prosthetic knowledge
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Σclipse
7 tracks of new electronic music by various artists, free to download - recommended if you like future music / beats / glitch-hop / dub-step etc … :
Every six lunar months – when Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned – we experience a partial or total lunar eclipse that can be observed anywhere on the night side of Earth. Lunar eclipses can only occur at full moon, that time when the moon is directly opposite Earth in relation to the Sun. Many ancient civilizations cultivated a multitude of myths surrounding these astronomic events, most of them depicting wild animals or mystical creatures eating the moon or crossing it’s path. Tibetan Buddhists say that during a lunar eclipse, our actions, whether good or bad, are multiplied one thousandfold, whereas, in ancient egypt, a lunar eclipse was considered to be the precursor of natural disasters, catastrophes, wars, and diseases and the biggest possible harm would be cast upon the earth if Isfet, the manifestation of the total eclipse and god of injustice and violence, would make the sky fall onto Earth and therefore bring chaos upon it.
As the soundtrack for the lunar eclipse during the night of the 25th of April, we selected some exclusive and unreleased songs from Robot Koch, Submerse, Rain Dog, Sieren, Daisuke Tanabe, Lomovolokno, KRTS, and Daixie on this mini-compilation.Listen to the embed above, or go to the Bandcamp page for more info / download links here
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Perspective 1.0
The first-person 3D game to control a 2D platformer has been released today, freely available:
December 12, 2012
Dear Fans,
We’re excited to announce today that Perspective is available for download, free of charge.
Perspective was put together by some of the most competent, hard working, and passionate game creators I have ever worked with. From the very first line of code pushed to our mercurial repository, up until the moment the final build was uploaded, we poured our hearts and souls into the creation of this game.
None of us had the luxury of working on Perspective full-time. From overloaded six-course semesters at DigiPen to full-time jobs and internships, there were always other obligations pulling for our attention. Despite these distractions, we sacrificed sleep and sanity to make Perspective into what it is today.
Making games is hard, much harder than anyone who has never shipped a game before would expect. We hope you enjoy playing Perspective as much as we enjoyed making it. Thanks to all the eager fans who kept us motivated in shipping Perspective.
GLHF,
Pohung
Perspective homepage link here
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The Electro Compendium
A free compilation of 116 (!!!) tracks of intelligent electro - I’ll leave the Anti-Social Network to explain it:
Electro.
Kraftwerk invented it in the seventies. Hip hop jacked it in eighties. Techno took it underground in the nineties. And then strange things happened in the noughties. House and dubstep co-opted the word “electro”, shifting its meaning and confusing people. Good people. People like YOU.
You’ve forgotten what real electro sounds like. But that’s ok, because we’re here to remind you. Electro is the sound of robots dreaming of a science fiction future, making machine music in their bedrooms with pulsing drum machines, while their keytars gently bleep. OK, maybe not so much the keytars, but probably some squelching synths, and sci fi samples and even the occasional vocoder, all washed down with lashings and lashings of funk.
Today, electro continues to evolve, embracing modern production techniques and digital sound design, mutating into something so alien it barely resembles most of today’s dance music. And yet it does. It SO does, and we have over 100 tracks that prove it, from relentless hardcore dancefloor tracks to intricately tweaked bedroom chin-scratchers; from melodic retro tributes to the escapist soundtrack of science fiction futures.You can check the music out in the embedded player below, or check out it’s Bandcamp page (with tracklist) here
Thanks to Lewis Hadler for the heads up :)
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Great collaboration on this free track put together by TOKiMONSTA and rucyl:
Me and TOKiMONSTA did this collab awhile back.
Free download: http://bit.ly/A9jiSA
Toki passed me the track and I wrote this song about what the entertainment industry can sometimes do to a woman - or a man for that matter.
Fame Boozers Lullaby
They keep the bird up in the cage
How come they don’t know she’s lonelyAnd so her breast pops off the page
A glossy spread will turn your headOh she told me, oh she told me
Oh she told me, oh she told me
Pain is so expensiveI got my flask to bring
I got my glass to drink
Sometimes I ain’t got no vice
My drug is the love of the camera lights
Just wanna fall down.. I just wanna fall downOh she told me, oh she told me
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Brainfeeder Sampler 2012
The great Brainfeeder label (set up by Flying Lotus) have just announced a free 12 track sampler:
Brainfeeder would like to show sincere thanks to our fans after winning “Label Of The Year” at the
2012 Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards.Download a free 12-track Brainfeeder sampler, with tracks from Thundercat, Martyn, Samiyam, Tokimonsta, Jeremiah Jae, Taylor McFerrin, Teebs, Austin Peralta, Matthewdavid, Mono/Poly, and an exclusive download from Lapalux.
Only requirement is an email address. More info and links can be found here
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Collection Of Pixel Art Wallpaper Tiles
158 freely downloadable tiles from Squidfingers. Each tile is very small (so you would have alter the size yourself), but could be edited for whatever needs.
