Peter Hook of New Order / Joy Division joins us tomorrow for a special deejay set in Tulsa.

New Order - Age of Consent

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We are live on the front lines of Kitty Crisis 2007. While the drama has been resolved there have still been a few paws swung at furry faces and behinds.

With almost everything in the house being moved to the new house this weekend some super special secrets have been uncovered that the cats have taken advantage of. One being the hole in the floor that leads to under the house. Two of the three cats had an adventure under the house for most of the day. Everything is fine now and they are resting/eating/cleaning/playing now… I don’t think it’s even phased them. My heart was going crazy… they were just having fun.

I love this song/remix.

The Sunshine Underground - Borders (Goodbooks Remix)

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Since I didn’t find time to set things up at the new place it will be a few days before the radio gets back online. Maybe Wednesday. Maybe not. Sorry!

Robotic Radio will be offline for a little while… hopefully for just today. We’re in the process of moving and I have a show tonight as well. Until I can get the computers back up and running there will be no radios. Sorrys!

Hold on now youngster, this is a good thing to look into the maw of the void, but let’s not be excessive, there is still Los Campesinos!. And one day you will wake in the middle of the night and the water on your face will not be from the cold sweat that your dreams of impending doom have produced but from tears of joy squeezed out by a lingering melody, a droning violin, a haunting mantra or a panic attack brought on by a song so tight and serene and messy and polished and dense that it suffocates you like the fumes of the paint that made your favourite album covers. Actually, it’s just pop music.

My new temporary favorite band.
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!

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What did I stumble across on youtube today? I’ll tell you! Prinzhorn Dance School. What is going on? I don’t know but she can come over and play my bass if she wants to.

Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up!

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How long has it been since I first started rocking Ice Cream? 2005? maybe even late 2004? I can’t even remember. That song is so classic that no one even knows! It’s been in maybe 2 or 3 commercials? Any movies? Probably. I love the Ponys. Ponys, Robots & songs about Ice Cream are taking over lately. It’s weird. Well, I’m glad NYPC finally released their album… it’s only been forever.

New Young Pony Club - The Bomb

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Also, I like this song a lot. The album is pretty fair, the remixes are pretty bangin, and you can’t beat a good girl singer. Go check out the SebastiAn remix too.

Sneaky Sound System - UFO

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At today’s Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it , SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty payments on Monday morning (since the enforcement date falls on a Sunday), made a startling statement.

The SoundExchange executive promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the new royalty rates. Webcasters will stay online, as new rates are hammered out.

I just spoke with Pandora founder Tim Westergren, who expressed relief that Pandora wouldn’t have to shut down on Sunday in response to the new rates. He said, “It was getting pretty close. I always had underlying optimism that sanity was going to prevail, but I was beginning to wonder.”

He said everyone who called their Congress person about this should feel that they had an effect on the process:

“This is a direct result of lobbying pressure, so if anyone thinks their call didn’t matter, it did. That’s why this is happening.” The flyer DiMA distributed to Congress today probably helped a bit too, but overall, it appears Congress intervened due to pressure from web radio listeners.

Funnily enough, Westergren told me this mere hours after a representative of SoundExchange said
that the new rates are “etched in stone.” Twice. Evidently not.

Westergren had more to say, lending insight into a process that was largely opaque to non-participants. Apparently, the per-channel minimum fees mandated by the Copyright Royalty Board were never taken very seriously by those involved. They’ve now been taken off the table completely, saving Pandora, Live365, and other multicasters from their most imminent threat.

“No one thought those per station fees were remotely rational. It only makes sense that they’re being taken off the table.”

As for the Copyright Royalty Board? They’re entirely cut out of the process, having set the rates and then refused a rehearing. Going forward without the royalties being collected, SoundExchange and webcasters will negotiate a new royalty rate with Congress looking over their shoulder — “and last but not least, the public looking over Congress’s shoulder.” Alternatively, Congress now has time to consider the Internet Radio Equality Act, which would set webcaster royalties at 7.5 percent of revenue and allow them to continue operating pretty much as they have been.

Either way, this is a big win for webcasters and their listeners.

The full story can be found here - http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/bre … ews-o.html

This is extracted from an article written by Eliot Van Buskirk

Well, I’ve posted the Daft Hands video, AND the Daft Dance video… might as well post, what I am officially dubbing, Daft-Capella. What’s next? Cooking with Daft Punk? Oh, I hope so!

The DJs of Dance Robots, Dance! will be playing with Dandi Wind on July 21st at The Conservatory.

Dandi Wind - Safety Dance

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