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]]>GIRL MONSTER VOLUME 1, IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF RE-WRITING MUSICAL HISTORY! The Triple CD compilation GIRL MONSTER Volume 1 on Chicks On Speed Records, celebrates the re-written history and future of womens creative audio outputs, to further invent and challenge the future of music and push the boundaries of sound and pop around the world!!! GIRL MONSTER tells a rich historical story, from the original girl monsters of punk and post punk to contemporary tricksters and electro-rock pranksters Female heroes of the late 70ies and early 80ies like The Slits, The Raincoats or Malaria! appear alongside contemporary classics like Björk, Le Tigre, Peaches or Chicks On Speed. But what sets the compilation apart from all the other compilations around the topic of Women and Music is that it is not just a collection of what everybody knows already, packaged under the misleading slogan of Women in Rock, instead this compilation creates a movement of its own, containing 2/3 EXCLUSIVE tracks, showcasing some of the finest (and mostly unreleased) tracks from a worldwide underground network of female musicians, even following in the tracks of some of the classics like Tina Weymouth (Tomtom Club/Talking Heads), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle), Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees), or Ana da Silva (The Raincoats) by featuring their latest productions. This specially priced and packaged 3 CD set contains 60 tracks, (of which 40 exclusively appear on Girl Monster), an 8-page Girl Monster Newspaper with exclusive texts by Lucy OBrien (author of the classic She-Bop), Shirley O'Loughlin (The Raincoats) and others. Designed by Chicks On Speed and Factor Product. The 3 CD set has a playing time of more than 3½ hours. Girl Monster was conceived by Alex Murray-Leslie from Chicks on Speed, and realised in conjunction with Anat Ben David and Chicks on Speed Records. Watch out for future volumes. CD ONE -|-> 01. Girl Monster Intro 02. Scream Club Vs. Ben Adorable Feat. Peaches - Fine As Fuck 03. Mignon - Demons Of Love 04. Le Tigre - Hot Topic 05. Barbara Morgenstern - Mountain Place 06. Angie Reed - G. G. (Gaudy Good) 07. Pam Hogg - Honeyland 08. Rhythm King And Her Friends - Speedometer 09. Hanin Elias - Get It Back 10. Kevin Blechdom - Me Saw Me Momma 11. Ana da Silva - Full Moon 12. Anat Ben David - Virtual Leisure 13. Sir Alice - Super Hero 14. Chicks On Speed - Plastic Surgery 15. Vivien Goldman - Launderette 16. Tina Weymouth - Incognito 17. Client - Down To The Underground 18. Kids On TV - Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix) 19. Boyskout - School Of Etiquette 20. Erase Errata Dust 21. No Bra - No Woman No Crime CD TWO -|-> 01. Pulsallama - Ungawa Pt. 2 (Way Out Guyana) Remix 02. The Slits - Typical Girls (Live) 03. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business 04. Cherry Sunkist - Nameless Dogs 05. Japanese Intelligence Mind Control - Get The Picture 06. Autonervous - Anchors Away 07. Cobra Killer - Mr. Chang 08. Planningtorock - Changes 09. Hanayo - Pita Pata 10. Björk - Storm 11. Tobi Vail - Panic Of The Square 12. Gustav - We Shall Overcome 13. Bonnie Vs. Hunter - Our Inventions 14. Françoise Cactus - You Cant Put Your Arms Around A Memory 15. LiliPUT - Die Matrosen 16. Katastrophe - Your Girlfriend 17. Lesbians On Ecstasy - Sedition 18. Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler - Sheets 19. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Licking The Juice CD THREE -|-> 01. Hotel Motel - Sucker Man 02. Gudrun Gut - Girl Boogie 03. The Creatures - Godzilla (Siouxsie And Budgies Girl Monster Mix) 04. Soffy O - Maybe A Dog 05. Ella Bandita - New Year's Eve 06. Las Perras Del Infierno - Somos las Perras 07. Juliette And The Licks - You're Speaking My Language 08. Miss Le Bomb - Pinkitan 09. Cat5 - Sexy 10. Robots In Disguise - Get RID! 11. People Like Us - Fom Fom 12. Michaela Melián - Manifesto 13. Susanne Brokesch - Heroes 14. Scream Club Vs. Leonard DeLeonard - International 15. Crystal Cookie - Crystal Cookie (Lesson 1) 16. Caro Snatch - Say Trees 17. Malaria! - Your Turn To Run 18. The Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud 19. Vivien Goldman w/ Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound - Seven Days 20. Ari Up - Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix) 21. Miss Pain - Sell It 2 The Kids (Megaphone) available from roughtrade.com
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William Murray has a very astute take in this weeks Business Week, astute - and rare. Why? Because most pundits and publishers want to believe that the explosion in User-Generated Content sharing is primarily the swapping of commercial content. But spend any amount of time on YouTube and you'll know that that isn't the case. User Content is of course of varying quality...
Harold Ramis has been caught talking about Ghostbusters 3 again, and this time it looks like he has an answer for the stubborn Bill Murray who continues to refuse to be involved. They might actually be considering Ben Stiller for the movie, and could that mean a Murray replacement?
But then a disgruntled employee at a laboratory in the north of England gave him the lowdown. “He talked me through the industry,” says Murray Wells. “And it turned out that my £150 pair of glasses probably only cost about seven pounds to make.”
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Bingo: A whole journal issue on videogames Thursday, February 09 2006 Articles It's REALLY frustrating when you cannot get access to articles online. If you do game research, you know what I am talking about. I don't want to go into rant mode but let me just say: whenever you can, put the pdf online. I just accidentally run into a pdf version of the International Digital Media & Arts Association Journal, published on Spring 2005. It's dedicated in full to videogames and includes articles by such people as Chris Crawford, Janet Murray, Espen Aarseth, James Gee, Ian Bogost, Michael Mateas and many more. Stuff I haven't read by people I care. On a pdf file. Downloadable. Free for everybody. All over the world. This is great. This makes me happy. I actually may put down Animal Crossing DS just to take a look at this pdf. I am happy indeed.
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