These new tiny tiny controls from Korg seem pretty damn cool. I am sure the is a market for these with all the mobile muscians out there. What took so long.
Desktopvibes same how nice images of some cool desktop areas. So if you workspace needs some work take a look.
I have been listening to quite a bit of 8-bit music lately. I get all nostalgic think about old video games. I must have rubbed off on my buying habits because I brought a CD for the first time for ever. I used to spend all my money on music in my starving dropping out of college days. I used to wait in line at midnight to get new releases. I kind of miss CD’s but the digital download is just to easy and practical. What inspired this purchase was Unicorn Dream Attack’s Love Bits. It is a damn good album if you like chiptune and 8-bit music. I don’t mind at all giving a little notice little artist in the big bad music world.
Oh, here is a vid of Les Paul & Mary Ford having a laugh and performing a little just because I think Les Paul is awesome.
I found this on the very cool Retro Thing. When I heard about Radiohead’s remix contest for Nude I was excited. Then when I heard the track my enthusiasm waned a bit. Radiohead were having some fun with the song they selected. If Radiohead was a Shakespearean character the their fatal flaw would be being too clever. I am not discounting their musical talents somethings they have done musically and other wise have suffered a little form being a little to clever. At least I think so which is odd because that special British brand of cleverness I never can get enough of in the forms of comedy and literature. Still a great band. And how often do you get access to each track of a song by a great band. That was my attract to it rather than any contest. I bought the stems and plan to have go at it despite 6/8 time and 63 bpm. Normal remixes are made for the clubby dance numbers. Which seemed impossible if you were going to use most of the music made available to you. So, I though I will just make it in to something else unique and not dancy or hip-hoppy. Stretching the sounds to a normal tempo the sounded well stretched and found it pretty hard to work with do to the songs structure. I don’t claim to be a talented remixer. I was falling miserably when The Great Hard Drive Disaster of ‘08 hit. Then I learned things like the also very clever Apple doesn’t let you download purchased music again. So, I was doubly defeated.
I was glad to see someone succeed at doing something original and generally awesome. Just give the video a minute to get going and you will see Radiohead’s Nude created on old computer parts and gear. You have to love a dot matrix rhythm sections & unintended purposes.
I really like 8-bit sounds and chiptune music. I also like the reinventing obsolete technology and using consumer products for unintended purposes so naturally I think the Super Synth Drums Cartridge NES from Electokraft a cool little item.
Sales pitch from the site:
Super Synth Drums is a genuine Nintendo NES cartridge that transforms your original NES, or clone system (Yobo, Generation Nex)
into an 8 bit percussion instrument.
Just plug the cartridge into your Nintendo NES system (or clone), and connect to an amplifier or TV for audio.
The video below has production values that would embrass Ed wood but you’ll get the idea of what it can do:
If you like the idea of making NES music you shold also check out:
