Monthly Archives: November 2008

Unadopted Podcast Session 015 Out Now!

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It’s time for another collection of toetapping, headnodding nonsense! This is the first one I’ve recorded on Traktor Pro, as opposed to Traktor 3, too. Oh, and there’s a hidden message within the first two minutes… there’s a present in there for anyone who figures it out! But enough about that, get your noisemaker plugged in, turned up, and ready for this lot…

  1. Justice – DVNO (LA Riots Boogleg Remix)
  2. MGMT – Kids (Soulwax Remix)
  3. Foals – Electric Ballroom (Malente Remix)
  4. Infadels – Steady As She Goes
  5. The Hump Day Project – Daft Punk Mash Up
  6. Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Diplo Remix – Extended Version)
  7. Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vu (The House Moguls Rework)
  8. The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go (LAZRtag Remix)
  9. Photek – Love And War (LA Riots Remix)
  10. Digitalism – I Want I Want (LAZRtag Remix)

Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!

What would a depression look like in 2009?

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“Most of us, of course, think we know what a depression looks like. Open a history book and the images will be familiar: mobs at banks and lines at soup kitchens, stockbrokers in suits selling apples on the street, families piled with all their belongings into jalopies. Families scrimp on coffee and flour and sugar, rinsing off tinfoil to reuse it and re-mending their pants and dresses. A desperate government mobilizes legions of the unemployed to build bridges and airports, to blaze trails in national forests, to put on traveling plays and paint social-realist murals.

Today, however, whatever a depression would look like, that’s not it. We are separated from the 1930s by decades of profound economic, technological, and political change, and a modern landscape of scarcity would reflect that.

What, then, would we see instead? And how would we even know a depression had started?”
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A very interesting read…

Simon Pegg speaks out against zombies that run

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“I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can’t fly; zombies do not run. It’s a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.”
– Simon Pegg, The Guardian

I think it quite added to things like 28 Days Later, and the Resident Evil movies wouldn’t have been quite as action-movie as they were, but I have to agree. Bring back slow zombies!

Windows 7 is secretly Windows 6.1? The confusion begins!

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Microsoft has only just decided that the official name for Windows 7 is going to be “Windows 7″, and is already calling it something else.

“So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 – which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer properties.”
– Mike Nash, The Windows Blog 

Inspired, truly inspired.