Xavier Defrang

Awesome collection of 300+ old school house and rave tracks.

Bonus: a whole bunch of video of UK raves from the early 90ies.

Awesome 27 minutes long interview with the late James Stinson of Drexciya, recorded a few months before he passed away. This was his first and last radio interview and it's like he knew it.

If you ever talked face to face with a computer or if you just want to take a stroll down the memory lane with some anonymous heroes, I highly recommend you to take a look at Halcyon Days, a collection of interviews with bytes counting and cycles saving übercoders from the golden age of videogaming.

Legendary drummer Max Roach has passed away. He was one of my favorite musician.

It's not like I'm a big fan of all the works of the late Jeff Buckley but this song is dangerously close to what I'd call the perfect contained rage melancholic folk song...

That manic depressive chorus is nothing short of amazing...

What is it when you buy a house away from the city and spend a saturday morning working in your garage, listening to that 10 years old Aphex Twin tape forgotten in that radio cassette recorder you haven't used for years?

Is it what they call growing up? Or is it growing old? Whatever, it was fun...

It's been almost 4 long years already...

Following up on my post on dystopian music video, here is a short selection of clips from dark futuristic video games (mainly from the 90's).

• Syndicate cinematic introduction and some gameplay
• The sequel, Syndicate Wars, sucked about as much as its cinematic introduction
• Introduction of Beneath a Steel Sky (now free and works great in ScummVM)
• Origin's System Shock. Never liked the game but pretty descent cinematic for that time.
• Fantastic 16-bit aesthetics: Snatcher
• Cheesy montage from the Blade Runner adventure game
• Intro movie to the original Command & Conquer
• Last but not least, simply the best dystopian game ever: Dreamweb (that music is killing me)

Missing in the selection : Bloodnet, Fade to Black, Flashback, Subwar 2050, ...

The Wannadies - Hit (1997)

Plopbox is an online oldschool music jukebox. Cute little player that reminds me of fullscreen modes in good old DOS MOD players, too bad it breaks when you switch tabs (in Safari at least).