This week kicks off a big subscriber drive on Lost At E Minor. We really want more people to check into the site and sign up to the newsletter, and we’re prepared to pay you to help us get there. Well, in CDs anyway. And only one of you. Chosen at random. But it’s a bumper of a prize featuring a stack of albums from our good friends at Universal Music. To be in with a chance of winning, please forward any post on the Lost At E Minor site onto a group of your friends with a suggestion that they check in to see more content like it and then leave a comment under that post with an indication of how many people you sent it to. So it could be as simple as: Chris – 18. The more the merrier. But anyone who leaves a comment will be in with a shot at the CDs and will always have a warm and fuzzy place in our hearts for supporting us in this subscriber drive. Next Monday we’ll be sweetening the prize pot again offering spot prizes to randomly selected people who have forwarded a post on and left a comment on our site during the course of the week. Sweet.
Grand prize: new album releases from Patrick Wolf [The Magic Position]; Klaxons [Myths of the Near Future]; Bumblebeez [Prince Umberto and the Sister of Ill]; New Young Pony Club [Fantastic Playroom]; Blaqk Audio [CexCells]; Feist [The Reminder]; and Amy Winehouse [Back to Black], all courtesy of Universal Music.
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Crimea X is the coming together of two offbeat, disparate characters, DJ Rocca (Ajello, Super Sonic Lovers, Maffia Sound System) and Jukka Reverberi from 90s Italian glam cult rockers, Giardini di Mirò, who have often have been compared with the sound of Mogwai, Arab Strap, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. We asked them about their favourite music and they started with The Smiths song, Ask [listen below] ‘I saw them playing live on Italian TV. It was during the 80s when I was extremely young, and I’ve never stopped listening to this song’. Read the rest of Crimea X’s Secret Playlist.
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YOU'RE SAYING (12)
Olof said | 13 August, 2007
Olof, 5.
Lang said | 15 August, 2007
yay cds! Lang – 10 – don’t have that many friends 
Bridie said | 15 August, 2007
Bridie – 12!
bondage said | 16 August, 2007
259 – just cheated and posted a bulletin…
sick bunch of cds
Sheah said | 16 August, 2007
Sheah – 7 Pick me, pick me!
Piwi said | 16 August, 2007
Piwi – 5’s feeling lucky
Jason said | 17 August, 2007
Jason – 2 (while at work, but I will be spreading the word via a post on my website this weekend!)
julie said | 20 August, 2007
Julie – Lucky number 4! I love Patrick Wolf, Feist, Amy etc.
Zolton said | 26 August, 2007
Hey Jase, Sheah, and Jason, you each get a CD as part of our spot CD giveaway! Can you email me at zolton [@] lostateminor.com with your contact details and we’ll send one out to you. You’re still in the running too to be drawn out for the big CD pack, as is everyone else who has left a comment under this post.
Thanks for your support,
Zolton
Zolton said | 7 September, 2007
Thanks everyone who took part in this! Our high-tech computers have punched in all the data and the randomly selected winner of the seven CDs from Universal Music is Bondage. Strange name, nice album collection … Bondage can you please email me your postal address – zolton [@] lostateminor.com – and I’ll get the whopping prize pack in the mail for you. To the other spot winners, your CDs aren’t far away. Just a short hike to the post office! I’ll send them out next week. Thanks again everybody.
Thara said | 15 September, 2007
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The Dutch, the beautiful Dutch, in terms of architecture anyway. Here they have led the way again with this reuse of an old crane dock. A new glass office building, with a climatic façade of double glazing, motorized louvers on the outside and full length windows on the inside, hovers above the old dock. Read more
One Last Ounce is an experimental project exploring surreal imagery on an abstract cut. Says designer Jake Jelicich on his creative rationale: ‘I wanted to make thin, unique, comfortable tees that flowed and moved with the night. And I wanted the art to be dark, but sarcastic, mystical and inspiring, all in the same glance. These shirts are about long nights with good friends, being spontaneous, and letting the street lights guide you home’. Read more
New York-based Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu has been featured on Lost At E Minor several times over the past couple of years. I love the sense of drama her work conveys, the apparent colour clashes that somehow gel despite pre-existing rules about their compatibility. We checked in with her to see what she’s been up to of late: ‘I just came back from a week in Georgian Bay in Canada. No internet, no cell phone reception for a week. It was fantastic! Now I am getting ready for a group show at Visual Arts Gallery in New York that opens in September. I am creating two new 40” x 60” drawings. I’m also slowly refurbishing my website here and there’. Read more
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Says Van She bassist and vocalist Matt Van Schie about the Bush Tetras track — Too Many Creeps — from 1982: ‘I LOOOVE this tune. It opens with a perfect snare roll, and then the counter bass and guitar rhythms make it so cool. The lyrics are even more valid today. They’re one of my favourite bands of all time, and so many people try to do what they did for real. What a time! I wish I was born back then in New York, hanging out with these kids. Ahhhh!!’
It’s pretty bold to release a 25 track double CD as your first album, but singer-songwriter Benji Hughes doesn’t care. Themes of love and heartbreak run though the album and his folk-tinged pop draws comparisons to Beck, The Eels and The Magnetic Fields. [portrait by Vanessa Prager]
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Jase said | 13 August, 2007
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