which climaxes, grooves for a while, floats through space and then

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Here's a slide show I made of some of the best Far Side cartoons:

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From Ïmaginative Qualities Of Actual Things, by Gilbert Sorentino"...I saw Bunny the same day. She was with three or four ugly Beautiful People, laughing, crackling, full of life, but underneath...! It was clear that her heart was broken.She was carrying a torch, she took a lot of time out for tears, she won't die, she'll live on, she gets that old feeling, there'll never be another Guy, she

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Here's a short streaming DJ mix taken from what I played at the EarthlingZ Golden Week Gathering. Coming just after the Indian live performance, it has many ethnic female vocal samples.

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Recommended for anyone who has ever been on either side of the nerds/normal divide, especially at an American secondary school... By Paul GrahamWhen we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity. We graded them from A to E. A tables were

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This is the spirit in which people went to work when I was younger....

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During one summer vacation while I was a student at Cambridge, I spent a few idyllic months with the artists Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle and Eva Aeppli in Tinguely's converted auberge-studio in the Seine-et-Oise. Later, after I left Cambridge and was looking for a job that would allow me the time to write, Niki introduced me to Robert Fraser, who had just opened his gallery, and I became

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After a 3-year course in film/video technique,my daughter Radha has graduated with a 1st-class degree. Here she is looking contented with the outcomeOf course, in her father's mind, she will always look like:

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Dennis Potter, best known to most as the writer of The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven, learned of his impending death from cancer a few months ahead, and in the short time left managed to complete his final series of television plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. What he says in this remarkable interview from that time will certainly resonate with anyone with the slightest interest in

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At a recent small musical gathering, a friend recorded some of my piano improvising, unbeknownst to me. Here are a couple of tracks (full of mistakes) which came out sort of OK...please make allowances for the fact that I never had piano lessons...It needs some bass boost, and perhaps a bit of treble boost.Any Comments would be appreciated..

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If you like Old School trance, here's a mix of my favourite tracks from the classic Rising High label, known for its quality once described as "astral melancholy"

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Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation

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There are several women I've fallen in love with through their voices alone, mainly:Elisabeth SchwarzkopfMaria CallasEmma KirkbySheila Chandra (and a host of unnamed Indian female singers...)and now Iren LovaszListen to this song:http://tinyurl.com/ey3j8I don't understand a word of it, but I can tell she's telling it like it is. Brings tears to my eyes, but not of sadness, but more like relief

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Another poem I recently uncovered from my writings in my late teens. By this time I was a convinced agnostic (oxymoron?), and, judging from the content of this poem, influenced by W.H. Auden's masterpiece "Musee des Beaux Arts" ON A CRUCIFIXION EVENING On a crucifixion evening come drift with me,expecting every moment a cataclysmic roaras the veil of the temple is rent in twain,awaiting terror on

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I recently came across a few poems I wrote ages ago, when I was about 19. Somehow I still like them, despite the fact that the influence of Dylan Thomas is overwhelmingly obvious. Here's one of them, which makes much of the insight common in Thomas's work that the end of things is implicit in their beginning.BLIND MANThis was my apocalypse,The sharp light cracking on the eastern frontNo more, the

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Choice phrases from:Tom Reynolds's"I Hate Myself and Want To Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard" "...Sam Stone is basically a composite for Hollywood's ideal Vietnam veteran: an hallucinating psycho with a Fu Manchu moustache who goes barking mad every time a Doors song comes on the radio...""...the "quantum tragedy paradigm": the shorter the time two people spent together as a

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Thanks to Jessica for the intro... The Ponds Every yearthe liliesare so perfectI can hardly believe their lapped light crowdingthe black, mid-summer ponds. Nobody could count all of them -- the muskrats swimming among the pads and the grasses can reach out their muscular arms and touch

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The Zahir and I In Gujarat, at the end of the eighteenth century, the Zahir was a tiger; in Java it was a blind man in the Surakarta mosque, stoned by the faithful; in

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I've added 12 new images to the WHEN CLONING GOES BAD Gallery on EarthlingZ.SEE GALLERY

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"How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? In our version of the future, the things we loaf about on indoors will be as beneficial as the stuff that grows out back. In the meantime, sculpt lawn furniture from the lawn itself. Unlike your standard-issue sofa, this lush greenery is totally organic, requires no synthetic finishes, and can be brought to life, Golem-style, from salvaged dirt.

