prosthetic knowledge
-
Re: Sound Bottle
An electronic sound sampler in a bottle which constructs music from the sounds you give it, by Jun Fujiwara - video embedded below:
Re: Sound Bottle from Jun Fujiwara on Vimeo.
This is a music medium that can reproduce a recorded voice as music. It makes a database of sound sources that is managed and used as formal and automatic repetitions, and forms a music medium of the day. I felt something missing in the habitual use of music reproduction media, so I thought to create an interactive music medium that changes. By using everyday voices as sources of music, the sounds that are heard all the time every day carry infinite possibilities and help us reaffirm the enjoyment of music. I hope people can experience their own music.
-
Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix
A tribute to the Beastie Boy’s ‘Paul’s Boutique’ album - 3 years in the making, 3 DJs, a mix in itself and semi-documentary - via DJ Food:
3 years in the making, 3 DJs working with over 150 tracks to recreate one of the seminal sampling albums of all time, at last Cheeba, Moneyshot and I can reveal ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’. Our tribute to the classic Beastie Boys album ‘Paul’s Boutique’ remixed and re-imagined from all the original samples plus a cappellas, period interviews and the Beasties’ own audio commentary from the reissued release …
The tracklist is too huge to put here, but it can be found at DJ Food’s blog here
-
Make Your Own Tape Loop
London’s Science Museum blog has provided a guide to create looping audio with old cassette tapes, mimicking a technique used by early electronic experimental musicians such as Daphne Oram:
The Science Museum’s exhibition Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music charts the evolution of electronic music and details the fantastic lengths that its creators often went to in order to push the boundaries of sound. In the days before synthesisers, open source software and pirated soft-synths, electronic music pioneers such as Daphne Oram had very few resources with which to forge new and exciting sounds. The use and abuse of reel to reel tape players, and the splicing of magnetic tape were soon adopted by some of music’s most adventurous minds and became a vital weapon in their war against the sonically mundane. Composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Terry Riley, and also the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were all keen tape splicers, stretchers and loopers.
Nowadays reel to reel tape players are hard to find and incredibly impractical to use. However, their dinky portable cousins, Walkmans, are easier to find, and cassettes are readily and cheaply available in most charity shops, as well as some cupboards, and a few trendy music stores. Cassette tapes are fairly easy to modify too, and doing so provides a fun insight into the early development of electronic music and a chance to get in touch with its roots. Making a tape loop is one of the easiest and most satisfying tape experiments that you can do, and it takes little more than a few bits of a stationery, a steady hand and half an hour of your time. The process is relatively fiddly and the results will be largely dictated by chance (exciting in itself!), but it’s all worth it for the thrill of feeling the spirit of early electronic music experimenters flowing through you. The results are somewhat unpredictable, but sometimes you stumble upon a perfect three or four second-long loop that you can listen to over and over without ever getting bored, its sound appearing change and alter over time…
You can see the whole guide here
-
The Soft Centre of WuTang: Funk, Soul, Blues, Original Samples, Vinyl DJ Mix by DJ Patience
Title says it all, perfect for a mellow Sunday evening:
This is a DJ mix of 47 original funk, soul and blues vinyl tracks that have been sampled by the hip hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan.
