1000 plays of the same racing game layered over each other.
Cars like liquid. Beautiful.
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An animated wall by Blu
So so cool.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
It was serendipity.
Here I was in Taiwan for my final night and Kerrii emails me a restaurant review from that morning’s Sydney Morning Herald. It described a Japanese/Taiwanese restaurant high up in the mountains an hour out of central Taipei where the food reached the high standard of Tetsuya Wakuda yet cost a fraction of the price.
Armed with the address and phone number I quickly found my Taiwanese friend and host, Ilya, and gathered a group of the digital heritage folks who I was conferencing with. Ilya had never heard of the place but called the number and booked two tables, then rang the hotel and booked a minibus to take us there.
We drove through peak hour traffic singing along to what must have been the worst karaoke machine ever – an in-car karaoke running Linux and twisting a very small subset of the ‘international karaoke canon’ into squeaky MIDI files accompanied by soft-porn videos.
Situated in a wonderful Japanese-style house, the meal opened with an exquisite red wine jelly followed by handmade tofu with wasabi, pinenuts, lime and strawberry. The presentation was stunning and the taste combinations sublime. We moved on to a scallop and miso broth and an delicious sashimi salad. This was followed by another palate cleanser – and possibly the most unique taste of the night – date vinegar. tasting a little like umeshu (Japanese plum wine) it had a subtle smokey aftertaste. After a short pause a chicken broth with a separate sweetcorn broth appeared – possibly the most familiar of tastes. Then it was on to a green watercress chowder in which floated ‘fried soup’ – a cube with the texture of tofu which was in fact a cube of a thicker soup wrapped in a light batter. A tempura-style vegetable and prawn platter appeared with the some particularly delicious tempura-style purple eggplant then on to a mulberry wine palette cleanser. By this time we were expecting desserts but out came a ‘fried rice with fish roe’ dish infused with tiny shiitake mushrooms, and the ‘main course finale’ – a chicken and vegetable soup on top of which a lotus flower opened and blossomed with the rising heat. Desert finally came in the form of a light fruit platter and a sweet potato in ginger and brown sugar dish.
The tastes were delightful and the experience would rate in my top 5 restaurants. We were shocked to get the bill – AU$35 per head!
Wow.
We talked to the chef and showed him the review from the Herald. He was delighted and modest – Da Shan Wu Jia is one of Taipei’s best kept secrets.
Finally I’m putting this online.
I took this photo at the Tsukiji Fish Markets in Tokyo when I was there in 2005 with HC11 and friends.
We didn’t buy a packet. Not even for “scientific research purposes”.
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Unsafe expressions
I was sent an Access database to do some things with at work today and this lovely message popped up.
I immediately started looking for the “OF COURSE NOT” button.
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Borat-ronica?
Yes . . . we have received our first ever promo CD from Kazakhstan.
A review will be coming soon over at Cyclic Defrost . . .
I love the Kazpost logo . . . it implies a swiftness of delivery – which three weeks airmail certainly is not.
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General Pants does banking
OK, so I ring my bank and they have this ‘new’ and ‘funky’ automatic voice.
If I wanted to bank with General Pants then I would.
Try it. Dial 13 17 18. And listen.
Then vomit.
(charges apply)
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Hot Chip remix Matthew Dear
“I’ve been sending you signals, the signals have never been seen, I’ve been writing you letters, but those letters never leave me . . . oooooooooooh, oooooooooooh”
Ahhhh sometimes there are songs that immediately strike a chord and this week has had two of them – first there was Animal Collective’s riotous Peacebone and now this which landed in my advance promo box yesterday . . . . the Hot Chip remix of Matthew Dear’s Don & Sherri is just, well, lovely. The original was, in comparison, clunky. Like most Hot Chip remixes it is a ‘cover’ with the lyrics resung – it is now rendered just so melancholy and, if I lived in the northern hemisphere it would remind me that Autumn had just started.
It is out in October.
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Deepchord/Echospace
Like many I’ve been revisiting a lot of Chain Reaction/Basic Channel minimal dub techno over the past few months and have been really exctied about the recent releases by Rod Modell and friends.
Ron Schepper has done up a splendid Q&A over at Textura.
Scrolling right to the very bottom you’ll find their favourite records and there are some interesting and slightly unexpected choices there . . .
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Limpet last night
Ahh that was a fun set last night – even if the bassbin kept dropping out. Limpet is a monthly night at the Lord Raglan organised by former Undercurrents and Couchblip folk, it is pretty eclectic and had a pretty good turnout.
Here’s what we played in our one hour set. Kind of 2008 back to 1988, dubstep to acid house. I’m feeling the time might be right to do another flashback set somewhere.
Bob Leftsetz – Comments on the State of Music
Rhythm & Sound – Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig remix)
T++ – Allied
2562 – Channel Two
Kode 9 – Magnetic City
Mala – Lean Forward
Aaron Spectre – Say More Fire
Skream & Cluekid – Sandsnake
Appleblim – Fear
The Others – Hear Dis Style
The Art of Noise – Moments In Love (Caspa remix)
Skynet – Time on Earth
Vista – Gameboy Dub
Prince Fatty vs Moody Boyz – Milk & Honey (Moody Boyz remix)
Random Trio – Press Button (Cyrus Steppers version)
Massive Music – Find My Way (Kode 9 remix)
Benga – Wobblers
Aaron Spectre – Music is the Weapon
Addis Posse – Let the Warriors Dance
The Ace of Clubs – Classid One
Jahcoozi – BLN
Neil Landstrumm – Kids Wake Up
D-Mob – We Call It Acieed (The Matey mix)
N-Joi – Rhythm Zone
Hithouse – Jack To The Sound of the Underground
808 State – Pacific State
S’Express – Superfly Guy