July 2008
32 posts
Orwell Diaries →
“To mark the 70th anniversary of the [Orwell] diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written.”
David Shrigley - Obsessed →
“Mix tapes mark the moment of consumer culture in which listeners attained...”
– From Mix Tape, edited by Thurston Moore.
“Kids are time-rich and cash-poor and have an infinite supply of ingenuity and...”
– Cory Doctorow: Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry | guardian.co.uk
CASH Music: Deerhoof →
shrinkwrapped:
Download the sheet music for Deerhoof’s forthcoming single, Fresh Born, create your own interpretation and share it with the band before they release theirs. Excellent idea.
Fantastic idea. If I could read sheet music or, in fact, make music I’d do this.
Wedding guest lies
LJ: "I used to play in the school jazz band, don't you know? Third trumpet, I was. Third trumpet. Never played a solo in me life. We were awfully good, though. Watermelon Man, In The Mood, Basin Street Blues, all the classics. Once played at a soiree in Longleat House, don't you know? Mostly school fetes, though. Yes, yes, school fetes, school fetes..."
Tumblr MP3 Player by Dan Kantor →
shrinkwrapped:
david:
This is cool! Dan Kantor made a tumblelog widget that plays through all of your Audio posts.
Yay! This is just the sort of thing we need for WoopWoop.
Just what I was thinking.
WatchEndor by Night.
WatchTHE BPA - THE BPA ‘TOE JAM’ FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL.
SFW.
woopwoop:
Piano Magic - Deleted Scenes
A little...
Most Popular Muxtapes →
It’s all about the muxtapes at the mo.
(via headlessness)
Last.fm Scrobbling
muxtape:
Muxtape now supports Last.fm scrobbling. Go to the settings page and click the “link my Last.fm account” button. After you authorize Muxtape, songs will be recorded into your Last.fm listening history just like any other app (scrobble occurs halfway through the song or after 240 seconds, whichever comes first)
How To Make Your Own Music Site in 10 Minutes
joelaz:
What you’ll be creating is an automated music tumblelog. The site will monitor the songs you’re listening to in iTunes or other popular MP3 players. When you listen to a new song that hasn’t been posted to your music tumblelog, the site will automatically scour the internet for a MP3 matching that new track. If it finds one, it will be posted to your site as a link with artist and...
“I killed a man. No, too modest. On every continent and in all countries, across...”
– chewing pixels » My Virtual Sins: A Gamer’s Confession
MILES OF SMILES RECORDINGS on Virb.com →
Stars of the Lid live at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, May 2008.
woopwoop:
Sketch Show - Chronograph (10,700+...
“Don’t let thinking get in the way of building - build, then think.”
– Delighting with Data » tomtaylor.co.uk
Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music →
New Uncharted Audio muxtape →
Uncharted Audio have put together a rather tasty new muxtape:
http://unchartedaudio.muxtape.com/
It features tracks from Line, Octavcat, John Callaghan, The Council Flats Of Kingsbury, Kone-R (remixed by Wrongtom, Hard-Fi’s tour DJ), regolith plus a Digitonal remix of ON/OFF (aka Posthuman).