May 04
Shared Tomorrows by Ryan Oakley on Mixcloud As is my habit, I’ve put together another music podcast. These aren’t really for public consumption but since I’ve never been able to transfer a playlist from Rhythmbox to my iPod, Audacity is just about the easiest way for me to put any sort of mix together. And, having …
Apr 16
Pretty much everyone has covered this but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention it — Just in case you didn’t hear, a hologram of Tupac performed at Coachella. I don’t have much to add. It looked good. It’s neat. But, I dunno, this just seems kinda like that version of Unforgettable or Fred Astaire …
Mar 17
MIT’s Media Lab has hooked up a huge, homemade 1970s synthesizer to the Internet, allowing people to remotely control its machine parts and listen to the results. You can do both here. Patchwerk lets you control a massive analog synthesizer from your browser, and streams the results back to you and everyone connected. The interface …
Mar 16
“The White Noise Supremacists” [PDF] (from the Village Voice, 1979) by Lester Bangs is about racism in the famous New York City punk scene. It’s a touching and honest piece of writing. I figured all this was in the Lenny Bruce spirit of let’s-defuse-them-epithets-by slinging-’em-out in Detroit I thought absolutely nothing of going to parties …
Mar 03
The trailer for the new documentary Punk in Africa. From the review in Okay Africa: Punk in Africa examines the punk scene in Southern Africa from the 70s onward, an era in which apartheid was being challenged in South Africa with violent repercussions, civil war burned across Mozambique and Robert Mugabe began his massacres in Zimbabwe. At this time, …
Mar 02
Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) and Tom Dissevelt at Philips “Nat. Lab” 1959, explaining how electronic tape music is made. Broadcast by VARA television on January 17, 1959. I have no idea what they’re saying but I like the sounds. And that some guy making electronic music in 1959 had a name like Kid Baltan. Sounds …
Feb 14
Happy Valentine’s Day! Enjoy ignoring ‘the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.’
Feb 13
Here’s an interesting one from The Verge: A user of The Pirate Bay has demonstrated how efficient the use of magnet links is for the site. Last month we reported that The Pirate Bay had begun the move to using magnet links as the default method to begin downloads, an initiative designed to make it easier for …
Feb 13
Some friends have put together a podcast. Recommended if you like beat music. You can listen to the first episode or download it below. If you want to see video, here’s the link. StudioFeed Radio: NCK BRK Presents KRIX Episode #1 by StudioFeed In the first episode brought to you by NCK BRK (a collective …
Feb 09
The strangest thing here is Mel’s period inappropriate clothing. The rest of it, I can accept.
