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BeGrand.net launches today!

Rik — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:40:53 +0000

After 3.5 months of blood, sweat and coffee, BeGrand.net launches today! If you are a grandparent, or know any grandparents, please check it out.

If you spot anything broken, let us know via the feedback tab on the right of the site.

Fanx!!!

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Rowan’s had enough of Ikea

Rik — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:37:59 +0000

Yep… I know EXACTLY how he feels…

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Black Mountain – In The Future

Rik — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:23:24 +0000

It seems to have hardly merited a mention on most of the end of the year album lists I have bothered to look at, which is a shame as I think it is one of the best hard/psychedelic rock albums I’ve heard in the last few years. Hailing from Vancouver, Canada, you may be unsurprised to learn that it is a very bong-friendly album, with the epic Bright Lights clocking in at over 16 minutes, but don’t go thinking it is all self-indulgent stoner noodling. Only some of it is, and even then it is pretty damn good noodling. Lead singer/guitarist Stephen McBean has chops to match his beard, and manages to coax classic riff after classic riff from his ‘axe’ (man)… ok, I admit it, I’m testing out amazon’s associate widget so this is not really a PROPER review right now, but it will be just as soon as I don’t have a nine-month-old crawling all over me. Still, feel free to go buy it now if you want to make me rich beyond my wildest dreams. If amazon sold bongs as well I’d be laughing…

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Pasta Alla Carpet

Rik — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:39:43 +0000

Rowan having dinner and exhibiting brilliant comic timing…

Pasta alla Carpet from liminalkid on Vimeo.

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Genki DJ Set

Rik — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:24:40 +0000

Here is a DJ set from the mysterious Genki. Enjoy. I’ve installed Yahoo! Media Player on the blog so if you notice that little tab at the bottom left of the page? Right there? OK – click that and you can play any mp3 linked to on the current page, or download if you prefer. Nifty, eh? Shame Yahoo! won’t be innovating any more seeing as they sacked everyone at Brickhouse innovation centre. But I digress.

Hope you like the mix, it’s electrotastic.

Genki DJ Set

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39 Minutes Without Hardcore

Rik — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:35:19 +0000

Here is a mostly dubstep mix which my friend Alexis recently sent my way. He was good enough to supply a track list as well:

[00:00] 1) Scuba – Tell Her
[00:41] 2) Maga Bo ft. Max Normal – Homeboys
[04:06] 3) Maga Bo ft. K-Libre – Analyse D’Amour
[07:49] 4) Ekstrak – Mass Dampers
[11:03] 5) Clouds – WaDaDa [Elders refix]
[13:30] 6) MLZ – NewAnalogueCentury
[15:15] 7) Vladislav Delay – Recovery Idea [Andy Stott Remix]
[17:59] Appleblim & Peverlist – Over Here [Brandon Moeller remix]
[20:41] 9) Skream – Moving Snares
[21:35] 10) Surgeon – Floorshow Part 2 Untitled (track b1)
[24:00] 11) Basic Channel – Phylyps Trak II Untitled (track 2)
[26:32] 12) Cotti ft. Doctor – Calm Down [Witty Boy Remix]
[30:32] 13) Plastician ft. Skepta – Intensive Snare
[32:16] 14) Headhunter – Paradigm Shift
[35:00] 15) Bong Ra – Sissy Spacek
[39:13] 16) Hellfish – Big Bald Fuck
[41:13] 17) Hellfish – U Don’t Quit

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“Vicious Games” techno mix by DJ Omar.

Rik — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:08:06 +0000

Good Lord! A blog post! I thought I was dead, or something. Anyway, back again. Who knows how long for this time? I’ve just been sent a most excellent mix by my Norwegian friend Ole-Martin (a.k.a. DJ Omar) so I thought I’d share it with you, gentle reader/listener. I’ve only gone and upgraded my blog media hosting to Amazon’s S3 service, so tell your friends as well – I can handle the bandwidth now, for real. (For the geeks who might care – I’m using the S3 Firefox plugin to manage uploads and also the S3 WordPress plugin which allows you to seamlessly use S3 storage when you upload media within WordPress. Nice.)

Massively passé though it is these days, I’m going to try to blog again semi-regularly, I might even try to make it useful by doing ‘screencasts’ of geeky stuff or mac stuff now and again. One cannot live by tweets alone.

Without further ado, some music!!!

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how many are you on?

Rik — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:57:49 +0000

I don’t normally like clever/ironic babywear, but i just HAD to get this for Rowan. It is from a dutch brand called “Imps & Elfs” who do loads of nice stuff… (yes, i *know* it should be “elves” … you tell them).

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Rowan Alexander Abel-Copithorne

Rik — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:43:35 +0000

I thought I’d better formally announce via blog post (!) the birth of our son Rowan Alexander Abel-Copithorne on Weds. 19th March (one day before Daddy’s birthday, which is nice) 2008. Rowan weighed in at a hefty 8lb 13oz (old school) or 3995g (in your fancy new metric system). He was delivered by C-Section after a ridiculously long 48 hour labour (I know it’s not a competition, but wow…). He was too big to come out and apparently – having spoken to him since – he was also quite comfy in there, thanks. Oh, and he was the wrong way round as well. I blame myself, I think I distracted him at a cricital moment. Silly Daddy.

Adrienne and baby are both home now and are doing well. Rowan is delightful and beautiful and cute and sometimes resembles an evil genius hatching sinister schemes, but mostly looks like a cute little bear. He has been a dream so far. Adrienne is beautiful and a wonderful mummy and ridiculously hardcore. I mean, for real, yo…

You can see photos on www.flickr.com/photos/rikabel right now, I’ll try to organise some sets and stuff for ease of browsing when I get a spare moment. Hahahhahaha! heh. heheh……sorry.

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Cambridge Commuter Hell!

Rik — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:08:25 +0000

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