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On May 18, we gave you some ideas on where to shop for a vibrator. Now it’s the time to talk about how. Here’s a checklist you may want copy and carry in your purse next time you go shopping.
- Purpose. What do you want to stimulate? Your clitoris? Vagina? G-spot? Anus? All of the above? Will you use your vibe with a partner, or alone?
- Portability. Is your vibrator going to stay in your bedroom, or will it accompany you on the road? If it’s the latter, look the smaller, battery-operated or rechargable electric vibes.
- Noise. Do you care if your neighbors hear? If so, your best bets are virtually silent coil-operated electric vibes. Battery-operated and wand vibrators tend to be louder.
- Intensity. Do you want gentle or strong vibrations? A general Rule: the smaller the battery, the less the vibration.
- Price. A vibrator will run you anywhere from $10 to $80 or more, but think of it as an investment, and remember that you get what you pay for. An electric vibrator from a brand-name manufactirer will last you for years.
- Shape. Vibrators these days come in a truly mind-boggling assortment of shapes and styles. Do you want something realistic or smooth?
- Color. Yes, color. Do you prefer flash tones? Or do you want to get more festive with metallic, glow-in-the-dark, or jewel-toned toys?

Cynthia Gentry - The Bedside Orgasm Book: 365 Days of Sexual Ecstasy

01. Damero - Things Gone(feat. Headkit)
(Happy In Gray / 2007)

02. Modeselektor - Deboutonner
(Happy Birthday! / 2007)

03. Female Future - Barbara Morgenstern Robert Lippok
(Transatlantic / 2006 )

04. John Tejada - The end of it all
(Cleaning Sounds Is a Filthy Business / 2006)

05. Paluka - Urban echos version2
(Unreleased / 2007)

Note: without headphones or without a lot of volume you’ll have not any vibe. When you swim into the waves of sound - on a slightly small dancefloor - you do the last mix shaking your head between the speakers, so creating your own vibes.

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“It’s what you all been waitin’ for ain’t it? They can’t stand it, they want something new. So let’s get re-acquainted.”

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Mid-Air Tape Loop Dance Party
(Tape Loop EP/ 2008)
Prefuse 73 Pagina Dos
(Prefuse 73 Reads the Books E.P./ 2005)
Mid-Air Complex Admittance
(Mid-Air/ 2007)
RJD2 Chicken-Bone Circuit
(Dead Ringer/ 2002)
Mid-Air Mirror Mirror
(Mid-Air/ 2007)
Daedelus Pursed Lips Reply
(Invention/ 2002)
Mid-Air A Thousand Atomic Fireballs
(Unreleased)

Note(s): So there’s been some feigning for new, fresh tracks. Jungle is a tough MdM beat to make work, but with enough tenacity the rewards outweigh the struggle. Mid-Air takes jungle back to the roots and doesn’t let the “electronic” aspect of the genre overshadow the organic foundational focus of the sub-genre. Chris Harbach’s contribution to the greater jungle is a product that finds its roots in an urban experimental sound, works its way up through a solid trunk of jazz/hip-hop/funk, and branches off touching upon ambient, acid, trip-hop, and “electronica”, the fruits of which are best savored chilled and — even in the midst of the gritty and grainy samples — fresh. Essentially, as one put it, Mid-Air is “Too fast, too slow, too noisy, too melodic, too old skool, and way too ahead of his time,” (in all the right ways); that, as always, is for you to decide. So, intertwined with the linchpin artist’s works are a few third-party complementary sounds to guide you through the sonic landscape. Enjoi.

Photo Credit: Eugenio Recuenco
Mid-Air: MySpace, Official Site

When Alexander the Great offered him to do everything he would have desired, Diogen replied: “Yes, you can do something for me. Move from there, you make shadow on me.”

01. Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (Kruder & Dorfmeister Mix)
(Dj Kicks, 1996)
02. Tosca - Rondo Acapricio
(J.A.C., 2005)
03. Tosca - Busenfreund
(Suzuki In Dub, 2002)
04. Tosca - John Lee Hubber
(Souvenirs, 2006)
05. Ralph Myerz - Think Twice
(Your new best friend, 2008)
06. The Egg - Funky Dube
(Forwards, 2008)

note: thank you

If I ever find myself in a jet-black Lamborghini flying through the German highway system at absurd speeds, dodging through traffic like its my job; my knuckles white and my fingers slipping slightly on the smooth black steering wheel; my head being pushed farther and farther back into that luscious leather headrest; and, in the spirit of P.J. O’Rourke, a bottle of Chivas and a lovely lady at my fingertips, well, this is what would be blasting out of my crazy, bass-heavy Lambo speakers…

And read this article, it’s funny with a capital F…

John Frusciante & Josh Klinghoffer- The Afterglow
on A Sphere in the Heart of Silence (2004)
MSTRKRFT- The Looks
on The Looks (2006)
Aphex Twin- Ptolemy
on Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1993)
Pendulum- The Terminal
on Hold Your Colour (2007)
Danger- 19h11
on 09/14/2007 (2007)

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Nightmares. Can’t sleep…..

An excerpt from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:

“I slept indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised; I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that i held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.

“I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.”

John Murphy- In the House-In a Heartbeat
on 28 Days Later: The Soundtrack (2003)
Portishead- Mysterons
on Dummy (1994)
DJ Shadow- Stem/Long Stem
on Endtroducing… (1996)
Burial- Night Bus
on Burial (2006)
Gravediggas- Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
on 6 Feet Deep (1994)

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Photographs: Graemetric

Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
(Crystal castles / 2008)
Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
(Italians do it better 12″ / 2008)
Cruise [Ctrl] - Eat my fear (Roswell Conspiracy mix)
(I heard it! / 2008)
Collins & Ritch - Fortuna
(Fortuna Ep / 2007)
Slowdive - In mind (Reload remix)
(5 ep - In mind remixes / 1993)

A short soundtrack to fit in with the futuristic skyline in Pudong, supposed to echo images of big city paranoia, rapid pace of progress, agoraphobia and heavy urban activity surrounding the unique art scene in Shanghai.

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of the great anti-hate
springtime is wartime
i’ll rise to the crime-boss
electric guitar string
a bed of flowers
- Sonic Youth

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” Wagner like Alteration ”

01. DM Stith - Thanksgiving Moon
Works in Progress (Presented by Asthmatic Kitty Records) (Asthmatic Kitty, 2008)
02. Harold Budd - Children’s Games Beyond Our Reach
La Bella Vista (Shout Factory, 2003)
03. The Third Eye Foundation - No Dove No Covenant
You Guys Kill Me (Merge Records, 1998)
04. Leonid Polovinkind - Ukrain Folksong
Soviet Avant Garde, Vol.2 (Hat Now Series, 1999)
05. alva noto + opiate - opto file 4 (web)
cdr040 opto files (2001)
06. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Rustin Man
Out of Season (Go Beat, 2002)
07. Friends of Dean Martinez - When You’re Gone
A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory, 2000)
08. Kettel - Shimamoto
Myam James (Sending Orbs, 2008)
09. Sonic Youth - Peace Attack
Sonic Nurse (2004)

note: A list for chilly Tuesday morning. This comes from “Third“, last Portishead album. I can’t wrap my mind around that album. It’s meandering and completely disconnected. I am not sure why. So I made one for myself trying to figure it out, mixing few tracks (modern, DnB, folks and rock), based one one thing, the “choir’ background in DM Stith’s track, trying to capture that “trip-hop” sound again. So here is a list with nothing but elaboration of small background sound sample. One of my darkest list I’ve posted, so it’s very moody.

see also: 17 pink sugar elephants
image: Gustav Klimt, Dead and Life, 1910/15

More Jungle. The genre, like the forest, is dense, diverse, and full of juxtapositions: the flora and fauna, the calm day and the live night. This list is a bit more of the same, and a bit of something new. To ease into the genre there’s not too much of the heavy or dark — yet. This is a compilation of some unknown independent DJs and well-known classics, fast-paced uptempo traditional and mellow “intelligence/atmospheric” jungle. Delve a bit deeper into the wild and enjoi.

Deejay v@s Jungle Line
(ACIDplanet/ 2007)
DJ Apex Mud Cake
(ACIDplanet/ 2006)
LTJ Bukem Atlantis
(Goodlooking Experience/ 2005)
Total Science Burning
(Sky Stalker/Burning 12″/ 2002)
Calibre Second Sun
(Second Sun/ 2005)
Roni Size/Reprazent Down
(New Forms/ 1997)
BorisR Acid Rain
(ACIDplanet/ 2005)

see also: Welcome to the Jungle …
image: dandy fsj