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Womp! Launch party mix

flat20 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:56:38 +0000

I made a 30 minute mix for Womp! – A night I’m playing on tomorrow night in Eastbourne. Mix is a bit darker than what I’ll probably end up playing but well worth a listen if you like your electronic music with a bit of bass and a bit of fun!

November 2011 – Womp! Mix by Flat20

Omisoka (New Years Eve) Mix

flat20 — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:36:35 +0000

I made a quick DJ mix with my girlfriend in preparation for our little New years eve gig and thought I should share it with the world. If you’re into house music you should have a listen!

flat20 & Ayumi – Omisoka Mix by flat20

FingerPlay MIDI version 0.9

flat20 — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:01:04 +0000

Version 0.9 of FingerPlay MIDI adds a few more options for each MIDI controller in the layout XML file. You can now set whether it should send note presses or controller changes and which channel and controller number it sends it on. I’ve added some comments to the default XML file which I hope is enough to get everyone started.

There’s also basic support for the Android hardware sensors courtesy of Matias Wilkman, but because they’re still very much work-in-progress they’re not enabled by default. If you want to try them out just uncomment the last screen in the default XML file.

Please let me know if there are any problems with this new version, I’m flat20 on Twitter.

Android scratching video

flat20 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:24:34 +0000

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

flat20 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:55:22 +0000

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

flat20 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:29:15 +0000

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

flat20 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:54:48 +0000

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

flat20 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:35:01 +0000

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

flat20 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:33:56 +0000

All time favorite!

Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance

flat20 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:54:06 +0000

Finally something besides Basshunter coming out of Sweden.