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nelson : Sugarcubes / Birthday (Icelandic) - Original version is really sweet. The video is awesome, great early digital video effects
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nelson : Sugarcubes / Birthday - Great old song, from before Bjork was a brand
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Rod Begbie : OK Go Rube Goldberg video: meet the makers! - Interview about the making of the OK Go video. Confirms that there was some light post-production tweaking, but for the most part, what you saw was one machine. #
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nelson : They came from the USSR - Edward Hill's freaky singing multiplied. View full screen. See also http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2010/02/edward-anatolevich-hill.html
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deusx : MSSIAH - MIDI SID Software - "The MSSIAH is a MIDI cartridge for the Commodore 64. It contains a suite of music applications that starts instantly as you insert the cartridge and start up the computer. With these applications you can play the C64's audio circuit (SID) via M
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deusx : :: Commodore C64 Modifications :: - "In early June, 2006 Prophet64 made the bold move of releasing its SID music software on C64 cartridges. This completed the transition of the C64 from a computer system dependant on floppy and/or tape drives, to an independent piece of pro audio stud
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nelson : Tainted Love versions - All versions of the awesome song made famous by Soft Cell and Coil
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deusx : Schism Tracker - SDWiki - "Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in-part.
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deusx : The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard May Reveal Key to the Universe » Synthtopia - "The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard, designed by mathemetician Barbara Hero, is an unusual MIDI controller that’s based on ancient concepts and fundamental harmonic relationships between notes. The keyboard is based on the Lambdoma Matrix,
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Andy Baio : CodeOrgan - listen to your favorite website, the "About" explains the methodology [via]
Rod Begbie : C O D E O R G A N - Analyzes a web page's source and generates music. Lovely. [via] #
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deusx : Burr Oak Software - "M3U2iTunes is a helper application which overcomes the problems iTunes has with m3u playlists. iTunes, when downloading an m3u playlist, places all songs scattered throughout the main library (rather than, say, creating a playlist and organizing the
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deusx : :: arjanwrites music blog ::: Listen to Space Cowboy "Electro Pioneers" EP - "The producer invited some of the mavericks of '80s electronic music, including Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby and Erasure's Vince Clarke, to give his tunes a spin of their own. Listen to their revamps below. After all of those years, these thr
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Rod Begbie : thesixtyone - Gorgeous redesign of the indiemusic exploration and listening site. [via] #
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nelson : Annie Lennox v. Lady Gaga - Great Eurythmics / Gaga video mashup
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Andy Baio : Oink founder cleared of fraud charges - still amazed he was pulling in over $200k in donations a year
Rod Begbie : BBC News - Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud - Hurrah! The founder of OiNK's Pink Palace found not-guilty of fraud. So in summary, by getting OiNK shut down, the music industry have achieved: Pissing off a large community of music lovers and no conviction. Good work fellas! [via] #
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nelson : Loudness war graph - Great visualization of the decreasing dynamic range of music recordings
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Rod Begbie : Atlantic Records Time Capsule - Killer box set -- 165 tracks (11.5 hours!) spanning Atlantic Records's 60+ years. Stones, Zeppelin, Archie Bell & the Drells… all the greats are here. I *ahem* downloaded this a few days ago, and have been enjoying it thoroughly. Well worth seeking o #
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Rod Begbie : Best of Bootie 2009 - This year's mash-up-mega-mix. Amazing as ever! #
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philgyford : Simon Reynolds's Notes on the noughties: The musically fragmented decade | Music | guardian.co.uk - The 200 best albums of the noughties weren't as good as the best 200 of the 1960s. But the 2,000 best albums were better than the 2,000 best of the 1960s.
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Greg Storey : Metacritic names Spoon as artist of the decade. - Sigur Rós is a close second. #
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Rod Begbie : Shadow Percussion Project - One of my all-time favourite things: A high-school percussion group performing DJ Shadow's "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" live. #
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Greg Storey : Annoying music for Christmas. - I think it's a safe bet that anything from The Chipmunks is annoying, Christmas or not. #
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Greg Storey : The Pure Awesome eMusic Best Albums of 2009. - Also check out A Very Rosie Christmas if you're tired of the usual. #
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