As I’ve stated before, I got my introduction to creating electronic music by using the MTV Music Generator on a Sony PlayStation. I’ve recently come across some tapes containing tracks from this time and digitized some of them. Some are OK, some are bad, and there were a few that were just unlistenable. Please ignore…
Tags: music, playstation
When I’m feeling stuck creatively, something that helps out fantastically is to pick apart someone else’s song and remix it. I fell into a bit of a funk recently and as a result have been focusing extensively on remixes, going so far as to start up a thread on one of my favorite forums to…
Tags: music, remix
Some time ago, Samantha (my fiancée,) asked me “why don’t you ever write any French house music?” The answer is “because I am awful at it.” This was before the latest Daft Punk record had dropped, so we hadn’t yet been disillusioned and I sat down that evening with the intention of quickly working out…
Tags: french house, music
I found David through the “Reasoners” reddit community, where he had posted a link to download the project file for this track as an example of what could be done with Propellerhead’s Reason software and that it could be considered a competitive DAW. I’d heard some of his stuff before, finding him through previous posts…
Tags: collaboration, music, remix
In case you don’t know, I occasionally write for Buttcoin, a site that lambasts Bitcoin and the horrifying community that has sprung up around it. For some reason the entire Bitcoin phenomenon is endlessly hilarious to me, from the scam artists to the extreme libertarians to the clueless teenagers. Every aspect of it is incredible for…
Tags: bitcoin, music
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