Although the new eXpanium compact disk player by Philips Electronics may not turn heads with its ordinary looks, its capacity to play both standard CD's and home-recorded music disks might perk up more than a few ears.
The system fits into a standard dashboard cutout and includes a radio, a CD-ROM drive that can play music disks, two backup batteries and a slot for removable "compact flash" memory.
But Paul Oakenfold, who has been a leading house-music disk jockey in England for a decade, manages to be a showman as well, making eye contact with the crowd and turning his choice of disks into drama as he delivers long, hypnotic, propulsive stretches of pumping trance music.
There is not enough time in the day for me to absorb them all — never mind the new-music disks, the Baroque-opera sets, the Mahler cycles, and the rest.
Although the 256k quality does not replace CDs, it does meet the same threshold some of us use to rip music off disk.
In 1979 New York Magazine wrote that by giving artists like Rifkin the opportunity to put Joplin's music on disk Nonesuch Records "created, almost alone, the Scott Joplin revival".
Unlike other MP3 players, the Rave uses Iomega's new Clik disks, which store up to 40MBof music on a disk that costs a mere $10.
Por Vida (Or Music), a two-disk record whose proceeds will help pay for treatment, enlists a wide range of performers to sing Escovedo's songs, including Lucinda Williams, Lenny Kaye, Jennifer Warnes, John Cale, and Calexico.
She plays music from the disk's repertoire — including Bach's French Suite No. 5 in G Major and Philip Lasser's "Variations on a Bach Chorale" — in a celebratory concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge.
This compact device (about 4in x 2 1/2 in x 1in) stores its music on PocketZip disks (originally launched as click disks).
We looked for secular music among the disks of keening prayers, and fiddled with the sound system for a while.
