Dr Who Theme on 8 floppy drives
May 11, 2012 – 9:10 am | No Comment

MrSolidSnake745 has put together eight floppy drives, an Arduino, some cabling, a computer and software created by Sammy1Am to make something incredible – the stepper motors from eight floppy drives playing the Dr Who theme!
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Commodore 64 Keytar!
March 1, 2010 – 9:34 am | 6 Comments
Commodore 64 Keytar!

Jordan Bartee is a musician, circuit bender and and electronic tinkerer. In a moment of insanity genius, he decided to grab a Commodore 64 and a MIDI keyboard, and then combine them with the …

Richard James face encoded into his music
February 26, 2010 – 11:26 am | One Comment
Richard James face encoded into his music

Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) has always been at the top of my ‘most creative musicians’ list. It seems as though everything he does pushes the bounds of music and art. Even his …

Dave Smith Prophet 8 review
February 19, 2010 – 12:35 pm | One Comment
Dave Smith Prophet 8 review

D. Ramirez is a Music Producer and DJ who was voted DJ Magazine’s Best British Producer and Best British Remixer. He was also nominated for an Ivor Novello award for his remix of Bodyrox …

Sound design in Avatar
February 18, 2010 – 11:27 pm | One Comment
Sound design in Avatar

This short documentary takes us through the sound design for the movie Avatar. It’s a interesting window into what it took to create some of the fantastic sounds and effects in the movie.
Bringing to …

Keith Emerson in your studio
February 12, 2010 – 8:32 pm | One Comment
Keith Emerson in your studio

We all know Keith Emerson, the iconic British keyboard player from Emerson, Lake and Palmer (and the Nice). Well, a company called Knucklebonz has a Keith Emerson figurine as part of it’s “rock Iconz” …

Scratching with cassette tapes
February 12, 2010 – 12:28 pm | No Comment
Scratching with cassette tapes

Alexis Malbert from France goes by the name of TapeTronic, and cassette tapes are his kung-fu. He builds custom tapes and tape players and travels around Europe doing tape-scratching performances on his DIY tapes …

How to recreate Prodigy’s “Voodoo People”
January 26, 2010 – 6:46 pm | One Comment
How to recreate Prodigy’s “Voodoo People”

Whether you love them or hate them, The Prodigy has definitely broken musical ground in an innovative way. The track “Voodoo Peaple” was one of my favorites from “Jilted Generation “, and Jim Pavloff …

Cookie Keys
January 25, 2010 – 3:07 pm | No Comment
Cookie Keys

If you enjoyed the funky stop-motion MPC video we posted a while back, you’ll probably like this one as well.
It’s Joao Brasil’s latest commercial for a Brazillian juice called Do Bem bebidas – …

History of boomboxes
January 22, 2010 – 5:04 pm | One Comment
History of boomboxes

Ahhh, the boombox. Boomboxes bring back some great memories for me – 80′s rap, jackets with zippers and funky-ass dudes groovin’ on the sidewalk. At one point, the “boombox wars” got a bit …

Guitar-playing birds
January 20, 2010 – 12:15 pm | 4 Comments
Guitar-playing birds

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a visual/installation artist from France, and one of his most recent works involves birds and a guitars. He has recorded the behaviour of birds who have been lured to land on …