Music
Billionaires (with cats) vs Psychedelic Freaks
Loved loved loved this quote from Holly Herndon in a print copy of Huck Magazine Her latest promo (at time of writing) is here:
Familiar Five
I love everything about this. Came out in January, but only just discovered it. Late to the party as usual. Amazing track by Marcus Marr. Massive chugging bass. Bizzaro lyrics. Super simple but lovely video.
My Search for an Interactive Music Video with Windows in it
Last night I was trying to find a particular interactive music video. I tried mailing a couple of people: “You know, the one where there’s a window in the middle, and objects come out of it in other windows, and I think you could buy them…
SoundCloud and a Hauntological Birthing Mix
SoundCloud is a pretty nifty music upload / sharing / management tool. I’ve taken my last few mixes and stuck them up there. I think I might shift over my podcast arrangement to pull the tracks from there instead. I’m on there at…
Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Sexperience
So many things for me to love. via: Justlikemusic And the guy who made the video also made this, which I think is cute:
In B Flat
This is great. http://www.inbflat.net/ Last year I blogged about the idea of doing something a bit similar. But this lovely chap took a different (much better and more realistic) approach, and made something that really works. It’s been…
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…
Robot Love Co-Incidence
Last night I watched Wall-e for the first time. And it was good. Then today I was pulling together a mix. I’ve included the Apparat Mix of Moby’s Pale Horses which I love dearly. I tweeted that Apparat was a genius. Then @tbuesing tweeted…
Jonathan From Spotify Ruined Your Playlist
http://jonathanfromspotifyruinedyourplaylist.com/ is my favourite website of today. If you don’t know Jonathan from Spotify, he’s the guy who interrupts your listening pleasure with his little adlets. I’m sure he was forced to do it, so…
The Times Have Changed
I went to a WW2 day in Bletchley with Sophie, my Gran, my Mum and my Auntie. It was a nice day. I couldn’t help but notice the similarities and differences between that and other similar holiday weekends that I’ve had over the years. And…
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…
I Put A Donk On It
I spent my Sunday afternoon making this. Sophie said “why?”. I was really just using it as an excuse to learn a bit about how iMovie 09 works. And as soon as I stumbled across the beat matching feature I knew I had to do this.
Status Quo vs Scooter
Kind of like Walk This Way by Run DMC and Aerosmith. But the version that would have occurred if Satan was in charge. And just in case that leaves you in any doubt of Scooter’s genius. Check this. Kind of like a jumpstyle version of Where…
The Power of a Decent Remix
This track just totally floored me. It’s a remix of In for the Kill by La Roux which has been done over by dubstep star Skream. It’s just huge. When it kicks in just after the 4 minute mark it’d be better with a donk on it, obviously ;-)…
Donk Donk Donk Donk Donk
I’ve just been on a very strange voyage. A voyage into Donk. I’m going to rewind and retrace my steps so that you can join me. Come with me. Come to the Donkside. Take a trip to the heart of Donkness… Here’s where the rabbit hole opened…
February Mix Now Live
This latest mix was recorded when it was so cold in the loft that my fingers were numb. Hopefully it hasn’t led to it being a crock of crap. Actually I’m pretty chuffed with how it turned out. It’s quite chugging and if I had to pick…
The Manilow Punishment
Brilliant crime-fitting-punishment story in the LA Times… So when teenagers land in front of him for blasting their car stereos or otherwise disturbing the peace in this small northern Colorado city, Sacco informs them that they will spend…
How to ‘Do The Internet’ with Little Boots and Imogen Heap
There’s lots that us try-hard webby / advertising folk can learn from these young ladies about how to ‘do’ social networks and audience engagement. I hate myself for even writing about this stuff in ‘those’ terms. The words ‘audience…
More Church and Bass
It’s like a funny sledgehammer. Crude but brutally effective. I love the fact they’ve started using annotations to add another layer of humour too. And another… It can’t be long before someone does one of these as a proper promo video… And…
I Haven’t Got Anything Interesting To Say Today
I’m almost ready to write something marginally profound. But my brain’s a little too tired to pull it off, so I thought some of you might like this instead: I was going to say how it reminded me of Zip-a-dee-doo-dah but without the Acid…
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…
I Had To Have This Album
Because the idea of Galaxy Toobin’ is well good the Galaxy Toobin’ Gang’s album jumped out of the Boomkat newsletter at me. Then I read the description: “The cold and beautiful synths of Galaxy Toobin’ Gang are transmitted through the same…
Nice Music Player / Widget / Affiliate Scheme
I like this a lot. If you’re browsing music on DJdownload.com you can choose to share the stuff you’re listening to (or buying, or thinking of buying). Which then creates a really nice player / widget that you can embed. A few things that…
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…
YouTube and Music
An odd thing happened to me on Saturday night. I was playing some music through the stereo via my laptop. Sophie started humming a tune that she wanted to hear and I thought I could recognise what it was. So I tried to find the track. But…
Fleshmap – Body Parts in Music
This site’s got some brilliant visualisations of how often various body parts are mentioned in different genres of music. Once you’re there you can drill down into the various genres and see what’s occurring. Which is nice. But the best…
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…
Bomb the Bass Butterfingers Video
I love this completely and utterly. The track is amazing and the video is wonderfully simple… It’s Butterfingers by Bomb the Bass (featuring Fujiya & Miyagi). There’s a high quality quicktime version here with much better audio.
