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Dance music is in a period of flux. Music sales are falling, the death of the major label is predicted, creating both problems and opportunities, and the proliferation of better, cheaper computers as well as equipment is changing the way music is...
Poker Flat will turn 10 years old at the start of 2009 – an impressive feat in the electronic music industry! Here Steve Bug looks back at his successes and looks forward to one big party.Let’s start with what we might know already: Poker Flat is...
Let’s face it: laptop cases are boring.And now that I just bought a new Macbook, I need something sassier than the black and grey dude-sleeve I was using before. Thanks to international retailer Isis Dei, I no longer have to hide my laptop case i...
Meant to discourage teens from tripping on cough syrup and huffing computer cleaner, the Sound Advice Project turns six-second voice recordings into three-dimensional waveform bracelets. Modeled on an individual’s unique vocal patterns, this nift...
Music, technology and geeks fit together like three peas in a pod, so what better way to combine these things than to make a USB stick that looks like a tiny MPC or Akai drum machine? With an attention to detail that is borderline astonishing, th...
Vinyl had always seemed destined for the recycling bin, but not too long ago hordes of DJs and music lovers came to the defense of this unique format, which has now found itself more popular than ever. Turntable company Stanton recently came up w...
Welcome to the fifth instalment of the “Best of the Noughties.“ After previously examining music blogs, public art installations, songs and documentaries, we turn our attention to digital downloads and the music trends which cropped up this decad...
Radiohead looks back on a successful 'In Rainbows' internet release.In October 2007 Radiohead launched their new album ‚In Rainbows’ via a pay-what-you-want release on the internet. One year later the results of the first release in this vein wer...
How did we ever live without Discogs? The online music database that collates information on pretty much every music release ever has the biggest database in the world of electronic music.And now in order to further satisfy the vinyl loving geeks...
Street art became much more popular, present and acknowledged over the past few years. It is not anymore just seen as vandalism or youthful escapades. Nowadays it is accepted as a kind of art and even gained a lot of attention in the art scene o...
Have you ever asked yourself how to separate the wheat from the chaff regarding music? Check loopbox.flsh.nl, choose a song and listen to a continuous sample of its best riff. If you feel neither bored nor annoyed nor hackled up, it is probably a...
Who would have thought it. Scourge of the music industry - 'pirates' or people who acquire music illegally, are actually far more inclined to pay for legal downloads that those who do not download. In a study by the BI Norwegian School of Managem...
Robot company tmsuk and Japan’s Waseda University have reached a climax -- as far as their new robot is concerned. The collaborators created a humanoid named KOBIAN that is able to express a wide range of emotions through body language.KOBIAN has...