I can appreciate almost any music genre, but I find myself reluctantly agreeing with everything in this article by J Ro recently posted on The Seminal web site. Hip hop isn’t dying, it just sucks. Badly.
Check out this great collection of mashup cover art Simon Iddol has designed over the past few months. This boy has some serious Photoshop talent! Would be cool if we could get posters of these! (And the Bootie flyer face mash-ups, too!)
Reactable is a table-top instrument that reacts to the various objects (and shapes of those objects) placed upon it. It’s difficult to describe, but you’ll understand once you’ve seen the video. (Thanks Rupert!)
Nine Inch Nails recently released the multitrack session stubs for Survivalism, the latest single off their forthcoming album Year Zero. Apparently the plan is to release the multitracks for all the tracks off this album. The big drawback, though, is that the multitrack stubs are available in Garageband-only format at this point. See the news [...]
I knew Daft Punk relied heavily on samples for their post-Homework sound, but I had no idea it was to this extent! A great video for all the dance music trainspotters out there. (via Music Thing)
It’s been a while, but Dunproofin’ has finally released the Thursday installment of his Black Mix. This is good stuff — you won’t want to miss it. Also of note is the Go Home Productions’ 6 Mix Comic Relief Mix now available for download. It was originally produced for BBC 6 Music and aired 3/16/2007. [...]
From the same masterminds behind Flip the Switch and Always Outsiders, Never Outdone comes Sounds Like Silver, an LCD Soundsystem bootleg remix album. Here’s the tracklisting: Get Innocuous (Geek Chic’s Harm-Free Retouch) Time To Get Away (ATOM’s Exit Stage Left Mix) North American Scum (Dunproofin’s Not From England Either Mix) Someone Great (Shokking Shokkaboy Remix) [...]
This coming Saturday, March 3rd, Bootie takes their show on the road to the Echo in Los Angeles, California. This Bootie, though, is no ordinary Bootie. It’s an extra special Bootie to me for a few important reasons: Earworm is DJing. You won’t hear finer mashups than the ones this man creates. He is absolutely obsessed with the mashup artform [...]
“Famous sounds” are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a “classic” status. I love trainspotter lists like this.