TECHNOLOGY

Rip It Up, Issue 214, 1 June 1995, Page 5

TECHNOLOGY

• Flying Nun are now on the Internet. Look for them under anyone@flyingnun. conz. • With their new album Tales From the Punchbowl, Primus will have a CD-Plus version for CD-ROM compatible computers. We are told the CD-Plus will include “interactive graphics for the computer to further enhance the Primus experience.” • Courtney Love’s Hole Internet site was closed for several days after fans exchanged death threats and offensive language. The accounts of the two people who posted death threats were closed. • Using SSL’s Worldnet Integrated Services Digital Network Jesus Jones in Bath at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio recorded simultaneously with Japanese guitarist Hotel in Singapore. The mix was made into a CD and handed out at the Singapore IMM conference the next day. • USA indie Rounder have issued their 1,100 title catalogue on CD-ROM with colour reproductions of album covers, 20 •second music edits from each album and press quotes. • EMI .will release a CD-ROM version of the Queensryche album Promised Land with documentary footage of the making of the album, 25 puzzles or games. Fans can explore five different worlds or trips representing the psyches of each of the bandmembers. • The battle is on to establish two incompatible high density CD formats that will contain five times more digital information than the current audio CD. The new formats will be capable of carrying movies. Old rivals Phillips and Sony have joined forces to take on the Toshiba and TimeWarner boncfed disc system. There is also a third rival in the videodisc field, Matsushita who have a bonded disc system with two layers of digital information on either side. The Matsushita videodisc will be compatible with the Toshiba and Time-Warner system.