NOW WE'RE TALKING

I played one of those Guitar Hero / Rock Band games the other day, and I've gotta say, it was pretty lame. Beating the drums to an inch of their plastic lives was the only fun part. Now, I used to play the drums when I was younger, so it felt vaguely natural to pick up the sticks and hit the pads to the beat of a song... But when I had a go on the "guitar", I was lost. I'm pretty sure playing the guitar is nothing like that. And where was the bass? Something needs to be done. And whoever made this video has the right idea!



Sorry for the cut-off screen. Youtube doesn't seem to embed on here since they went widescreen. Video here.

YES, I KNOW. A POST ABOUT INCEPTION

I won't bang on about it. Some of you know how I feel about the film. But this post is about the score. 'A character in itself'. For those of you who also appreciated it, here's Hans Zimmer and Johnny Marr’s live performance from after the premiere.

A TO B

Was just checking on Anthony Burrill's website - I really like his simple typographic style - and I found myself hypnotised for 3 minutes 58 seconds by this:



Pretty cool. Snake by Acid Washed. In collaboration with Jack Featherstone and Paul Plowman. (I'm sure a few of you will recognise the latter name)

NINJA TUBE

On a a bit of a music video kick at the moment. So here is a new single and video from the masterful record label, Ninja Tune. Blockhead's The Music Scene has some pretty imaginative animation going on. Must have taken a fair amount of time. Kudos to Anthony Schepperd. Check out some of this previous work here.

BOXES

Purely stop motion animation, no special effects wizardry (apprently). Pretty impressive.

AGAIN & AGAIN

Got sent this from typejunky.com ... Pretty impressive, I think.

AMEN BROTHER

A short film about the most famous break of all.

NEW COLDPLAY VIDEO

I hadn't seen this until just now. I love it when a lot of effort goes into the music video. Especially at three and a half minutes in and the dad mouthes an obsenity


One of my all time favourite's is this flash version of creep

WIIMOTE BEAT CHOPPER

Anyone interested in music production, software, hardware, etc - should find this fairly awesome. A friend of mine used his geeky-tech knowledge and a small amount of fairy dust to create this monster.



If anyone has any more awesome examples of the wii potential, let us know.And if anyone's interested in this type of music, check out his myspace here.

SCRUFFY BASTARD

I like Mr.Scruff... He's a really talented dj, a pretty good producer, and has a decent sense of humour. Check out his new(ish) music video. It's got fruit with faces drawn on! oh yes.

SLEEVE

Nice bit of album art from my beloved Ninja Tune's 'Skalpel'.

A NICE LITTLE SONG - I think we all know how she feels

BASS

A friend of mine has the fortunate talent of hand-building rather good guitars... I'm tempted by the idea of learning the bass... For the last 6 months or so, I've been trying to sketch out ideas for my own custom-built, 100% original, bass guitar.

I'll try to remember to scan and upload some designs on Monday. Anyway. It'll probably take me a while to save up the cash, and I'd quite like to learn the basics on a cheap n cheerful set up... Before the good stuff...

Sticking 'bass guitar' into google's "products" or "shopping", came up with this...


YES! I want one, and I want one now.
Rickenbacker 4003, Bass Guitar: £1,299.00... Maybe a tad out of my price range at the mo...

Maybe I'll wander into the city tomorrow, and have a butchers for some cheap deals... If anyone wants to contact said friend about building a guitar, feel free to e-mail me - I'll pass on the info. Cheers