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f e a t u r e s: Big Music Issue!! October 08

Music 1 - The Autons are an electro punk band from Portsmouth, UK who will be performing and launching their new album at Bleepfest Paris on Nov 8 and 9. Interview

Music 2 - Assemblage 23 is an Industrial/EMO act out of Seattle recently moved from Philadelphia. Michael Powell has a chat. Interview

Music 3 - Bill Hsu is an associate professor in Computer Science at San Francisco State. He's also a keen performer of Free Improv music using a Wacom tablet and Max/MSP. Interview

Hardware - The list is getting quite long of auto makers offerring hybrid power - electricity and gas - models. Here we have a look at the Lexus 600hL, their top of the line car. Report

Games - We go along to the second biggest video games fair in the world, the Leipzig Games Convention, for six halls full of stuff and wonder whether the Germans are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot. Report

Music - Podcast! Assemblage 23 - See interview above. Podcast

More Music - Monthly Video Picks This month's pick is ... a Kraftwek track with a video even more retro than they already are! Videos

Music - Pop/dance Thunderfinger has a look at the nature of performance, phoniness, and wonders whether he should lighten up. Commentary

Music - Classical Baron K looks at two DVD's - Handel's Messiah and Hayden's The Creation.. Commentary

Books - Discs for a Desert Island (and perhaps writing too), Madonna, Le Dossier Reviews

Recent:
Zweizz - black metal and noise, Inline Skating, Air traffic - the band, Linuxtag 08, Software Synths review, Alexie Borisov, LA duo, The Pity Party, Nokia 770 update, My New Mac - book excerpt, Paris travel, Scooters!, Fashion: Alexandra Groover, The Crane, Earphones, Flying Lizard and the arts, London Travel, An American chanteuse in Berlin, B & B in Woodstock, NY, Boss Micro BR recorder, Das Park Hotel, Austria, Clinic Interview

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Hope you had a good Christmas break! We did a little cleaning up as well as adding a "Post to Digg" etc item at the bottom of most pages.

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