Clear out
August 4th, 2008OK pre the tsunami of stuff coming back from my Dads I'm having a clear out:
Fostex MR-8 Digital Multitracker
What is this? Well, Radio Clash, is a weekly mashup podcast from your host, Tim in London.
It's the one of the longest running podcasts in England (since Nov 2004), and includes mash-ups (of course), mixes, weird covers and more! As featured in The Independent, the BBC, SPIN and Entertainment Week, and even the world's first ever podcast on psychedelics (!), it brings you the history of mash ups, bootleg events, news, views and interviews of the bootlegging scene and beyond. More about the podcast.
Video Podcast #3 - Childhood’s End
August 1st, 2008
Me with camera by Kirk Coverley
My dad is moving so I'm going back home to move or throw away my old stuff and say goodbye to the place, and my childhood.
Then Kirk pops up and it becomes very very silly and drunken! Yay! Part of a several part series...believe me you don't want to miss this one, despite the downbeat beginning it gets quite, well, usual for us two 
Download the MP4 here (You'lWAITAGESTube and full piccies to follow)
This is why DRM is evil
July 25th, 2008OK I tend not to write too much on the DRM wars sensing I'm probably preaching to the perverted, but occasionally I come across something which is such a good example of why DRM is wrong I have to post it - this is one such occasion (Yahoo is taking it's DRM servers offline)
How ANYONE can say this is good for consumers, I don't know - along with the (failed) MSN attempt to do same - shitting on legitimate users is not going to make 'home taping' less attractive and supporting artists which supposedly was the goal of DRM (actually it wasn't, the music industry's goal like the MPAA was a licensing model where you endlessly re-sell the same old shit back to the consumer as it 'expires' - like some sleazy slum landlord, a leasing model). So basically those who bought legal Yahoo music now have less than someone buying a CD or downloading illegally. Nice.
Especially ironic when Yahoo suggest using one of the old DRM workarounds (burning to CD) teaching all these people how to avoid DRM lossily -great work Yahoo! You're doing the best to promote piracy and our goals - for that I salute you!
Come to P2P and torrent children, ignore your nasty corporate overlords...
Video Podcast #2 -testing testing
July 24th, 2008Testing my new camera I give a tour of NoNo Towers, as it is known.
Interestingly I found a VCR recorder - a good Sony in the street today. If it works, esp. with SVHS (likely with one of these NICAM 4-head jobbies), I'll be able to digitise my earlier vids.
Pre history part 1
July 24th, 2008Gradually getting back into video and uploading some of my degree/personal video work.
(Excerpts from) The Milk Lab Tapes 1995 (remixed 2002)
(NSFW, contains super8 of birth and a rather charming 1950s porn lady, quite quaint really...)
Milk Laboratory was an experimental music night - well not that experimental, we'd play Aphex Twin, LFO, Throbbing Gristle, Air Liquide - industrial and dark ambient. I did the visuals, using found video, adverts, stuff I'd shot around Sheffield, and remixing Super8 that a friend had collected and was doing loops from. I also used to shoot a lot of video from buses - my degree show was shot in the bus station - and super8 shot on the moors (which will be another film/post) and upside down reverse video shots - literally I took VHS tape and respliced it upside down so the helical scanning drum would read correctly yet backwards - and it worked! I loved the way the colours reversed and the image broke up.
Posted it here because a) it contains some music I've not released yet - from 1992-95 it contains the pieces under my Reality Engine moniker - you might be surprised from my pop mashups where my history lies, in more extreme noisetronica/experimental cutup work, that would be more akin to Merzbow, Zorn and Burroughs than Soundhog or Go Home Productions!
- 'Killed or Murdered (Headcleaner mix)' (the WW Catholic Radio sampling one, with feedback through an effects unit)
- 'Test Broadcast' which I did for a film in my second year (and yes that is me on vocals)
- 'Semi Automatic (Headcleaner mix)' which was a cutup I did on the Amiga, again with feedback, and the track I was working on for my degree installation -
- 'Counter Surveillance Program' which included loads of mobile phone scans. The rest of the tracks are bits from the N.E.M.C.
You can find part two here - both p1 and 2 were the 'remix' re-edit I did in 2002 from the 15 minute original, taking out the boring morphs and really dodgy stuff. Yes there was dodgier stuff!
And here's a video I did of people smashing up televisions. Yes as you will see in future posts I liked to destroy things, including intentionally glitching video:
