Jazzanova and Resoul & other: 2008

Tuesday 26 August 2008

Police officer pulls gun on P Diddy's entourage

A constabulary officer reportedly pulled a gun on P. Diddy's entourage during a routine traffic stop in Los Angeles this past weekend.

The rap big businessman, whose genuine name is Sean Combs, was reportedly headed down Sunset Boulevard early Saturday morning (August 23) as part of a seven-car convoy when a sheriff's deputy coherent one of the cars to stop for having expired enrollment tags.

One of the deputies became interested and took out his gun when several men approached the vehicle, a sheriff's spokesman told the Associated Press. However, he reportedly cooled down chop-chop and place it back in its holster.

No citations were issued during the incident and a spokesman for P. Diddy aforesaid the officers were "respectful".

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Saturday 16 August 2008

Texas town responds to Colbert's 'outhouse' slam

CANTON, Texas �

Stephen Colbert's one-woman campaign against towns named Canton has its latest target lighting back. A city councilman in Canton, Texas, joked that he would "squash his nose" after the comedian referred to the town as an "incorporated outhouse."

"What does that sucker know about it? He's never been here anyway," Councilman John Fuller said in a story Friday in the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

In an ongoing gag on his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," Colbert has been pickings pot shots at various towns named Canton. It began when he referred to a Georgia town as "the crappy Canton."

Colbert then referred to Canton, Kan., with an unprintable epithet, and referred to Canton, S.D., as "North Dakota's soiled ashtray."

Cantons in Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Ohio have so far escaped Colbert's ire.

Leaders of the Texas town of Canton, which has a population of about 5,100, invited Colbert to the town's monthly flea market - which, according to a city Web site, harkens back to Texas' frontier traditions, "when it was common to trade a rifle for a salutary hunting dog."

"Canton is known worldwide," City Manager Andy McCuistion aforesaid of the town, set about 55 miles southeastern United States of Dallas. "You can go anywhere in the world, and people will say, `Canton? Yeah, I know where that is. It's where that big flea securities industry is.'"

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Monday 30 June 2008

Plump Djs

Artist: Plump Djs

   Genre(s):
House
   Jazz: Funk
   Trance
   Breakbeat
   Electronic
   Techno

Discography:

The Funk Hits The Fan

Year: 2006
Tracks: 3

Southfest

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Saturday_Night_Lotion-(FLRLP011)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 7

Mixmag 12/05 Plump Djs Breakbeat Annual

Year: 2005
Tracks: 1

Soul Vibrates (Vinyl)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Soul Vibrates (FLR052) VLS

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Fabriclive 08

Year: 2003
Tracks: 1

Eargasm

Year: 2003
Tracks: 1

Urban Underground (Disc 2)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 14

Urban Underground (Disc 1)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 13

Plump DJs Lee Rous and Andy Gardner ar responsible for one of the fattest sounds of the new millennium, a throwback fusion of acerbic house and electroshock heard all o'er Britain's dancefloors, as well as Levi's commercials and Sony PlayStation games. Working out of their Laboratoire Plump studio in deepest, darkest Soho, the duet perfected its fashion with early singles "The Push" and "No Way" for Finger Lickin'. Along with Armand Van Helden and Ganja Kru, the geminate remixed War for the Grooves & Messages hits compendium and found themselves existence hyped by preeminent British DJs from radio (Pete Tong, Judge Jules) and the clubs (Fatboy Slim, Sasha). Remixes followed for Orbital, BT, Freestylers, and Elektronauts, and the uncut debut A Plump Night Out dropped in 2001.

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Pete Doherty Gets A Mannequin For A Friend

Pete Doherty has baffled his neighbours in rural Wiltshire by placing a life-size dummy of the roof of his house.

The Babyshambles man recently installed the mannequin on top of the building in the small village of Durley.

He’s even took to dressing it up, a one point putting a dressing gown and black tights on the dummy.

A curious neighbour told the People: "I had to do a double-take. What a bizarre thing to do.

"I wondered who would do something like that - then someone told me who lives there and it all made sense!"

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Monday 16 June 2008

Christian Bale - The Things They Say 8431

"We would have somebody with a Geiger counter at every dinner, scanning each plate." Former child star CHRISTIAN BALE recalls working on MIO IN THE LAND OF FARAWAY in the Ukraine a month after the 1986 explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear-power plant.

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Monday 2 June 2008

Sex And The City - The Things They Say 8327

"In Britain you have a long tradition of wearing hats and you do it better than anybody and we don't have the same courage. When in Rome as they say..." SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE star SARAH JESSICA PARKER explains her bizarre headwear choice at the film's premiere in London on Monday (12May08).

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Tuesday 27 May 2008

Jaws - Dreyfuss In Talks To Play Cheney

JAWS star RICHARD DREYFUSS is in negotiations to complete the all-star cast of OLIVER STONE's GEORGE W. BUSH biopic - and play Vice-President DICK CHENEY.

Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks have already signed on to play the President and First Lady Laura Bush, and Thandie Newton and Scott Glenn will play Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld respectively.

The film started shooting earlier this week (beg19May08) in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is scheduled to hit the big screen in October (08).

