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dubstep: zombfree release + kid-a mix

n3wjack — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:00:41 +0000

A short post to feed you all some more free dubstep. I’m sure you won’t mind.

First up there’s another free Zombfree release from the Ninja Columbo label containing 4 320kbps mp3 tunes. This time no breakcore or drum’n'bass, but dubstep from Septic Insurgent. One soothing atmospheric intro track, 2 downright dubstep tunes and a more or less acid-techno kind of stomper with a dubstep ending. Really, it’s quite different. Might be cool to light up the old dubstep sets. You can get it straight from here if you don’t want to log on to the bloody Facebook page where I found it as it’s not up on the regular site…

Dubstep sets like this one from DJ Kid-A. Not that his sets needs lighting up or anything, the tune selection and mixing is quite sweet I might say. No track list for this one, but it’s filled to the rim with chilled classics and anthems. It’s called WobbleDuckDodge, but don’t let that scare you. It’s great for chilling with fine beats.

Photo by George Morgan, cc-licensed.

file sharing run-down: which ones to pick and why?

n3wjack — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:08:39 +0000

There’s plenty of ways to share files nowadays, but which one to choose? Here’s a little run-down of the file sharing services I’ve been using and for what means!

You want to share a bunch of smaller files without clicking your ass off while uploading them. I’m thinking a ton of mp3’s, your completely holiday picture album or a collection of eBooks? Box.net is excellent of this purpose. It allows you to upload files up to 25 MB with a handy multi-file interface and gives you a number of options to share the files publicly or privately. Great for collaborating online as you can share between box.net users.
You need to share big files? Mediafire works for files up to 100MB. They only stay there for about 6 months unless you pay extra. You can also go for other similar services like zShare etc but Mediafire doesn’t try shoving a truckload of ads in your face and doesn’t let you wait a minute before giving you the download link. Nice!
When it comes to synchronising any type of files dropbox.com is the king in my book. It gives you 2 GB of free space to play with to synchronise files and folders between several computers in a carefree and effective way (read: it’s fast!). For automatic syncing you need to install the Dropbox software, but you can also access the files directly from the website which makes it super-handy if you just need that one important files when you’re on the go and don’t want to install anything. It also allows sharing files and folders using links so that comes in handy as well for collaborative projects again.
Finally there’s Google docs for all those office documents of course. Sharing, collaborating, you know, the works. It pwnz.

Do you know a kick-ass file-sharing tool that’s missing from this list? Well, that’s what the comments are for!

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pimping the fox

n3wjack — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:15:14 +0000

Since day 1 Firefox has been rocking the internet world simply because it managed to kick Microsoft’s Internet Explorer square in the nuts and took a piece of the browser pie. The volunteers working on this Open Source product managed to force Microsoft back into the browser-game and have them create a safer, faster and better browser if they ever wanted to compete on the internet again. IE 8 is a direct result of that, which nicked a lot of features from the Foxy one together with it’s marketing campaign. Of course the Mozilla cru can’t compete with the amount of cold hard cash the Redmond folks are throwing against it, but they can count on a huge community of people who are willing to pimp the fox in their free time through the Spread Firefox website. Helping out can be as simple as putting a banner on your site like I did. With the WordPress plugin for it, it even detects your current browser and displays the appropriate message.

Another easy (cause that’s what we like) way to help with Firefox is joining the new Test Pilot project. All you have to do is download the Test Pilot add-on and participate in the tests. This ain’t for the paranoid I’m afraid. The idea is to collect data from actual Firefox use and use that to improve the browser. All anonymous of course, but if you’re a tad paranoid this might be too much for you. For the geeks however this offers you a chance to try out the latest and coolest user-interface tweaks to be brought upon the platform. Neato.

For the more hardcore you can also help out with coding, writing add-ons, graphic design, manuals, support, localisation, you name it. So why not help those guys out and spend a tiny amount of your time to participate in this great browsers development and make the internet a safer place. Wow. Sounds a bit zealotish doesn’t it? Now where’s my free t-shirt dammit!

free breakcore smorgasboard

n3wjack — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:27:51 +0000

Oh yeah. It’s that time of the year again, where free breakcore release just drop from the sky as if flying pigs would crap all over the place. Actually, there isn’t really a season like that so I guess it’s just a bit of a coincidence that there’s a ton of free breakcore releases popping up around the internet. Here’s the sweet selection I came across:

United Elements of Hate are up to release 4 from Partikal Katastr called Needles to Say. It’s a shorty as it only contains 4 tracks but it’’s a goody to add to your breakcore collection!
More breakcore goodness from the Belgian Sickboy Milkplus on Cock Rock Disco known for it’s awesome releases. Well, if you didn’t know you know now. Remember that. Awesome. Inspired by tons of crap Tween vids he produced Tweencore and gives it away on the internet. I told you it was awesome.
Then there’s the Filthcast sessions from Barcode recordings I came across which turn out to be filled with sets from the harder kind of drum’n'bass DJ’s such as DJ Hidden, Counterstrike, Current Value and many more. Good for hours of snare pounding drum’n'bass tracks roaming closely near the borders of breakcore country, while venturing over here and there. Well yeah, it’s not 100% breakcore I guess but it’s pretty damn close anyway.

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the belgian limitless internet charade continues

n3wjack — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:33:04 +0000

So Belgacom announced to be the first to start offering a limitless, flat rate internet account. Yay! Turns out it’s also the most expensive format they have. Yay? Telenet of course soon had to follow with it’s own limitless formula, which also turns out to be the most expensive on they have as well. Euhm. Ok, at least they are also boosting the cheaper formats which means that everyone will be enjoying a more luxurious bandwidth soon.

