thesundancekid

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.

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!

1-bit flash code for LEDs

flat20 — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:45:52 +0000

I’m waiting for my girlfriend’s brother’s wonderful LED device to arrive but in the meantime I’ve prepared myself for it by creating some tiny 16×24 Flash effects which I hope can be reproduced with LEDs. I coded the classic demo rotozoom and fire effects with 2 colours and some cheap dithering added on top.

Added a new fire with proper Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Now I just need to fix the OpenGL code for FingerPlay.

Oh, and I need to update the blog with Mandy’s new design. Too much to do but not enough minerals..

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:

A 45 minute mix

flat20 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:45:43 +0000

When the cat’s away the mice run all over the decks and record a mix. My housemate was gone for a few days so I used his computer to record a mix in the front room. Please excuse the static noise in the beginning of it, but running a long cable from a rubbish mixer all the way through the house up to my friend’s computer has its downsides. Two actually, one being the static noise and the other being trying to rush to the toilet in the middle of the night without tripping on the cable and pissing yourself.

18-03-2009 mix by flat20

Tracks include:

Thomas Schumacher – Picanha

Nari & Milano feat Max C – Disco Nuff (Flow Mix)

Mowgli – Pa Pon Pon (Chris Keaser Mix)

Alucard – About Monster

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/