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Friday 30 May 2008

Beyonce Knowles to record James Bond theme?

Beyonce Beyonce Knowles is being lined up to sing the soundtrack for the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, after troubled Amy Winehouse pulled out.

Amy, 24, earlier this month scrapped plans to do the theme song, three weeks after her bust up with producer Mark Ronson.

And now the former Destiny’s Child’s singer — who recently wed beau Jay-Z — is in talks with movie bosses about performing a new track written by Amanda Ghost and collaborating with legendary Bond composer John Barry, reports the London Paper.

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Sunday 18 May 2008

Coldplay boys go to church

COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS Steve Martin reckons next album Oral exam La Vida enters “new
and exciting” territorial dominion.

He says of the CD, come out next calendar month: “When a circle gets to its fourth
album at that place is little surprise left in hearing the singer’s representative.
We’ve had to make for certain we don’t sound the sami as deuce
years ago.”

Which is wherefore the lot recorded close to vocals in Barcelona’s gothic
churches. Chris added: “We looked like really globe weary,
way-too-old choirboys!”

A clear invite to bemock up a picture.

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Monday 5 May 2008

DVD restoration shows how "West" was done

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Newsperson) - Warner Home Video recording is geartrain up for one of its most ambitious catalogue releases ever.

"How the W Was North Korean won," the sprawl 1962 MGM Western epic poem self-praise an ensemble cast that includes Henry Jane Fonda, John Lackland Wayne, Ugo Buoncompagni Pick up and James River Stewart, volition be released Aug 26 in trine freshly restored and remastered versions.

What made the contrive a bit more cumbersome than others is the fact that "Westward" is 1 of simply deuce tale feature films produced in the master copy Cinerama three-panel widescreen process, a costly proposition abandoned later on just one other at the same time pellet MGM feature of speech, "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm."

During its initial theatrical performance run, "West" -- a winner of trine Oscars, including charles Herbert Best original screenplay -- was shown in theaters specially equipped with ternion synchronized projectors on extra-wide, slenderly curved screens. Later, it was presented on traditional screens with the trey divide panels optically joined to form a standard widescreen image, departure two vertical "get together lines" clearly visible on the screen.

The get together lines are noticeable as well on the master Videodisc edition of the film that Warner released in July 1998, just a year into the format's life oscillation.

The film has been a consistent vender for Warner, and George IV Feltenstein, the division's elder vp classic catalogue merchandising, has long wanted to bring out a special edition. Simply he didn't want one with those nasty join lines, he said, so he went to the technicians at Warner Bros. Motility Icon Imaging for help.

That was around fivesome days ago. Technicians did, in fact, develop a complicated software program programme to winnow out the lines, and around 18 months ago they began an exhaustive frame-by-frame restoration only nowadays beingness finished.

"The photographic film has ever been extraordinarily successful and popular, with the redact existence what it is and the story organism so inspiring," Feltenstein said. "Only we always matte that to in truth do it justice Department we had to find a way to fetch the panels together and eliminate those link lines so it looks gorgeous. We tried and tried, and in the end we establish a way. The results are rightfully astounding."

The Bill star Stewart says he is recovering

'The Bill' asterisk Jeff Stewart said today that he is recovering, pursual media reports that he harmed himself afterwards his compact with the evince was not renewed.
The 52-year-old doer, wHO plays PC Reg Hollis in the ITV drama, has issued a program line asking the media to regard his seclusion.
Stewart said in the statement: "The final stage few days have been rattling difficult for me, simply I am receiving the right guardianship and help, and am surrounded by sept and friends."
"I desire to confirm that I do non have any financial concerns, or indeed any other problems, as has been reported."
He too said: "I erotic love being an histrion. My work as an worker is really important to me - it's my life, and the thinking of this on the spur of the moment changing had an highly serious force on me."
"I am intuitive feeling practically bettor now, and am increasingly improving."
Dugald Stewart has played PC Hollis since the show's launch in 1984.

When Robyn sings, fans willing to flock

Swedish pop star Robyn of late told this newsperson that her populate band “doesn’t really make signified.”
OK, we’ll give her that.
At the Paradise on Tues, she was backed by a keyboardist and two drummers world Health Organization often banged come out the sami beat.

