music made from a stapler

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/11/music-from-a-st.html

Check out retrothing for a cool video and soundfile combo of a dude who made a song from just sampling the sound of a little stapler spring vibrating. This sort of this is super intriguing to me. I can't wait until I get this tutorials/music advice/lessons thing going so I can do all kinds of cool little experiments like this one. The final result thankfully doesn't sound gimmicky at all. One thing that I love about the increasing availability of digital editing and processing software is that I can see this sort of thing becoming a more common practice. At the end of the day it's about making interesting music, and unfortunately a lot of the stuff I hear that is technically interesting (ie: made using some cool tool or technique) ends up sounding pretty bland. I look forward to the days when enough people are digging into the real dirt of sound manipulation that we get more little gems like this.

Electronic spirograph

Got this off of synthwire, it's quite beautiful in my opinion.

best cat based rap song of all time.

My friend Jacques aka rapper "bleubird" made this with a friend of his, and quite frankly you have to see it.

countdown to mixtape2

In just a couple weeks the second volume of my mixtape series will be finished. Things have been pretty wild for me since that last one came out, but I am finally in a place where I can really take hold of this and build it into something. Anyone else excited?

Join my mailing list and other things that start with "join my..."

Here's an example of a good idea: Join my mailing list. I set it up through reverbnation, but don't let that scare you, you don't have to sign up with them or anything, they just manage my email contacts for music stuff because quite frankly the sticky note I've been storing my mailing list on is seeming a little web 1.0.

Here's the deal with the mailing list: You get access to the free mixtape series, as well as very occasional, very unobtrusive updates if there is something really amazing worth updating about. There will also be other things coming on down the line soon. It requires an email address so that I can send you the links to the music.

Good deal? Great deal.




The "street team" is a new thing for me, and I think you should only join that if you're down for the cause. No disrespect if you just want to sit back and listen, you're still a much loved member of the community. But if you want to help out, join the street team too, it might just pay off...

In other news, I just learned what twitter was, crazy right? I know, I know...

Anyways, as if learning what I just ate for breakfast isn't enough motivation to follow my twitter account, I will be randomly uploading an exclusive track and linking it from my twitter for a limited time every once in a while. The only way to get these songs (which might be outtakes from the mixtapes, remixes, old songs, who knows?) is to be a follower (bad name, twitter) of me on there.

Want to be?

I won't tell you how to set up a twitter account, you can figure that one out. Once you do, follow me here


Also, there should be a new myspace and lots more activity on this here website, and also we just got two kittens, so if you like pictures of cute cats doing cute things then let me know, I'll upload some pics to the new forum that's starting soon (more on that later)

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this is test, if this was a real blog post you would be reading it right now, but you're not.

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Having problems updating the ol' blog here, so let me try again with a little test.