David at Hobnox sends word that they’ve updated their browser-based virtual studio, AudioTools:
Just a quick note that we just rolled out an update of the Hobnox Audiotool. As promised the TR808 is now online, along with two new stompboxes (Compressor and Bitcrusher) and some enhanced functions. Saving is still not possible yet, we’re working hard […]

This gets my vote for the coolest thing you’ll see this weekend.
It’s a live performance using the Hobnox AudioTool - the new browser-based virtual studio - using a MIDI controller and Percussa AudioCubes.
See the tutorial at the Hobnox site, too!
Joa Ebert & Kai-Phillip, via David

Disco never really died.
Instead it mutated, and one of its mutant offshoots is House Music. House music retains much of the heavy regular beat of disco, but tends to be more electronic, with drum machine rhythms and synthesized basses. The music is song based, and draws on a variety of influences, including Latin, jazz, soul, […]

Techno music came out of Detroit in the 1980’s, and carried the influences of popular electronic music of the 1970’s to the dancefloors. The music features regular, pouding beats coupled with distorted synthesized sequences.
The best known early techno producers are Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, sometimes known as the Belleville Three. They made […]