Scrolling through the infinity of what has become Bandcamp Daily, I discovered a remarkable album of psychedelic rock from a band called Shadow Show. This trio from Detroit delivers a solid 10 tracks album. Kate Derringer (also bass player of the trio) did a great work on the mix (as well as on the bass!). It sounds like it comes straight from the 60s but with a cleaner touch. Vocals harmonics are especially great as well. I can’t wait to hear the vinyl.

To my very own surprise, after a decade of being a vim user, I have become a doom emacs user. This is the best of both worlds. I can keep my vim bindings (which I love in a Stockholm syndrome way), and I get to have the amazing Emacs operating system at hands. Look at me now, blogging from org2blog using my vim muscular memory on my WordPress instance. 

Doom Emacs is insanely great. It takes a bit of time to get used to it but it’s a very rewarding thing to do. Org Mode is simply great and deserves to have more user.

I am super happy to announce that my friend Flore’s album RITUALS is finally around the corner. It will be released April 7th on POLAAR in digital and vinyl. Thanks to numerous supporters, the crowfunding for its vinyl release has met the funding goal in just a few hours. At time of writing, it is funded at 175%. The album has received a large number of positive reviews from press and radio. A terrific remix EP in on its track as well, with features from artists we would only have dreamt of working with just a few years back. 

RITUALS is the culmination of more than 6 years of artistic work for Flore. It is also the culmination of 6 years of hard work on POLAAR. It is impossible to dissociate these two endeavors. During all these years, Flore has relentlessly poured her energy in both – after all, the labels’ inaugural release was her own RITUAL Part. 1. As a friend, I am so proud of what she achieves, and the consistency she boast since 20 years.

Her album is a treat and I am so glad we release it on our own imprint.

No introduction is the best kind of introduction, especially when I feel lazy. 

1. Want to see what automated state surveillance is? Go watch & read this interactive reporting on the New York Times: How China Turned a City into a Prison.
2. South Korea hotel guests were secretly filmed and the footage were livrestreamed online.
3. Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. 
4. Spatial is a neat AR collaboration tool using Microsoft’s Hololens2. It looks like a killer app for distributed teams. 
5. Mark Burgess (the author of Promise Theory) released his new book Smart Spacetime. I insta-added it in my anti-library. 
6. Thanks to Benoit Jacquemont, I now understand better what is HTTP/3. 

Cheers,

Marc

Hey there. What’s up? Doing good? I’ve been on a hiatus but hope to be back regularly posting links.

1. We can now 3D print mathematically designed shapes that block sounds.
2. Open-Privacy‘s researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis discovered a cryptographic trap door in the Swiss e-voting system.
3. Is willpower an antiquated idea that we should throw away? Carl Erik Fisher thinks so
4. We released a new EP on POLAAR. It’s all about UK bass this time.
5. The sonification of the US Yield Curve is a great example of data sonification. 
6. Twotone is a new Open-Source software created to facilitate the data sonification. Could this be used for infrastructure monitoring? 

Enjoy,

Marc