Category: music
Rough Trade’s East End Flagship Store
I(Chris) have not visited London for many years, and while visiting during the Olympics, we heard a lot about the Spitalfields markets. So one morning we decided to check it out. This area of East London felt quite different from what I was expecting. The Spitalfields markets contain a new and an old section. We
Electron Festival 2012, Geneva
Electron is a four-day festival that ran from April 5 to April 8, spanning the Easter weekend of 2012. Below is this year’s poster – the city in the background is Geneva. It is an annual electronic cultures festival that included workshops, contemporary art exhibits, concerts, conferences and parties. These events took place at various
Memories of blue – Vangelis
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcYcPvnZRMQ&w=510&h=412] Another piece by Vangelis which is much warmer than and very mainstream when compared to the earlier posted Memories of Green – the piece that was used in the movie Blade Runner. Other than the “Memories” in the titles, I do not know the connection between these two pieces, if any. It could have been
Classic Electronics: Oxygène IV – Jean-Michel Jarre (1977)
Click on the cover to start listening to Oxygène IV. Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre is one of my all-time favorite album. I heard Part IV first on the British singles chart in 1977, and made me a fan of electronic instrumental music. The album has 6 tracks, named by numbers sequentially, and can be