TRACKLIST
1. Beethoven: Piano Sonata #8
2. Peter Nero: A Time For Us
3. Gladys Knight & The Pips: Giving Up
4. Ben E. King: I Who Have Nothing
5. The Dramatics: In The Rain
6. Al Green: Simply Beautiful
7. Sly Johnston: I Hate I Walked Away
8. Gladys Kinght & The Pips: And This is Love
9. Ann Peebles: Trouble, Heartache and Sadness
10: OV Wright: Let’s Straighten it Out
11: Al Green: Something
12: Johnnie Taylor: Steal Away
13: Willie Mitchell: Groovin
14: Labi Siffre: I Got The (Blues)
15: Southside Movement: I’ve Been Watching You
16: B.B. King: The Thrill is Gone
17: Gap Mangione: Free Again
18: Nicholas Flagello: Wailing Wail
19: Eddie Floyd: Don’t Leave Me Lonely
20: The New Birth: Honey Bee
21: Wendy Rene: After Laughter (Comes Tears)
22: The Detroit Emeralds: You’re Getting a Little Too Smart
23: Sly Johnson: Don’t Do It
24: Baby Huey: Hard Times
25: Melvin Bliss: Synthetic Substitution
26: Tommy Youngblood: Tobbacco Road
27: Love Unlimited: Midnight Groove
28: Sly Johnson: I Hear The Love Chimes
29: Curtis Mayfield: Underground
30: Betty Lavette: Let Me Down Easy
31: Albert King: Oh Pretty Woman
32: Hot Chocolate: Brother Louie
33: The Soul Children: Don’t You Take My Kindness For Weakness
34: The Marvelettes: Why Marry
35: Al Green: You Ought To Be With Me
36: Sly Johnson: Different Strokes
37: Bobby Womack: Across 110th St
38: Sly Johnson: Is it Because I’m Black
39: Lynn Collins: Ain’t No Sunshine
40: The Brighter Side of Darkness: Love Jones
41: Barry White: Mellow Mood
42: Isaac Hayes: Walk on By
43: Bob James: Nautilus
44: The Emotions: I Like It
45: Gaz: Sing Sing
46: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: You’re All I Need To Get By
47: The Doors: The End -
Kraftwerk Kover Kollection Vol.4 by DJ Food
Hour long mixof songs that covered, sampled or clearly inspired by the works of influential electronics band Kraftwerk:
The fourth in a mix series featuring cover versions, sample-heavy tracks or songs that obviously owe a debt to the Dusseldorf quartet. Each mix is laced with spoken word, interviews or info about Kraftwerk too. This one was originally aired on 04/08/06 on Solid Steel.
Tracklisting:
DJ Flywheel - Solid Steel intro
Bigg Ocean Mobb IV-1-5 - Gangster Driven
Wagon Christ - unknown studio session
Coldplay - Talk (instrumental demo)
MC Duke - I’m Riffin’
X-Men - It’s More Fun To Sample
DMX Krew - Homecomputer
Luke Vibert - Homewerk
P.L - Transeuropa Express
Rodney Bakerr - Numbers
Torul - It’s More Fun To Compute
Alenia - Home Computer
LCD Soundsystem - Dicso Infiltrator
MAW - Electronic Tranz
Love Tractor - Neon Lights
Bass Junkie - Robotechno
Coldplay - Talk (Thin White Duke remix)
Beck - Get Real Paid
Poison Clan - Dance All Nite
Audio Science Trans Europe Express
Yoshinori Sunahara - The Telephone Call
Biochip C - Steal It and Deal It (DMX Krew edit)
Zoot Woman - The Model
Partia - Das Model
King Automatic - The Model
Top of the Pops - Autobahn
Gorefest - Autobahn
The Balanescu Quartet - Autobahn
Roni Size feat Rahzel - Out of Breath
DJ Godfather - Ping Pong / Ping Beatz
Ionic Vision - Tour De France
Fresh Prince and Ready Rock C - Live at Union Sq outtake
DJ Craze - DMC 2000 Final routine
Morocco Moe - Task
The Beat Konductor - Open (space)
Trans Am - Man Machine (live)
Coldcut - Everything’s Under Control (Theory 0.1)
Rozmarinke - Radioactivity
Videosex - Spacelab (Gus Gus remix)
Albert Kuvezin and Yat-kha - Man MachineThere are other sets in the collection, but doesn’t seem all are available (here are parts one and five). You can read more about the mixes by DJ Food at his website here
-
DJ Soul - Live On The Frozen Files (February 1st 2012)
This mix is actually a radio show, and is an hour of ‘breaks’ - parts of original songs that were sampled for Hip-Hop records. While that in itself is nothing new, the whole performance used original records and was live. There isn’t a tracklist (there are about 70 tracks featured, too long to include them all) but the music should be recognizable.
