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Play The Building...

Playing the Building by David Byrne is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water...

Alberto Antoniazzi ‘Ro...

The history of rock music is a tangled web of innovation and influence, and its with this in mind that Milanese artist Alberto Antoniazzi has created the ‘Rock N’ Roll’ map, plotting the lay of the land for histories hit makers. The map, which takes its graphic inspiration from...

May Massive Attack...

Tickets on sale today for the NYC date of Massive Attack @ Terminal 5. Don’t miss out!!

The Most Expensive Box S...

Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box Price: $789.98 (The most expensive box set in 2009!) The complete set includes 90 CDs (every original album Yo-Yo Ma has recorded to date), two bonus discs featuring the first release of John Williams’ Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and...

Chemically Happy is the ...

Only listen to this if you wish to feel as though you are living in a foreign film thick with cigarette smoke and existential dialogue. The Unbending Trees are a trio from Budapest, led by fallen friar Kristof Hajos, who sings like a depressed Leonard Cohen. Released on Ben Watt’s...

Coming Soon at GSelect, ...

Designed by Joey Roth to leave music untouched, these speakers are warm, dry, and detailed. Their 4″ full-range drivers and T-class amplifier, encased in acoustically dead porcelain and cork, create a remarkably simple path from source to ear. System includes a dedicated amplifier...

The Herbert Pig, A Proje...

We have spoke about him before (see There’s Me and There’s You) but this time, rather than describing one of his albums, we want to share with you the inspiration behind his next album, a pig. In 2010 Matthew Herbert will release a record entitled ‘The Pig’. It will...

DJ Madd – Better W...

From the Depths of Hungary’s Budapest comes DJ Madd bringing with him some of the freshest sounds to emerge from Dubstep, exploring rugged, G-funked dubstep for darker dance floors, combining influences from Hip Hop, Garage and Techno this 3 track EP entitled “Better With...

Omar S – Fabric 45...

Omar S is one of the most oustpoken and original character of Detroit’s music scene. The 72 minute mix effortlessly cruises through 16 of his finest prime cuts, and as he states “The music on this CD is fully 100% analog – NO COMPUTER BULLSH*T PROGRAMMES!” 1...

Henrik Schwarz – �...

The paradox, in case you were never a high school science nerd, goes like this: you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, which in turn means you could never be born, and thus never go back and kill him, and so on. As far as this compilation is concerned, the translation...