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A New Mix for July – Both Skylights Open
As always, I’m sorry it’s been ages. Anyway yesterday I went up to the loft, opened the skylights, and this popped out. It’s perhaps got a bit more of a old fashioned house feeling in places than normal. But I think in general the sound…
Easter 09 – Another One of Those Mixes
Sorry it’s been a while. This was done at the weekend when it was nice and sunny outside. Instead of trying to milk a goat, catch a leprechaun, make friends with my neighbours, learn the flute or anything else so exciting. Instead I popped…
Credit Crunch Minimix
To try and lift everyone’s spirits I’ve put together a little (30min) mix of uplifting feel-good tracks to see if I can raise the mood of the internet. It’s a mix of styles from soul / mashups / hiphop / drum and bass / other so there’s…
I Have A Podcast – Plus A New Mix
My (ir)regular mixes are now available as . Hooray. And as an incentive to go and visit there’s . Tracklist: Hide and Seek – Imogen Heap Roter Platz (Original Mix) – Burger, Voigt (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt…
A New Summer Mix – This One’s A Bit of A Banger
I’m going to stop putting my music mixes directly on Crackunit. For a few reasons. Paranoia being one. DJ mixes have always been a grey area in terms of licensing, etc. So I’m just going to tidy them over to somewhere else, just to be on…
Musical Madness – Kidda – Under The Sun Remix
Sorry, I know it’s been a few musicy posts in a row. But I had to share this. It’s perhaps the most bonkers track I’ve heard recently. It’s hard to describe its genre, it’s basically like speeded up funk / soul, meets happy hardcore, meets…
Lords of the Dance
It’s been a very very long time since I posted a Silly Moment in Techno. This made me laugh so hard that people around the office were concerned for my welfare. Thank you Andy, you made my day.
July Mix From The Loft
It’s been a little while since I climbed the ladder into the loft to put some more tracks into a mix. But that’s what I did at the weekend. And here’s the result. I struggle with genres these days and when I go ‘up there’ to do a mix I…
14tracks.com – A New Boomkat Offering
I’ve whanged on about Boomkat before. They’re a great example of a niche e-commerce player – although I’m guessing they’re a pretty big niche player now. They sell music online – mainly electronic stuff – they started selling CDs and Vinyl…
Radiohead – Obsolete Hardware Remix
This is absolutely incredible. So nicely done. As I’ve said before I like the idea of Radiohead more than I actually like Radiohead. This is another part of that puzzle. Basically it’s a response to the ‘Nude’ remix contest that they set…
The Last Ever Clubpub Mix
Some people might know about ClubPub, a lot of you won’t. Basically it was a very irregular night that the Poke people have been organising over the last 5 years. It all started out with us just renting out a pub on Wednesday nights and…
A Muxtape for Blue Skies
What a jolly nice day. Here’s a muxtape for the kind of stuff I’ll be listening to… http://easygeezer.muxtape.com/…
Allez-Allez.co.uk
Here’s a link to a site that posts lots of great mixes of the greatest music in the world. If I was younger and lived in London town I go to all these guys’ parties and be like their total groupie. They’ve even got a mega Kompakt party…
Remixed Dancing Videos
I’ve had one of these saved for a while, but when I found the other I thought it was time to post them as a set. I don’t know why, they just tickle me. And this one from Romania (thanks to whoever sent this link to me via del.icio.us – I…
10 Reasons Digital Is Better Than Advertising – Remixed
This is all going to seem a little strange. Why on earth would anyone want to remix a presentation in such a fashion? Well it’s a funny story you see. I was mucking around with some basic VJing software. It’s a thing called Quartonian that…
A Springtime Mix From The Loft
I shut myself up in the loft again last Saturday, and another mix popped out. I think this is my favourite mix that I’ve done in recent times. I don’t know why. I’m just really pleased with the sound. I think it’s because I lucked out on…
My Balearic Muxtape
Everyone seems to be Muxtaping today. They’re calling it the easy way to create and share mixtapes. And it is. You just upload your tracks and it puts them together in a nice webpage where people can just click to listen. They’ve got a…
4×4 Meme: More About Me
I got tagged by blackbeltjones with the 4×4 meme. So I rolled over and became a part of it. Plus it gives me a chance for some totally self-absorbed and pointless blogging. It looks like this meme has mutated a bit over time, but I’m going…
A New Mix For The Weekend
Actually that’s a lie. It’s not a ‘new’ mix. It’s a mix from last weekend. But I’m posting it now. This is from Asi’s birthday party last Friday. It was a party in a pub. So I felt I had to play a bit more ‘rowdy’ than I normally would to…
International YouTube Skate Cyber Haterz
This is one of the best little YouTube community dramas that I’ve ever seen. I’m going to try and tell the story as best I can, but I’m sure I’m not going to do it justice… It all starts with popininmyhood posting this video entitled…
All You Can Eat Hip-Hop
Yoiks! Here’s a definitive history of hip hop, all mixed up and ready for download. I’m not a massive fan of MTV Base style R&Bized modern hip hop, and Westwood makes me want to purchase knock-off Uranium and do something really bad to…
McDonalds’ Freakout
I’ve got no clue what’s going on… Comment is all pure guesswork. If you can clarify please do… Is this an ad from Japan? Is this a really mentalist remix of an ad from Japan (it really gets going about 2/3 the way in)? This really does…
A Chuckle and Some Music for Friday
Chuckle: From the excellent: http://xkcd.com And if you want some music for the weekend, this 3.5 hour mix from Pixel in Amsterdam by James Holden is quite superb. For me he’s quite the musical hero at the moment.…
Youth Trend Watch: Hardstyle, Hardjump & Jumpstyle
This started out being a silly moment in techno post. But it’s grown into something far more important. Something that trend watchers and marketeers around the world have to pay heed to. It started with this clip from Malaysia: A few…
Happy Christmas – A Mix For You
I know it’s not Christmas yet, but I’m going on my holidays and I won’t be back for a while. So I thought I’d drop you a Christmas mix. It’s not very Christmassy apart from the last track which somehow feels a bit seasonal to me. Anyhow…
Amazing Mix!
