![]() An existing settlement can become a city with two wheat and three stone. A settlement costs one each of wood, brick, wheat, and sheep. ![]() A road can be bought with one wood and one brick resource card. The only drawback is that sometimes you end up in a game where you have no chance of winning, and that can be less than fun.īuilding: Each person has a building cost card that shows what combination of resources they need for each possible purchase. My family found that the ability to earn resource cards each time the dice are rolled, even when it’s not your turn, kept everyone engaged. This includes expanding roads, building new settlements, converting settlements into cities, and purchasing “development cards” (more on those later). Additionally, whenever a 7 is rolled, players with more than seven resource cards in their hands have to discard half of them (rounded up).Ĭollecting Resources: “Resource cards” display pictures of the coveted resources, which provide the building blocks for everything a player wants to do. It’s placed or moved on the board when the next player rolls 7s or when a “knight” development card (purchased by that player), is played. The robber brings death to the tile it sits on, which means no resources can be collected there until the robber moves. The Robber: When a sum of 7 is rolled, that player gets to place the “Robber Pawn” on any tile. You’ll definitely want to place your settlements near tiles with higher-probability numbers in order to win. The least likely numbers (2 and 12) just have one dot. Five dots and a red-colored number means that it’s one of the most likely numbers to be rolled (both 8 and 6 have this designation). The game also marks the number tokens with the probability that they’ll be rolled using one to five small dots. So, for example, if you placed two cities next to a mountain tile with a 5 on it, you’ll get four ore cards every time a 5 is rolled. Settlements earn one resource card each and cities earn two. If your settlement is adjacent to that tile, then you earn the resource that it represents. Rolling: Each turn begins with a roll of the two dice whose sum will correspond to the number token on a hexagonal tile. In fact, my teenage son Charlie says that after winning, it’s his favorite part of the game.Ĭatan tends to be competitive until the last point is won (or stolen, depending on your perspective). Overall, we found the setup process easy and enjoyable-similar to putting together a simple puzzle with multiple moving pieces. When my family plays, we try to make the tile selection process as “fair” as possible, evenly distributing the resources as well as the number tokens. Choose well, and you’ll reap the rewards with each roll of the dice choose poorly (or unluckily) and you’ll quickly be cursing those choices. For example, if you choose a spot surrounded only by hills (which gives you brick), then you won’t be able to get the resources necessary to advance your gameplay later on. You need to strategically place your settlements in spots near a variety of resources on the board. Once the last player places his or her first settlement, that player gets to then place his or her second road and settlement, followed by the remaining players in reverse order. This creates a unique terrain that looks like a map for each game. The strategy and tactics components come into play during setup: Each player takes turns placing two settlements (little houses) and two roads settlements may be placed anywhere on the board as long as there is no other settlement within one road segment. We often play two games back to back, usually at my insistence, so I can have another (usually fleeting) chance to best my kids. It takes about five minutes to set up the board for each game and then around an hour for each match. The Spruce / Sarah Vanbuskirk Setup: Fun to switch up ![]()
