Unlike Daft Punk’s Human After All, the title of which turned out purposely misleading, Ladytron’s latest record is definitely more human than their previous works.

Cette deuxième nouvelle a été écrite pour le concours de nouvelles du Flash Informatique, un magazine local édité à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Les règles imposaient la durée du texte, ainsi que sa dernière phrase. Salon de nuit a remporté le concours en 2005.

No perfect music player exists yet.
Apart from your grandma and deaf people, few people do not use computers to play music. It has become part of the digital experience to listen to music while surfing/chatting/coding/gaming. And yet, if you ask people, most of those who care the least bit about the usability of [...]

Aucun autre album que Sea Change de Beck ne serait plus approprié pour accompagner cette dernière entrée de mon blog de Suède, avec son mélange d’émotions et de mélancolie.
Car le nier serait ridicule: on va regretter Ryd et sa propension à transposer la proximité virtuelle (messagerie online instantanée) en proximité géographique, les thés improvisés en [...]

Björk’s talent to surprise us with each new album seems endless. With Medúlla, she dropped most of the ethereal electronic backgrounds to concentrate on vocal sounds. Percussions, samples, background textures; voices are pervasive on this record. But unlike bands such as Bauchklang, whose art lies in reproducing multiple musical styles entirely a cappella, the [...]

An acoustic guitar, a bass, some drums and keyboard strings. And Brendan Perry’s superb voice. For those familiar with Dead Can Dance, it sounds like a very light ensemble, far from the ethno-celtic instruments they usually play. However, this live song still clearly features the classic mood of their best works.
It is in [...]