Video editor extraordinaire Lasse Gjertsen has managed to splice together his own dischordant attempts at playing both the piano and drums into one of the most creative music videos I have ever seen.
(via Music Thing)
Attention bay area residents: Propellerhead is holding a “producers conference” this Saturday, November 18th, 2006 at the Recombinant Labs in San Francisco, California. Entrance to the all-day session is free for registered Reason users or $99 otherwise. There looks to be a good line-up of instructors, including Power Tools for Reason author Peff. More information about the conference [...]
What digital DJ wouldn’t want one of these “turntable” laptops? This Fujitsu concept laptop sports a “touch-sensitive LCD panel on the front” that lets you “control a connected MP3 player … without flipping the notebook open.” Neat!
I have a number of remix contests that I wanted to mention, and instead of creating a bunch of separate posts I thought I’d just do this round-up. Remixers, start your engines!
8MM
Down tempo/trip hop duo. AcidPlanet is hosting the remix contest, inviting would-be remixers to work their magic on 8MM’s track, Songs To Love and Die By. Prizes include [...]
This coming Saturday, November 11th, 2006, San Francisco’s Bootie will host not one, not two, not even three … but eight – count ‘em – eight guest DJs from the UK!
Leading the charge is infamous bootleg artist Eric Kleptone (aka The Kleptones). Rising above simple “bastard pop,” Eric has honed four full-length conceptual albums of bootleg music with actual [...]
If you can decipher the German and are into intelligent dance music, you’ll want to check out this remix contest for minimalists The Wighnomy Brothers.
Check out the Skynoise “at-a-glance” review of Ableton Live 6 – now with video capabilities! Looks nice.
Adrian and Mysterious D (a.k.a. A Plus D a.k.a. the creators of Bootie) were recently interviewed and featured in the SF Weekly. It’s a short but nice piece that thankfully doesn’t try to be “overly scholarly” about the mash-up movement. There’s a great quote from Adrian, too, that nicely summarizes the DIY mash-up ethos:
“I think mash-up [...]
“Staring At The Sky” is an all-star psychedelic mashup album produced by Flying White Dots. It features liberal doses of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie, The Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Carole King, Coldcut, Deep Purple, Nathan Fake, and more. Quite deservingly, it has geneated a ton of buzz in the mashup community. The [...]
Gary Rowe, the man behind the old Sixx Mixx directory, has put together a web site paying homage to Dunproofin’ and his phenomenal Black Mix. Give it a look and a listen, okay?
Also, word is that the new-and-improved Sixx Mixx directory is nearing completion. Gary hopes to have it back up real soon now!