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 …
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, …
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 …
Jan 30
As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto …
Mar 19
Porno Bopping Love In The Psychonovic Garage by Thegrumpyowl on Mixcloud
Feb 07
About where my head is right about now. And about where my heart is right about now.
Dec 12
Click To Play I’ve been a bit remiss in my blogging and, if you’ve noticed, you have my apologies. Thing is, I’m kinda on a deadline with the book and when I finish my nightly editing, I just don’t feel like blogging. I feel more like playing my PS3 while trying to ignore my fits …
Oct 01
Trikoton will convert your voice into a sweater. It’ll look something like this. According to Co.Design: “The technology here is an audio-signal processing program that converts speech into the binary code of a knitting pattern. Then an old mechanical knitting machine — hacked with microcontrollers and small engines to respond directly to computer-generated code — …
Jul 02
I have some pretty clever comrades. One of these, an incomparable chap who probably doesn’t want his name used, has long collected my empty pipe tobacco tins in order to repurpose them into various electronic devices – most of which have something to do with music. A while ago, he hosted a little workshop where he taught …