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![]() Paul Macey now calls himself Tony James, and prior to starting his summer season at Cowes Thorness Bay Holiday Camp this weekend Fri/Sat/Easter Sunday is running a soul roadshow at Ladbrokes Nodes Point Holiday Camp at Bembridge (all on the Isle Of Wight). ![]() London’s globetrotting mighty atom Cleveland Anderson, now regularly up in Scotland, this weekend funks Paisley Paris Saturday (21), Coatbridge Le Club De France Easter Sunday (22). Radio Invicta (my favourite night-time listening) hasn’t disappeared, it’s merely moved to 90.2FM. Harry Belafonte-produced hip hop flick ‘Beat Street’ has so much music that US Atlantic will be releasing at least two separate staggered soundtrack albums rather than a single double LP, to keep the price down, while 12in releases will be through the usual labels of such as Soul Sonic Force, Melle Mel, The System, Jenny Burton, Celia Cruz, musical mastermind for all original material being Arthur Baker … Billboard says that Tenderloinz ‘ Where’s The Beef?‘ has “obvious double meanings in this season’s favourite catchphrase” - well, I hadn’t heard anyone use it until Labour MP Joe Ashton quoted it as a current catchphrase on Friday’s TV-am (which incidentally turned into some of the funniest TV in ages with Donny Osmond and Glen Campbell yokking it up when it wasn’t Chris Tarrant’s hilarious mailbag) - my favourite bedtime viewing!. Luther Vandross finally leapfrogged Michael & Lionel as top US Black LP, while Huey Lewis & The News ‘ I Want A New Drug‘ tops US Dance/Disco (it’s good chunkily chugging 110bpm rock with guitars ‘n brass, on Chrysalis). Zena Dejonay I forgot to point out is very like Fantasy ‘You’re Too Late’. Evelyn Thomas was featured on Fatback ‘Is This The Future?’. I said the Crusaders ‘Night Ladies’ was almost HI-NRG before realising it’s Jessica Williams actually singing!. Boys Town/Hi-NRG breakers to look for in next week’s chart include Maegan ‘Doctor’s Orders’ (Savoir Faire), Hush ‘Hearts On Fire’ (Spirit), Claudja Barry ‘Trippin’ On The Moon’ (US Persona), 501’s ‘We Are Invincible’ (ERC), Life Force ‘What A Way To Go’ (Polo). now if only Morgan Khan could spot a hit before it had built a buzz. ‘ StreetSounds 9‘, due next week, will include Stanley Clarke/Howard Hewett ‘ Heaven Sent You‘ (worth the price alone), Funk Deluxe, Real To Reel, AB’S, Jones Girls ‘Keep It Comin’ Carl Anderson ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ - hotter than of late, huh? - while the Ian Levine-mixed ‘ StreetSounds Hi-Energy 2‘ will have Miquel Brown ‘Saint’, Eastbound Expressway ‘Primitive Desire’, Cinema, Christopher Street, Yvonne Gidden, Velvette, Tina Fabrique, Linda Lewis, Laura Pallas, Romance, Café Society (all the latter from the current chart!). The Kane Gang’s instrumental flip seems to be titled ‘ One Million Chickens Can’t Be Wrong‘!. ![]() Cameo’s 12in is now 4-tracked with the addition of Mark Berry’s 108½bpm ‘ Club Mix‘ remix (Club JABX R2). Terri Wells 115bpm ‘ I’ll Be Around‘ revamp is another Nick Martinelli-produced electro driven Philly soul update, due next week though already on white label. Nigel Martinez, the now US-domiciled percussionist, has amongst others been working with Maurice White on the next Earth Wind & Fire LP, which should hopefully see them return to better form (maybe doing some of his songs). Steve Davis, the surprisingly tall Dee Dee Bridgewater fanatic (he also plays snooker), is being taught to mix by none other than Froggy but won’t have much time to practise until summer. I thought it was Capital Radio’s David Rodigan sitting in front of me - turned out to be Red Rose Radio’s Richard Searling (same hairstyle!). JEFFREY OSBORNE’s Monday was uncompromisingly American (it brought back memories of Harlem’s Apollo), soulfully impassioned, and tightly backed by the likes of Jeff Lorber and, an unexpected bonus, the ‘Hi How Ya Doin?’ singer Barry ‘Sunjohn’ Johnson on slap, snap and tickle bass - do not miss them at the Hammersmith Odeon (where it will be Ingram as support) next Friday 27!. ![]() Custom Window Size: Add Your PC Screen Resolutionġ. FMV Aspect Ratio Override: Off (Default)Ĥ. Please wait for follow-up announcements and information from Tahlreth directly on /r/AetherSX2.3.
