...has it?

Warning: Watch your volume on this one! There are a couple of clunking sounds that might hurt your eardrums if you're wearing headphones.

Graphic:  As reported, Life Is Random will be joining a bunch of Tokyo artists in Shibuya for a group art show called Kira Kira.  This will be Random's Tokyo debut.

http://www.rukus.jp/kira.html

And just in time for Halloween!  D-Mac's Grip of Terror mix:  http://www.djdmac.com/downloads/Halloween-A-Grip-of-Terror/index.htm
(downloadable as a zip file, 34:41)

Here's another link about the subway/train line, which I've mentioned several times that passes through our neighborhood.  It's the line which we use to get into Shibuya and to the rest of Tokyo.

Den-en-toshi Line:  http://www.hackwriters.com/slowtrain.htm

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Tags: NFTOS, and many more to come!

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Here's another track from Quest a.k.a. Hayden that I was withholding because I was planning on doing another Music From The Other Side show.  Well, I can hold it back no longer.  Here it is...

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Tags:  NFTOS, MFTOS, Quest, Hayden, Lincoln, Nebraska, music, instrumental, download, .mp3, electronic

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Don't know much about the above video. Just had it forwarded to me on facebook by Thomas, a former resident of Shimane Prefecture now back in Detroit.

Links and stuff coming soon.

Posted by Rob.

Tags:  NFTOS, Tokyo, Japan

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I've been reading some religious material lately--Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, in fact.  Pure literary crack cocaine.  Wait.  Is there an oxymoron in there somewhere?

Norvie (that's what some of his old friends call him) sent this track to me quite awhile ago, but it just felt right to me at this time. 

It is a cover song, so there's really nothing new about it, other than you've probably never heard it done by him before. 

Those of you who have heard the song before, will probably recognize the original author immediately.  If someone with existing rights to this song would like us to take it down, that's cool.  No one is making any money off of this, believe me.

Photo:  His current facebook profile pic, as of today.

Links 
You can also find Norville on myspace.com, at Sucia music,

Posted by Rob.

Tags:  NFTOS, Norv, Norvie, Norville Parchment, song, music, cover, myspace,

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Makiko and Rob tell of their travels through Viet Nam & Cambodia.  Part one of two, in other words, to be continued...

Photo:  Weaving factory at a Muslim minority village near the Vietnamese-Cambodian border, upper Mekong Delta.

Related podcast:  Panic Living #77:  和牛！ (Rob talks about the first two-thirds of the Vietnam-Cambodia trip)

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Tags:  NFTOS, places, gypsies, travel, Vietnam, Saigon, Hochi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Mekong River, Delta, Capital 1, tuk tuk, cyclo, spring rolls, duck eggs, Angkor, ABC, Black Panther, beer

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Couldn't think of a title for this episode, until I realized I had a recent Burger Fuel promo e-mail in my inbox...

Related podcast:  Our Gipsy Life vol. 1 (Makiko joins Rob to continue telling the Vietnam-Cambodia trip story)

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Tags:  NFTOS, Tama River, Tamagawa, Haneda Airport, cycling, Fusa, Hino-o, Viet Nam, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hochi Minh City, Saigon, Phnom Penh, farfalle alla arabiata, pasta, bagna càuda, bagna caôda, podcast, download, .mp3, Sangenjaya, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, Japan, Wagyu, Wa gyu, 和牛！

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Hans and Rob reflect on La Vuelta a España, Tour of Ireland, Tour of Missouri, the UCI World Championship Time Trial, and preview the Road Race.

Where would you look, but to an Australian homepage for news from a World Championship RR won by an Aussie?  Why, OzCycling.com, of course!

Photo:  Bicycle on Mekong River boat tour in Viet Nam.  There was a brief ride for tourists before lunch, probably to get us hungry for the "elephant ear fish."

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Tags:  NFOTS, UCI, World Championships, Road Race, Time Trial, Coors Classic, 1986, 1987, 1988, Raul Alcala, Davis Phinney, Connie Carpenter, Colorado, California, Hawaii, San Francisco, Cadel Evans, Fabian Cancellara, Australia, OzCycling

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Well, the summer is over, in the northern hemisphere at least.  Time to pack up and leave the planet. Here's another track from Jonathan Perry.

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Tags:  NFTOS, Musgrave Ritual, Jonathan Perry, music, song, download, free, Star Trek

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If you're a regular NFTOS listener / viewer / subscriber / reader / etc, then you've most likely read of Salads In Space, through NFTOS event postings. 

However, the music of Charles Billard, Jerry Gordon and Rick Tuazon, as Salads In Space, has not been uploaded for your listening pleasure here before.

This one is called Plink Plonk Muses.

Image:  Part of an art installation Charles created recently in Niigata (I believe).

Posted by Rob.

Tags:  NFTOS, Salads in Space, Charles Éric Billard, charlou, Jerry Gordon, softlogicmonkie, moontriangle, Voice Box, plink plonk, Rick Tuazon, experimental, music, homemade instruments, slitar

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Here is a brand new track by a Tokyo resident who is somewhat new on the scene.  He has a couple events coming up in September, including one in Shibuya on the 13th.  Stay tuned for details! 

You can check out more of his tunes at http://myspace.com/fullpropulsion.

Posted by Rob.

Tags:  NFTOS, Riu, Full Propulsion, psytrance, trance, techno, electronica, music, Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

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