I reached 1 milestone: 8500 commentsI'm close to another:998 Days On MOGAccordingly here are some stats from my pocket calculatorComments per day:8.51Post Frequency: 1 per every 2.68 DaysThat is all, thank you
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Travel back in time with another exciting adventure of The Best Cuts of Music! Hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser have some uncomfortable realizations about their predicament of being in the 70's and are given a task from their mysterious benefactor to change the course of history. Jokes abound and cultures collide as they continue their romp through time and space. What misadventures will the intr...
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Unless you live in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Germany this Radiohead story will probably just annoy you. Thom Yorke and co. are "heading back out on an early spring tour":http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/radiohead-snags-kraftwerk-for-spring-shows-1003926634.story which will hit up spots all over Latin America. If Radiohead wasn't enough to get your money's worth, the band has recruit...
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The BBC is currently working in partnership with Music Brainz - the world's largest public domain music database, which currently lists 8 million tracks by half a million different artists. The eventual goal is to create and maintain an artist page for every performer whose music is played on BBC radio and television. The front end for this hugely ambitious project is already up and running at ...
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...I've been listening to a lot of Kraftwerk lately while working at home and I'm loving every minute of it...formed in the late 60s, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter got together while attending music classes in Dusseldorf and formed their band which means "power station" in German...these cats started dropping electronic bombs way back in the 70s and had a tangential hand at forming the earl..
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Kraftwerk live in Stockholm - photo: Andréas HagströmTo coincide with the 35th anniversary of the electro classic Autobahn all eight Kraftwerk albums are released in various formats, most notably as eight disc box set named 12345678 The Catalogue. Kraftwerk have upgraded their Kling Klang masters with the latest studio technology. The box set will be distributed in two versions, with English-la.
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Kraftwerk offered up a free download of their song "Radioactivity" for Stop-Rokkasho.org, a rare live version recorded in Warsaw. The Stop-Rokkasho organization is working to disrupt or hinder the reprocessing, storage and disposal of nuclear waste near Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture Japan and around the world. The group hopes to draw attention to their cause by enlisting support from the music co...
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Kraftwerk have embodied the robot spirit in sound and longevity and it has fueled their musical careers for 35 years. The German quartet that pioneered not only electronica but their own Doepfer sequencer announced a few shows in the US leading up to their Coachella performance. Only 3 dates have been reported thus far - Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Denver.April:19 Minneapolis, MN - Myth20 Mil...
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...Micki and most of my trusteds already know that I'm all over "*Kraftwerk's body of electronica*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/36263 ...I like to check them when I'm writing pieces or kicking it around the house, like right now...I don't know how those guys found all of that e-funkiness inside their oscillators but maybe I don't really need to...right now I'm kicking back with a little...
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Metal, New Wave, Electronica . . . Wednesday has sort of taken on a wierd life of its own here in MOGville, so I decided today was as good a day as any to post this.I have been listening to a serious amount of Kraftwerk lately. Early and later stuff. One song that has been a particularly huge hit around my house has been "The Robots." My 3 year old and 5 year old love this song and beg me to...
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As the landscape of the industry continues to change, musicians have shown they no longer need record companies to survive or sell their music. Now we can see the industry no longer needs musicians. Check out this example of machines doing it for themselves;Of course you have got to give them the basics first, but once they are shown the ropes they knock out those tricky solos again and again w...
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Those of you who have written about your love for the bio-chemistry experiment known as the Tour De France might be interested to see a photo tour of the "Trek bike factory.":http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/08/my-visit-to-tre.htmlIt's a fascinating tour of how high-tech bikes get made, with a lot of photos of Lance Armstrong's Tour bikes, plus that of Greg Le Monde. If this photo turns you on,...
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...If you've ever thought about picking up another language but don't have the time for all the classes, schlepping around, let me pull your coat on something that I think will be right up your alley...I've been studying German for the last couple of months and after exploring several different means of study and looking around at the stuff available at the iTunes store, I've found the languag...
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...I've been checking a little Kraftwerk this morning while doing my thing and came across a cut that really gets the typing juices flowing: "Tour de France"...I'd mentioned in a Championship Mog entitled "*Hip Hop’s Brothers from Another Mother*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/36263 that "*the Duo from Düsseldorf*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk had inspired Greg Broussard's Hip
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Score!I just won Kraftwerk's Autobahn on vinyl from E-bay, and I'm pretty stoked. This is my first Kraftwerk purchase, but I've heard a bit from both their later period and earlier, when they wre more jam-oriented and noisy. Anyway, can't wait to listen to it!
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