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FingerPlay MIDI controlled robot

flat20 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:06:12 +0000

Arduino + Fingerplay MIDI from Guus Baggermans on Vimeo.

Did some googling and came across this video by Guus Baggermans. He is using FingerPlay as input for a robot on his desktop. I’m not exactly sure of the details but I think the robot is Arduino based and he must have modified the FingerPlay source code because he’s using the gyroscope for input.

If you’ve made anything cool with FingerPlay MIDI then please let me know – I love hearing about people using it.

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.

FingerPlay Youtube Demonstration

flat20 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:55:59 +0000

I should have done a video showing off my Android application FingerPlay MIDI myself, but I simply haven’t had the time for it yet. Luckily Mooreshire did it instead, which leaves me with more time to fix bugs. So a big thanks to him for posting this quick demo!

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/

Sushi restaurant conveyor belt video

flat20 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:03:06 +0000

Someone should add a song to this and turn it into a music video.

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

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.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

flat20 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:37:28 +0000

: Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Tomorrow I’m off to Eastbourne to celebrate Christmas with my housemate and his family. Them being English, and me being Swedish, my present to them will be some Swedish music and dvds. Unfortunately I couldn’t find much Swedish music besides Robyn and Basshunter in the shop, so of course I went for Basshunter.

But right now I’m definitely not in the mood for either Basshunter or Christmas music but I am in the mood for some good funk however, courtesy of Sharon Jones and her crew.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Keep On Looking (Kenny Dope Remix)

And here’s a bit of that Hot Chip sound to calm things down again.

Grovesnor – Drive Your Car (Hot Chip remix)