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The Alternate Reality of the Movies Selected from Roger Ebert's GLOSSARY 1. LAWS of CARTOON THERMODYNAMICS 2. The Law of Asynchronous Sleep 3. Prison Dossier Rule 4. Bartlett's Law 5. Lukewarm Latte Rule 6. Morse Code Rules I & II 7.

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Artists unknown. If anyone can identify the creator(s) of these, please let me know so I can credit him/her/them...VIEW SLIDE SHOW

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At only 23 years old, Aya Kato seems set to develop into an extraordinary illustrator. Her style is clearly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, with definite overtones of Yoshitoshi and perhaps Hans Bellmer, but her own imagination shines through Check out her work

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Lots of great stuff. Many excellent images also...GO THERE>>

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This man's work is so wonderful that I have made a slideshow gallery of it.Roger Wood creates with time in mind. Yet even though the clock can be a consistent element of his work, it’s often secondary to its creation. Whether it’s a curious timepiece or a unique assemblage, Wood thrives on working with an immeasurable array of findings from the tarnished and forgotten to the odd or

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'Banksy' and his fine-art mayhem

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We Want Your Soul has been formed by a consortium of international companies - including leading financial and genetic research institutions - to create a product that gives you an actual CASH VALUE for your soul.

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#flickrWords .flickrImg { float: left; }Here's a site that enables you to write in images from FlickrTRY IT

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The London Underground map is perhaps the most iconographic symbol of London, appearing on everything from tea towels to boxer shorts to, well, London Underground maps. Designed in 1933 by Henry Beck, the map was a revolutionary view of subterranean London by presenting stations not in the awkward mass in which they actually sat, but in a tidy and easily readable, colour-coded grid. Thing of

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But one day the stuffed animals discovered a strange looking thing.THE STORY--

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from a haiku collaboration years ago with my friend Fuki The Full Collection.

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"The images seem to illustrate the information being presented in the audio track. Shots of Natasha and Lemmy are edited together and lit in such a way that they seem to disappear and reappear in a rhythm that mirrors the verbal pulse of the voiceover: ‘Light that goes…light that returns.’ A medium shot of Natasha is sustained in the visual track as ‘Oh beloved of all, beloved of one alone…your

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After years in Japan, I've only recently become interested in anime, having been introduced to it through the charming work of Miyazaki. Here's an article which is somewhat pessimistic about the future of anime:"Oshii is the godfather of a futuristic anime style called cyberpunk, and the synapses of anime fans are still quivering from his 'Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence,' released last year to

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津波救済金　　オーガニックレコードから３CDセットOrganic Records has produced an excellent 3 CD set of ambient and trance, all profit from which is to go to relief work for survivors of the Sumatra Tsunami.Listen to the samples, and you'll probably agree that it's well worth buying.Click on the map for a larger map with links to the playlist and samples.オーガニックレコードがアンビアント、トランスの３枚組の素敵なCDをプロデユースそれからの全利益はスマトラの津波の生存者の救済活動

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"It is 2005. Fear and paranoia and snide FCC crackdowns and what I shall henceforth call the New Trepidation rule the journalism schools and newspapers today." Mark Morford

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Lilek's Matchbook Museum: "A remnant of that temporary craze for Polynesian-Tibetan fusion cuisine. "

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Truly incredible! I got the images for this gallery from a posting in the Novelty-Lifeboat List, and don't yet know their origin. When I find out, I'll post the information.

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I've collected almost 200 of the best 3D artworks from the internet, and put them in the Computer Graphics section of the EarthlingZ Galleries. This selection is mostly in classic painterly style or photorealistic. Have a look !

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Has there been a better photographer than Andre Kertesz? I think not. But it's a question of taste, I suppose. In any case, do have a look at the new Kertesz Gallery I made on Earthlingz.net 

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An extraordinary map of Rome from a new EarthlingZ Gallery at EarthlingZ.net 

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You may think you've got this one mastered already, but chances are you'll change your tune, and your knotting style, after checking out Ian's Shoelace Site Highly recommended: The Ian Knot:   

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