Take your band online with this virtual 909. You know what the 909 is, and chances are you can’t find or afford one so here is an opportunity for you to relive that built up desire to create some great dance retro beats on one of the most notorious drum machines.
FL909 attempts to simulate the original sound of the Roland TR-909. This drumcomputer hits the market 1984 and was a long time the state of art in house and techno productions. Shift-Click the Step-buttons for accent triggers. more info…
This is one of the coolest pieces of animation I’ve seen recently for the experimental Canadian band Venetian Snares. The animation was created by the artist David O’reilly (somewhat annoying flash website) who I first heard about via BoingBoing TV. Search for him over there at Boing Boing, he has a few really fun inventive pieces for display.
Karlheinz Stockhausen who just passed away, would probably be best known for being listed on the BeatlesSt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album (check your liner notes for where he is on the cover). But he was a modernist composer who was at the forefront of the serialist and electronic music in the 50’s, 60’s, and into the 70’s. He would also unfortunately be remembered for his controversial comments about the September 11 attacks in which he alleged to have said the attacks were “works of art”. As to whether he said it or not, it is possible he did. But in doing so, you would have to first understand the man himself and more importantly, his music for context. More importantly, that he would’ve not said to be sympathetic to the attackers in any shape or form. Rather, he was a consummate composer in which everything in the world was filtered through his ears (and eyes) as music.
This piece was originally written in 1924 by the American composer George Antheil (1900-1959) as a musical accompaniment to the film of the same name by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger. This version was realized at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. on March 12 2006 with the music edited and programmed by Paul D. Lehrman.
You should be familiar with the work of Tom Jenkins if you like electronic music or play the bass…or if you are in tune with all things fucking awesome. Check out this video from ‘97 of a young Squarepusher in his pajamas ripping up some shit live.
Pleix is a group of Paris based interactive artists. They produce and share ideas and films using 3-d graphics and film in general combined with some great electronic music. Check out these creative videos. “Birds” features music by Vitalic, and lots of flying small dogs, and neon! “Sometimes” is an interesting 3-d composite which seems to show a process of deconstruction and reconstruction with audio from Kid606. Thanks to Ketogah for this link.
This video combines two things that go well together…Daft Punk and a cute girl. The video is a pretty clever example of a cool technique where you slow the actual audio down and shoot the video, then speed both audio and video up to match the original speed of the song. It can result in some pretty fun looking dance moves as evidenced here. It helps if you have an obviously fun model to perform the moves of course.
This is an educational series from 1983 on electronic music. I’ll agree with the poster of said video who states much of these videos seem much more 60s-70s. However there is really great footage and they are worth a viewing for that alone (and the power geek hairstyles of course).
San Francisco’s Tussle are a four piece band, but not in the traditional rock sense. The line up contains two drummers, bass, and one gentleman designated as full time knob twiddler. The result is a solid dance backbone with lots of repetition, percussive sprinkles, heavy bass, and ambient noise accents. They have an accompanying visual video presentation that tends to lean towards the abstract psychedelic end. Recent live highlights include extra percussion onstage for members of the audience to take part in should they choose. They currently have a few releases on the Smalltown Supersound label.
Peaches proves once again why she has won my heart, and the hearts of so many others. Here she is, probably given the scheduling shaft, and having to play during the day at some music festival. Watch as she performs probably the best song ever written (yeah i know, but c’mon it is a great one) and takes a leisurely stroll out into the crowd. It seems 3/4 of the people just looked stunned that this woman in a XXX cape is singing “fuck the pain away” out in their midst, she does eventually find some fans to help out.
