10/05/12

As mentioned by somebody in my Twitter stream yesterday, voting on films is on a ten out of ten basis - unless it's This Is Spinal Tap, in which case it goes up to eleven!

07/05/12

Here's something to mess up the plans of a label completist. The Tone Filth Records & Tapes label, based in Minneapolis, have previously released all kinds of cassette, vinyl and CDr releases, from artists like Hive Mind, C Spencer Yeh and Helm. (They're coming from a 'weird noise' angle, like so many other such heavily cassette-focussed labels).

That's great, and even though most of their releases are now out of print, they're probably available with a bit of digging.

However, good luck to anybody hoping to slot their fiftieth release, TF50, into a collection. It's a carefully constructed modular synthesizer, that's been built up over some time, going from original sketches through tests and various build phases. It's pretty cool, and it does things like this:

Tone Filth Records & Tapes and TF50

23/04/12

This is great, a round-up of the ten most heavily-sampled breakbeats, with this at number one:

The whole website is fascinating, too - an easy-to-search database of what's sampled in what songs, with massive amounts of audio and video included...

19/04/12

Recent news stories about the varying opinions on carbon capture and storage made me aware of the acronym CCS which is being used.

This reminded me of another CCS. That's CCS as in Collective Consciousness Society, the Alexis Korner-led groovers that did this:

I'm very happy to have been reminded about this.

04/04/12

A friend tipped me off about this, and I like it. The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble create startlingly authentic-sounding techno music using orchestral instruments.