News / remix culture
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Music Mondays: Cassius - Love You So (Skream Remix)
Read more . . . →Let me start off by first warning: This is NOT the real music video for this song/remix. I have been a big fan of the Skream remix to Cassius' I Love You So ever since I first heard it a couple months ago. The original is released on the French electronic label Ed Banger (as in "head banger" pronounced by zee French) is very similar in sound yet radically different in style. I've been a fan of Justice and Uffie as well but haven't heard enough other releases to really know for sure if I'm an Ed Banger myself when...
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This Sucks
Read more . . . →Not too long ago I created a remix to this song in an attempt to win a remix competition. I didn't win, but it was just another case of remixing something so well they simply could not pick it. Download my running up remix on noiseporn here! I think I did a pretty good job, maybe even improved it a bit. Clearly these folks are either amateurs or trying on purpose to be bad, just check out their music video . . .what a joke.
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DJ Firewire brings it home with Sander Kleinenberg's "This Is Our Night" (firewire remix)
Read more . . . →Here you will find the fruits of my labours. After almost a month in production I have posted and submited my remix of Sander Kleinenberg's epic track "This is Our Night, but with a sexy addition: it now features the vocals of Victoria Garland aside from a complete overhaul of the instrumentation. Now offline but it has been released. Check this post for more information on Massaad + Garland
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Excited that iPhone 4 will solve the oil spill
Read more . . . →I'm very excited about the new iPhone announced today by Apple. Most of all I'm pleased about how environmentally friendly it will be!
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Happy New Year – DJ Set
Read more . . . →[caption id="attachment_642" align="alignleft" width="283" caption="Better late than never at all!"][/caption] For the past few years I have been having new years parties at my house in Ottawa. This year I had a two hour set planed in Ableton Live with a couple underground remixes I was working on. The first one is is my LTWB 2010 remix. This song is originally by Laidback Luke, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell and Steve Angello but I felt it needed something more. The was actually sub-ing (pun intended!) in a new bass line and mixing some drums as well as including a chord progression from...
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Little Boots - Earthquake Remix: breakdown and some issues
Read more . . . →Last fall the British pop singer known as Little Boots held a remix competition for her song "Earthquake." I was very excited to jump into this project for practice but I immediately ran into some problems. You can grab the Earthquake stems here. My first problem stemmed (pardon the pun) from the choice of files that were provided. Unfortunately the vocals arrived as one giant stem reducing the possibilities to remix the incredible harmonies within the vocal track. I tried to work around this limitation by using Melodyne, the vocal tuning software. This would have allowed me to make different...
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All Creative Work Is Derivative - Music Video
Read more . . . →This video uses stop motion animations of ancient sculptures to show how culture has always been free and in fact only exists by building on the ideas that already existed.
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Henry Jenkins on Transmedia
The major shift has been from spectatorial media where we participate one way, and participatory media where we can all collaborate and contribute. ... This had social media links which allowed official and participatory media to be uploaded on youtube and seen by everyone giving a way to new perspectives.Read more . . . → -
What the iPad means for music
Look at what has been happening with the JazzMutant Lemur as a malleable music controller and what has already been happening with iPhone music apps, and it’s clear that music developers are going to have fun with the Apple iPad. ... Apple iPad Features: 9.7″ Full capacitive multitouch screen .5″ thick 1 GHz Apple A4 processor 16GB-GB Flash storage Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR WiFi 802.11n Built-in speaker, microphone, 30-pin connectors Accelerometer Compass 10 hour battery life in use Runs all iPhone apps 3G wireless options, with a $30/month unlimited plan, with international options by the summer.Read more . . . → -
The History of the Boombox
The speakers in early boxes had extra-large magnets to push all that air around, and they were housed in heavy metal casing to deal with the vibrations from all the bass. ... “So these boxes were so heavy that some cats that would carry their boxes all the time, they would develop massive forearms and biceps.”Read more . . . →