Tekno_Eddy's "Horizons" is one of many of the latest creations coming from ccMixter, which uses the user-friendly Creative Commons license to promote the remix culture. What makes this remix interesting to the ear is that his mix mashes up an ethereal, atmospheric tone with the soft, innocent vocals of Lisa D.
After being inspired by Girl Talk's impressive mash-ups that compiles 200 songs into a fascinating hodepodge, I decided to try out AudioMulch. It's a modular audio software that can synthesize sound and process live and pre-recorded sound in real time.
Like Reaktor and Max/MSP, it's a patcher-style interface where various modules called contraptions can be connected to route audio and make a wide range of sounds, with up to 24 channels of real-time audio input and output. Unlike its competitors, however, it only costs $89 for the license and has a much simpler interface.
What does a nonconformist industrial rock band and a house DJ have in common? A new remix! French DJ Sebastien Leger takes one of Marilyn Manson's big hits and gives it a more groovy, dark feel. Leger makes his own beats prominent through his remix of "The Beautiful People," shortened to "The People," while keeping its sinister attitude.
We all know the iPhone stands out as one of the most well-rounded devices out there, but did you know you can also DJ on it as well?
Sort of. For $3, you can download Deadmau5's new 10-track iPhone app, Touch Mix, which enables you to remix his songs from the convenience of your iPhone.
The features include applying delays, cuts, effects and rewinds. The simple interface and scratch pad makes it easy to create your own remix.
Interesting interview with Lawrence Lessig, Stanford professor and founder of Creative Commons, posted on YouTube last week regarding his recent book "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy." He acknowledges the role that amateurs and other are doing to use music through new technologies, but feels that society isn't encouraging it in a positive way.
"Kids take digital objects like music or video and remix and share it with friends," he said. "They share it on YouTube and Lawyers come along and slap them with a Notice of Takedown and force it off the network."
UCLA’s students’ efforts to bring the music festival atmosphere on campus Friday has brought vibrant, fascinating beats from Color, Universoul Religion, and Jakkmode. Music at the event exhibited its part-experimental, part-dancey attitude thanks to the trio of DJ’s, and its intimate setting in a college hall took out the overheating and crowding that comes with larger, more prominent electronic music festivals.
The electronic music festival has arrived on the college campus. Tonight's Electric Love Fest (ELF) is UCLA's first event of its kind (and hopefully a regular mainstay). ELF brings the atmosphere of other enormous Los Angeles events such as the pre-Halloween Monster Massive and the New Year's Eve celebration Together as One, and fits it into a campus hall. This event features local up-and-coming musical stylings of Jakkmode, UCLA's very own Color, and Universoul Religion.
To get a taste of these up and coming mixmasters, check out these links and listen:
