Category Archives: music

Free Music

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2012

Regular readers may recall a post towards the end of last year celebrating the news of a new Apparatjik album to be released early in 2012. The good news is that the latest versions (draft 6) of the album tracks are now available for listenage and downloading on Facebook. It’s still got that 80′s electronica feel, [...]

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Pylons

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2012

All weddings should come with [several] Carling Black Labels, some Moer Coffee and a scary looking shooter or eight. It makes you lose your pre-conceptions and langarm to Kurt Darren. Wow – I said that like it was a good thing. Meh – it was fun evening: good food, good company, crap music. After yesterday’s [...]

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Pete has a point

By 6000 | 6000 | January 1, 2012

I am here: 34 48.878 S 19 56.390 E http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-34.8,19.93984 Piet se Punt – literally “Pete’s Point” – with just the crashing surf, a few Black Oystercatchers, the battling contrapuntal cello and piano of Ludovico Einaudi and the mad, mad wind for company. Still, this is summer and it’s still shorts and t-shirt weather. It’s [...]

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Blogging by other people

By 6000 | 6000 | December 27, 2011

This is great. While I’ve been out of the rhythm of writing blog posts and everyone else has been out of the rhythm of reading them, suggestions for blog posts have been coming in by email, facetube and twitter. It’s almost like you guys actually want me to write some stuff. Do ya miss me? [...]

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Anyone Can Play Guitar

By 6000 | 6000 | December 3, 2011

Although of course, it’s not strictly true that anyone can play guitar well. But I was reminded of this vintage Radiohead track this week and felt the need to share:   This was actually my first introduction to Radiohead, on a Parlophone (careful now) cassette tape given to us freshers in our first week at [...]

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