TAG: Privacy

Jun25

Daft Punk Interview :: No Faces, No Tour, No Limits

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter is interviewed in a new issue of art magazine Whitewall , the first interview given by the duo in the two years since their pyramid live show ended it retina burning run. Bangalter talks about art and technology—but if there’s a new project in the works, he’s not talking. One continuing theme however is collaboration.

Speaking about the duo’s longstanding faceless persona, Bangalter reveals it has as much to do with the rise of a certain generation of video directors as it did the duo’s need for privacy:

WW: Was there a point when you decided your identities had to drop out of the picture?
TB: Now it seems like a normal thing to have music videos without the performers, but 10 years ago that was very uncommon. And I remember where …

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Jun08

Pirates Gain Parliment Seat in the EU

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Sweden’s Pirate Party (Google Translation) has won a seat in the European Parliment in elections held on Sunday. The group—which ran on a platform “to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens’ rights to privacy are respected.”—earned a 7% vote.

This is a massive coup for the group, who earned only .63% of the vote in Sweden’s 2006 elections. They gained traction through active participation in a number of high-profile debates about Internet Freedom and privacy, including a case against the bittorrent site The Pirate Bay, which found one of the founders Twittering from the courtroom.

Such utilization of up-to-date technology, along with the tidal shift in voter demographics in Sweden (and elsewhere in Europe) may indicate that a time for a reasoned and rational discussion …

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Jan27

Telefon Tel Aviv’s Charlie Cooper RIP

So sad, so so sad to have to report this, but one half of brilliant Chicago-based Telefon Tel Aviv, Charlie Cooper, passed away five days ago. Sad this is because I had the pleasure of working with a 2007 remix compilation by the duo and through them became absolutley obessed with Apparat (the boys had given devine treatment to the track Komponent, HIGHLY recommended!), Ellen Alien, and a whole brilliant world of minimal tech that is arrising today. Sad this is because ‘Immolate Yourself’, the band’s 2009 LP, basically is a masterpiece, really just a stunning record I wish everyone could hear and feel. Highly appropo it is I suppose that at 31 Cooper would leave such a timeless piece of work to enjoy.

Having basically become to sad to speak at this point, I encourage each …

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Aug26

Dr. Dre’s Son, Andre Young Jr. found dead.

The 20 year old son of hip hop legend Dr. Dre was found dead in his Woodland Hills home on Saturday morning. According to reports, Andre Young Jr. had gone out the previous night and arrived home around 5:30 a.m. His mother would later find him dead at around 10:00 a.m. when she tried to wake him up. The cause of death will be revealed after an autopsy and toxicology report is released.

Dre’s rep released the follwing statement: ” Dre Dre is mourning the loss of his son Andre young Jr. Please respect his family’s grief and privacy at this time”

One more very important thing to note. In doing research I found that various music and news blogs have been posting images and falsely reporting the death of Dre’s other son/rapper, Curtis Young, aka …

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Feb22

Privacy – Poem From Cummings (Review)

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Poem From Cummings

Released by Marriage


How can something this simple be so, so great while so many suckers just miss the boat completely? Privacy's Laurel Knapp has a tremendous singing voice and she knows a couple of guitar chords and apparently that is enough to be completely hypnotizing.
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