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Android scratching video June 25, 2009

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I spent last night playing around with audio programming for Android and I now have the basics of a FingerPlay scratch app. There’s no interface yet and it’s not “real” scratching, but I’ll see what I can do about that when I’m back from my holiday. And I need a better loop to play with as well..

Can’t get embed video to work right now.. I’ll update later.

Changing the music with your brain October 6, 2008

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Musinaut have developed a device which uses sensors to determine your state of mind and changes the music accordingly. Apparently it uses their own MXP4 format and can only change certain aspects of the specially recorded track you’re currently listening to. Even though it’s certainly an interesting piece of technology, I’d personally prefer having the music changing my mood rather than the opposite.

last.fm keeps me locked in to the genre’s I’m already listening to by suggesting songs and bands similar to the one’s I’ve scrobbled, and now this device would lock me in to the mood I’m in by playing music according to my current state of mind. I’m sure you could override its choices but then you could just get a normal MP3 player instead, couldn’t you?

Regardless of how you feel about it, the headgear alone looks ridiculous and should be enough to make you buy an iPod instead. Still, the technology is pretty cool but I wish it could let me skip tracks using brainwaves instead.

http://gizmodo.com/5057341/musinaut-music-player-djs-music-according-to-your-brainwaves

René Van Munster September 12, 2008

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Here’s the new 18 year old fidget house genious. Think Dave Taylor and Switch but with a cello studying background. It’s a combination that clearly works very well and makes me wish I’d play the cello.

My favorite track so far has to be Feed Me with its crazy mobile static noise groove. Phonesmack is out on Secure Recordings and you can have a listen to it on his myspace. Then get his releases from beatport — beatport’s interface is still awful so search for Munster once their 412kb website has finished loading and you’ve managed to navigate through their futuristic, yet 2001-ish looking interface. When you’re done, watch this interview:

Don’t forget to listen to his collaboration with Brabe as the Bootlickers and to read the René Van Munster interview over at tejano bounce.

Freeform Five Minimix September 11, 2008

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Freeform Five

Here’s a great minimix from Freeform Five on Annie Mac’s Mash Up show on Radio 1 in April.

Annie Mac’s Mash Up - Freeform Five Minimix

1. brian wilson - our prayer (freeform reform) (nonesuch)
2. annie - the greatest hit (freeform reform) (telle / loaded)
3. freeform five - strangest things (freeform reform dub) (perspex / fine)
4. destinys child - bootylicious (freeform reform) (columbia)
5. alter ego - beat the bush (freeform reform vocal) (klang / playhouse)
6. jamie lidell - when i come back around (freeform reform) (warp)
7. freeform five - electromagnetic (tiefschwarz remix) (perspex / fine)
8. the killers - when you were young (freeform reform) (vertigo)
9. gabriel ananda - ihre personliche glucksmelodie (freeform reform) (karmarouge)
10. freeform five - perspex sex (ewan pearson remix) (classic)
11. n.e.r.d. - lapdance (freeform reform) (virgin)
12. freeform five - break me (jackson remix) (classis)
13. justin timberlake - sexyback (freeform reform) (jive)
14. x-press 2 feat. david byrne - lazy (freeform reform) (skint)
15. freeform five - no more conversations (the subliminal kid remiks) (apollo / island)
16. mylo feat. freeform five - muscle car (freeform reform) (breastfed)
17. isolee - beau mot plage (freeform reform) (playhouse / classic)
18. isolee - beau mot plage (original) (playhouse / classic)

And this is a classic:

Alice Smith - Love End (Freeform Five Mix) [yousendit]

If you don’t get sarcasm, you might have braindamage September 4, 2008

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What you may not have realized is that perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking. Those who lose the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias afflicting the patients in Dr. Rankin’s study, just do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, “Nice weather we’re having.”

Do you have semantic dementia?

Mystery Jets - Umbrellahead September 4, 2008

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All time favorite!

Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance September 2, 2008

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Finally something besides Basshunter coming out of Sweden.

Machines Don’t Care - 12 Minute Mini Mix August 15, 2008

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Collab by Sinden, Hervé, Trevor Loveys, Toddla T, Fake Blood, Drop The Lime, Detboi and Affie Yusef.

Afro Jacker (Herve and Sinden)
Beat Bang (Herve and Trevor Loveys)
Drop It to The Floor (Herve, Sinden and Fake Blood)
Badman (Herve, Toddla T and Serocee)
Spycatcher (Herve and Drop The Lime)
Jugs (Sinden and Detboi)
Trouble on the Floor (Trevor Loveys and Fake Blood)
On a Roll Man (Herve, Trevor Loveys and Affie Yusef)
Junk (Herve and Trevor Loveys)
How Ya’ll Like Me Now (Detboi and Toddla T)
Soundboy Massive (Herve and Detboi)

Machines Don’t Care - 12 Minute Mini Mix

From: discodust

D-Mob - We Call It Acieed August 8, 2008

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Tonight is fabric night! Unfortunately it’s a drum n bass night but maybe it won’t be too bad. Here’s the ultimate acid house track by D-Mob straight from 1988!