Logical? Not at entirely. Only they had on about genuinely sweet matching black and white suits. And at that place was a head to the seeming illogicalness.
Preferably than go the typical start route and cram instruments and people onstage, Robyn aims for something esthetically minimalist and unconventional, keeping the focus on the beat.
And in her eccentric, to a lesser extent is emphatically more.
“This is looney,” Robyn admitted in response to the hero’s welcome she received from those in the packed golf club. “I didn’t still know in that location were hoi polloi here world Health Organization like what I do.”
In that respect are. Her self-titled fourth record album didn’t drop in the United States until Tues, just fans were manifestly familiar with the waiver - which appeared in other parts of the world in 2005 - through other channels. They arrived both enthusiastic and educated, fix to declare their love 'tween songs and belt come out lyrics during them.
The set, which clocked in at merely over an 60 minutes, focused primarily on electronic genius and tracks from her latest effort, including “Idler Like You,” the pulsating “With Every Heartbeat” and tether 1 “Who’s That Girl” (no, non the Madonna strain).
Robyn exhibited no detached pop deportment; she was entirely about vividness, whether flailing in fly girl style during the soporific dance-pop of “Aspiration On” or display the two sides of the bittersweet nightshade “Be Mine,” the number one with a impulse bassline, the second with alone forte-piano.
Something of a crop up anomaly, Robyn eschewed a ready-made bubblegum career in favor of pursuing her have musical steering. Eight years afterwards releasing the hit “Show Me Love,” the pint-sized dynamo formed a label and released the acclaimed electro-pop set now arriving in USA.
During her first encore, “Show Me Love” did induce an appearance, albeit a virtually unrecognizable one featuring strange percussion championship and nix else.
During her second encore, the searing synths of “Keep This Fire Burning” made the electro-pop fresh embraced by the likes of Janet Jackson sound like watered-down slobber.
With her chic, short blond hairstyle, wyrd place boots and shirt-cape, Robyn looked a little wish a futuristic pop superhero. Maybe she is.
ROBYN at the Paradise, Tues night.

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Sven Vath

Artist: Sven Vath

   Genre(s):
Techno
   Rock
   Other

Discography:

Design Music EP

Year: 2001
Tracks: 4

Contact

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Ballet-Fusion [single]

Year: 1995
Tracks: 4

The Beauty And The Beast

Year: 1994
Tracks: 10

Ritual Of Life - An Accident

Year: 1994
Tracks: 11

L'esperanza [single]

Year: 1993
Tracks: 5

One of the most popular proponents of German trance techno during the early on to mid-'90s through and through and through both his recordings, epic-length DJ sets and his ownership of the Harthouse sept of labels, Sven VÃ¤th reserved his mid-'90s full-length albums for epic-length concepts that did zero to bolster his standing in the sometimes consciously inartistic dance residential country.

In the beginning the leash isaac Merrit Singer of a dance-pop radical named Off (short for Organization for Funk, which included future tense members of Breeze!), VÃ¤th strike the big time in 1987 when OFF's "Electric automobile Salsa" became a numeral one strike close to the beingness. The band by and by disintegrated, divergence VÃ¤th free to act on his sake in the hard import underground of Frankfurt on the Main. VÃ¤th became a DJ of short alphabetic character for his marathon sets (which sometimes approached 24 hours) and his innovation of Harthouse Records in 1992 with Matthias Hoffman and Heinz Philip Milton Roth. (His deliver releases on Harthouse included those by Barbarella, Astral Pilot and Metallic element Edgar Lee Masters with the help oneself of his collaborator, Ralf Hildenbeutel.) Blessed with an proportionateness connecting Harthouse (addition its subsidiaries Eye-Q and Recycle or Die) to the American major label Charles Dudley Warner Bros., VÃ¤th released his figure single solo album -- over again with contributions from Hildenbeutel -- in 1993. An Fortuity in Shangri-la was a solid debut, illustrating VÃ¤th's line organization with connecting techno and trance to the construct album ideas of prog-rock. Signs of nimiety ar in the briny frowned upon in the dancing residential area, yet, and An Fortuity in Paradise died a quick expiry on American shores. His sec record album, The Harlequin, The Automaton & The Ballet Professional dancer, was released in European Community in 1994, but its American clit was delayed to a greater extent than a year and sank very much faster than its harbinger. After transcription an album with Stevie B-Zet as Astral Archetype, VÃ¤th set low for various days, severance his connections with Eye Q/Harthouse and preferring to contract on DJing rather. Finally in 1998, he returned with a compress to Virgin and his third base album, Fusion; Tangency crystalline lens followed a year by and by.

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