Just try entering the search term above into youtube, and an hour will pass before you realise you were supposed to be doing something other than sitting slack jawed watching people play music on their creations – you have been…

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Thanks to everyone who let me know about the dodgy rss generated by my blog… When i got back from holiday I discovered my blog had been hacked by a Turkish hacker who obviously has nothing better to do with…

Physics vs Suspended disbeliefSound in space? Of course there is sound in space,warning: it might just not be ‘real’ ok?(neither is having picture edits)& is music sound?think about it

Wahoooooooooo! I am SO out of here! An evening flight to Auckland, dawn flight to Sydney (ug!) & then on to Denpasar, Bali. Mission 1: Avoid Australian tourists! Mission 2: Experience Gamelan in context. Mission 3. Chill out! Somehow, I…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okOBUp0oaNM

Following on from dosh in a previous post, here is an equally clever & incredibly beautiful song created via live looping by french musician Camille Coincidentally Camille is also the french dub voice for Causette, the kitchen girl from the…

It is always interesting to see peoples careers develop in interesting ways, and that theory sure applies to Jem Finer one of the founding member of the Pogues. Since leaving the band in 1996 he has gone on to develop…

more here: part 1 and part 2

Trailer for a very interesting documentary called Dub Echoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPz6lAa4y-I

“My reverie every year at Nyepi is to imagine this day of silence catching on worldwide.” So says someone who has actually experienced Nyepi & taken the trouble to translate his experience into words (via A holiday for the ears)…

Rubens Tube – it rolls off the tongue sounding like a Rubicks Cube but it isnt related at all (although if you want to see film director Michel Gondry solve a Rubiks Cube in under one minute using ONLY his…

No, i dont mean the Amen break, that only qualifies as the most over-used break… This beat is genius at least partly because its in 5/4 ie beyond most DJs mixing/recycle skills.. The tune is called Take 5 by Dave…

wow!!!! i just found this great new band! They look quite young but kinda funky…. The video seems to have one of those black & white/grainy final cut pro filter on it…. Holy shit it looks like they’re actually playing…

(sorry for the deja-vu, this is a repost – when i changed themes it seems the old post of this got corrupted) amo, amas, amat… I studied (and I use the term loosely) latin for two years at high school…

About once a month I get an email asking for career advice and as time allows I write the best, most honest reply I can…. But having done that now for the tenth time i figured I would write a…

YES!!!!! I’ve been waiting quite some time for this, and similarly to owning a good mic I feel like I have gained a new limb. Late last week while in Auckland I visited Sound Techniques and finally replaced my long…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImjSC2BrUuI Otherwise known as dosh