10 Things I Love About Blip.fm
I said I was going to write a megapost on Blip.fm. Here it is. Here’s what Blip say you get out of it on their homepage: And so far it’s really working for me. If you like the sound of it join up here: http://blip.fm/invite/iaintait It’s…
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.
Blip.fm is F**king Awesome
I’ve fallen deeply in love with a web application. I’m going to write a mega-post on why I think that blip.fm is the greatest thing in the known universe. But I don’t have time just now. It’s like the best bits of last.fm, twitter, and…
Making A YouTube Band
If you play solo clips from YouTube on the same page at the same time it sounds oddly like a band (kinda). I’ve got a project on the go to try and make an interesting random YouTube band maker. But I need some help. See what it sounds like…
Trancecracker – Old Gold
One of the best things about StumbleUpon is that sometimes it’ll serve up a smashing slice of retro-web pie. Like this chuckleworthy strip called The Trancecracker. Actually, it’s probably only funny if you’ve ever witnessed trancemonkeys…
Looks Like Carphone Warehouse, Smells (and Sounds) Like Minilogue
Minilogue video by Kristopher Storm (Music by Minilogue). Carphone Warehouse ad by Kristopher Storm (Music by Minilogue). I’m really confused. Everything in my brain is shutting down and I’ve got no idea what to say about it. My groove has…
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…
A $5 Laser Show – OMG OMG OMG!
I love lasers and music. I just do. So I almost wet myself when I saw this great video of a $5 laser show: Full instructions on how to make your own are here. Or Dr Altman will take you through all the necessary steps right here: Perhaps…
Unknown Track – Unknown Artist
My iTunes just served me up a track called unknown by unknown. Lord knows how that got there ;-) Trouble is, I really really like it. And it sounds like it could be from today, or it could be from any time in the last 25 years. It’s a kind…
What Advertising Can Learn From Radiohead
I wasn’t going to blog about the House of Cards video and it’s brilliant integration with Google and the geekosphere. I wasn’t going to blog it because everyone else has. It is bloody brilliant though. Yet another example of how Radiohead…
David Elsewhere and Motorola
Here’s a new thing that Poke have just finished. Well it’s not completely new. It’s taken a bit of time to get out into the world for various reasons. in fact some of the very eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that I posted some of…
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…
Joy Division Zune
I’m a bit late to it but check the Joy Division Zune pre-loaded with content. Let’s face it the tech might not be your thing, but surely this is at least slightly more cool than a U2 iPod?!? via: Coolhunting.
