Category: Geeky shit

  • New Beatles via AI?

    New Beatles via AI?

    Paul McCartney has announced a final ‘new’ Beatles song, created via AI extraction – but as ever, it seems to be a response to fan-made videos doing the same thing – even the announcement came about a month after Dae Lims very moving Fab Four Artificial Intelligence recreation of a John Lennon demo ‘Grow Old…

  • The Secret Life of The Optigan

    The Secret Life of The Optigan

    Following on from the previous post I looked up the source of the sample in the Paloma Faith track Upside Down and was surprised – it was from the Optigan. ‘That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…’ /OB1 The Optigan was a home organ, really a kid’s toy made by Mattel, a…

  • Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music

    Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music

    I have covered the musical history of trackers and 16 bit music before on the podcast, but this is a great in-depth historical look at the ‘sound of software piracy’ – although I’d argue that the early Amiga demos like the 1988 classic Wild Copper were more coding brags and weirdly computer shop adverts (?)…

  • Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema

    Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema

    My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…

  • Keep Tracking

    Keep Tracking

    A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…

  • Pete Cannon shows you how

    Pete Cannon shows you how

    A friend posted the above ‘In the Studio’ with Pete Cannon, and amazingly it only has under 500 views for this fascinating look into how he creates his rave tunes. And it’s a retro hardware heaven – Atari ST! Akai S1100! Korg Poly 61 (I had a Poly 800 but Poly 61 and Mono/Poly were…

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