Catalog Records: the cataBlog |||||\

Dali and Disney Collab

2009-07-07T22:40:00.000-07:00

Back in 1945 Disney and Dali collaborated on an animated short. The film was not completed until 2003, its pretty trippy.

Create music....WITH YOUR BRAINS!

2009-07-07T08:38:00.000-07:00

Some scientists at Trinity College have basically made a midi controller that hooks into an MRI. Then the different synapses firing make different noises to make a sort of nice ambient track. Check it out.

Little Boots

2009-07-02T13:16:00.001-07:00

You might remember the spectacular cover of Hot Chip's Ready for the Floor that Jasmin posted like a year ago. Back then the video had a few hits and little boots had even fewer videos. Well whoever said this internet thing can't start a music career was wrong. After seeing some of her videos online a TV show in the UK brought her on to perform, now shes got a record out. And had an entire episode of Last Call with Carson Daly last night dedicated to her, apparently the UK media is calling her the savior of Pop music, basically shes destined to be a hit, and its hot when she says "tenori-on".

So does the cataBlog have what it takes to make stars? You should go buy some music and try.

OTTO beat slicer

2009-06-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

No not that Otto. OTTO is a real time tangible interface for slicing up beats on the fly. Via USB and Max/MSP this touch sensitive disk allows you to move around in the sample, reverse and pause, there might be more but I cant tell. Check out the video and link for more info.

I know the jimmy fallon show in general sucks....

2009-06-29T11:23:00.001-07:00

One of the benefits of Jimmy Fallon taking over Conan's old show is that he managed to convince The Roots to be his band. I honestly watch to see who the musical guest is and if they are playing with The Roots, and to fill the commercial breaks of Craig Ferguson. Anyways, on Friday Erykah Badu sat in with the band to do Michael Jackson covers, before taping they recorded cover of I Wanna Be Where You Are. ?uestlove shared up the link via twitter, and I share it here with you, its pretty great.

How'd he do it?

2009-06-26T09:12:00.000-07:00

We all know that Michael Jackson was a beast. One of the tricks he had up his sleve was the smooth criminal move, when he and other dancers would lean past 45 degrees and not fall over. I remember as a kid trying and falling a few times, and watching the videos and looking for lines or some way they would hold them up. Then seeing it done live I couldn't believe it could be done in a concert. If you watch this video you can see a clue as to how its done if you watch the foot of the guy on the right (if you dont want to sit through the awesomeness fast forward to 3:50ish).

If you want to see how its done click here to read how its done, unless you want to keep the illusion alive, its pretty ingenious.

Design Opportunity

2009-06-25T10:01:00.001-07:00

taken from core 77

TouchOSC on your phone

2009-06-19T13:33:00.000-07:00

Available on the iPhone, iTouch. Soon on Android and other touch devices.

[Source]

Livid's Ohm64 Controller

2009-06-03T19:20:00.000-07:00

Been thinking of buying an APC40, but dont like all the shitty DRM type stuff they do (only works with live, only works with real apc40s...) and want to have somthing thats actually made of wood!? Well check out the Livid Ohm64 its pretty simmilar in price and functionality, actually has more functionality, check out the full overview at create digital music.

Sugarpill Mix

2009-05-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

My friend DJ. Sugarpill just dropped a new mix featuring a track of mine next to a number of my favs! Cop it here

Tracklisting:
1. Prefuse73 - DEC. Machine Funk All ERA's
2. EPROM - 64 Bytes (ill.gates Remix feat Meesha and Mat the Alien)
3. Subvert - Dance Revolution
4. TV on the Radio - Red Dress (THE GLITCH MOB Remix)
5. Eliot Lipp - 3-Sentinel
6. Heyoka - The Way Of The Blue Towel
7. Machinedrum - Jelly Jelly
8. nosajthing - Coat of Arms
9. Ghislain Poirier - CloseTheNews
10. Graintable - Lost Frost
11. Glitchy & Scratchy - Brain Saw-1
12. THE NEW LAW - An Old Acqu
13. Eprom - Sqratchedizzle
14. Mr. Oizo - Monday Massacre
15. Cepia - Ithaca
16. crackwhore - LDN (South Rakkas Crack Whore Ri
17. rustie - cafe de phresh instrumental
18. Kraddy - Android Porn
19. Metaphor - One Pulse
20. Vibesquad - Blaze them Trees
21. NastyNasty - totalshortage
22. Mochipet - Spring (feat. Daedelus)
23. An-ten-nae - Excursions In Acid
24. siriusimo - minirock
25. Wake - a and an
26. Holland - elektrik blanket - a trip through the ghost woods
27. Chris Clark - See See
28. Truckasauras - Fak!!!
29. Spank Rock - Bump (Liver Remix)
30. Bassnectar - Art of Revolution (6Blocc Remix)
31. Sugarpill & Knozark - Post a Damn Thang
32. Lean Wit It (Lazer Sword Turbo Taxin Remix)
33. Bitches (South Rakkas Crew Remix)
34. Mimosa - Lullabyte
35. knozark - TANLGE 3
36. PG-13 is Panther God_ Filmix
37. Cyrusrex - Wibble_Caps (Cevin Key 420 Wibblr Mix)
38. mochipet - slimm_thug-boss_hog_on_candy 2
39. Squarepusher- Do You Know Squarepusher

International Dance Party

2009-05-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

International Dance Party is a pretty badass project. What starts off as looking like your run of the mill black roadcase has a few sensors in it. And as you start to dance near it, it opens up and plays dance music. According to how much you dance the music changes and morphs according to what you do. Pretty sweet if you ask me, check out the website for more info.

Not sure about your future? Here is a little positive reinforcement.

2009-05-23T21:00:00.001-07:00

This video has a general awesomeness to it. Also, it might make this the blog with most 4 headed guitar videos.

Just Cause

2009-05-19T16:10:00.001-07:00

Click for higher rez.

Mike Gaughan makes awesome drawings.

New Warp Release, badass video ensues

2009-05-16T19:47:00.000-07:00

Harmonic 313 is releasing a new record on Warp, check out this pretty awesome remix track with a pretty awesome video. From Sixty40 who made the video:

"The video for Battlestar is shot stereoscopically, flicking between each eye's view every frame. It tells the story of a deceivingly small binocular spaceship that comes to earth to decimate an unsuspecting b-boy in order to reproduce and conquer the universe."

If your epileptic you might not want to watch this one.

What happend to Four Tet?

2009-05-13T00:34:00.000-07:00

Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet has been collabing with Steve Ried, a very awesome Jazz Drummer, they put out an album and have been touring. check out the video interview with Kieran for more.

moiré (piano and organ)

2009-05-11T08:51:00.000-07:00

Gostface Killa Promotes Dove

2009-05-09T11:04:00.001-07:00

Trimpin Documentary

2009-05-07T16:41:00.000-07:00

Trimpin, the world renowned sculptor/musician/inventor, has a documentary about him out. I know that at least 2 times in my life I was inspired/amazed by his work. I think that Wake even did something with him as a kid, but I could be completely wrong. Click on the video to see other clips over at the vimeo site.

the sound of invention from Peter Esmonde on Vimeo.

Welcome to My Home Part 2

2009-05-06T00:58:00.000-07:00

four tet + burial = badass

2009-05-05T16:16:00.001-07:00

ISO50 (Scott Hansen aka Tycho) blog posted the two tracks from the collaboration of Four Tet & Burial. I'm really diggin' the first track.

Have a listen here.

Percussa AudioCube

2009-05-05T16:06:00.000-07:00

Percussa AudioCubes - An Introduction from percussa on Vimeo.

There are a lot of custom or really expensive tangible audio controllers that have been designed, but percussa has figured out how to work the kinks out of thier AudioCube enough to bring it to market. Nothing spectacular, but for $300 its limiting, although it does bridge that gap of having fun with toys and making music.

Zebra Video

2009-04-28T21:54:00.000-07:00

Hello Catablog! This is The Rider at Dawn. Please enjoy the video for Zebra. Also, look out for my record. I'm polishing up my tracks now and it it'll be ready soon.

AMAZING!!!!!!!!

2009-04-28T18:06:00.001-07:00

ron winter jam session

2009-04-24T17:05:00.000-07:00

this is about a month old, but fun as hell if you're bored. don't break your keyboard. you've been warned.

[link]

A taste of n.o.

2009-04-21T03:24:00.000-07:00

Some of you may know that I've been living in Louisiana for the last few years, and my friend showed me this video (he's friends with the cameraman) that I think has a little flavor of Louisiana in it, "You know you're in New Orleans when the cameraman can play better than you..." (please don't say naaaawlins)