Tag: electronics
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Tim Hunkin’s Secret Life of Components
I suspect as well as seeing David Mach’s 101 Dalmations as a kid which made me want to be an artist, as a child of an engineer with a workshop, Artist Tim Hunkin and inventor Rex Garrod’s anarchic and beaitiful Secret Life of Machines influenced how I’d be an artist. I tinkered and took machines…
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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The Guerrilla Guide To Podcasting Part Three
The third part in a series on making your own podcast that won’t break the bank, concentrating on DIY and low-cost podcasting. Please read part one, and part two first. Pop it like it’s not My first mic on my podcast was a cheap lavalier (‘tie-clip’) mic taped to a tripod – I’m not proud!…
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PC Music
I’ve said for a long while that 16 bit / 90’s sounds would make a comeback – most recently in the 16bit shows. We’ve had future aka speed garage and a sort of brief dalliance with 90’s deep house which remains to be seen if it goes overground…but unexpectedly the ‘Casio Kids’ have struck back,…
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Blood in your wires
Everyone knows that phones and the electronic devices might be made in some sweatshop in China (if you don’t google Foxconn for some really shocking stories)…what you mignt not know is your mobile and other devices share more than you think with blood diamonds – that blood has probably been shed in relation to the…
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Internet Breakdown…Googles in a boogle!
If you’ve not tuned into Rise and Shine, so far you’ve missed ladies made of Magma saving Christmas, missing cats, Paris goes to Belgium in a currently very fashionable Italian Euro Disco vocoder stylee and a punk Santa breakin’ the law, well internet tubes – with yours truly on sleighbells! Quite interesting seeing/hearing the songs…