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Friday Listening Post: The killer mashups of Luke Enlow, downloadable MP3’s

TGIF, and time for another Friday Listening post. The first was here (Billy Bragg) - basically, the spirit of this series of posts is that Friday is time to chill and check out some tunes that can be at least vaguely related back to the world of technology.

I’d hoped some other blogs would share some tunes and expand my horizons (just tag your post “fridaylistening” and it will queue up with any others on Technorati) - but no dice so far! How about it, Jason? (couldn’t resist taking the bait somewhere today, though I didn’t follow any rules.)

Anyway - without further adieu: I strongly recommend checking out the audio stylings of Luke Enlow - Bostonian and audio mashup auteur. Lenlow mashes up artists, genres, beats, and riffs into catchy, inspired tunes.

In particular, I recommend (right-click, Save As time):

Mercedes Beck: A spectular mashup of Beck and Janis Joplin - sounds like they were in the studio together.

Get Eastwood: The Gorillaz and Sean Paul in a mix that just works.

Kanye Mahna - Mr. West vs. the Muppets - wicked.

…and pretty much all of the rest of them too. Always creative, always fun, always mashing up - Luke Enlow personifies Music 2.0.

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Censorship Nation

I just wanted to point out that Boing Boing is banned on Boston muni-fi stations. Gizmodo asks if they are in the US or China.

Ok - fine, Boston uses some keyword parsing auto-censoring system, and given BoingBoing’s diverse subject matter, it tripped the filter - this is hardly punishement for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force thing, or some right-wing conspiracy against the libertarian blogosphere, or some totalitarian Bush-led junta, or whatever.

That being said: It seems alarming when “protect the children” is used to justify censorship of any kind, much less automated, unsupervised, algorithmic censorship of the entire internet.

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