Motherboard interview with Vince Clarke which shows his impressive collection of analogue synthesizers.
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thesixtyone
Just found the thesixtyone, a social music website with some great new bands. Run as a growing ecosystem, artists can sell directly to their fans therefore circumventing traditional record label ethics. Site’s well designed and hooks you straight into the music. Love it!
Last.fm Best of 2009 Newspaper
The newsprint version of Last.fm’s ‘Best of 2009‘ printed by the Newspaper Club looks fantastic. Download the trends for New York and London vs the World.
Typestar
Typestar by Scott Garner is a kinetic type engine created with processing that renders song lyrics using a number of visualisation presets. Available to download complete with source code or you can watch it in action here.
Wax Stag – And How
Fantastic video by Clem Stamation for Wax Stag’s ‘And How’. You can find out how it was put together here.
Warp20 New York
NYC – The Film of Warp20 – Filmed as part of Warp’s 20th anniversary celebrations, includes Battles, Jamie Lidell, Clark, and Hudson Mohawke.
Classic 'Pelican' albums
LittlePixel’s Flickr set of ‘classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books’.
Warp20 Box Set
Warp (the best record company on the planet) are as part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations releasing a special edition box-set packed full of goodies including a book showcasing the labels rich design history along with an exclusive hour long mix and locked-groove vinyl set. Designed by Yes with photography by Dan Holdworth it looks stunning. It’s currently available for pre-order with 15% off so grab a copy while you can.
Connected: Moon, Maths, Jon Hopkins
- Moon – Duncan Jone’s homage to classic sci-fi starring Sam Rockwell is out in June. Watching the trailer there’s distinct parallels to Kubrick’s ‘2001‘ and the Clooney version of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris especially with the overall-look of the film. Also worth checking out is Gavin Rothery’s concept art for the film.
- iPhone Math Apps – Round-up of math apps for the iPhone via Wired.
- Caught Jon Hopkins supporting Plaid at the recent Ether Festival. Got to say that his latest album ‘Insides‘ is my favourite album so far this year. Top notch electronica!
Tone Matrix
Tone Matrix from am Laboratory, neat flash based audio sequencer. Like his flash based TR-909 as well.