Disquiet’s Marc Weidenbaum caught up with Joyrex, who recently helped lead the way in discovering—and releasing—a lost Aphex Twin album from the 1990s. Available commercially now for the first time ever, the album was produced the same year as Selected Ambient Works Vol. II. In this interview, Joyrex discusses the album and the challenge of bringing it to light.
I spent two nights last week wearing 3D glasses in a dark theater, watching four German men in reflective Spandex bodysuits sing about computers, transit, and architecture.
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It’s not so simple to become an electronic musician. The equipment is expensive. There’s not a good how-to book. It’s sometimes a little unclear what exactly electronic music is. That’s why the Contact musical interface is so intriguing.
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Devo’s Bob Casale, founding guitarist of the genre-defying new wave band, electronic music pioneer, and wearer of the best hat in music, has died from heart failure at 61. In his honor, drop everything and dance to their breakout hit "Whip It," which might just contain one of the most memorable guitar riffs of all time.
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London-based duo Dentaku have made digital instruments out of beer bottles, text messages, and color-sensing robots
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Nine Inch Nails frontman and music genius Trent Reznor gave a fantastic interview to the Fader, and it sums up just about everything about the state of electronic music and how we listen to it.
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Daft Punk’s newest song Get Lucky from their upcoming album Random Access Memories has come with so much buzz that the only thing that can rival its thousands of leaks and millions of rumors is the next iPhone. Some people stitched together catchy loops from the SNL commercial, other people prayed for Coachella, but it’s finally official. You can download it here. More »
Music making apps for the iPad are ten-a-penny, but when it’s the brainchild of a super-producer like Brian Eno, you have to take notice. Scape is the third of his collaborations with Peter Chilvers after Bloom and Trope, an app that lets you generate ambient music with Eno’s own sounds on a colorful, conceptual interface. Unlike standard beats’n’loops setups, each sound is tied to a series of rules — including the time of day — that ensures the tunes you create never play the same way twice. It’s available from iTunes for $5.99 / £3.99, and who knows, maybe in a few years time, Coldplay’ll come calling for your professional expertise.
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Hackers love to take kids’ toys and cheap gadgets and turn them into electronic noisemakers using a technique long referred to as “circuit bending.” Usually you find something like a mutant Furby or maybe an Atari joystick – or a combo. But here we have Pixar’s Mr. Incredible – looking quite svelte these days. Oh, and he has a massive erection.
The warped mind of Olaf Ladousse took this once innocent Mr. Incredible phone and turned it into an electronic plaything – where you have to play with Mr. Incredible’s potentiometer-enhanced junk to make Lo-fi sounds. What kind of sounds? Well, press play on the video below (and turn the volume down if you don’t want to blow out your eardrums.)
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If you’re a real freak and want to add this to your collection of weird and rude toys, head on over to Etsy, where you can grab it for $99 (USD).
Onyx Ashanti has sent us over a demo of his beatjazz controller, and we have to marvel at the direction he’s taken with this custom electronic music machine following more modest efforts. Onyx’s 3D-printed interface receives inputs from a voice / breath-operated synth in the headgear, while the two handheld controls incorporate accelerometers, joysticks and pressure-sensitive buttons. Using this kit and his own software, Onyx is able to create live digital music with an amount of control you would only expect from desktop-based production software. We’ve embedded two videos for your attention after the break — a demo of his latest flashy build complete with lightsaber-like effects, and an earlier live performance that really shows what the beatjazz controller can do.
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