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Richard Harvey – A New Way of Seeing
A New Way of Seeing was created by Richard Harvey for ICL for the launch of a new series of computers in 1979. Since it was only released to ICL dealers and their clients, it’s not widely known. This is a shame, as it’s a delicious slice of electro-prog.
So here it is: A New Way of Seeing – Richard Harvey (mp3).
Quality’s not great, ‘cos the audio’s ganked from this YouTube video. Seeing as ICL is long gone, this is probably the best we’ll have to live with.
pdf qsl cards for all!
I’m right chuffed that people have started sending me PDF QSL cards in return. Here are just a few samples:
(Okay, so Federico’s was a JPEG; near enough …)
Thanks to all who sent them.
mildly impressed by shazam (and soundhound)
I’m a late adopter of Shazam, which is a semi-magic music recognition service. I just gave it a ten song shuffle from my collection.
Shazam matched:
- LLL — Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
- Puppet Master — Marissa Nadler
- He Woke Me Up Again — Sufjan Stevens
- At The Bottom Of Everything — Bright Eyes
- Derelict — Beck
Shazam found no match for:
- Religious Songs — Withered Hand
- Caney Fork River — Old Man Luedecke
- Appetite — Mount Eerie
- Setting Forth — Flashman
Shazam was completely wrong about:
- Reuben — Rafe Stefanini, which it thought was Sure The One You Need — Ron Wood.
So: 50% hit rate, 50% miss — and one false positive. Adequate.
Karl recommended I try SoundHound. It matched:
- LLL — Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
- He Woke Me Up Again — Sufjan Stevens
- Religious Songs — Withered Hand
- Caney Fork River — Old Man Luedecke
- At The Bottom Of Everything — Bright Eyes
- Derelict — Beck
Soundhound didn’t match:
- Puppet Master — Marissa Nadler
- Reuben — Rafe Stefanini
- Appetite — Mount Eerie
- Setting Forth — Flashman
So it knew about Withered Hand and Old Man Luedecke, but didn’t know about Marissa. About the same; maybe slightly better.
MetaFilter 2012-1 Music Swap
It’s music swap time on MetaFilter. Here’s what I chose:
- Mobius Smurf — Nichol Robertson
- Unyoked Oxen Turn — Alasdair Roberts
- Is She Fiona — The Gerbils
- The Sloth — Flanders and Swann
- Morphine — Clifton Hicks
- Please Be Kind (demo) — Colleen and Paul
- Running on Fumes — King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
- Alcoholic Blues — Sheesham and Lotus
- Four Horses — Ken Reaume
- Hypernuit — Bertrand Belin
- Ran So Hard The Sun Went Down — Otis Taylor
- Freeing Song by Reindeer — The Music Tapes
- Wrapped In Grey — XTC
- Tengo La Voz — Bostich
- Singing to the Earth (to thank Her for You) — Apollo Sunshine
- Flop Eared Mule — Holy Modal Rounders
- The Speed of Things — Robyn Hitchcock
- Olivia — BGM
- Yawns — Frightened Rabbit
- No Cigarettes — Withered Hand
- Ficelles — Ingrid St-Pierre
It’s here on Spotify: MeFi Swap 2012-1.
and now only two
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kalimba at Pape, 15 Dec 2011, 18:16
I think his name is Achilla Orru, and I’ve heard him twice before.
Colorado
One’s a meal
I’d been to Conway’s Red Top before, about a decade ago. It was just as good as I remember it.
End of Movember
Thanks to my donors, my stonkingly ill-advised facial hair raised over $1000 for men’s health and prostate cancer research at Movember.
before
after
Man, it feels strange to shave again. Especially on my chin, which hasn’t seen sunlight since around 2003.