Well, at least it’s getting a bit better now and perhaps next year we’ll be seeing the cheaper accounts being sold at flat rates as well and the two duopolists will start competing each other on prices. Just maybe.

Funny they both came out with the same idea so close together. With fully prepared add campaigns and all. I wonder how long they had those lying on the shelves already.

Picture by Rob Sheridan, cc-licensed.

ccdm’s fletz: free breakcore is yum!

n3wjack — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:00:08 +0000

That’s right, it’s time for yet another totally free online breakcore album full of hard yummy breakcore tracks. This time it’s a joint release on the Bitcrusher label together with Sociopath Recordings introducing CCDM’s album Jetz. Never heard of em? Well, it was the same for me, but as it goes with a lot of those net releases these days: some of they really don’t suck.

So what do you get for your spent bandwidth on this one? 9 high quality breakcore tracks ranging from noisy-gabber-bleep tracks to amen-raping-chipcore with some ambient-stretchy-vocal-drones in the middle. So this basically means you’ll have to check it out to figure out what that means, and that’s what it’s all about really. Leech it, burn it, play it and pimp it. It’s rad!

belgium is going digital tax crazy

n3wjack — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:15:19 +0000

Belgian politicians are going bonkers over the digital world the last month it seems. First Mr. Q decides to start taxing all digital carriers because hey, you might be using them to store copyrighted material. You know, the same tax they have for VHS and audio tapes. The difference just is that those tapes where actually used to store as good as nothing but copyrighted material. But a USB stick or external HD is a completely different deal. Lot’s of non-copyrighted material on there, but we’re still paying for it…

Now there’s a proposed bill from the ecological parties to start taxing downloads to cope with illegal downloads on the net. Yep, we’re all criminals again. In fact they are talking about legalising illegal downloads. Funny. I wonder how Hollywood is going to react to that. For a small fee we’re allowed to rip any movie? Nice. Let’s set up Piratebay.be! The worst idea in the bill is that they want to avoid the ISPs from simply charging this tax to the consumer by blocking raises on the monthly subscription fee on our broadband internet connection. Great, so by blocking already way too expensive internet fees you’re going to avoid us from paying too much? Euhm. We already are paying twice what they pay in Holland, so I doubt ISPs will give a fuck.

What’s next? A blogging tax? We need a damn Pirate party I tell ya. Arrrr!

Photo by Jeremy Brooks, cc-licensed

after the storm

n3wjack — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:14:12 +0000

Nature can be awesome. Last year in November a hail storm passed by on a Sunday leaving the cloudy and stormy looking sky filled with orange colours so bright and alive I just had to go out in the cold and shoot some of that beauty. Click for the big version on Flickr.

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get a free dj set and save the black swan

n3wjack — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:12:14 +0000

I usually don’t do this but I’m going to go ahead into some easy-peasy copy-pasting blog posting shizzle (via UEH). Judging from the names on the track list this set just has to be kick-ass, even without listening to it myself. I just hope it’s not a Rick-roll hoax oslt. Anyway, check it out and support the Black Swan!

The Black Swan – Bristol’s 1 and only underground music venue has been closed due to new licensing laws and we’re here to oppose it! Joining Anakissed and Parasite in the studio is special guest Svengali from Mongrel who is part of the campaign to stop the Swan from closing it’s doors for good. We drop a selection of live sets from artists who played at Toxic Dancehall to give you all a taster of the variety of music you’d be likely to hear at the Swan. We also tell you how you can do your bit to save the now legendary venue.

Track listing for the set:

Shitmat – Live @ Toxic Dancehall 3 (24/01/03)
End.user – Fear (Hymen)
The Bug – Live @ Toxic Dancehall 3 (24/01/03)
Bong-Ra – Gideon War (Hydrophonic)
Grinderman – Go Tell The Women (Anti-)
Himuro Yoshiteru – Hopeless Monsters (Tangram Disc)
Broken Note – Crux (Ad Noiseam)
Aaron Spectre – Live @ Toxic Dancehall 9 (11/06/05)
Krumble – Time To Burn (Death$ucker)

Go get it at Goatlab!

Photo by aussiegall, cc-licensed.

themeless free breakcore album from breakcore.nl

n3wjack — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:18:28 +0000

I’ve seen the breakcore.nl compilations before but never got around to checking them out. You know how that goes, life, pr0n and twitter just keep you away from what really matters sometimes. But this time I could really do with some new and fresh tunes so I downloaded their forth compilation already and gave it a spin. Guess what? It fucking rocks! Yeah, that’s right. I’m not saying al the tunes are awesome, but they are pretty damn good at least. Production quality is great and at 320kbps everything sounds as it should. I just love free releases that offer full quality.

Now if the term breakcore scares you off a bit because you expect it to be stuffed with only the harshest of noise and gabber kicks you shouldn’t be afraid. Those kind of tracks are on their as well of coure, but there’s plenty of other sweetness there too. If you like the harder types of jungle and raggacore you’re going to find a few gems on this free album. Think ragga vocals and heavy cut-up amen bizznizz (Check MDH). Not into that? You want serious and cool sounding drum’n'bass to pump your street cred a bit? Well there’s some of that too. With a tune like “Putting Back the Cock in Drum’n'Bass” you can’t go wrong now can you? In fact the first 3 tracks are pretty much straight up drums ‘n fucking bass. Wicked. How about some glitchy Intelligent Dance Music because you want your brain to dance? No problem. There’s also some tunes that contain some internet memes, marijuana references, samples that come with your Microsoft Windows installation, funny samples, illegal samples and funny illegal samples. Oh, and harsh noise and gabber kicks of course. It’s breakcore after all. Ha!
You can get the whole thing for free at breakcore.nl.