Pitchfork’s SURVEILLANCE Jim Jarmusch, Bradford Cox, and No Age’s Randy Randall Cortez the Killer

An Awesome cover of Neil Young’s Cortez the Killer.

5 Days Til New Episodes of Top Gear! [VIDEO]

Season 14 of  Top Gear, the most entaining auto show returns of Sunday November 15th. Bringing back the exciting cast of Clarkson, Hammond, and May. Oh yea also the great STIG!

Check out the Teaser Trailer after the break.

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TeknoJunkie Bringing Teknology to IHL.

TeknoJunkie a well known tech blog has teamed up with us here at I Heart LAMP to bring you the current news in technoloy. Check out their blog at www.teknojunkie.com

Bat For Lashes – Two Suns Special Edition (CD+ DVD Documentary) [VIDEO]

Bat for Lashes is releasing a special edition of the album Two Suns. The special edition will include double Disc plus a 48 minute DVD documentary called Two + Two which was shot in places including Joshua Tree, CA and New York City. The album is set to release in the UK by September 7th and a US date to be conformed very soon. Trailer of Documentary after the break. (more…)

The Union: Business Behind Getting High – Music

BC’s illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as ‘The Union’. Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually, The Union?s roots stretch far and wide. With up to 85% of ‘BC Bud’ being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Who are the players, and when do their motives become questionable?

Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business behind getting high.

Nobody’s innocent in this exploration of an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal

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Gui Boratto – Acrostico

Gui Boratto (born 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian electronic music producer. He started his career working in the Publicity sector in 1989.

His album Chromophobia was awarded the title of Mixmag Album of the Month. Regarding why he chose the name Chromophobia, Boratto said: “The same meaning as monochromatism in architecture, which means simplicity. That’s all. I don’t have a morbid fear of colors at all. But also, I was ironic. My music is really colorful.”

On stage, Gui uses a laptop equipped with Ableton Live, a Jazz Mutant Lemur, a monome and an Evolution Uc33e, and he sometimes even invites a guitar player to join him.

In Acrostico, Gui seems more upbeat and relaxed than his other individual songs. Take a listen and dive in

“Gui Boratto might have the ugliest cover of 2009 but that didn’t stop me from checking out his album. When the vocal comes in i’m not too fond of the song but until then it reminds me of the good old days of Kompakt where you’d go to your local vinyl shop and check what this weeks Kompakt 12″ sounded like” – iso50

Gold Panda: Quitter’s Raga

There’s something awesome about the way chopped-up vocals have come back around in the last couple of years. They were all over the place in the early part of the decade, when IDM was being taken seriously and rapidly accelerating CPU clockspeeds meant that a new way to process sounds lurked around every corner. Back then, you took a CD of a voice and made it skip and that was enough to give a track an extra twist of poignancy. Now it’s in the realm of dubstep and all of its offshoots where the most interesting vocal processing is taking place, often as a way to add tension to mean, heavy, bass-heavy beats. Terrific recent examples of the form have come from Blue Daisy and Pariah, but this powerful track from Gold Panda, recently released on a 7″ single via Make Mine, ups the ante for affecting vocal processing considerably. An undercurrent of bass flecked with vinyl crackles pushes the track along, but it’s the voices, bits of guitar and sitar, all given the sonic Cuisinart treatment, that take things to another, more achingly beautiful realm. The fragmentation gets more intense as it goes, and you start to wonder if the track is going to shake itself apart, and then it ends suddenly, less than two minutes in, so short it breaks your heart.

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Think Apple is Secretive? Wait Until you learn about Netflix

So we recently subscribed to Netflix’s rental service, and I was wondering how it works, how they get there shipments out the door so fast, how they get such a big library.

In the tech world, we usually see Apple as the most secretive company around. But it turns out Netflix might be just as paranoid, and just as fascinating. This expose will make you see DVD-rental-by-mail in a totally new light. (more…)

500 Days of Summer

The best part of 500 Days of Summer is that it doesn’t attempt to be a fantastic movie, it doesn’t suck up to the viewers, and it doesn’t flaunt itself in front of viewers saying “look how insightful I am”. It could have easily done any of these things, and newcoming director Marc Webb expertly weaved his way through the story and its obstacles to create an amazing, visually stunning, and incredibly original piece of art. (more…)