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…
Red Bull Music Academy – Brilliant
I’ve not really looked into the Red Bull Music Academy stuff before. IT’S AMAZING. There’s some brilliant video lectures and an awesome podcast. It’s like TED for cool music. The lectures are full of heroic musical dudes from bunch of…
Autechre On MySpace
If you were glitchy techoid producers of freaked out soundz. What would you do with your MySpace page? I guess make it completely fucked up and glitched out. Right? That’s what Autechre have done anyway. Totally unusable. But I can’t help…
The Perfect Music for Anything Ever
The world didn’t really need any more music after Africa by Toto did it? We’re just being greedy. Although there is a natty nu-balearic re-make by Rune Lindbaek which featured on his Klubb Kebab album last year, which I think I’ve got…
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/…
YouTube vs Last.fm
Nicely executed mashup of last.fm and YouTube made by a guy called Tim Bormans. It looks slick and works pretty well – to view it click here. It’s easy to make your own personalised music video channel, as long as you’ve got a last.fm…
10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week
If you’ve just arrived here from AdBusters you might also be interested in what I got up to this weekend – I did still use the Internet a little bit – but it’s primarily a bunch of offline stuff that I did started by an online thing… Might…
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…
I’m Chatting at Under The Influence
Iris are putting on an interesting event next week in London. It’s totally free so go and sign up if you like the look of it. It’s called Under the Influence and it’s 20 talks spread around 5 pubs in Borough Market. Each one has a…
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…
Art of Noise: Moments in Love
A classic bit of 80s Balearic tunage. What’s not to love. A proper classic. Not 100% sold on the video though
The Rise of The Ad Man 2.0
[I’ve written this post once already. I got to the end of it just as someone phoned me up. I picked up the phone. Fumbled it. And dropped it on my laptop which duly crashed in a spectacular fashion. The second revision is slightly shorter…
Computer Music Skillz
Sorry for the flurry of posts. It’s the first excitable surfing I’ve done in a while. I am so envious of this guy’s ability with his computer music equipment: Here’s some more beatfoolery: Jealous.
Poor Portishead
I feel dead sorry for Portishead. They were stunning. And then they became the soundtrack to a thing that no-one wanted to be. But their music skills are good: And reading about them in the Observer made me like them again. I love the fact…
Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn
Wowza. This 12 minute tripped out animation for Kraftwerk’s seminal Autobahn is quite something. Buy the DVD (or VHS) and find out more here.
If I Was 17 Again
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…
The Best Online Music Toy Ever
This is the simplest and best thing I’ve ever seen for creating music fast. It’s massively usable. You can literally get into it by clicking a few keys – admittedly you’ll be making derivative euro-dance. But it’ll sound totally competent…
Download Music It’s Free
Well, sort of…
Oh My, That’s Lovely
Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo. Beautiful computer generated art, made by the supremely talented Flight 404 using Processing. Personally I think the whole thing is really helped by the use of non-computer music. If you…
Last.fm Goes Fulltracktastic
Big news. Last.fm gets full track listening capabilities. As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any…
The Webbys – A Trip Back In Time
Nik’s written a piece on why he likes the Webbys over here. I like the Webbys too. For me they’re the awards that get closest to recognising the important things online (in the English speaking parts of the interwebs anyway). It tends to…
Facebook and ‘The Man’
This article from the Guardian seemed to be the most visible thing on the Internet round these parts yesterday: With friends like these… by Tom Hodgkinson Facebook has 59 million users – and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t…
Bang Face – Neo Rave Armageddon
Forget about Nu-Rave it’s just a passing fad. You want Neo-Rave. That’s the real business. Bang Face are having a 3 day Neo-Rave Armageddon special at Camber Sands Holiday Park. They say: Musically you’ll get a Neo-Rave Explosion of Acid…
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…
Stockhausen’s Helicopters
One of the things I’m trying to do differently this year (not a resolution as such) is to avoid reading the trashy free papers that come as part of the commuting package. I’m pretty sure their particular brand of reporting-lite has…
Great Interview
I just read an interview with Kurt Vonnegut. He was such a dude. And so very very smart. There’s a short ‘edited highlights’ version on Tim Ferriss’ blog (he’s the author of The 4-Hour Work Week), where I came across it. If you want the…
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…
Forgive Me Rock Father For I Have Sinned
Dearrockers.org is great. They say: Many of us own music that we didn’t pay for. We don’t feel guilty about shafting the record company, but what about the musicians themselves? Here’s how it works: 1. Pick a musician 2. Write them a…
More Electronic Music On Mainstream TV
Lord knows how these connections get made, but I stumbled on a second clip from ‘old TV’ featuring another seminal moment in electronic music. This time it’s Giorgio Moroder on German TV… (Amazingly good quality video clip too!)
Nice Vid
The music of Whitest Boy Alive, I like. Optical illusions, I like. Videos that synch-up the noises and the pictures, I like. Therefore, this video, I like.
