December 11, 2013The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is a constant source of inspiration and boredom alleviation for us. With social hacktivism at the core of it’s ideals, the community of artists, scientists, lawyers and computer geeks are dedicated to open-source, open-license, public domain works that make the world a better place. Tearing down the borders of patents and corporate monopolies…
November 30, 2013This isn’t an every day occurrence for us, but you’ve got to show some respect to the men in hoods. Our first encounter with Sunn O))) was many years back at Sonar, in a bizarrely dark setting in the middle of the day that didn’t at all reflect the sunshine vibes occurring in Barcelona outside. To be honest I really…
November 28, 2013Over the last twelve months especially, sound system culture has been progressively working it’s way in to our day-to-day doings, much knowledge sharing, and big-ups those who’ve stepped up to teach. We came at the sound system side of things well late, and from a proper outsiders perspective, not even close to catching up, but it’s all about the journey…
November 26, 2013Been meaning to weigh in on Ryoji Ikeda since the trip to the Museum Of New and Old Art (MONA) earlier in the year. Data.Tron and Data.Matrix were the two audiovisual works on display, absolute standouts that consumed a massive space, with screens facing each other allowing you to get totally lost in his creations. With the release of his Supercodex album on…
November 24, 2013Can’t really talk about Recovery without first discussing Rage. Just found out that the Australian music program is in fact the oldest music video program in production, having first broadcast in April 1987 in the same minimal format it still goes out as today. Starting sometime between 11pm and 1am originally each night on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) but now…
November 18, 2013Proper stoked to see this, though feel like I missed out having not been there while it was live. The one Chairman Kato recently stepped up his installation CV by exhibiting ‘Purgatory Live‘ at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&;A) in London. One of the world’s top design and art museums, their Friday Late series has been making the most of their incredible…
October 31, 2013One of the annual events in which my inner-cerebrate fan boy is allowed to surface is Festival Of Dangerous Ideas (FODI). That’s right, I dreamed of being an intellectual too once, but unfortunately when I hit around twenty-three the ambition started to manifest itself in to bitterness as opposed to excitement for change. Events like TED and FODI are as much…
October 15, 2013Only seven hours left on this so it’s going to be a quick post. The good folk at Open Music Labs are using Crowd Supply to produce a final made-to-order run of the Mixtape Alpha, a credit-card sized polyphonic 8-bit synth with some quality features for it’s size. The ability to record and playback sequences is particularly nice, as are…
October 14, 2013From the man behind the Radio Olympics – over twelve hours of music from all competing countries – we now have The Dead Albatross Music Prize. Paul Ackroyd aka Kamikaze has polled our most respected music heads and created the twenty album list for the inaugural event, which can be followed here: http://www.deadalbatross.com/ An alternative to once quality but now…
October 8, 2013Good news for those on the hardware hunt or with a bit of cash to spend on an investment piece for the latter part of the year. The folks over at Monome have just unveiled a new product, the Aleph, and are currently taking pre-orders for a non-specific shipping date later in the year. Before giving reasons for how much better…