Category Archives: Music

Top 10 Albums of the decade

Wow, that’s a title isn’t it? A decade doesn’t come around that often in someone’s lifetime – I’ve only been alive for just over three myself! So this is my pick of the last ten years of music – yes … Continue reading

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Digital killed the video star

We’ve seen epic movie-style videos, huge budgets spent on blowing things up, turning singers into cyborgs, or having endless well-endowed ladies shaking their thang, dripping in diamonds. So what could the future hold for music videos…

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Oh, ok, go!

So I’m going to have a little rant — don’t you just hate it when you see ads that blatantly copy something from Youtube? Fine. Okay, sometimes it’s hard for everyone to come up with good ideas so you inevitably end … Continue reading

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plinky-plonky music

So you might have heard of and seen one of these Yamaha TENORI-ON machines (in fact Nathan blogged about Little Boot’s rendition of Hot Chip’s Ready for the floor a while back now) the new instrument that mixes musical beats … Continue reading

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so while we’re talking about music…

I came across the Tenori-On via Ian at Crackunit. What is a Tenori-On you say? ‘Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16×16 matrix of LED … Continue reading

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The albums of 2008

So here we are at the start of 2009: a great time indeed to reflect on the previous year and more importantly what tunes we’ve been listening to.  But before I run down our definitive top ten list, I thought … Continue reading

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