Metamatic

Metamatic is an album by John Foxx, released in 1980. It was his first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the textured mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on Systems of Romance, his last album with the band, Metamatic 's hard-edged electronic sound was more akin to Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine (1978), Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle (1979), and early Human League. The name 'Metamatic' comes from a painting machine by kinetic artist Jean Tinguely, first exhibited at the Paris Biennial in 1959.

Production and style

Recorded in what the composer described as "an eight-track cupboard in Islington", Metamatic was engineered by then-unknown Gareth Jones. Foxx's electronic equipment included ARP Odyssey, an Elka 'String Machine' and a Roland CR-78 drum machine. His keyboard skills were rudimentary at the time, and several of the synth parts were played for him by John Wesley-Barker.

Half a dozen tracks referenced automobiles or motorways, most obviously "Underpass" and "No-One Driving". Foxx re-worked the former track as "Overpass" on the live Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour in 1998 (reissued in 2002 as the second of a 2-disc set, The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour); he also re-used its distinctive riff for the track "Invisible Women" on 2001's Pleasures of Electricity with Louis Gordon. The song "He's a Liquid" was influence by a still from a Japanese horror film depicting a suit draped across a chair in such a way as to suggest that the wearer had liquified; Foxx's lyrics also alluded to the 'fluidity' of human relationships. The final track, "Touch and Go", exhibited psychedelic touches that would increasingly recur in his 1980s work.

Relax

Relax may refer to:

Music

Albums

Relax (Blank & Jones album), 2003

Relax (Das Racist album), 2011

Cool Relax, a 1997 album by R&B singer Jon B.

Songs

"Relax" (song), a 1983 song by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, covered, sampled, and remixed by many artists

"Relax", a song by The Who from their album The Who Sell Out

"Relax", a single by Peaches from the album I Feel Cream

"Relax", title song from Relax by Das Racist

"Relax, Take It Easy", a 2006 song by Mika

Film

Relax (film), a Tamil film

Relax...It's Just Sex, a 1998 film

Computing

Regular Language description for XML, a specification for describing XML-based languages

Shanti Shanti Shanti

Shanti Shanti Shanti is a 1998 Kannada language comedy film directed by Srinivas. The film starred Abbas, Madhavan, Prakash Raj, Prema, Avni and Satish Shah in leading roles. The film during production became known for its series of innovative ideas for the Kannada film industry, by becoming the first film to have a website and a six-track DTS sound. The film, which featured cinematography from P. C. Sriram, released on 20 November 1998.

After the success of Madhavan's Alaipayuthey, the film was dubbed into the Tamil language as Relax to cash in on his newfound following.

Plot

There is Murthy, the rich but frugal papa, and his two college-going kids, Siddhartha (Madhavan) and Shanti (Avni). Given papa's ways, the two kids feel a bit shackled, and yearn constantly for the good life. Matters come to a head when Siddharth wants to play the guitar at a college function, Shanti wants to take part in the fashion parade—both need money and, of course, papa isn't in the mood to indulge such extravagance.

Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 2)

The second season of Degrassi: The Next Generation commenced airing in Canada on 29 September 2002, concluded on 23 February 2003 and contains twenty-two episodes. Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian serial teen drama television series. This season depicts the lives of a group of eighth and ninth grade school children as they deal with some of the challenges and issues teenagers face such as child abuse, hormones, date rape, body image, hate crimes, sexual identity, alcoholism, protests, and relationships. This is the first season to feature high school students from grade nine and the last season to feature middle school students.

Filming began 10 June 2002, and continued into November 2002. Every episode is named after a song from the 1980s.

The second season aired Sundays at 7:00 p.m. on CTV, a Canadian terrestrial television network, and premiered with a sixty-minute special, "When Doves Cry", which form the first two episodes of season two. Additional episodes were also aired on Fridays during January 2003. In the United States, it was broadcast on The N, a digital cable network aimed at teenagers and young adults. The season was released on DVD as a four disc boxed set on 21 June 2005 by Alliance Atlantis Home Entertainment in Canada, and by FUNimation Entertainment in the US. Registered users of the Canadian and US iTunes Stores are also able purchase and download the season for playback on home computers and certain iPods.