It’s the mid of the month again, time for interesting content that did not found its way into this blog yet.

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Very hot, just today I discovered a new netlabel via the great music-numblog. It’s the netlabel Budabeats, self-acclaimed leading netlabel from Budapest. And if they will stay at the quality-level like the first two releases, there is no doubt that they will defend this title. Be prepared for some of the best lounge, jazz, trip-hop releases I’ve ever heard for free. Ninja-Tune? Better be prepared. My clear listening highlights are Jazz.zene from Kovacs and A Day in the Life from Crookram. If Tokyo-Dawn would still exist, they maybe would sign this.

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Sarah Turbot on the Beam Wiki

I already announced on Eggshell Robotics two wonderful B.E.A.M. robotic-projects. The first one: B.E.A.M.-Wiki, a great resource collecting wisdom of manufacturing B.E.A.M.-robots. In that context I suggest the second site, a B.E.A.M.-bot website. Just look at this tiny creatures.

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Via Phlow I came upon Berlin hiphop-artist Bruno Fortuno. Unfortunately with no really usable website, he spreads himself all over the web… MySpace, Strassen von Berlin and YouTube.

Seems that Berlin got humorous again. Also in my inbox was this also very obvious Berlin style funny cartoon. Right after the click.

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This is Direct Note Access from the Melodyne-Tool. I am not sure, if I didn’t saw this tool already somewhere, I guess it was at a TV documentary showing the inside of any producers studio. This, let’s say, promotional clip with that good music shows how to pretty easily bend and shift vocals. But now imagine really hard abuse to get interesting results, that sound somehow… new and fresh!

The maxYmizer overview.

Atari ST tracker maxYmizer got new features, that will be cool for people jamming or playing live with the Atari. It has support for polyphonic MIDI-input that enables recording of chords and complex, polyphonic melody-lines. It also spits out a clock-signal, that you can connect to other hardware devices. The Atari becomes a MIDI-control center, clocking other gear where you can tweak live-stuff and modulate things. This is good for live-sets.

Back in 2006 the maxYmizer-staff organized a chip-compo to get people going with their instrument. The compo is still available on the microdisco netlabel from Berlin.

Write code that nobody is able to understand, but still does compute – that could be one of the ways to understand “Esoteric Programming Languages“. It is a term for languages that are not designed to be good at something or at least to be convenient. No, the reason for doing writing cryptical code like that is the very own sake of style of just being a little exquisite, extreme or to theoretically think about programming. Many are also meant as jokes. If you visit the wiki of esolangs.org you will find hundreds of total strange languages. Every madcap will find its own ways of enlightenment there. Probably the most famous of the esoteric programming languages is Brainfuck. I just compiled some languages that are extraordinary interesting or beauty in my eyes.

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One click to happiness. The 8bit-boy is a versatile, flash-based music-player, that let you play all the good module files (.mod) from the Amiga days again. You can embed the binary online at any site and feed the player with mod-files via XML – which is somehow a standard process to flashbased players at the moment. The 8-bit boy is written in ActionScript 3.0 and at Popforge you will also peek inside the souce-code if wanted. This cute little one will surely have a great career if people will use it to play such funky tunes like on the 8-bit boy website.

This is just a screener, go here.

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The Blipfestival is in every mouth at the moment, so it seems to me. It feels a little bit like the chiptune-revolution has already begun. There are movies like “Reformat the Planet” that tell the story. But chipmusic is also nothing new. It exists for years now, but there were cultural shifts. The milestone of chipmusic of course is the C64 / NES range, that we all love to remember. But people and projects like the 8-bit peoples and the micromusic-community set new standards in performing, style and perception. This are the points where the chipmusic started to grow. Most recent, remarkable promising projects are the chip netlabels Pause and File Freakout that breathe exactly the same air.

Micromusic

Chipmusic was also always international. And invisible: it was music for freaks. I am curious if this will change. At least the Blipfestival made its point, set a new standard in live-performing and stage-visuals. Unfortunately I’ve never been there, or in the small clubs all over the world where the new revolution began. But bands like the Japaneese YMCK totally blast my way.

YMCK – Tetrominon

This are hot news, at least for me. Until now I did not know, that Apple had another design for their logo. It was made by Ron Wayne and unfortunately (or in luck) did not meet viable criteria for good logo design: to tricky to communicate clear and to be easily reproduced and recognized and was – referring to the English Wikipedia site – almost immediately replaced. Most interesting is the reference to Isaac Newtons groundbreaking recovery of the gravity force, where the apple played a central role in it. At least I am glad that they made a new logo, because for me the apple logo is one of the most remarkably and beautiful logos that was ever made and used.

(Logo taken from Wikipedia).