-
Kinect Beatwheel
Audio sample real-time playback manipulation tool put together at Boston Music Hack Day 2011, using the Microsoft Kinect as the interface:
A sample is chopped up into eighth note slices (or any increment) and arranged like a clock face around you. The currently playing slice is controlled by your left hand’s position in space. This allows you to remix a loop by waving your hand around. The red dot indicates your hand’s position, the green bar indicates the currently playing slice, and the blue bar moves at the tempo of the song to serve as a guide.
While the video above looks great, you still can look stupid:
-
Figures Mad Decent Monster Mix (via Mad Decent)
An hour long Halloween mix for those that like Dubstep, wobble, and Horror Movie samples:
“From the dark and creepy depths of my hard drive I’ve sown together a mix of heavy originals and unreleased edits just in time for a Mad Decent Halloween podcast.” ~Figure
TRACKLISTING:
Intro
1. Specimen A - Jaws
2 Figure - Michael Myers Is Dead
3 Figure - Boogie Man (Oblivion Remix)
4 HavocNdeeD - Headspin (King Remix)
5 Figure - Mr Hyde
6 Figure - Werewolf (VIP)
7 Figure - Beetle Juice
8 Excision and Downlink - Existence (VIP)
9 Figure - LeatherFace
10 Figure - Vampires
11 Kanji Kinetic - Zombies
12 Figure - This Is Hallowen
13 Urban Assault - Halloween
14 GrimeHouse -The Exorcist
15 Figure - Aliens (VIP)
16 Phaze - Doomsday
17 Tommy Lee and Figure - Pounds of Blood
18 Fast Foot feat Mc Cyanide - You’re Dead (Figure Drumstep remix)
19 Figure - Boogie ManOutro
*Hidden Track Misfits - Halloween (Figure Moombahcore Edit)
-
Tim Exile - Google Guitar Homepage Song
Song created through live sampling and looping - probably the coolest video you will see today
It had to be done! I saw the Les Paul interactive guitar Google homepage www.google.com a couple of hours ago so I performed a quick song/mashup about it… here it is.
-
The Avalanches - Since I Left You - Uploaded by +dB
This is a classic sample-based album from 2000, definitely a party album (although I’m not sure of the legality of its uploading.)
Tracklist:
01 [00:00] “Since I Left You” (4:18)
02 [04:18] “Stay Another Season” (2:15)
03 [06:33] “Radio” (4:52)
04 [11:25] “Two Hearts In 3/4 Time” (3:22)
05 [14:47] “Avalanche Rock” (0:23)
06 [15:10] “Flight Tonight” (ft. Saïan Supa Crew) (3:51)
07 [19:01] “Close To You” (3:56)
08 [22:57] “Diners Only” (1:43)
09 [24:40] “A Different Feeling” (4:23)
10 [29:03] “Electricity” (Decks James De La Cruz, tt. Antoinette Halloran, Sally Russell) (3:29)
11 [32:32] “Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life” (2:20)
12 [33:25] “Pablo’s Cruise” (0:53)
13 [34:18] “Frontier Psychiatrist “ (4:47)
14 [39:05] “Etoh” (5:02)
15 [44:07] “Summer Crane” (4:39)
16 [48:46] “Little Journey” (1:53)
17 [50:39] “Live At Dominoes” (5:38)
18 [56:17] “Extra Kings” (Mix Richie Robinson) (3:46) -
The Music of Massive Attack (1988 - 98) - Uploaded by DJ Hudson via NinjaMixDump
Compilation of music which Massive Attack have sampled. From toiletries.com:
Tracklist:
- You Know, You Know – Mahvishnu Orchestra (One Love – Blue Lines)
- Isaac Hayes – Ike’s Mood I (One Love – Blue Lines)
- So Glad You’re Mine – Al Green (FIve Man Army – Blue Lines)
- Five Man Army Dub (Five Man Army – Blue Lines)
- Les McCann – Sometimes I Cry (Teardrop – Mezzanine)
- James Brown – Never Can Say Goodbye (Better Things – Protection)
- En Melody – Serge Gainsbourg (Karmacoma [Portishead Experience])
- Funkadelic – Good Old Music (Safe From Harm – Blue Lines)
- Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks (Man Next Door – Mezzanine)
