17 minute video about the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music, the amen break, from the the pop track Amen Brother by ’60s soul band, The Winstons. & by the same guy – Bassline Baseline, a … Continue reading
by j p, May 24, 2006 0 comments
Ever morphing deep ocean guzzlers, Google, swallowed another little fish recently. And while they could probably yawn and absorb much of the IT populations of small countries by accident, the tasty morsel that is ‘Sketch Up‘ seems to fit nicely … Continue reading
by j p, May 11, 2006 0 comments
As Melbourne descends towards it’s version of winter, have been clicking through more online videos than usual. This German hiphop live video impressed with it’s visual flair, emcees projected onto, and standing against a back-lit screen – quite gorgeous sound-responsive … Continue reading
by j p, May 5, 2006 0 comments
Via Monkeyplunger, who saw it at 3Quarks Daily, this bizarre collision of worlds : eminent scholar & linguist Noam Chomsky, interviewed by Ali G, aka Borat (whose comments about Kazakhstan have enflamed that nation against him ), aka Bruno, aka … Continue reading
by j p, April 24, 2006 1 Comment
“The drum machine should be renamed what it is: a rhythm synthesizer. I call that rear view hearing. The drum machine isn’t a drum machine, there’s no drums in it – it’s pulses and signals synthesized into new pulses and … Continue reading
by j p, April 21, 2006 0 comments