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Weird spam…

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The Bachelor Party for Andrew Lochhead: All Girl DJs

So you’ve been dragged to lame bachelor parties before out in the suburbs featuring bored girls reluctantly jiggling their hormonally-induced womanly parts to 90s-era rock and overplayed hiphop, and you’ve thought to your enlightened self, “there must be a better sort of bachelor party–one that fully appreciates the hard work of talented women who not only love quality electronic music, but have dedicated their lives to sharing their passion for it in an environment that…

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Interview with Craig Anderton on the Moog foundation and his Moog pack for Cakewalk’s Rapture

Craig Anderton created The Minimoog Tribute, an affordable expansion pack for Cakewalk’s Rapture and Rapture LE synths that “covers” the classic sounds rather than duplicates them, using his personal Minimoog. I interviewed him for CDM at NAMM and discovered that a portion of the proceeds from sales of The Minimoog Tribute go towards the Moog Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to preserving the personal archive of Bob Moog. It’s not just a collection of personal…

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Free mix: Digitonal: "Soundtrack of Space"

Download here: GigaSize (requires registration) Tracklisting: * B12 – Soundtrack of Space * Future Sound of London – Ill Flower * Alexei Zakharov – Peace 3 (X3: Reunion) * Future Sound of London – Everyone in the world is doing something without me * Low Profile Society – Example 10 * Vangelis – Rachel’s Song * Global Communication – 14.31 * The Black Dog – 18 4 3s 555 [Part 2] * Yasume – Rengoku…

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Derek Michael, Kill Memory Crash at Debonair with Liz Revision

Detroit and electro are both influences on Derek Michael and Kill Memory Crash who will perform at Ramp Chicago’s night in the basement of Debonair Social Club on April 24. Derek Michael rips apart techno and reconfigures it in unexpected and ways, either shattering it apart into IDM, building schaeffel grooves, or dropping electro bombs—all on demand with Ableton Live. Similarly Kill Memory Crash creates a sinister blend of industrial, glitched-out electro, and ambient influenced…

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Debonair Mix 02-28-08

[Liz Revision with Kero at Debonair 02-28-08] 1. Dimitri Debaka: “Happiness” Happiness [Time Has Changed] 2. Mason: “Quarter – The Subs Remix” Quarter [Great Stuff] 3. Dandi & Ugo, Piatto: “Cicchetti” Bored in Winter [Italo Business] 4. Three Drives: “Greece 2000 – Gustavo Bravetti Remix” Greece 2000 – The Wasted Reworks [Wasted] 5. Jeff Samuel: “Lost” Lost [Trapez] 6. Bastian Knop: “Skip This” Skip This / Flirtline [OWLintim] 7. Gui Boratto: “Beautiful Life” Chromophobia Remixe…

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Liz featured on the cover of the RedEye

PDF Version I’m featured on the cover of the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye today–it’s a free magazine for a feature about geek girls, and especially those in Chicago. “Geek Chic: New generation of women embracing inner geek” [via the RedEye] If dissassembling computers is geeky and making jewelry is girly, then Liz McLean Knight has found geek-girl nirvana. From her Wicker Park office, Knight, 30, runs a line of accessories make from computer components and sells…

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Win a Tenori-On: Enter the Futuristic Music Design Challenge

During Yuri’s Night in San Francisco you will have the opportunity to win a Tenori-On if you can create the most futuristic digital music interface / instrument (PS: The lineup is a veritable who’s who of contemporary, forward thinking electronic musicians: Amon Tobin, Tipper, John Tejada, Lusine, Scuba, Digitonal vs. Posthuman, [a]pendics.shuffle, Deru, Tycho, Mr. Projectile, Dr. Toast and Ganucheau). Musicians have led many of the most innovative digital technological breakthroughs — the first digital…

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