How Stuff Dates
I kind of love this track. But it sort of doesn’t seem to make sense any more. And the video has aged really really badly too. The original (E2:E4 by Manuel Gottsching) has aged much better in my humble opinion. It might be the cheesy…
Cliff Does a Radiohead
From The Times today – link to online version of the story. So Cliff is taking 1p off the price of his new album for every person that pre-orders (down to a minimum of £3.99) – the starting price is £7.99. Do the simple math and you…
This Made Me Feel Jolly
5 Years Later by Noah and the Whale.
Sony’s RecYou
There’s been mutterings of recyou.jp around for a few days. It’s a very slick Japanese flash site for Sony Walkman. It’s quite hard to navigate your way through it, I managed by trial and error rather than a knowledge of Japanese…
Urban Youth Past and Present
Back in the day urban culture used to look so much more friendly… These days it’s so much more serious and less fun: The first lot are still hanging round in a little gang. But they look like nice boys, maybe even a little camp. They’ve…
Hype Machine Stunt – Boo :-(
Shame. It appears that the Hype Machine stunt that I liked yesterday sort of failed. They couldn’t get enough people to do what they asked so they launched it anyway. Oh well. I guess that’s life. I still like the principle of what they…
Hype Machine Stunt
Like this a lot. Hype Machine are going to launch their new site once 10,000 people are looking at this page: http://hypem.com/new Brilliantly it’s not when 10,000 have looked at it cumulatively, they’re waiting for 10,000 to have the page…
Free Dub!
I downloaded an album from Boomkat earlier. It’s dub. Big shaky dub music that make everything wobble in a good way. It’s called Foundation Bit by Disrupt. It’s Boomkat’s album of the week and they say: Probably the most talked-about BASS…
Nike, is it Supersonic?
Right now you can’t move in London without seeing some kind of ad for Nike Supersonic. According to the blog spam I got the other day: “Nike is launching an exclusive invitation only event for 3,000 people in London to push their pace…
Environmentally Friendly CDs?
Just got a new CD. 2007 by False (it’s a Matthew Dear alias). I noticed on the inside that it says that it’s Environmentally Friendly. Not sure how this can be true really. It doesn’t have a plastic case and is card wrapped. But even if…
Techno Viking
I’m not sure if this qualifies as a Silly Moment in Techno. It’s undoubtedly a rather odd moment. But I’m too frightened of The Viking to call it silly. All Hail Technoviking! – Watch more free videos The guys at Break.com say: This guy is…
I Like Radiohead More Than I Like Their Music
It’s funny, I sort of want to like Radiohead. But I’m just not that keen on their music. I don’t not like it, but it’s just most of it isn’t that appealing to my ears. But I like the ‘idea’ of Radiohead. They seem smart and like they’ve…
Courses I’d Love to Do
I’ve just been helping out with a D&AD / IPA talk about ‘sharpening your creative skills’ for wannabe Creative Directors. Not sure how much help I was, but hey ho, I told a few stories and gave my opinion on some stuff. (The image above is…
I’m Gonna Be Rockin The Commute
I’ve always wanted to be a guitar hero, but couldn’t face the callouses. Now I can create earnest rock music on the train… Jam Sessions on the Nintendo DS. I’ve pre-ordered and am waiting
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…
My Eclectic Score is…
My eclectic music score is 90 out of 100 (according to this nifty last.fm script). It also figures out an extended list of recommended artists calculated thusly: The following script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from…
My Stereo Thoughts On FaceBook
I’ve got lots of thoughts about FaceBook, some positive some negative. And I was trying to come up with a way to encapsulate it all. I sort of think I have, but there might be some holes in my analogy… For me, this is FaceBook: It’s like…
I Love M83
It’s true, I do love M83. Their new long player Digital Shades vol 1 is out now. M83 make great epic soundscapes. I’m not really sure of the best way to describe them, there’s moments of noisy shoegazing bands like My Bloody Valentine, but…
Brands, Bands, Fans
Music strategy and comms agency Frukt send me a lovely email every month called Brands | Bands | Fans which is a top snapshot of the way that brands are ruining music. Or in some rare occasions doing something that’s actually quite good…
Like 2ManyDJs (Only Better)
I’m liking the sounds of the Streetlife DJs a lot today. They’re like a UK version of 2ManyDJs only perhaps a bit more dance-edged, but still with tons of eclecticism. From their Podcast description: Stewart Rowell and Louis Gaston are…
SFMGFiPod
This made me LOL. It’s a music blog post. Normally the guy posts up decent music, but he’s got a thread called SFMGFiPod (which stands for ‘shit from my girlfriend’s iPod’). He’s basically posting up the stuff that his girlfriend is…
