For years. Jack White has been harping about the sorry state of the music industry and how the internet is making music disposable and how there’s no mystery anymore. Now, he’s trying to remedy the situation from the inside out with his label, Third Man Records.

Along with putting out Jack-approved music, the imprint has set up a subscription service— dubbed the Vault— to provide fans with exclusive vinyl releases and web content.

Via Pitchfork…

www.thirdmanrecords.com/

New Gold Panda release: Quitters Raga 7” - August 3rd

A: Quitters Raga
B: Fuck 5th Ave
Police (digital track only)

Hailing from Chelmsford in Essex, but a resident of East London for some time now, Gold Panda started writing beats and collaborating a few years ago, working with the likes of Infinite Livez and Shuttle (both Ninja Tune) as well as creating his own material.
Having spent downtime behind the counters of various establishments of ill repute – finding out that record stores and adult stores are no less seedier than each other, he consolidated the rest of his hours creating archives of electronic music; each track different from the other, incorporating multitudes of styles and disparate influences and obscure samples and base material. Having sated the need to create these volumes of material, he poked his head into the world by way of a collection of instantaneously raved-about remixes, that quickly found the interested of various labels, blogs and taste makers, leading to requests for him to re-edit the likes of Little Boots, Telepathe, Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco and even lounge-tronica act Zero 7.

In the meantime, Gold Panda began culling his back-archive of material for a series of low key releases: this one, on Make Mine is the second such, following on from a 12” on Various to be released to the world in June this year. Now having essentially cleared the decks (bar the 100+ tracks that may one day creep into the open as he sees fit), 2009 will see Gold Panda pushing on and consolidating his quickly burgeoning reputation as one of the brightest names in the electronic scene.

What does it sound like? One writer claimed that: “He intuitively mixes lop sided, chopped up hip hop style beats with a gorgeous refined melodic techno sensibility creating a fresh cross genre sound that’s distinct and accomplished.” Which sounds pretty good, so let’s go with that.

The music on this 7” is influenced by a year spent living in Japan, as well as B movies on vhs video, minimal techno and hip hop, and all these influences bleed into his sound. An avowed lover of Japanese culture and it’s lifestyle, Gold Panda spend two years at the renowned School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) learning to read and write Japanese. He plans to return to Japan later this year to continue writing more material, as well as playing out his material as he takes his live show far afield from the flat in Hoxditch where it was created. With new material, live shows and ultimately a defining long-player to come, the next 12 months should be hugely fruitful in the immersive world of Gold Panda.

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To observe the thirtieth birthday of the Sony Walkman, BBC News Magazine persuaded a thirteen year old iPod user—reared with the coddling comforts of touchscreens and 10,000 song playlists—to trade his player in for its stark ancestor. The piece is an interesting examination of not simply the obvious changes in industrial design and device function since the late 70s, but the ease with which we’ve taken these changes for granted.

read the rest of the article via PSFK

joelaz:

Flickr Mobile Nearby Photos

Flickr just launched a feature for their mobile site (m.flickr.com) that let’s iPhone (and Android) users see photos taken nearby their current location.  This is interesting for a couple reasons…

1. Flickr can access your phone’s GPS location data through the regular Safari iPhone web browser instead of requiring a special app.
2. Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo!, is using Google Maps on their mobile site :)

You need the latest iPhone 3.0 software installed to see the nearby photos.

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Various - Radio 1’s Huw Stephens DIY label of the week and more talk with the Gold Panda

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Interview with AI Records (Artificial Life) - focusing on beautiful vinyl (and sometimes CD releases) and minimal techno.

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lilbumps:

wonderful. plenty out there. Click through to the originators Flickr.

yvynyl:

Music Glue - The Band Is The Brand

Silverclub manager @Doheny was telling me about these guys the other day. Very intestesting