RepliCat

Mindless Labs have a small inspiring game on their website. In RepliCat time and space are disturbed. In result you are haunted by shadows of yourself from the past. Your misson is to collect all items as fast as possible… and at the same time avoid crashes with your shadows of the past at any cost. It sounds more complicated than the game really is. It is a “pick-up-and-play” flash-game in the true nature of “pick-up-and-play”. So check it out!

As you might know, I can’t get enough of this techno-thing, that went over the world in the 90ies… Luckily I found another cool footage about this glory, glory times. It is a short-film about the techno-club “Omen” in Frankfurt. The film shows people on the floor and behind the curtains working. we have 1994 again. Unfortunatelly they disabled embedding, so follow the links, to see them on YouTube.

Omen Frankfurt: 15 Stunden Techno Part 1
Omen Frankfurt: 15 Stunden Techno Part 2

Okay, let there be Edge! If you want to have games with edges (at least in the title), than you are right here… Wait, what are you talking about? Read more at BoingBoing (English) or Gulli (German).

Oh yeah. Procrastination. What you always wanted to know about it! (via)

An upcoming documentary about the Swiss born designer Herbert Matter. He did pioneering work in the last century in the field of graphic design with the use of photos and graphics. Get into retro-design vibes by watching this video: “When Herbert Matter got the job to design a new logo for the New Haven Railroad he literally went through hundreds of sketches before arriving at the final logo.”

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Travel through the time – with Berna. This low-priced software is a complete “1950s style electronic music studio” that communicates audible and visually vintage into your ears and eyes. The Berna website says about this small suite:

At that time there wasn’t any electronic musical instruments market, as a matter of fact, most of the equipment was adapted from scientific tools belonging to radio engineering departments. Sometimes the equipment was built from scratch cannibalizing anything that had wires, tubes and pots, more rarely, the studios used the few commercial instruments available in those days, such as the Melchord, the Trautonium and the Theremin. Contrarily to what happens today, electronic music then was everything but fast and easy to create. A few minutes of electronic composition could take more than one year of work.

This makes Berna not only interesting for film-score enthusiasts, but also a good choice for people who like to get into the history of electronic music as well. However… you can make funny tones with Berna. And that should be reason enough!

Only available for Mac, but at a nice price of 10.69 Euro (or try before you buy).

Tweakbeat: Everything happens on this single screen!

Tweakybeat is an extremely reduced sound-(beat)-sequecer, availlable for iPhone / iPod touch for free. Tweakybeat basically only has 16 steps, a little bit of tempo and shuffle and you can customize 16 different “instruments”. Each one is a basic synth with elementary parameters like pitch shift, waveform modulation, decay, tone, release. Although it is only monophonic and doesn’t even has anything like cutoff or resonance it rocks like hell!

I’ve never seen such a small music-application, that was so well balanced with the features. If you got one of this magic-phones: a must download! Here is the developers site and the app-entry on playstate.org.