Soundway Records shared this wonderful story about a rare interview with legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti turning up on some reel-to-reel tapes bought by the label’s manager at a local ‘Help The Aged’ charity shop. Incredibly, the track played during the interview is a version of ‘Who’re You’, the lead track from Soundway’s latest album, [...]
Musician and vocalist Fiona Soe Paing teamed up with animator Zennor Alexander to create ‘No Man’s Land’, a multlingual, audio-visual collaboration, which has wowed audiences from Italy to New Zealand. Fiona also creates excellent music as ‘Colliderscope‘.
Trailer: ‘No Man’s Land’ (Youtube)
Now I love Spotify as much as anyone so I’m not here to diss their overall music-streaming service which is great (I’ve been using the premium version for about three months now). But I do have a bone to pick with the crazily-restrictive, and just plain crazy, terms of their End User License Agreement, which [...]
I would go absolutely nuts for this piece of equipment. My gear-senses are going off the radar just looking at it. Apparently it’s a working condition, Tandberg TD-20A 4-track reel-to-reel recorder from the 1980s. It’s currently going on eBay for £399.99 or best offer. It also comes with 30-or-so tape reels — I love how [...]
Car manufacturers Volkswagen have launched a new project – the fun theory – which explores the idea of changing peoples’ behaviour for the better by making things more fun to do. This is achieved through various interactive installations in public places, such persuading people to choose the stairs over the escelator, by turning the stairs [...]
Here is a funny video putting Lily Allen in her place about her ridiculous stance on file sharing, done through the medium of a cover song.
Dan Bull – Dear Lily (via)
Some bright, jaggy and downright mental album artwork from Sufjan Stevens and Hudson Mohawke respectively.
Fuck off Lily Allen, indie music is doing just fine!
Phoning It In is a devilishly-good idea for a radio show: get loads of great artists to perform down your phone line every week. The music is all live, lo-fi, and the artist selection is always tip top. Some of my favourites are the shows by Diane Cluck, David Garland and WHY!, and I’m listening [...]
Inbflat.net is easily the coolest collaborative web music project I can remember seeing. Each time I play with it I get a completely different sound. Go on have some fun.
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Cybraphon is the latest project from Edinburgh based art collective, FOUND.
Described as ‘the emotional robot band’ this project incorporates antique instruments, recycled robotics, some fancy programming and some great musicians to produce, in my opinion, an extremely inventive piece of art.
Cybraphon monitors its own popularity on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and [...]
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Working cello made from LEGO |
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“Combo” Blu & David Ellis Collaboration |
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‘Urban knitters’ take over Inverness |
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Rare Fela Kuti interview surfaces on charity shop reel-to-reel tapes |
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