I chanced across a fantatic mix at twentyfourhours (one of my favourite MP3 blogs). It’s the mix I wish I’d made. It’s the Aeroplane Airspace mix on this page here. Aeroplane are from Belgium and you can check their MySpace page here. It’s…
How To Do Digital Planning
I’ve been trying to post something like this for a few months now. But it kept morphing into a badly researched history of planning mixed with a poor how-to guide. And of course I kept veering off into bloody flag-waving about how digital…
Drive Thru Rap
I’m late to these judging by the dates that the videos were posted, but I’m not sure how widely they’ve been seen. Just another one of those ‘funny’ ‘little’ online things that feels really odd and not particularly outstanding (to me), but…
Sunny Saturday in The Loft – A Mix
I don’t know why, but I felt the urge again. I went upstairs to the loft on Saturday and put myself to work making another mix. In a kind of similar vein to the last one (Rainy Saturday in the Loft – A Mix) and I can’t quite tell if the…
This Mix Album Is Good (Real Good)
I got a mix album today that is quite exceptional. It’s rare that a DJ mix gets me excited these days, I’ve heard a lot of them over the last 18 years or so, and they generally stopped being remarkable to me a while ago. The odd one…
A Whole New Mind – Brilliant Book
I read a book yesterday in one sitting. Well a couple of sittings if you include changes in mode of transport from bus to train. It’s very rare that I do that. It’s also very rare that I find a ‘business’ book that grips me like this one…
The Image of Joy Division
Lots of stories around this weekend about the sad death of Tony Wilson. It also span off lots of stories about bands that he’d been involved with and that time in Manchester. This story in the Observer caught my interest: Closer to the…
Rainy Saturday In The Loft – A Mix
Well the weather has been vile all weekend so I did something I’ve been meaning to do for ages. I got some tracks I like, I climbed up into the loft and I put a mix together. I don’t really know how to describe the style. It’s definitely…
Dramatic Chipmunk (or Prairie Dog)
Lauded as ‘the best 5 second clip on the Internet’ – and you know what, they might be right: Then come the literally hundreds of ‘remixes’… Silent Movie: Kill Bill: Star Wars: It’s a gift that just keeps on giving… If you want to see the…
Kate Moss for TopShop
A new Poke project (nothing to do with me really): Kate Moss for TopShop. I like the fact it mixes up old style web stuff with flash video and things. It’s all a bit ‘fashion’ for me, but I still quite like it. Plus you know it’s going to…
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising – Number 4
Success in network media isn’t about ego. No one cares who you are, or what you’ve done before – unless you’re Jonathan Harris or Joshua Davis ;-) Audiences care about whether they like your thing or not. More honest and ernest cultures…
Venice Project Becomes Joost
The project formerly known as The Venice Project has now turned into Joost. It’s the latest venture from the guys behind Skype and in a nutshell it hopes to do to television what Skype did to telephones. As they put it: ‘taking the best of…
BBH Wins Lynx Digital Account
An interesting ‘moment’ in online advertising. BBH win Lynx digital account. To my mind Dare have done some really amazing online advertising for Lynx (Feather and Blow to name but two), and I’m really surprised that the account has gone…
Campaign Against Real Life
Funny and nicely produced spoof of the Dove Evolution thing. Can be found at Campaignagainstreallife.com. (Note: I was being a fool last night and accidentally posted this as ‘campaign for real life’ – thanks to Richard for the correction…
F**K you and your Second Life ‘firsts’ you bunch of Adf**ks
I’m glad that someone with some heritage and history in Second Life has come out and said this: Second Life Herald: Gallery of Lies. And said it very loud. I’d have loved to have written this piece, but as my Second Life consists of about…
Dell Blog
I’m a bit behind on this one but Dell have started a corporate blog. It’s getting very mixed coverage: Good(ish): Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger » Four little links say volumes at Dell site Pretty bad: Micro Persuasion: Dell Starts…
Happy is good
Me- Happy in Goa In her, always smart but never overwhelming style Kathy Sierra writes about angry negative people being bad for your brain. There’s a lot of detail and science in there, but it is really worth a read. I first read the…
User Generated Content
Well this is the reality of it. This lovingly crafted piece of home-made UK hip-hop has spawned absolutely loads of mashups / remixes / re-edits. Just shows there’s nowt as queer as folk eh. Oh, and just to prove that entrepreneurialism is…
iTunes Signature Maker
iTunes Signature Maker – this is a fantastic idea. A small online app (java I think) – that creates an audio signature based on your iTunes library. The site suggests: Load your iTunes signature onto your iPod, e-mail it to some friends…