This is an EP Cover for Dylab – since I left melbourne he hasn’t stopped making music so I can conlusively say I’m a bad influence on him! You can listen to Unclean Emulation here. Unclean Emulation is composed of tracks made on Nintendo DS (Korg DS-10 if you want to check it out). More than [...]
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Sadly Tom has decided to retire Music Thing. Not much to say other than the combined influence of Tom’s amazing, funny and sardonic blogging on MT and Peter Kirn’s (of CDM) massive and infectious enthusiasm encouraged (or was the catalyst for) me to start blogging in a more formal sense, and probably also triggered a [...]
It’s pretty cool actually, and not a bad way for apple to continue to leverage their hipster cred. The interface looks well thought out and easy to use. The music learning software I’ve used or sold (back in the day when I was a retail robot) were all pretty awful to use. This looks like [...]
Dylab has a 4 way Korg DS-10 jam up. I know a lot of us wanted Electroplankton to fill this kind of role and it’s really cool to see the DS as instrument thing finally happen. The jam features briefly in the intro this video: You can visit Dylab’s site to listen to the whole [...]
If you are located in Tasmania, this may be of interest to you! If not… well probably not! Terraphonic, Minimum Fuss Productions and Camp Florentine invite you to the fabuloso DIY Carnival which will take place in the ancient forests of the Upper Florentine Valley this weekend (8/9/10 Feb). There will be amazing music, spectacular [...]
Being the first year I’m likely to spend New Years Eve in Tasmania without having to run from pillar to post to entertain various relatives while I’m on Holidays I’m entertaining the idea of heading to the Falls Festival here in Tasmania. Here’s the 2007 line-up (at the time of writing the Marion Bay (Tas) [...]
Okay, so right now I’m busier than a one armed drummer at a def leppard concert. I have to tell you about CDM’s massive giveaway. Sadly Peter’s not able to share the love with non-US residents, but he does have an absolute boatload of fun swag for the US folks. It’s no cost to enter, [...]
Palm Sounds which is a great blog about making music on portable devices is currently collecting research for a paper for the 4th Annual International Workshop on Mobile Music. If you’ve got a sec, and you do mobile music on a PDA, or other portable platform then take a sec and help out with the [...]
Just a reminder to check out the Good Seed Festival website, where you can get all the details for the show. If you’re in Melbourne and available on the 18th of March then grab a ticket quick-smart! It’s a great lineup, and it’s for a fantastic cause. It includes live music, a silent auction and [...]