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Episode 2: Playing with Arcade Fire
Encoded | 09 November 2007
We suss out the deal behind Arcade Fire's weird interactive website and check out the mathtronic trio, Metronomy.
Album Focus: Foals – 'Antidotes'
Encoded | 27 March 2008
This week we're having a journey into Antidotes, the new album from indie hypemongers Foals, which promises to be a killer release for 2008. From album opener 'The French Open' through to closing track 'Tron', Antidotes is a journey through precise, intricate, layered instrumentation, which despite having plenty of chin-scratching moments, still packs enough of a bassy, snarey kick to keep the kids dancing.
Album Focus: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Encoded | 03 April 2008
This week the focus is on The Brian Jonestown Massacre, whose thirteenth studio album, My Bloody Underground, has just been released. Bringing together an array of BJM members and a crew of Icelandic musicians, as well as Mark Gardener from Scouse bowl cut heroes Ride, the album is a diverse and eclectic affair, marrying their psychedelic rock and dirgy garage sound with a shoegaze soundscape that brings to mind My Bloody Valentine.
Album Focus: Blood Red Shoes – 'Box of Secrets'
Encoded | 18 April 2008
Blood Red Shoes' debut album Box of Secrets is so good we've made them band of the week in Encoded's Album Focus show. Although they've been around for quite some time, it's clear from album opener Doesn't Matter Much that their frenetic clatter hasn't been dulled by the passage of time, smacking just as hard as it does live, and introducing the band in a manner befitting a returning hero...
Video View: Bjork, Example, MGMT
Encoded | 16 April 2008
We have three visually stunning videos to tickle your ear-buds this week. Wanderlust is a collaboration between Bjork and production team Sean Hellfrisch and Isaiah Saxon, and is a mixture of large scale puppeteering, miniatures, and CG, Fulham rudeboy Example's latest shows what can be achieved on a much smaller budget, and MGMT's Time To Pretend has a zebra holocaust and hundreds of badly animated dolphins.
Video View: Justice, Metronomy and The Presets
Encoded | 01 April 2008
In our music video roundup this week we've got the latest from Parisian electro types Justice – 'DVNO' takes you on a typographic adventure through logo-land; 'My Heart Rate Rapid', which is the first single to be taken from Metronomy's forthcoming second album; and the new video from Australian synth-poppers The Presets, whose latest single 'This Boy's In Love' comes out at the end of April.
Special Feature: 'Call of Duty 4' interview
Start/Select | 04 December 2007
GameSpot UK speaks to Hank Keirsey, the military advisor to the Call of Duty 4 development team.
Gadget Reviews | 23 November 2007
The Asus Eee PC 701 is one of the smallest laptops on the market. It's small enough to be mistaken for a hardback book, but despite its dimensions, it doesn't sacrifice performance. With a solid state hard drive and operating a Linux-based graphical user interface, it's the definition of an ultraportable.
Game Trailers | 27 November 2007
Mass Effect tells the story of one Commander Shepard, an Alliance soldier that's tasked with saving the galaxy from utter doom. Along the way, Shepard will need to rescue damsels in distress, make sweet alien love, explore strange planets and discover wondrous technology that's been lost for millenia.
Game Trailers | 23 October 2007
Sega Rally Revo goes next gen, with dynamically deformable terrain – from gravel-littered tracks and smooth tarmac roads, to snow-covered mountain passes.
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