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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.

Beardyman Mini mix @ Annie Mac

flat20 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:22:05 +0000

I’m seeing Beardyman at Cargo on Friday and to warm up for it I ripped this amazing mini mix he did for Annie Mac’s Mash Up on Radio 1.

Beardyman Mini Mix @ Anni Mac’s Mash Up – Live on Radio 1 04-03-2009

Tracklist

Scatman John- ‘Scatman’
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins- ‘It’s like that’
Deadmau5- ‘The reward is cheese’
Aphex Twin- ‘Windowlicker’
Leftfield- ‘Phat Planet’
Unknown- ‘50,000 watts’
David Bowie- ‘Let’s Dance’
Chase & Status- ‘Eastern Jam’
Radiohead- ‘The National Anthem’
Pharcyde- ‘Passing Me Bye’
Jay-Z-’99 Problems’
Dizzee Rascal- ‘Fix up Look Sharp’
Chase & status vs. capleton- ‘Duppy Man’

Here he is live at Cargo last year:

Anamanaguchi – Dawn Metropolis

flat20 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:50:26 +0000

I seem to fall in love with anything 8-bit retro these days which probably stems from growing up in that era, but I guess one more post about it can’t hurt. Two kids from New York made an album using guitars, drums and a NES. The music isn’t bad in itself but I really like the 8-bit styled videos for each track.

http://www.dawnmetropolis.com/

The end of all youtube mashups?

flat20 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:40 +0000

This surely must be the best and the end of all youtube mashups.

http://thru-you.com/

For The Floorz

flat20 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:33:55 +0000

Yesterday I sat down and started with something I should have done a long time ago, I copied some old tracks from CD to mp3. The plan is to post the better ones on here and I’ll kick things of with these two tracks which were released in 2002 on the now defunct, or at least in indefinite hiatus, french record label called We Rock Music. Romain Séo’s (aka Raw Man from The Buffalo Bunch) ran the label and is also the man behind these two brilliant filtered house tracks.

Of the two I prefer the slower Time Limited, but the tempo makes it a bit difficult to drop in a house set. Not impossible of course so you’ll just have to try harder! Body Angel is the type of track I’d love to play an edit of. It’s a great little number but it gets its point across in the first four minutes and could do with a quick mix out or a shorter version.

for the floorz – time limited

for the floorz – body angel

For The Floorz on Discogs and more tunes from We Rock Music.

N.A.S.A.

flat20 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:36:11 +0000

I’ve been listening to all the low quality mp3s I could find for a while now but the debut album from N.A.S.A (aka Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon) was finally released yesterday. It’s full of crazy collaborations such as ‘Gifted’ with Lykke Li, Santogold and Kanye West. Both the debut single ‘Spacious Thought’ and the video for Money has been all over the internet for a while now, but in case you’ve missed them here they are again.

N.A.S.A. ft David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip – Money

N.A.S.A. ft Tom Waits & Kool Keith – Spacious Thoughts

N.A.S.A. ft Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li – Gifted

N.A.S.A. “Money” feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip from Paul Griswold on Vimeo.

Get it from iTunes

Del Fuego Remix by Carl Borg

flat20 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:02:08 +0000

This is a remix of Fat Freddy Drops – Del Fuego from 2006 by an old friend of mine, Carl Borg. He just uploaded it to SoundCloud and I hadn’t actually heard it until today. It’s a very calm and fluffy little piece with some soft late night-ish vocals Exactly what I needed to hear at the end of a long work day. You can buy both the original and Carl’s remix on Sonar Kollektiv’s website.

Del Fuego by Carl Borg

Josh Wink – Counter Clock 319

flat20 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:19:03 +0000

It’s here! It feels like I’ve been waiting for this track for years and it finally got released on beatport two days ago. It’s something about those pitched 909 crashes that keeps me listening to this over and over again. Chris Liebing’s mix adds a choir synth and some effects to shake things up a bit, but since all you really need are the cymbals you might as well stick with the original.

This is a beatport exclusive for now, so you have to head on over to their new and improved website to grab it. A search for an artist and a track name still doesn’t come up with any results, but at least they’ve added a button so you can link straight to the page you’re on.

Josh Wink – Counter Clock 319

Josh Wink – Don’t Laugh (Acapella)

Buy Counter Clock 319 on beatport

Josh Wink on myspace

Max Cooper and his magic music formula

flat20 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:02:14 +0000

It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: mathematicians, having discovered a secret formula behind all good music, are able to produce powerful dancefloor destroyers using only mathematical calculations.

According to beatport.com Mat Cooper is using some clever mathematical formula to create the all the melodies on his EP called ‘Harmonisch Serie’, named after the mathematical modelling research projet he is involved in.

Usually I love this kind of stuff and I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s a mathematical formula behind the music, I just don’t understand why he decided to use the melodies his math project came up with to create techno? Why not “fluffy piano trance”? Or just a midi “piano”? When it comes to electronic music it is all about the sound and not the melodies, and if I understand this correctly, his math formula doesn’t choose drum samples for him. I doubt it picks compressors, effects or the EQ settings either. What I mean is, once you’ve come up with a melody for your track, you still have the other 90% left until it’s finished.

I’m not sure Mat Cooper is completely to blame though, he might just want to make electronic music and thought it would be fun doing it using the research he’s involved with. It could just be the first paragraph in the article on beatport which pisses me off.

Here’s some good music mixed by Josh Wink.

Bubblyfish and Stu of dropdabomb

flat20 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:48:05 +0000

Being of the 8-bit generation I really love the retro chip music sound. I used to make chip tunes when I was still making music on trackers, but my tracks were nothing like the craziness they’re coming up with today. A few years ago I went to a club in Stockholm where they had a guy playing live on gameboys and some other retro 8-bit looking systems. Had a blast just sitting down and watching computer nerds dance next to trendy pop chicks, finding some common ground in the low-fi 8-bit music coming from the speakers. I have to go back next time I’m over there..

Bubblyfish creates her music mainly using gameboys with the nanoloop software, although in some of her tracks she’s adding effects and using a “real” sampler. I have no idea what the track at 08:30 in the video is called but I like it. And check out her sweet dreams remix at 05:15, or on her myspace.

Here’s a short video interview with her. And another interview for Wired from 2007. Get her latest album from retinascan.

[via synthtopia.com]

The only problem with trying to find chip music online without really knowing what to look for is that there’s so much of it! But this is some quality 8-bit madness from Atari-ST music collective dropdabomb. These two are from stu and you really should listen to more of his stuff on his site, his myspace or on the buy page for his Atari Solo album on retinascan. I especially love the those low bitrate samples and the small glitchy bits in chiprape.

stu – chiprape [get this!]

stu – Disco Ver Atari [preview only but a must listen nonetheless]

stu – mYMelody

Check out the buy page on retinascan.de for more stu.