Paris DJs have cooked up a simply awesome podcast with Turkish psychedelic folk funk. Available for your audial entertainment right here: www.parisdjs.com.
Selda feat. Kardaslar – Nem Kaldi
Mustafa Ozkent – Dolana Dolana
Cem Karaca Ve Apaslar – Gilgamis
Mavi Isiklar – Ask Çiçeçi
Ozdemir Erdogan Ve Orkestrasi – Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim
BariŞ Manço – Lambaya Püf De
Yabancilar – Ağıt
Selda – Yaylalar
Ali Atasagun – Ne ZormuŞ Unutmak (A Hard Day’s Night)
A highly relevant and just a tad distressing photo gallery from the BBC website shows how the world is changing, thanks to rapid global warming.
It makes you wonder about the human mind, and human behaviour.
People won’t take global warming seriously until they’ve experienced the effects personally. Until their house has been buried in a mudslip caused by excessive flooding, until the summer becomes so hot that it’s almost impossible to breathe, until raised sea levels cause entire cities to be wiped out.
I guess it’s embedded in human nature. We don’t fix things until they’re broken.
From the gallery:
More pests
Tree-eating wood beetles are likely to benefit from a warmer climate and reproduce in ever-increasing numbers.
These images show damage to White Spruce trees in Alaska caused by the pests.
Image: Gary Braasch ©
Best news of all week! Moller International are working on a skycar that holds big promise for the future of flying cars.
Quoted from the site:
The M200X volantor has completed over two hundred successful test flights. It has been extensively hard-tooled so that derivatives not requiring FAA certification are now available.
Recreational and utilitarian models include:
- Demonstrators for use over one’s own property (M200D)
- Versions that operate within ground effect–approximately 10 feet AGL (M200G)
- Experimental or homebuilt variants (M200E)
- Rescue configuration capable of docking with skyscrapers (Firefly 3)
Depending on the number of orders received the prices could vary between $125,000 for the M200G to $450,000 for the Firefly 3.
It looks like a jacuzzi made sweet, sweet love with a saucer and a vacuum cleaner. But damn, the thing can fly!
Stumbled upon Pacemaker - “The pocket size DJ system” - a while back. It’s an amazing portable audio player with DJ mixing and audio effects. Essentially all you need to cook up a mix on the fly.
It sports a 120GB hard drive, USB 2.0 support, a touchpad, and useful audio editing functionality like loop-in, loop-out, re-loop, cue point search.
Seems like the perfect tool for the DJ on the move. Or even a replacement for your iPod - the Pacemaker can play for up to 18 hours. And having the ability to connect to any stereo system for a spontaneous live mix is quite tempting!
It’s a gorgeous site as well. And, funnily enough, the color scheme is strikingly similar to flowerofcables.com. I can assure you that it’s purely coincidental. I finished the new design for flowerofcables.com way before hearing about the Pacemaker, and apparently Pacemaker was launched before the new design saw the light here on flowerofcables.com. Still, fascinating that we’ve chosen a similar approach towards the colors.
This mix by DJ eleven is full of just the kind of hip hop flavour that makes my head nod. Get it now!
Jay-Z – Where I’m From
M.O.P. – Welcome to Brownsville
Gang Starr – The Planet
The Notorious BIG – Warning
Jemini The Gifted One – Brooklyn Kids
Jeru The Damaja – Brooklyn Took It
Smif N Wessun – Bucktown
MC Lyte – Kickin’ 4 Brooklyn
Divine Force – Holy War
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Brooklyn Zoo
The Dead Crew – The Projects
Smif N Wessun – Home Sweet Home
Roy Ayers – We Live in Brooklyn
Mos Def – Brooklyn
Jay-Z feat. The Notorious BIG – Brooklyn’s Finest
Fabolous feat. Jay-Z & Uncle Murda – Brooklyn
Stetsasonic – Go Stetsa
Cutmaster D.C. – Brooklyn Rocks The Best
Divine Sounds – Do or Die Bed Stuy
Joell Ortiz feat. Big Daddy Kane – Brooklyn (remix)
Gang Starr – The Place Where We Dwell