![]() Among the producers on the album were such illustrious names as Adrock from the Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, DJ Shadow, The Neptunes, Jermaine Dupri, and Mark Ronson, among many others. After uniting as a force to be reckoned with in 2005, the group was poised to drop their debut album.Ī co-production between Def-Jam Recordings and (B)APE Sounds, the Teriyaki Boyz released Beef or Chicken on November 16, 2005. Hit Collaborators and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo DriftĬonsidering the wide array of experience and success each member of the Teriyaki Boyz brought to the table, it makes sense that they would be able to draw in some top of the line collaborators. Aside from being a successful DJ, Nigo is also a successful fashion designer, entrepreneur, and record producer. Nigo, also known as Tomoaki Nagao, is the creator of the fashion label A Bathing Ape or BAPE. The fifth and final member of the Teriyaki Boyz is none other than the group’s DJ, Nigo. Named Seiji Kameyama, Wise took on his stage name after building a career by rapping in both English and Japanese. The fourth Teriyaki Boy, was the rapper Wise. It was during this period that MC Verbal joined up with the Teriyaki Boyz. In 2002 Lisa left the group to pursue a solo career, freeing up the two remaining members to collaborate with other vocalists as a duo and to pursue their own work outside of M-Flo. Eventually the duo would unite with vocalist Elizabeth Sakura Narita, whose stage name was Lisa, and M-Flo began to gain popularity. M-Flo started in 1997 when MC Verbal and DJ Taku Takahashi started working together as students in an international school in Tokyo.īoth MC Verbal and DJ Taku would go on to study in the United States for college before reuniting in Japan and continuing to perform. The third member of the Teriyaki Boyz was Verbal-Ryu Young Gi-who had been the MC for the hip hop group M-Flo before joining the group. Ilmari and Ryo-Z, also respectively known as Keisuke Ogihara and Ryouji Narita, had been a part of Rip Slyme since the group’s founding in 1994, meaning they had been working together for more than a decade prior to the 2005 start of the Teriyaki Boyz. Two members of the Teriyaki Boyz, Ilmari and Ryo-Z, were members of the hip hop group Rip Slyme. All together the group consisted of five members from two different pre-existing hip hop groups and a fashion company. It’s always interesting to see how musicians find each other and that is especially true for the members of the Teriyaki Boyz. With that being said, now is as good a time as any to look back on this deliciously named hip hop act from the first decade of the twenty-first century. Comprised of musicians from a number of different Japanese hip hop groups and prominent DJs and rappers, the Teriyaki Boyz were still able to make quite the impact while they were still making music.įrom contributing multiple tracks to the soundtrack for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift to collaborating with such hip hop icons as Pharrell, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and more, the Teriyaki Boyz had a lot going for them. The single “I Still Love H.E.R.” was produced by Kanye West.Just because they were last active in 2009 doesn’t mean the music of the Teriyaki Boyz should be forgotten.
![]() You can enable an ‘Audio Ducking’ mode to automatically lover the music level when there is voiceover so you can hear the narrator over the background music, apply overlay options to obtain semi-transparent and color blend results, make use of a video mask mode to show or conceal parts of your videos, freeze frames by focusing on a single one (you may set the duration to get the desired impact), convert titles to alpha channel images or animations, save filters and transitions so you can employ them in your future projects, and record different areas of your screen (and capture both audio and microphone sound). It has to offer several extra advanced parameters to help you gain full control over the final video streams or multimedia presentations. However, Corel VideoStudio is not limited only to those. The aforementioned editing capabilities are just some essential options that you can use to create personalized clips. ![]() You can add audio files and place them to the preferred position in the timeline, trim songs, and enable fade in/out effects. Transitions can be inserted between videos or images, and you may choose between a wide range of options in order to fade in or out, or dissolve one image into the next one. You may import favorite clips in the library, add your clips and pictures to a video project by dragging and dropping thumbnails onto the timeline, as well as embed titles and format the text according to your preferences (for example, you may alter the alignment and modify the font, size, and color). There are some basic editing steps that you can start with to create a video, photo slideshow, or other multimedia presentations that gather photos, videos, and songs in an easy and fast way. It is also the place where you can find various templates, transitions, effects, and other features that you can include in your projects. The library represents the place where you can store all sorts of items, like videos, images, and songs. The tool helps you keep your files in a library. Tutorials and help manual are available, and include comprehensive details about the video editing process. However, it comprises a large number of video editing parameters so you still need to dedicate some of your extra time to learn how to make the most out of its functions. The video editor boasts a clean design and reveals a well-structured suite of features. It is compatible with Windows 10, 8, and 7. Corel VideoStudio is a professional video editor designed to help you create movies with a perfect sync between dialog and background sound, burn them on DVDs using the integrated authoring tool, as well as personalize clips with unique effects. ![]()
