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January 23, 2011

Got You Some Techno Ringtones for your iPhone, as well as House, Electro, 80’s, Glam & Breaks ones too

Thought I’d share some ringtones I had edited down for my own iPhone usage and you may find useful to put onto yours. Most of these are my own vinyl or cd rips that I then truncated down in iTunes and exported out as m4r files. A few are original creations from me. There is […]

January 2, 2011

New Year, New Mix. Winter Mix 2011

The story of Winter Mix 2011. I took advantage of being awake on New Year’s Eve after the ball dropped and Wife and Son fell asleep to get into the groove. Call it the Champagne for keeping me awake til 4 am (we are great friends). I had been contemplating this mix since mid December […]

August 28, 2010

Excellent Heaven 17 / B.E.F. Documentary

Came across this sort of by accident by reading an article on the blog… slicingupeyeballs.com (an 80’s college rock band blog, it’s good). Anyway, this documentary covers the formation of the band with Glen and Martyn being on camera. Unfortunately, one of the members, Ian, didn’t want to be a part of the Heaven 17 […]

August 18, 2010

New Ripperton ArcadeFire Remix, using TouchAble?

Could it be an upcoming Arcade Fire remix from the techno artist, Ripperton, or just play as he demos the TouchAble app for iPad and AbletonLive.

August 8, 2010

Even More Next Gen Like, or Minority Report Style Touch Screen Traktor Controller

Even more futuristic looking, I reckon this is another 1 of 1 edition. Still like the physical knobs of the previous post’s controller though. “emulator” on töken concept from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo. UPDATE (08.14.10): Here’s a second video by the creator, Pablo Martin, being executed on a laptop.

March 21, 2010

Vince Clarke ‘Make Something From Nothing’

No, it’s not a new Erasure tune or solo track, but a philosophy that keeps the synth song writing machine percolating. This ‘Dell’ sponsored interview peers into Vince’s current home and studio called ‘the cabin’ way up in Portland, Maine. A room surrounded in perfectly mounted synthesizers becomes the envy of anyone who’s ever twisted […]