The British are coming! This coming Saturday, November 12th, 2005, San Francisco’s mash-up club Bootie will be featuring four — count ‘em — four guest DJs from the UK! The main guest DJ is Act of Dog, one of the guys responsible for Mylo’s official mash-up release Dr. Pressure. Other UK guests include Philmanns, Supercollider, [...]
Here’s a recent interview with mash-up godfather Mark Vidler, aka Go Home Productions, on Phil Jupitus’ BBC 6 Music morning show.
R. Kelly’s Closet is a web site “built to encourage creative remixing of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet series.” Their goal is to “serve the creative community growing up around R. Kelly’s ever-evolving song cycle” by encouraging fans to contribute their own Trapped in the Closet-inspired art.
Attention Apple producers: check out this O’Reilly guide to mixing in GarageBand.
Adam Curry has always been a big supporter of mash-ups, featuring them prominently on his Daily Source Code podcast. As of November 11, 2005, Adam will no longer include non-podsafe music in his broadcast. This means no more mash-ups.
He’s “gotten religion,” says WebJay author and blogger Lucas Gonze. Adam expects a European shakedown over non-licensed [...]
D’Groove is a digital haptic force feedback turntable. What do you mean you don’t know what the hell that means?
(via Hack-a-day)
Since the early 90’s, Bomb Hip Hop has released a ton of material, most notably the Return of the DJ collection, a hugely popular compilation series dedicated to the turntablist movement featuring artists such as Qbert, DJ Craze, Z-Trip, Rob Swift & Roc Raida from X-Ecutioners, DJ Honda, Defari, Mixmaster Mike of the Beastie Boys, [...]
If you own a Pioneer DJM-707 mixer, check out this transform switch hack. With a few simple tools and a bit of patience, your on/off channel switch will become an on/off/on helicopter scratch capable switch.
(via Hackaday)
If you’ve inserted the Switchfoot CD Nothing Is Sound into your Windows PC, you more than likely have a Sony authored rootkit installed. Using the same stealth techniques that spyware/trojan/virus authors use to hide their programs on the PCs they have invaded, Sony’s DRM enforcement application similarly burrows itself deep into the operating system to [...]