Here is a rad new video by my annoyingly prolific buddy Steve Mason – one half of the notorious (and delicious!) duo known as Original Recipe. The graphics are generated in realtime using Touch and driven by FFT analysis of the audio input. The audio in question is “Workin’ The Middle”, a tantalising preview from their upcoming album Nigiri, Please, due to be released this autumn… or, this fall, if you’re one of those people.
My good friend Sven, aka FuX, has released a sweet dubstep mixset. Over 50 minutes of deliciously heavy beats. Grab it from the link below and start tickling those subwoofers! Byiieeeooooowww wub wub wub wub wub!
An independent game developer got in touch with me to ask for permission to use my track “Lost in Bass” in his game “GraLL” – a 3D puzzler involving strange scientists, hazardous obstacles and a mysterious, spherical robot!
While digging through drawers full of old junk one day at my dad’s house, I found some cassette tapes filled with silly home recordings. One tape in particular contained recordings of my sister and I as young children; reading nursery rhymes, telling jokes, inventing bizarre radio stations and other ridiculous shows, plus a wide variety of other incredibly random sound bytes and noises. In other words, I had stumbled upon a sample goldmine!
“1985 EP” is a collection of strange, brooding, electronic rhythms that were inspired by the quirky, nostalgic sounds I sampled from that childhood cassette tape.
“Mars Wind are 2 hard techno kids from the streets, and the lovely Marta who sings from her cold heart into the fast night. Rip it up to this!”
Mars Wind is a project that in_tense and I created in the haze of an extended drinking binge… yay, vodka!
“Sirene” is a techy drum&bass track with a slightly trancey vibe, heavily inspired by Enya’s “Boadicea” (from which I lifted the lovely, breathy vocal). Cheers to HPC for the title suggestion, without which the track would still be laying unfinished as “enyafunk002″ or something equally stupid.
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