Sex Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Maybe not as news worthy as the U.S. elections or Near East wars but timeless and more useful information for anyone un-Sex.Ed-ucated (like Catholic clergy, Muslim "freedom" fighters, Methodists and so on).

Werner Ruhner: Friedrich Wolfs Bummi

Post by Werner Ruhner.

Ihr könnt das Buch u.a. auf Amazon.de kaufen.

Source: Werner Ruhner Facebook Fan Page

Stephen Fry // Live at the Sydney Opera House

Vangelis Papathanassiou's La fête sauvage - a Proposition

Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου - better known as Vangelis - has composed a lot of music but kinda cared little to let people hear it. A lot of his music is still unreleased or only available in bootlegged or incidental formats. Most part of his Blade Runner soundtrack can only be heard on the various bootlegs while some other scores can only be heard in the background of the scored work.

And there is the fact that some music has never been properly cued in optical disc authoring. Heaven and Hell has easily recognizable parts, and some have been featured as such on compilation albums, but the album itself is only ever split into two tracks (and occasionally three) instead of the 9 that would be necessary.

Now there will be those (including to all likelihood Vangelis himself) saying that this is the way the music was intended to be listened to. But I personally find that in the time and age of music that plays on computers with dynamic and random playlists I often prefer a short piece of music instead of the whole 15 to 20 minutes of a vinyl side. One can still listen to the whole album if your in the mood…

Anyway, I though it might be a good thing to propose a way to split the albums into its parts. I use to whole disc image (as a single Wave file) with a cuesheet and have then altered the cuesheet. La fête sauvage is the first that I will treat this way.

La fête sauvage is the score to a French wildlife documentary by Frédéric Rossif. The album was originally published in 1976 and has since seen numerous reissues on CD, either with a single tracks or split into two tracks representing both sides of the original vinyl.

Here is my proposed cuesheet of the album, based on the 1995 issue by Polydor:

REM COMMENT "proposed split"
CATALOG 0042284119825
PERFORMER "Vangelis"
TITLE "La Fête sauvage"
FILE "Vangelis - La Fête sauvage.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage I: 1st Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:33
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage I: 2nd Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 02:28:25
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage I: 3rd Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 08:42:48
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage I: 4th Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 11:52:47
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage I: 5th Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 15:24:18
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 1st Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 18:13:24
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 2nd Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 20:29:67
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 3rd Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 24:41:01
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 4th Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 26:48:71
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 5th Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 31:21:18
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 6th Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 33:01:47
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "La Fête sauvage II: 7th Movement"
    PERFORMER "Vangelis"
    INDEX 01 34:38:33

I hope that you will find it useful or at least interesting. I retained the original two parts as a starting point.

In case you want to buy the album you may find it on Amazon.fr, Amazon.de or Amazon.co.uk. And for whatever reason you want another alternative - try MusicStack.

Musical Taste // Favorites

Today's post may be of little interest to you… it's some ego cajolement about my musical taste.

Above are two tag clouds displaying the covers of my most listened albums^[1]. The first one (above or left) has been taken over the past six and half years, the second one represents the top of the past six months.

Top 40 Artists

The following list is the current top 40 list of my favorite artists for the past twelve months…

1. Front Line Assembly
2. Depeche Mode
3. The Prodigy
4. Spetsnaz
5. Leæther Strip
6. Stellardrone
7. And One
8. X-102
9. Celestial Aeon Project
10. Front 242
11. David Arnold & Michael Price
12. Vangelis
13. Patenbrigade: Wolff
14. Haujobb
15. Rotersand
16. Pendulum
17. Assemblage 23
18. Frank Klepacki
19. Solar Fields
20. Hyperwind
21. Architect
22. Funker Vogt
23. Janne Hanhisuanto
24. Bass Tandem
25. The Chemical Brothers
26. Absurd Minds
27. Esther Garcia
28. Aes Dana
29. 8kHz Mono
30. Patrick Gowers
31. Spacetime Continuum
32. Richard Wells
33. klakast
34. Harry Gregson-Williams
35. Laibach
36. Pet Shop Boys
37. Mr. Oizo
38. Covenant
39. Klinik
40. VNV Nation

Special mention of Project Pitchfork.

And the artist tag cloud of my all-time favorites:

^[1] My Last.fm data analyzed using Last.fm Tools.

Greg Craven // How the World Ends

I admit I haven't been very active lately on Think Tank but occasionally you come across something that really adds to some public discussion.



The strong point is not its scientific accuracy, for it has none, but its simple yet powerful reasoning…

Give it look!

I Space // Janne Hanhisuanto

Finnish composer of ambient and modern classical music Janne Hanhisuanto has released at least eight albums over the past five years.



In 2011 Lithuanian label Cold Tear Records has released his album of space music and modern classical I Space.



You may download a Creative Commons version from the Internet Archive.