Jay Rajeck founded TRS-80 in Chicago in 1997, and while the line-up and location have changed over the past 11 years, he's remained consistent in his delivery of relatively minimalistic, predominantly instrumental electronic music, which he often mixes with bizarre retro samples. The result is a sometimes-spastic sound collage that resonates with drum & bass, trip-hop, and ambient accents.
Terry Christensen’s Big Expert Witness Speaks
Tuesday marked Day Two of the defense counterattack waged by former private eye Anthony Pellicano and super-lawyer Terry Christensen, who are accused in federal court of wiretapping and conspiracy. Actually, so far it’s been all Christensen’s defense, with Pellicano passively watching the oratorical fireworks explode over his head.
Well, no one at Google got arrested Tuesday -- although 1,500 folks at Yahoo were laid off. Judge David Wesley was ready to issue an arrest warrant for Google’s custodian of records, since the search-engine giant hadn’t responded to defense requests to cough up email records related to Amanda C, who alleges that fashion designer Anand Jon sexually assaulted her. During the Tuesday lunch recess, however, Google did fax over the records and so the warrant was quashed – and with it, much of t
Despite finding fame with the very public ridiculing of a fellow musician's manhood (MySpace hit "Short Dick Cuizi," which cut Parisian rapper Cuizinier down to size), Yelle's all about relentless Euro-electro charm. The dance world's been thoroughly seduced by French acts of late (Daft Punk, Justice, et al), and here comes another one. Almost defiantly singing in her native tongue only ups Yelle's coy joy as she wraps genuine melodies and nursery rhyme refrains around squelchy/fuzzy Radio Sha
Like a seemingly innocuous madeleine, an off-hand mention of old Radio Shack computers has unleashed the floodgates of memory at L.A. Observed. Yesterday's post by Kevin Roderick about a group photo of Alan Cranston's 1986 celebrity-packed campaign bus mentioned the TRS-80 (dubbed the "Trash 80") that reporters carried. The four-line display screen got high marks for portability and ability to send over pay phone lines. Today's entry carries more technical details about the proto-laptop Model 10