- Quincy Jones – Summer In The City (Exchange – Mezzanine)
- Man Next Door – John Holt (Man Next Door – Mezzanine)
- Lowrell – Mellow Mellow (Lately – Blue Lines)
- Pieces of a Dream (Weather Storm – Protection)
- Isaac Hayes – Joy (Lately – Blue Lines)
- Billy Cobham – Stratus (Safe From Harm – Blue Lines)
- James Brown – The Payback (Protection)
- Be Thankful (Be Thankful – Blue Lines)
- Sade – Siempre Hay Esperanza (Be Thankful – Blue Lines)
- Mambo – Wally Badarou (Daydreaming – Blue Lines)
- Tom Scott – Sneakin In The Back (Blue Lines)
- Do the Funky Penguin – Rufus Thomas (Any Love)
- Blind Alley – The Emotions (Any Love Remix)
- Funk You Up – The Sequence (Any Love)
- Daisy Lady (Any Love)
- Planetary Citizen – Mahvishnu Orchestra (Unfinished Sympathy – Blue Lines)
- Rock Creek Park – The Blackbyrds (Blue Lines)
- JJ Johnson – Parade Strutt (Unfinished Sympathy – Blue Lines)
- Young-Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire (Light My Fire – Protection)
- Isaac Hayes – Our Day Will Come (Exchange – Mezzanine)
PS - a good source of mixes is the NinjaMixDump twitter feed.
-
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina (HD Version)
According to Dangerous Minds, the Bob Dobalina sample was taken from The Monkeys
“Zilch” is a nonsensical, dada fugue composed and performed by all four Monekees. It begins with Peter Tork saying “Mr. Dobolina, Mr. Bob Dobolina. Mr. Dobolina, Mr. Bob Dobolina,” etc., before Davey Jones comes in with “Zilch. China clipper calling Alameda. China clipper calling Alameda,” etc., before Mickey Dolenz comes in with “Zilch. Never mind the furthermore, the plea is self defense. Never mind the furthermore, the plea is self defense,” (which is a line from Oklahoma) and Mike finally joins in with “Zilch. It is of my opinion that the people are intending. It is of my opinion that the people are intending,” etc. Ultimately the four repeat these lines faster and faster until they break up in laughter.
Link to original Dangerous Minds page
-
Dub FX 18/04/2009 ‘Made’
I’m surprised I havn’t caught this before; while looping your own voice to create music is nothing new, this guy has produced an impressive one man show.
-
Marvin Gaye – T Plays It Cool
Taken from this wonderful compilation featuring many songs which have been sampled on many recognizable records:
Super Breaks Volume Three
Label: BGP Records
Catalog#: CDBGPD 145
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 200201 Johnny Jenkins – I Walk On Gilded Splinters
02 Marvin Gaye – T Plays It Cool
03 Hampton Hawes – Web
04 The Coasters – Soul Pad
05 Funkadelic – Nappy Dugout
06 Sly And The Family Stone – Trip To Your Heart
07 Fifty Foot Hose – The Rose
08 Jimmy Ponder – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
09 The Mad Lads – Get Out Of My Life, Woman
10 Pleasure Web – Music Man (Parts 1 & 2)
11 The Mad Lads – No Strings Attached
12 Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears
13 Freddie Robinson – River’s Invitation
14 BT Express – This House Is Smoking
15 The Bar Kays- Holy Ghost
16 David Porter – The Masquerade Is OverOff the top of my head, ‘Mama said Knock You Ou’ sampled Sly and the Family Stone (track 6), Jurrasic 5 sampled Pleasure Web (track 10, 3 minutes 11 seconds in) for Bayou. If you follow this kind of stuff, you’ll see it when you hear it.
Link to A North Country Bhoy’s blog page, where you should find a download link
-
Oona … by Akusmi
Little girl gets sampled and does an Aphex Twin
Stick with it, it gets going just before the minute mark, and utterly adorable at one minute forty.
You won’t regret it … (via dgroundsel’s twitter)
