Equinoxe on the Rocks

This fantastic track has been flagged up on the Jean Michel Jarre Yahoo! group recently. It's a cover version of Jean Michel's 1978 track Equinoxe 7 by a Norwegian musician called Per Kristian Risvik, and as the name implies, it rocks. The original track is a lot quieter, but still quite driven and exciting. Per Kristian's version just layers in a heavier, pounding bassline and some truly thunderous drums, giving it a more powerful, almost live feel (similar to the version found on Jarre's Houston/Lyon live CDs).

It's well worth a listen, and if you like it, check out some of Per Kristian's other work, which includes some original pieces as well as covers of the Doctor Who theme and the Super Mario jingles!

Click here to listen to Equinoxe on the Rocks

All together again

So here we are, back with the new look kinkyMachine. The best posts from all my other blogs, and going forward, a whole new bunch of stuff. Basically, I just wanted a place to talk about all the good stuff in life; the best films, the best music, good food, great books, anything that tickles the taste-buds (or whatever sensory organ is appropriate...)

Stick around, it might be fun.

Happy Christmas Everybody!

Have a great Christmas, everyone! I hope you have a lovely time, and
can be with those that you love (oh and get lots of pressies too!)

If you want to send me anything, it's not too late...

Peace.
Craig x

Oversol say... no more!

Sad news just in from Oversol. Best to let the boys say it themselves:

To all our lovely Oversol fans,

Firstly we want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Jolly New Year!

Unfortunately in the Oversol camp, we have some sad news. Although we have had such a great time being part of Oversol and have had many laughs on the way, Tom and then Aaron felt that it was their time to move on. As for the rest of the band, we feel that it would be an impossible task to fill their amazingly talented shoes, and it has therefore resulted in the closing of a chapter in our lives too.

We want to thank you all for your amazing support, for all the CDs you bought and the gigs you sang your hearts out at! We hope you have enjoyed Oversol as much as we have. Who knows, you may see some of us venturing out in other things soon!

Love from Oversol 
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As a token of thanks for your support over the last few years, we'd like to give you a little something to remember us by. After rooting through the Oversol archives, we've found some recordings that you may not have heard, and we thought it would be nice to share them with you. So if you visit Oversol.co.uk then you'll find 4 EPs to download - totally free of course! We're giving away 17 tracks, ranging from demos which were recorded back in 2003, to acoustic versions, to more recent recordings. It's been interesting listening back to the old stuff, and hearing how our sound changed over the years - there's certainly a variety of material there, in terms of both style and quality! Hopefully you'll find something to enjoy.

As we said in the announcement above, it's been a lot of fun. Enjoy the festive season and hopefully we'll see you again in the future.

Love from Aaron, Mogs, Nathan, Rees and Tom xx

So there you have it, the end of another great hope for the future. Who knows, maybe if more people had bought their stuff then they'd still be going, but that's life. We here at the 'Slut wish them all the best for the future - and thanks for all the free stuff!

The Great Coca-Cola/iTunes Giveaway

So here's how it works. You buy a bottle of Coke, and on the back of the label is a code. You type that code into iTunes and you get a free download. So far so good, Coca-Cola sells lots of its lovely fizzy beverages and the punter gets lots of free songs. But - and here's the catch - you can only have five songs per person. So, no matter how much Coke you drink, you can only have five songs.

Now it seems to me that this is all a bit, well, screwy. If Coke had printed the codes in a few bottles, rather than every single one, then people would buy more Coke in order to find the free songs. Better still, there could have been a scale of prizes, from single downloads, to multiple downloads, up to an iPod, iMac and ten thousand free downloads. I know I'd have been buying Coke till it came out of my ears.

Oh well, maybe I should go into marketing.