Comics author (Planetary, Fell), novelist (Crooked Little Vein), and general web presence (warrenellis.com, freakangels.com, the mailing list BadSignal, the podcast 4am) Warren Ellis writing via his Twitter account this past Tuesday:
Sometimes I’d rather listen to …
The site is currently being upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (wordpress.org), the content management system in which it is published. The only thing left to fix is the post topic links (free, gadget, netlabel, etc.), which aren’t …
Wondering what musical thing the DS will do next after Electroplankton? How about simulating a full-fledged synthesizer? The new KORG DS-10 from AQ Interactive reproduces the late-1970s MS-10 on the popular Nintendo handheld.
The product’s …
The turntable crew called the X-ecutioners were the Mills Brothers of hip-hop and the Harlem Globetrotters of hip-hop, all wrapped up in one multi-LP ensemble of intensely calisthenic musicality. Key among them was member Rob Swift, who has surfaced with …
Complaints that the Nintendo DS cartridge Electroplankton has no “record” feature have been answered. Not by some cheat code that reveals a command to record the sounds produced by users on the ingenious sound toy. No, instead by the …
An anecdote as told by Gary Gygax, creator of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons:
It reminds me of one time where I saw some children talking about whether they liked radio or television, and I asked one little boy …
Computer programmers, like most professionals, pay heed to the small, iterative changes in their work habits that can gain them an extra chunk — even an extra sliver — of usable time in a day. The developer of the great …
It wouldn’t be a week without a new riff on the Buddha Machine, the inexpensive sound-art gadget produced by the China-based duo FM3. The Iowa City, Iowa-based musician Mark Rushton has posted another in his ongoing series of free downloads, …
Under the mythic moniker Ulaan Khol, psychedelic figure Steven R. Smith finds some sort of middle ground between the proggy excesses of the 1970s and the searching minimalism of today’s extreme noise makers. One of the 10 tracks on the …
With its sing-songy beats and layers of simple sampled percussion, “Easily Distracted” by DJ Mayonnaise (aka Chris Greer), off his Still Alive collection from last year, is a perfect example of the space where instrumental hip-hop and bedroom electronica meet …