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…
Reverend and The Makers @ Concorde 2
I don’t go to ‘gigs’ that much anymore. So much so that even the word ‘gig’ makes me cringe with it’s approaching-an-age-where-you-shouldn’t-be-going-to-gigs-anymore-ness. Anyway I was lucky enough to get to go and see Reverend and the…
They Just Had To… Blend an iPhone
I thought I’d posted the Blendtec ‘Will it blend?’ ads from YouTube before, but it doesn’t look like I did. Anyway I thought they were great, genuinely viral ads. Showing a slightly geeky professor / home shopping channel presenter…
Twitter Serendipity
I was looking at Dan’s Twitter feed earlier and I saw that he’d noted (whilst at Glastonbury) that the Klaxons sounded like, as I think he put it: “a bag of cats”. I went back to try and find the tweet as I agreed with it so wholeheartedly…
Loop Festival Brighton
A celebration of Digital Culture they say – I reckon some crappy music coming out of laptops and a knackered old projector that no-one can see properly in the sunlight. Actually I reckon it’s going to be rather good. Some of the musical…
Last FM Bought by CBS
Someone had to buy them at some point: BBC NEWS | Technology | Music site Last.fm bought by CBS
Digital Lepers
If you read my rubbish regularly you know that I have a funny relationship with advertising. But as I’ve tried to stress before I don’t have anything against the advertising industry. I just think that the digital world has perhaps an…
Miami Nice
Sorry for lack of blogging. I’m in Miami. I’m at the Clios Advertising Festival thingy. I’ll write some stuff about my impresions of what people have talked about and generally what’s going on when I’ve had a chance to digest and ponder…
MP3s Out of Stock?
I love Boomkat – it’s a great niche online electronic music store. The content is great. It gives you a real sense that the guys running it are totally in love with the music. Plus the previews of tracks are long enough and they load…
Food and Music
Is this a new food show format? Or perhaps M&S could quit the food-porn ads and do this instead ;-) And while we’re on the topic of music and food, in case you’ve not seen it:
I did not, I did not…
I’ve never ever expressed an interest in the music of “Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov”, not even in a strange fucked-up dream. I didn’t even know that there was a man who Flickr based their name on
Bandwagon – iTunes Backup
Bandwagon is an iTunes backup software / service combo. I read this and thought of me: Bandwagon is for smart people that have a huge music library that has never been backed up. At least the last bit’s true. Another nice – ‘link to us…
Virgin Media Really Sucks
Above you can see the promise made by Virgin Media on their website. Below you can read about my experience and how it differs from the above. I know Virgin Media is new, and I know it’s bound to have teething problems. But there’s only so…
Our ‘Secret’ Creative Director
OK. It’s time. I can now finally reveal the all-new 3rd Poke Creative Director (after all the buildup). He’s the guy on the left. His name is Yacco Vijn – pronounce it as Jacko (like Whacko Jacko) Fine – pretty simple, and he claims it’s…
User Archived Content
From my occasional series of ‘here’s something from the musical archives that’s pretty cool’ posts. I love the fact that YouTube allows for the sharing of this kind of content. It’s probably not strictly ‘legal’. And it’s not strictly…
My Top Stuff of 2006
I’ve been thinking about doing a post on stuff I’ve liked in 2006, if you’ve got a blog it seems like you have to. But I didn’t know what to put in it or how to organise it. But I got re-inspired by The Design Conspiracy annual (a thing of…
Last Night a Blog Post Saved My Life
I’ve been searching for ages for a way to manage all the music that I have stored on a second hard drive. Worrying about how I could manage more than one iTunes library and not end up with loads of duplicates, or worse still, losing stuff…
Strings of Life
A few reasons to post this clip: It’s one of the greatest techno records of all time. It shows the value of experimentation, and how a ‘mistake’ can create something incredible. When he talks about the making of the track you realise that…
Family Music
Confession: This is a plug for a friend’s business. I’ve signed up because I think it will be good (with my own real money) so there’s no kickbacks going on Check out Family Music Ben and his friend Tom have set up a music subscription…
Crisp NPD for Kettle Chips
I’m a bit of crisp junkie as I’ve said before (even post the drinking oil advert that put me off a bit). So I’m a bit biased, but I like this thought. Buy this Kettle Chips party box online for $19.99 which contains: Five 5 oz. bags of…
Are Chavs the New Mods?
