Here’s a clip courtesy of Computer Music Magazine that has Bushwacka! explaining the production process for the Layo & Bushwacka! track After The Love, it’s 48 minutes long, so make yourself a cuppa before you settle in to watch it! Thanks dylan!
In my screen debut, I present to you, aleatoric composition THE MOVIE! Starring me. This outlines the method for this method of composition in a (hopefully) fairly simple straightforward & accessible manner. Please forgive the average sound and video quality, last night was the first time I have ever edited video, and I spent several [...]
Oh My. I’m a bit excited about this. There’s a group of folks in Melbourne, Australia that are getting together and building modular synths. I have signed up, and am very keen to give this a try. This is an excellent way to share knowledge and a passion for music nerdology. I’m really looking forward [...]
You could be forgiven for thinking that I’m not as excited by the PSP homebrew scene, you’d be right. Mostly because I offloaded my PSP and bought a DS (for the second time) and I really haven’t looked sideways since… But here is something very tasty. It’s a homebrew app for PSP that allows you [...]
For anyone who’s got the itch for homebrew & music creation, there is an excellent tutorial on how to convert a cheap (£5) keyboard into a midi sending machine. It also details how to get it working by rolling your own firmware for the AN2131 Breadboard for *nix. I can only applaud this effort – [...]
Over on Kuro5hin there’s a rather tasty looking article on how to use a tracker. It’s pitched at a music nerd not necessarily a musician and will give you the hookup with various trackers that are worthwhile to get into. Trackers are something that I’ve heard of, but never really used, as they always seemed [...]
This is nicely done. It’s a little java app that links songs to various artists who have sampled those songs. It looks really slick and is fun to use! Edu-fun-tainment! History of Sampling 1.0 Thanks reelfour! And also check out DJ Food’s history of the Cut Up. (click the info button down the bottom to [...]
In the mac mini fawning department of engadget I proudly bring you this finely handcrafted link Let’s turn that mac mini into an audio workstation”. Fancy. I reckon that a mac mini with an external hard disk drive and a copy of ProTools LE (mbox rather than 001 probably) would be a really nice little [...]
The definitive guide to trashing hotel rooms. What else could it be?
Synthesizers (Synths) are increasingly popular item with DJ/Electro music set, and I thought that it would be nice to talk about them as an informal primer on the subject. There are a few basic flavors of synths – and it’s easy to get confused with how they work and what their actual purpose is. Let’s [...]