The Hollywood Reporter claims Screen Actors Guild union bosses have granted Stone a special waiver to continue work on W in the event of a looming acting strike.

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Sunday 18 May 2008

Spears evaluated following dispute

Britney Spears has been taken to hospital for a clinical evaluation following a difference of opinion at her place over the custody of her children.
Los Angeles Law Department spokesman Military officer Jason Lee said police force arrived at Spears' hilltop dwelling in Studio City at 8pm Pacific Time last night (0400 Greenwich Time Friday).
He said constabulary had tried "to conclude the conflict peacefully and lawfully", according to the court order governance Spears' 2 sons with Kevin Federline.
Mass magazine's web site reports that after nigh iII hours, law determined that the royal court order stated that the children were supposed to be with Federline and a transplant was arranged.
Bruce Lee later on said: "While officers were on the prospect, they observed Ms Spears under the influence of an unknown substance. She is now being taken in for an evaluation, more than belike to a hospital. There were no reported injuries to anyone involved including the children."
Twenty-six-year-old Spears doomed primary quill detention of her deuce sons in October.

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Thursday 8 May 2008

Winehouse not ready

Producer Mark Ronson says he and Amy Winehouse get abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bail movie because the singer is non make to run. Ronson produced much of Winehouse's Grammy-winning Back to Black. He says the couple started work on the track for the upcoming Bond movie Quantum of Solace merely it would take "some miracle of scientific discipline" to destination it. Winehouse's troubles with drugs, the police and her rocky romance with her jailed hubby Blake Fielder-Civil have kept the isaac M. Singer in the spotlight.

Saturday 26 April 2008

Longoria's husband sues celeb site

The married man of 'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria, Tony Bird Parker, is suing a famous person chit chat website for at least $40m over allegations that he had an social function with a Daniel Chester French example.
The Associated Push reports that basketball star topology Charles Christopher Parker alleges the situation X17online posted "false and defamatory" messages about him.
The case said: "This is false. It ne'er happened. And X17 had to know that the account was treacherously, or, at the rattling least, it had to get entertained serious doubts around the believability of its supposed source."
The causa likewise said that the site ne'er contacted the couple or their representatives earlier publication the allegations, and refused to retract them afterwards organism told the allegations were faithlessly.

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Thursday 24 April 2008

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Saturday 19 April 2008

Photek

Artist: Photek

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   Drum & Bass
   Electronic
   Drum & Bass

Discography:

Terminus

Year: 2000
Tracks: 3

Solaris

Year: 2000
Tracks: 11

Form and Function

Year: 1998
Tracks: 12

Though Goldie became the showtime virtuoso of jungle, the recordings of Prince Rupert Parkes -- as Computer code of Pattern, Water Bearer, Studio apartment Imperativeness, the Truper and Sentry, but to the highest degree magnificently as Photek -- made him an soft piece for the style's most aesthetic and intelligent producer. Workings his way through street-level hardstep (on former productions for Credential 18 and Street Beats) and laputan, subaquatic "dolphinfish" tunes for L.T.J Bukem's Goodness Looking label, Parkes finally arrived at a well-grounded that pushed the boundary of drum'n'bass from the dancefloor into the region of breakbeat headspace; unlike to the highest degree jungle producers, Parkes has never DJed and rarely goes to clubs. His fabulously intricate beat programming -- oftentimes requiring weeks of ready reckoner homework -- and the unmissable glory of paranoid menace on recordings such as "The Hidden Photographic camera" and "Flight dish aerial" exerted quite an influence on the return of dark-style drum'n'bass during the recently '90s.

As a adolescent, Parkes listened to electro, techno and hip-hop as well as the to a greater extent than discharge conformation english of laze run-in and fusion. Thanks to a sampler bought with a Â£2000 loan from the Trust of the Prince of Cambria, he began producing tracks and first appeared on Saul of Tarsus Solomon's Certificate 18 Records with singles as Studio apartment Pressure. He besides recorded for Cellar (as Sentry) and Street Beatniks (the Truper) before initiating a series of 12-inch singles for his own Photek Records, which gave him credentials and lED to releases on Goldie's Metalheadz label and L.T.J. Bukem's Good Looking for, as well as a remix of the Therapy? one "Loosen."

Subsequently Parkes had released more than 80 tracks of drum'n'bass on half a 12 labels, he was approached by Virgin and signing to a five-album make out with the label's Science imprint (provided he was allowed to stay on recording for other self-employed person labels as well). Parkes' first freeing on Science was The Hidden Camera EP, which appeared in May 1996. The bit Skill bingle "Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu" displayed an increasing stake in applying the lessons of martial humanistic discipline to his computer programming (the title is Nipponese for "deuce swords, single technique"). Virgin compiled the latter deuce releases on 1997's Reduced command coiffe estimator Vs. Wages, and then released the debut Photek album Modus Operandi in September 1997. Much-hyped though little-praised, the album was followed by 1998's Form & Role, a compiling including various archetype Photek Records tracks addition remixes and fresh tracks. During the next deuce long time, Parkes focussed on his new Photek Productions label, and at long last released a second LP, Solaris, in 2000.