RjDj is a music application for the Iphone, that, according to the developer, is a type of digital drug: It uses sensory input to generate and control music you are listening to. RjDj is mainly consumed with headphones. Think of it as the next generation of walkman or mp3 player. The consumer experience of RjDj… Read More RjDj, The “Mind Twisting Hearing Sensation” For The iPhone
Remix and M-Audio have announced a potentially interesting webinar on Producing Club-Ready Tracks – presumably with lots of M-Audio gear. Unfortunately, to watch this “on-demand” webinar, you have to give them permission spam you, and let all their buddies spam you. Check out the form you have to fill out to watch this webinar: What… Read More Remix And M-Audio Need To Get With That Internet Thing
This is just plain scary – this video shows Britney Spears performing at a Las Vegas concert with just her voice track – none of the backing tracks or vocal tracks she’s lip syncing too. View it all the way through, if you can bear it – and you’ll understand why they invented Auto-Tune.
We’ve mentioned binaural beats previously – illusory “beats” that you can hear when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. It’s an interesting psychoacoustic effect – one that at least some people think can help you do things ranging from concentrating to opening your chakras. Mainstream media has… Read More Binaural Beats Lead To Digital Drugs Madness
We’ve talked a lot about Nine Inch Nails recently – reviewing The Slip, praising their new media efforts, etc. But their official Nine Inch Nails portrait made me do a double take. Rock stars are supposed to be tearing things up, spewing spittle, wailing in front of towers of flame and flashing lights, biting the… Read More Why Rockers Should Never Get Professional Portraits Taken At Sears
We recently saw a post on the Weirdest Guitars In The World – and, after taking a look, all I can say is that guitarists are a pretty conservative bunch. You haven’t seen weird, until you’ve seen some of the bizarre synth contraptions that keyboardists and electronic musicians have come up with. In fact, some of… Read More The Strangest Synthesizers In The World
This is off topic and pretty insanely stupid, but it’s the only thing that brought tears to my eyes today. And made me blow coffee out my nose. Pat Metheny plays As It Is live, and reveals why he doesn’t gets a vocal mic. via the awesome WFMU
OT: This isn’t as cool as Chuck E Cheese robots doing Ms. New Booty, but it’s close. Bert & Ernie do M.O.P.’s Ante Up.
Remember former teen star Traci Lords and her brief, but almost respectable, career in hardcore techno? In this video, via Stereogum, Lords discusses the difficulty of putting together a touring techno band, and DJ’s as “gods of clubs.”
Remember Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo? Last time we saw it, it was looking a bit sore and nasty. Now it doesn’t look sore at all. The tat reproduces the circuit design of Bob Moog’s seminal Transistor Ladder Filter. Now that’s hardcore!
