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This Week in Netlabel land

syn.pro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:59:39 +0000

Neferiu Records has put out a few gems over the years, including Skybase by Dockta Valkus (Think scifi futuristic hip hop that’s not spacey, but kind of hard and a little creepy/Massive Attacky).

Merzbau-Label some nice low-fi, indie type stuff. Also helped me find Tiago Sousa’s “The Western Lands”, which excellent.

My anime induced space station fantasies are going to come true!

syn.pro — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:57:02 +0000

This week in Netlabel land.

syn.pro — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:40:29 +0000

Animal Psi is a great site where labels and artists can send in what they are currently releasing and it gets a little blurb on the site. This site would be perfect to me if it also had a forum of some kind, like Recycle Your Ears did back in the day.

Free Albums Galore is a blog dedicated to posting free music downloads from netlabels and artists. This site is particularly great because of the variety they post.

Must Finish is Rjyan Kidwell’s (Cex) label for putting out small run tapes. I’ve been getting these are they have been coming out, so far they’ve all been pretty great.

Autoplate is one of my favorite labels. It was there that I first found Gultskra Artikler. It looks like they aren’t putting out new music anymore, but the back catalog is still up.

New John Watkiss Book!

syn.pro — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:28:38 +0000

A friend of mine helps represent John Watkiss and has just finished putting together his newest collection, Life Drawing Life Drawing. These are life drawings of life drawing classes, captured through John’s unique eye. I’ve seen the originals of this work and they are absolutely gorgeous, beautifully rendered, with a strange attention to detail. Likewise, the layout and presentation of the book is top notch!

They are trying out a print on demand model for this edition, though I would imagine a limited edition is in the works at some point.

Life Drawing Life Drawing can be purchased through Lulu.

Barack Obama is our next president!!!

syn.pro — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:38:59 +0000

>I couldn’t be happier about it.

Man hibernates for 3 weeks

syn.pro — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:32:47 +0000

From the old site.

TOKYO (AP) – A man who went missing in western Japan survived in near-freezing weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a state similar to hibernation, doctors said.

Mitsutaka Uchikoshi had almost no pulse, his organs had all but shut down and his body temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit or about 21.6 Celsius when he was discovered on Rokko mountain in late October, said doctors who treated him at the nearby Kobe City General Hospital. He had been missing for 24 days.

“On the second day, the sun was out, I was in a field, and I felt very comfortable. That’s my last memory,” Uchikoshi, 35, told reporters Tuesday before returning home from hospital. “I must have fallen asleep after that.”

Doctors believe Uchikoshi, a city official from neighbouring Nishinomiya who was visiting the mountain for a barbecue party, tripped and later lost consciousness in a remote mountainous area.

His body temperature soon plunged as he lay in 10-degree Celsius weather, greatly slowing down his metabolism.

“(Uchikoshi) fell into a state similar to hibernation and many of his organs slowed, but his brain was protected,” said Dr. Shinichi Sato, head of the hospital’s emergency unit. “I believe his brain capacity has recovered 100 per cent. ”

Uchikoshi was treated for severe hypothermia, multiple organ failure and blood loss from his fall, but was unlikely to experience any lasting ill effects, Sato said.

Doctors were still uncertain how exactly Uchikoshi survived for weeks with his metabolism almost at a standstill.

In animals like squirrels or bears, hibernation reduces the amount of oxygen that cells need to survive, protecting the brain and other organs from damage.

Rhet is coming…