Author / Doug
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Weekly Music Tip, April 25 2010: Cinematic Orchestra’s LateNightTales
Cinematic Orchestra’s LateNightTales mix, released just this month, is an absolute must-listen: Both the track selection and the transitions are stellar. How does one seamlessly mix FlyLo, Wayne Henderson, Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach, Bjork, Thom Yorke, St Germain, and Burial? I don’t know, but Cinematic Orchestra manages to pull it off.
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This is where we get down
Matt is in town! Here’s his take of Dronning Louises Bro, right near where some of us live: [singlepic id=303 w=500 h=375 float=] (The drawing is from this week, but the photo is from 2008)
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Smart Kobold
The ever-formidable Jeff Lait has just released a new game, Smart Kobold. So of course I had to try it! [singlepic id=291 w=500 float=] Jeff, a mathematician/programmer wiz by day, spends some of his free time programming strange “roguelikes” inspired by ancient ASCII games like NetHack. Jeff is perhaps most famous for POWDER, but he’s…
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Weekly Music Tip, April 18 2010: Charanjit Singh
The record that has everybody talking – proto-techno time-warp from 1982… from India?!?! If the story behind the record is indeed true, then this must surely be the crate digging discovery of the decade. The record predates the first acid house tracks by half a decade, challenging the standard Western-centric history of electronic music. Still,…
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Tryl: Videogame of the Future
Slowly but surely, it’s coming…
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Weekly Music Tip, April 11 2010: Kyle Hall
Early candidate for best record of 2010! Two soulful two-step grooves on the acclaimed Hyperdub label, from Detroit native Kyle Hall: You can buy the record here. The craziest thing is that Hall is only 18 years old!!
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Tobias Wrigstad at ITU
A few weeks ago, Tobias Wrigstad spoke at ITU and delivered a fascinating (and provocative!) lecture on intentionally uncomfortable role-playing games. The lecture was titled: “This will sting a little: Why worthwhile and meaningful does not imply fun” It’s most certainly worth viewing! Here’s the recording, brought to you by the good people at ITU’s…
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At least they’ll see the black…
I have a new favorite blog: [singlepic id=288 w=500 h=394 float=] Our good friend Matt Broach, a visual artist from New York City, just moved to Berlin, and he’s drawing a picture of the city every day – visual fragments, you might call them, in his signature sharpe technique. For those of you like me…
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Hero Programmer Quest
Our fellow Nordic indie developer and friend, Petri Purho (of Crayon Physics fame), just released a hilarious new game prototype in which you have to debug C++ code really quickly. Yes, you read that correctly! Try it here. I keep getting stuck on one of the later levels… I may have to cheat by taking…
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Weekly Music Tip, April 4 2010: Autechre Oversteps Themselves
This past Friday night, Dajana and I caught Autechre live at DR’s beautiful new Koncerthuset. Exquisite, but also exhausting! The set was an hour-long barrage of nonstop electronic intensity, in darkness. The new album, Oversteps, is very nice indeed, albeit very different from their live sound: Check out their web page for more tour dates.…