Recently I heard a song of the band Black Violin in the radio. I was impressed how nice the combination of violin music and hiphop sounds. Afterwards I went to last.fm and searched for similar artists. I discovered some more.
Miri Ben-Ari is one of the related artists. She is a Israelic violinist and recorded many tracks with famous musician like Kayne West, Akon or Lil’ Flip.
Another fantastic band I found during the “violin-hiphop research” is Nuttin’ But Stringz. They produce a Kind of R&B sound that is really relaxing.
Past weekend my gym team had the honour to perform at the STV Gala «Gymnastics meets music» in the Hallenstadion Zurich. As far as I know there were around 7000 spectators per show and we had two of them. I was quite flustered because we had many new members in our team without much experience. The second point was that the music was played live from a professional band (Swiss Army Concert Band) so it was harder to hear the beat of the music.
Despite all my fears everything worked great and we could elate the audience. That was a kick-ass weekend with many good memories!
I probably can present you a recording of it afterwards, it has been broadcasted on swiss television.
Today I discovered through facebook an imho great music group called «Band of Horses». Someone posted a video with a dude (Danny MacAskill) doing some incredible tricks on his bike. Background music of the clip is the mentioned band with the track «The Funeral». I can also recommend you the track «The Great Salt Lake». Decide yourself…
I want to refer to the display bug I have with the opensource radeon driver. Alex Deucher commited 9 hours ago a bugfix for the annoying mouse cursor bug. I compiled the driver and replaced the driver from repositories with the homebrew one. It seems like the problem has really been solved. I keep observe this driver-version for some days and hope the problem is gone now.
I wont keep back the way how I created the driver:
During the «make»-step I had to add some additional developement packages like mesa-common-dev, xorg-dev and xserver-dev.
Afterwards the files radeon_drv.la, radeon_drv.so, ati_drv.la and ati_drv.so located under /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers were updated.
You could also try to replace only the binaries in the last-mentioned directory. I offer you the 4 files for download (No warranty!). http://combatx.net/temp/radeon.tar
Recently I heard a song of the band 