Are chavs the new mods? It was a thought that entered my head in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. Sure the scooters have changed. And in retrospect the mods’ fashion was way cooler. But the attitude and the lifestyle aren’t all that…
Amen to That
This is a long video clip. 18 mins in total. And it might bore you if you’re not a music geek. It’s all about how a 6 second drum loop from the B-Side of a single by The Winston Brothers, released in 1969, has become a cornerstone of…
Jobs on Zune
From Fast Company: Steve Jobs on the iPod .Vs Zune . Steve Jobs blasts the ability to ‘send’ music to other people via Microsoft’s new Zune player (apparantly it takes a long time and they can only play the DRM enabled track 3 times)…
Crackunit is One!
Hooray. This current version of Crackunit has made it to the age of one. That’s more than any of the other versions did… I was thinking about the history of Crackunit and my blogging and I couldn’t remember how long I’d had the domain for…
Trains are cool
Came across this yesterday: The London to Brighton train ride in 2 mins. Reminds me of the Star Guitar video for the Chemical Brothers by Michel Gondry. I’m not sure if the music almost sounds similar too, or whether that’s just…
Alpine Entertainers
Here’s a little something from my holidays. Some photos of promotional posters from the finest entertainers that South Tyrol has to offer… Alpine Entertainers – a photoset on Flickr You see, these guys look like fun. They all look like…
Steal this film
Following on from the Darknet post the other day, here’s some more on piracy in Sweden (and beyond). This 30 minute film gives a view of the P2P landscape (and especially the ‘bust’ on PirateBay – a major bittorrent site). Visit the Steal…
Tony Davidson on Digital Creativity
The above image is blatantly stolen from the excellent DigitalAgency blog. But short of retyping the whole thing I couldn’t think of any other way of doing it. It’s from the D&AD Student Annual, written by Tony Davidson (Creative Director…
What's hot on YouTube
Really useful breakdown of the 100 most viewed clips on YouTube. Nice work: No Man’s Blog: YouTube trends report #1 The top line is that of the top 100: 58 are user generated content 31 are music videos 4 are commercial adverts 3 are…
So much good stuff…
I should be going to work right now. But I keep finding amazing things that I feel the urge to share… Following on from ‘convert your website into a pattern’, here comes ‘what does your website sound like’. A site that turns your website…
Longtail Recommendations
Supersmart Ged (who I know from Yahoo!) pointed me to the longtail recommendations engine on last.fm. I’d been to the page but I’d never noticed the slider: have a play, it’s really good (you might need to be a user to access it). It’s a…
Pandora x Last FM
TechCrunch » Pandora and Last.fm Together…sort of – I couldn’t work out which one of Last.fm and Pandora I liked best for my music recommendation needs. Now someone’s sorted out my dilemma, they’ve mashed the two together. Hoorah!
Using iTunes to backup your music
Now here’s a tip I’ve been waiting for. It’s not rocket science. It’s iTunes science! How to backup your iTunes music library, and most importantly of all, keep it backed up. I used to walk around in a constant state of paranoia that all…
Going Underground
Is it really possible to overlay music onto the London Underground map? Each line representing a genre, giving proximity and intersections real meanings? Sounds bloody impossible to me. But someone’s given it a red-hot go. Nice work –…
Guns ‘R’ Us
Psssst. Wanna buy some guns? A brand new microsite by Poke. The film’s been done by Mother. We’re trying to get it seen by as many people as we can. So we’ve put together a microsite and have done some interesting distribution stuff…
The Postal Service vs Apple
I like the The Postal Service a lot. Their album is great. I also like Apple a lot. Their products are great. As has been well documented the latest Apple Intel Ad looks a lot like the video for “Such Great Heights” by the aforementioned…
Techno Faux-Pas
Whilst browsing in Micro Anvika today I was looking at the plethora of digital music players, ranging from the gorgeously designed to the truly horrible. When out of the corner of my eye I saw one particular piece of gadgetary. I thought…
BlockJam
I was checking out a BoingBoing post on LED puzzle blocks which look pretty awesome in themselves. But there’s a footnote that links to a Sony project called BlockJam which just blew me away. (Check the video of the prototype). It’s a…