According to the netlabel Tribetoolz, the Roland TB-303 has its birthday today, on the 03.03. And I wonder if the surname “303″ comes from this date? To celebrate the birthday of this one of the most interesting and groundbreaking music-tools ever been, they released a free Acid-compilation. I love acid! Get the compilation at Tribetoolz.
Lucid Freaks pt.2 – the remixes
Does anyone know, what is going on inside the labs of Error Broadcast netlabel? Insane things! Whow. They released remixes from the Pixelords – Lucid Freaks pt.1. And this remixes are reaching out far more into incredible spaces and unheard regions of crushing beats and playing with sound. Much more sonic than the first one and still with nerofunk-cyberpunk gaming oddities in heard and soul. I have to say so: a must have!
Lately I was having the “fun” of customizing a website for showing up nicely on the browser, but also on the iPhone / iPod Touch as well. I wanted to do this job without supporting completely new views or html for the mobile device. The solution was, to do some tight customizing of the css-files, in order to show custom portions of content on regular browsers or on the mobile phone. One thing that helps is thinking css-class-definitions just like objects you know from OOP (object orientated programming). Each class got it’s properties, and you can select to show them or not, depending on the device, that is browsing the site. A little bit like adding informed behavior to your plain old html, depending on the browser, that visits the site.
Ok, let’s start! We first need to find out, if the site loads on a mobile like iPhone or not and load custom css, that contains css-data only for the mobile. Follow this tutorial to get a healthy start. It provides a standard-technique to do this task. It’s really simple, it loads a css-file only if the browser-width is smaller than 480 pixels in our case.
Type in
<link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
href="iphone.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
The artwork is intense and strange like the music. A perfect fit!
Hurray! The netlabel Error Broadcast is back with a new release! And everything looks and sounds friendly and promising. Whether it be the title, tracknames like “Boss Worm” or “Quarty Boy”, the very beautiful cover-artwork or the broken shitloads of beats with warm reminiscene to analog gaming goodness. Yay. This is truly a good one. Go and have a listen! You can download this four tracks for free, or choose to purchase them in a very high flac-quality at bandcamp. Go for it, it is just 2 Euros!! Artwork by Michael Dotson. Strange things.
The Phlow-Magazine finally released a new compilation with love. The tunes of the Creative Commons licensed music come with a really good dose of pop-, dance and funk-flavour. A huge counterpart to all that electronic- and techno-driven stuff you often find on the netlabel-scene. Apart from that: the artwork is lovely as well, made by Cologne illustration artist Jeannette Corneille. Handmade and ready to print-out and send via snailmail to all your friends. Contains music from all around the world!
The Assemblee competition is done – votings for the submissions are now accepted. The whole Assemblee was this kind of… massive! It was a cometition based on two parts. In the first part, everyone was invited to submit graphics, sprites and all other kinds of assets to make a game out of it. Not only the number, but also the quality of the submissions (warning, huge list) was awesome. A big pool computer- and gamegraphics. There was also a part about music. In total over 170 people submitted stuff. All this content is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
In the next step of the compo, this assets were used, in order to make games. In total 73 games were submitted. And they all look extremely cool. You now have the chance to make the Assemblee-organizers a little bit of work by voting. There are votings for the assets and votings for the final games. Whatever you do – have fun exploring this stuff. Votings are open till 3rd February 2010. Thanks to all participants for this!
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A totally freaky album was released on the french netlabel “Da ! Heard It Records”. Like the title suggests, the topic is about “Hadoupi”, the “Three-Strikes-Law”, that was established in France. This will allow to disconnect filesharers from the internet. Sad, but true. In own words of the creators of this album “Mr. Hadopi” is a “vibrant ode to free culture“. The music is a really wild mixture of broken beats, echoes of break dance, funk and disco and a good dose of chip- and computermusic. Download of the day!
Get it at the release-site, download it as .zip (ogg / mp3) or pre-listen at last.fm.
