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1. aux 88:
   He is a Detroit Techno artist, one of the many I keep an eye on. Detroit has a long history of electronic music,
   sometimes known as "Techno Soul", but mostly as "Detroit Techno". Detroit Techno was born in the mid-80's, and while America
   was rocking out, the Europeans got hip to the Detroit style, and made their own version. And the sound came back to America
   from 1990 onward, and we had Techno all over the place. This proves once again that "no one is a prophet is one's own land".
   There are many other Detroit Techno artists in my interest list. One of the most famous is Carl Craig. Start there and explore outward...


2. casino vs japan:
   Another American techno artist, this one from the Midwest. If you've seen the Hummer H2
   TV commercial with a sort of dreamy electronic soundtrack and a little girl's voice saying "it's very sunny" and
   "they have a lot of pineapples there", you've heard Casino Vs Japan. This how I discovered this artist.
   His sound is a bit repetitive at times, but some of his tracks are pretty cool.


3. devo:
   Ah, Devo. Let's go back to 1979. My brother came home with new vinyl and shoved a copy of "Are We Not Men?
   We Are Devo!" in my hands, saying "this stuff is totally crazy! You're gonna love it!". And, yeah, he was right.
   Later, when I bought my first cassette with my own money, I bought "Freedom Of Choice". Now, I have all their albums on CD.
   And yes, I sprang for the Japanese CDs of "Duty Now For The Future" and "Oh No! It's Devo", because those idiots at Warner Bros
   would not release them domestically. Thankfully, Jason Rubin and Henry Rollins created a label called Infinite Zero and released
   all the missing Devo albums on CD, along with other older neat stuff that other labels would not release.
   I love Devo.


4. firearms:
   My dad had some, I grew up around them. He had some nice Winchester rifles and I dearly wished
   I had gotten one of them. Later, after moving to the US, I bought my first gun. It was a Calico .22 rifle with metal stock.
   It looked like a Mobile Suit Gundam rifle. I loved it. I purchased a couple more guns after that.
   I'm interested in the technology and the design of firearms, from pistols all the way up to naval batteries.
   I wish more people understood the responsibilities entailed in owning a gun.
   But, seeing how well some of them drive, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that they're so careless.


5. information society:
   "Pure energy".
   "These self-confessed TV addicts..."
   "All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."
   "A knife and a fork, a bottle and a cork, that's the way we spell 'New York'!"
   "If you want to believe in something, believe in us and we'll make it easy."
   "She wore mirrorshades..."
   "Hey, we don't take no shit from a machine, a machine, a m-m-m-m-m-machiiiiiine..."
   Information Society is just this band, you know?


6. laserdiscs:
   It's 1995. You have money. You want movies to watch at home. You want CD-quality sound and a great picture.
   What do you do?!!?
   You buy a laserdisc player and build a library of laserdiscs (LDs) of course!
   And that's what I did. LDs are cool. They're not compressed, they have great sound, and where else can you got the original
   Star Wars trilogy in all its glorious "Greedo shoots first" glory!??! LDs, baby! So they don't have subtitles. Big deal!


7. p-funk:
   "Make my funk the P-Funk, I want to get funked up."
   Parliament-Funkadelic, aka P-Funk, is the brand of cosmic funk invented by one George Clinton, a seriously hip and groovy dude.
   Do you want the funk?


8. ratchet and clank:
   The dynamic duo of the PlayStation 2.
   Ratchet, the fuzzy guy with the big ears and the mechanical inclination. Clank, the diminutive and debonair robot sidekick.
   From the people who brought you Spyro The Dragon, Insomniac Games.
   The first three Ratchet And Clank games are some of the finest platform shooters you'll find anywhere.
   Aside from plenty of weapons with customizable features, there is also humor and wit to spare, along with interesting character and world design.
   Recommended fun!


9. techno:
   Techno is a small word that encompasses so many styles.
   There is a man out there who put together an amazingly complete and exhaustive guide to electronic music. His name is Ishkur.
   This is his guide.
   It contains a metric tonne of samples and it's a great way to gauge which styles you might be interested in. Check it out.


10. wipeout:
    First glimpsed in the movie "Hackers", being played on a very big screen in a nightclub scene,
    Wipeout is a series of futuristic racing games born from the legendary Psygnosis game design studio.
    The concept is simple: high-speed antigrav race ships ("sleds") compete on various purpose-built tracks all over the world.
    Weapons are single-use and disposable, as well as random.
    The original Wipeout hit on the original PlayStation and garnered rave reviews, though it was pretty hard.
    The sequel, WipEout XL (WipEout 2056 in Europe) smoothed out the difficulty curve and was improved in so
    many ways that it is considered the best version on the PSX, even better than Wip3out which followed it. The WipEout XL soundtrack contained the cream of the crop of the electronic music scene circa 1996 and still serves as a perfect
    Techno primer today. Future Sound Of London, The Prodigy, Photek, Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, and others.
    WipEout XL also boasted art direction by The Designers Republic, a UK design house famed for its futuristic album and CD covers,
    and signature icon-driven hi-tech look. Never before had videogame, graphic design and music merged in such a perfect way.
    Alas, since then the series had to suffer a lackluster PS2 version that felt half-finished (Wipeout Fusion).
    Things are rosier these day though, as Wipeout Pure on the PlayStation Portable (PSP) is helping to restore the Anti-Gravity
    Racing League to its former glory. Here's hoping for a possible Wipeout release on PlayStation 3!

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