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![]() (Michael McDonald has returned to the band for their fiftieth anniversary tour.) Liberté is the first studio album of all new, original material in eleven years. Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Vivino and more.įifty years after their debut album, the Doobie Brothers - Patrick Simmons, Tom Johnston and John McFee - come out of the pandemic with the followup to 2014's Southbound. Gibbons (of ZZ Top), Peter Frampton, Rickie Lee Jones, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Keb' Mo', Boz Scaggs, Patti Scialfa, G.E. ![]() Picking up where last year's Blues With Friends left off, 82 year old Dion DiMucci delivers another killer collection of Bronx blues, with contributions from Marcia Ball, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, Billy F. Scotland's Del Amitri - Justin Currie, longtime member Iain Harvie, Andy Alston and company - are back with their first studio album in nineteen years. Three years after being booted from Fleetwood Mac and two years after open heart surgery following a heart attack, Lindsey issues his first solo studio album in a decade. This is Jackson Browne's first album of new songs in almost seven full years. An all covers album, Delta Kream features songs from R.L. The second album from Aaron Dessner (from The National) and Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver and others) features numerous guest contributors including Fleet Foxes, Lisa Hannigan, Ben Howard, Ilsey (Juber, the daughter of guitarist Laurence Juber), La Force, Anais Mitchell, Naeem, Shara Nova (of My Brightest Diamond), Taylor Swift, This Is The Kit and Sharon VanEtten.ĭan Auerbach and Patrick Carney get back to their blues roots with an album of Mississippi hill country blues. ![]() Tony's second album with Lady Gaga (following 2014's Cheek To Cheek) features the final recordings of 95 year old Queens native, Anthony Dominick Benedetto, ending a brilliant career which lasted for more than seventy-five years. Top 25 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (in alphabetical order)Ī sentimental choice to honor an icon of American popular song. It's an album meant for arenas! "The End Of The Game" is the beginning of the album!įrom the upcoming album, Barn, due December 10, 2021. Van Weezer is a completely different album than OK Human, as Weezer ventures in a classic / hard rock direction. I never paid much attention to Weezer in the past, so I was very pleasantly surprised at Van Weezer, the second album from Weezer in 2021, following their "orchestral pop" album, OK Human. The Tipping Point will be Tears For Fears' first studio album in more than seventeen years. First, the five song collection called "Zoom In" - featuring "Teach Me To Tango", followed by the four song "Change The World" - featuring "Just That Way".įrom their upcoming album, The Tipping Point, due on February 25, 2022. Ringo Starr eschews the full length album for the EP format, releasing two EPs in 2021. ![]() Phoebe Bridgers adds her two cents to Paul McCartney's song "Seize The Day" (from McCartney's 2020 album, McCartney III).įrom Soberish, Liz Phair's first studio album in eleven years.įrom their EP "Half A Human", featuring songs born during the sessions for their latest album, 2020's The Main Thing.įrom the upcoming album, Lucifer On The Sofa, due February 11, 2022. Los Lobos covers the Beach Boys' 1972 classic from Native Sons, their covers album saluting the Los Angeles music scene.įrom McCartney III Imagined. When released, it will be their first album in about five and a half years.įrom the British quartet's debut album, New Long Leg. Top 15 Favorite Songs Of 2021 (an incomplete list, in alphabetical order)įrom their upcoming album, Things Are Great, due January 21, 2022. Layla Revisted (Live at Locken) featuring Trey Anastasio Yes, I would like you to assign someone to butter my muffin. Top 10 Songs (alphabetical and not from my Top 10 albums list) Russ Borris | Corny O'Connell | Alisa Ali | Dennis Elsas | Eric Holland | Darren DeVivo | Delphine Blue | John Platt | Kara Manning | Janet Bardini | Sarah Wardrop | Benham Jones Russ Borris Submit your votes for the best songs and albums of 2021 - plus a new standout artist discovery for the year - and you're entered to win tickets to see The Strokes on New Year's Eve at Barclays Center arena. There's always more great new music we want to talk about than we can fit here, but here are the highlights. |
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