Yearly Archives: 2017

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REPLETEKilkenny electronica

What you may need to know…

01. Replete is Kilkenny-based electronic composer Peter Lawlor, releasing material through American techno label Always Human.

02. Having been on the scene in some capacity or other for a few years now (your writer seems to remember streaming some old stuff on ye olde Drop-d.ie), it comes as a surprise that his first physical release only occurred recently, compiling some older material with an EP’s worth of fresh kill.

03. The (fairly amusingly-monikered) Zizek at the Discotheque is streaming now from Always Human Tapes’ Bandcamp page, premiering this week on The Thin Air.

04. As the label’s name might suggest, it’s available for download and purchase (plus shipping from the States!) on cassette.

Thoughts: No-nonsense beats and pieces from a consistent producer who’ll hopefully finally get his dues in 2017.

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It was only a matter of time, really.

In case you missed it, that lovely NES clone Nintendo released before Xmas – in numbers to small to be deemed reasonable – has been hacked.

After an initial work around the machine’s save state system allowed for the addition of more NES games, a simple plug-and-play tool has been developed already to add games to the device quickly, easily and with full metadata to complement the machine’s new interface.

That’s what they get for driving up demand by understocking, in fairness.

H/T Kotaku

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Last night at the Citizen’s Assembly in Malahide, Dublin.

Paul Kelly writes:

RTE’s Joe Little multi tasks, balancing a laptop, delivering a live report, holding back a protester and under this pressure he manages to be polite and gentlemanly all at the same time. What a pro!

Moral status of the unborn discussed at Citizens’ Assembly (RTE News)