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  • bigmusicweekRTɒs Big Music Week runs across all platforms from October 10th to 15th to celebrate all music RTÉ brings to its audience through radio, television and live performances as well as through its online services. Here’s a glimpse of what you can look forward to.

    RTÉ/RAAP (Recorded Artists Actors Performance) will announce the winner of this year’s Breakthrough Busaries. The categories go from rock to trad and, drawn from 800 entries, the 12 finalists will feature across all RTÉ stations over the week.

    Read the rest of this post I wrote over on TwoTube.

  • Tune of the Week 07/10/2011: Nancy Sinatra

    This song has been going through my head all day! Quite honestly, this masterpiece deserves to be tune of the week. And yes, I need new boots! From 1966, this week’s Tune of the week is Nancy Sinatra and ‘These boots were made for Walkin’.

  • Darklight 2011: Strictly Roots – Talks and Discussions

    darklight Darklight takes place in Dublin this year between 20th -22nd October. One of the things I love about it are the talks and discussions that go on over the weekend.

    Here’s a look at what’s happening:

    D.I.Y

    Friday 21 October 2011, 2.30pm The Factory, Grand Canal Dock

    A symposium of workshops & discussions on the democratization of 3D techniques programmed by Gavin Kelly and Caroline Campbell.

    Break-out topics including –

    Mocap Hack Friday 21 October 2011, 3.45pm The Factory, Grand Canal Dock

    Hosted by Gavin Kelly (Piranha Bar), Gavin will run a live experiment to hack the XBox Kinect into a motion capture for 3D animation. (more…)

  • DRC Music: Kinshasa One Two: Stream and Trailer

    DRCmusicDRC Music are a group of producer who were brought together by Damon Albarn. The profits from the album ‘Kinshasa One Two’ will all go to Oxfam’s work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    The album was digitally released on 30th September and will be released physically on November 4th. You can listen to the album here on Hyphem. The album was recorded over 5 days and features the producers T-E-E-D (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, Rodaidh McDonald and Kwes.

    Have a look at the trailer for the project: