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After a few failed attempts at reviewing the real deal, we’ve been able to authenticate this recording as genuine bona-fide. You can listen to previews at Warp’s music shop Bleep.

This new album introduces stringed instrument samples into the sound chest. Violins and guitars acoustic and electric nestle into the familiar and beloved music mesh aesthetic of Boards of Canada, creating the distinctive sound of Headphase. Surprisingly, it’s hard to find a break-out track on this record, a stand-out, rather accessible track that might garner some more listeners. Instead of delivering any sing-alongs, the Boards offers us highly nuanced sound collages and deeply melancholic sound structures.

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Nevermind our earlier review of a forged copy of Boards of Canada’s eagerly anticipated The Campfire Headphase. I came across an authenticated leak copy today.

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The Fall 2005 Television Season begins in earnest. Is this a heyday for quality programming or what? Prime Time is back.

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Will Showtime’s new dramedy Weeds catch the attention of Six Feet viewers in search of a new premium suburban soap opera? Swap out the mortuary arts meme with cannibus culture, and the formula stays intact: talented actors, top-shelf production quality, intelligent writers, suburban California, premium cable, trail-blazing subject matter, confusing comedy with tragedy.

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Yo. I take one short break from playing Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, and Sony goes releasing firmware 2.0 North America on me.Naturally, viewing my own site on this bizzarre ‘cinemascope’ web brower reveals the need for a redesign. PSP Magazines already offers a slim site. It is a whole other browser to consider now, isn’t it?The text input experience was about as painful as a good cell phone, so in effect, tolerable in a pinch, but not ideal. It features some enhanced text input helpers if you really ‘game out’ the controls when you think of typing – use the R and L buttons for cursor control. It’s easy to imagine some youngsters really getting good at typing with this thing, for real.

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