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Super Smash Land (Release Trailer) - A Game Boy Demake by Dan Fornace
Super Smash Land is a free to play PC Game that is designed to look and feel like it is being played on the original Nintendo Gameboy. I have simplified the experience while keeping the characters and features you are used to along with my own creative decisions.
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Brain’s Beats by Black Einstein
Free instrumental hip-hop album available at Bandcamp here
Some background from his blog:
In 2008 Braintax (Joe Christie) brought his career to an end with the release of his last album titled “My Last And Best Album” (debatable), closed down LowLife Records, retired to Australia and promptly vanished.
The album was produced entirely by Black Einstein’s Colin Emmanuel and released with literally no promo to favourable reviews. “Brain’s Beats” is 9 of the 11 tracks from that album available for download on Bandcamp for FREE!!
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L’AUTOMNE by PRISONGARDE
Taken from a free album Système Hermès, collection of contemporary drum machine and synth.
Ok. So after a good year of writing tunes under the Prison Garde moniker I have come up with a collection of ideas from Live P.A. sets that I think folks might be into. These are various tempo joints ranging from 70-150 bpm, all tied together by the presence of Drum Machines and Synths. This collection is Free download in support of the Bass Coast music festival and the Yours Truly party that will be starting next month. You can also check out a little QnA over here with the homies Sub|Div talking about my current influences and what I have been upto in Vancouver since moving here.
From Sonic Router:
As Sixtoo, Vaughn Robert Squire soundtracked a lot of people’s youth. His early work with Buck65, as the Sebutones and his solo production albums, as well as his beats for Anticon artists like Sage Francis, made him something of a name in indie rap circles. His beats were edgy, channelling that dusty hip hop vein pioneered by accomplished diggers like DJ Shadow he completely twisted it in new and interesting directions across his pinnacle projects ‘Duration’ or ‘Chewing On Glass, And Other Miracle Cures.’
… Switching styles he laid the Sixtoo moniker to rest, re-emerging as Speakerbruiser with a new group called Megasoid that focused its attention on throwing Turbo Crunk parties in Montreal and producing big synth remixes that were epitomized on their Speed Knots and Tank Thong mixtapes. It was a switch in style that allowed Squire the space to get wild and since the ‘Soid’s demise in ’09 he’s been working under the Prison Garde alias since relocating to Vancouver, producing his brand of ‘Hi Grade Audio Sex’ across tempos.
Tracklist:
IKnowYourMine (74bpm)
L’Automne (74bpm)
New Love Old Girl (74bpm)
Zero (100bpm)
Tokyo Bullet Train (105bpm)
Where You Been? (106bpm)
Be Loved (110bpm)
Nothing (110bpm)
Steady (114bpm)
Sunshine (115bpm)
Lovetreatment Refix (117bpm)
Prison Garde & Eames – Chicago Tranist (120bpm)
Parking Lot (150bpm)
The Weeknd – What You Need (Prison Garde 808 Edit) -
Collection of Hip Hop remix albums (all free), currently at series 5.
Album-featured artists include MF Doom, Brand Nubian, Large Pro, J-Live and D.I.T.C.
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GameSalad - Mac-based HTML5 Game Maker with Drag-and-Drop construction and iOS export - also free
Designed for designers.
There’s no faster or easier way to get started building a game than with GameSalad Creator. Its visual, drag & drop based style requires absolutely no coding whatsoever. Avoid spending hours poring over code, and spend more time finding the fun.“Rapid” is an understatement.
GameSalad’s wide variety of complex behaviors provide almost limitless freedom for varied game genres, styles, and mechanics. On top of its incredible versatility, GameSalad brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “rapid prototyping”. Explore the possibilities in hours and days instead of weeks. It’s fast. It’s versatile. It’s GameSalad.No coding. Ever.
GameSalad aims to open the doors of game design to anyone who wants to create. With GameSalad’s complete set of tools and editors, bring your game to market faster and easier than with any other development platform; and without coding a single line. That’s development in days and weeks - not months. That’s the democratization of game creation.It doesn’t look like there is a version for Windows - definately Aplle bias.
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Stencyl - Make Flash Games with Drag-and-Drop Interface
Game Studio in a Box—For Free
We bring you “the Works.” (No delivery charge required.)
Welcome to StencylWorks, 2D game creation done right. StencylWorks isn’t your average game creation software; it’s a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that integrates seamlessly with the Stencyl ecosystem.
Exclusive collaboration and sharing features will have you making Flash games in a flash. For free.
(iOS support is on its way, too.)
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Photosynth app out for iOS
Just tried this photo panorama app out on the iPod Touch. Its free, and can take photos from all angles in a good interface, although the output is limited - quality is not as good as some of the other panorama apps out there. Also, images can be sent to Facebook, Photosynth or Bing Maps.
Worth checking out, but far from perfect.
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kopimi (copyme), symbol showing that you want to be copied. use kopimi in your own fancy. kopimi may be put on homepages or blogs, in books, in software, as sound logos in music or whatever.
1. copy one of these kopimi symbols, or make up your own
2. put it on a homepage
3. link the logotype to: www.kopimi.com/kopimiThere are various remixes of this logo on the kopime page, which you can find here
via @Brainpicker
