You like Dub? You like Mr. Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva. Then you gotta listen to this track: I definitely love it. Just buy it and “Do not bother me” with questions were to get it: just check here…
The embedded Bleep.com player allows pre-listening of 30secs parts. Means: after 30secs you need to click the play button again to listen to the next 30secs…
20th anniversary: Warp is creating the definitive Warp Album. According to the announcement the box set called Warp20 will include:
This definitive Box Set is now on preorder with a 15% discount until July 5th, 2009. Continental European inhabitants will pay 100€ + 10€ s/h/i.
Everybody knows what DJ’s do: putting vinyl on the turntables an mix tracks into each other. This is basically the idea of DJing. The four guys Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike (going under the name “Birdy Nam Nam”) are moving DJing at least one step beyond. They use their turntables more like instruments with not just mixing one track into another, they are mixing sounds into new compositions. With their styles they won several prices like the DMC Technics World TEAM Price in 2002.
We strongly recommend to watch those videos to understand what they are doing. The first is pure fun, the second allows more technical insight, and the third video is just raving the crowd and surreptitious advertising for Apple. Enjoy and don’t forget to buy their albums. You still know what buying music means, don’t you?
» Listen to Birdy Nam Nam on MySpace.com…
» Buy Birdy Nam Nam on Amazon.com (U.S.)…
» Buy Birdy Nam Nam on Amazon.de (Germany)…
You know what Dub is?! You know what beatboxing is?! Lemme tell you: I suppose you really don’t. I really love Rahzel for what he does, but I gotta tell you Dub FX is really version 2.0 of human beatboxing. I strongly recommend to watch the video below to fully understand what he does and second to get his album here asap.
Nothing more to say, but -=> o u t s t a n d i n g – a l b u m <=-
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Say, do you wanna listen to musiq for free? Surely, everybody does. But in contrast to downloading albums illegally from Rapidshare, with “LastFM” and “imeem” it is legal to listen to music online. In general both services offer quite the same.
What is “imeem”?
The one little difference is that LastFM is now beginning to charge its users for allowing them to stream music to their clients. Only users from the U.S., U.K. and Germany seem to be excluded from this new business model. imeem in contrast to LastFM is still free. Anyway for playing songs at the full length on imeem a free registration is required. Luckily the registration process at imeem really takes some seconds and only requires your surename, forename, email-address, password and birthdate. Without registration only 30 seconds of the songs are being played (see our precompiled playlist at the bottom of this article). Some background information about imeem can be found here.
Listen to imeem playlists on the road
There is also an iPhone and an Android application available to use imeem’s services from our Jesus phones. Get imeem’s iPhone app for free on the AppStore. Information about the Android application can be found here.
Demonstration Playlist from imeem
If you wanna listen to songs from this playlist at full length just register and click here to get my playlist.
Our german fellow Holger Meyer strikes again. After his awarded ear training program Karajan (our report) he now founded a company and cooperates with vTuner from New York.
What is vTuner?
vTuner allows you to turn your iPod Touch or iPhone into a radio receiver. You can listen to more than 7,000 radio stations from all over the entire planet. You can choose frmo 50 genres, 120 countries and 50 languages and eventually set favourite.
Moreover you can get information about upcoming shows and shows currently playing. A really nice-to-have feature is the integrated webbrowser. It allows you to surf the net while listening to your chosen radio streams. You don’t need to leave vTuner.
What else?
Congrats from Berlin. This app is definitely a-must-have for all guys loving muzaq.
Where to get this app?
Get it on Apple’s official AppStore.
» Get on iTunes’ AppStore for €1.59…
» More information …
Screenshots and Video
You may find some pictures and a nice demonstration video below:
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The iPod is (one of) the best sold portable music devices. Consumers are very glad about the easy to use interface, though music professionals are not. The iPods simply lacks recording features… Lacks? No lacked… Because this is now over due to Alesis’ ProTrack announcement.
The Alesis ProTrack is a “stereo handheld digital recorder for the iPod”. It securely mounts the iPod into and adds the benefit of having recording features. It can capture audio whereever you are and it records directly to the iPod.
It is equipped with two hq condenser microphones, but also provides XLR inputs. Four AAA batteries allow up to five hours of recording. It is planned to be available from audio dealers somewhere in Q3/2008. Prices have not been disclosed yet.
Update: the german technews Golem.de got a picture of that device (click here).
The problem with the manufacturer equipped iPod earphones
You know the situation: you got an iPod, but the earphones sound so horrible that you wonder why Apple still includes them in the packages. So you go to the store and buy some very nice in-earphones – like the AKG K 324 P ones.
AKG’s K 324 P in-earphones
Everybody who’s into (making) music uses AKG. AKG simply assembles the best head- and earphones. Overall the K 324 P in-earphones sound outstanding clear. It in no way a comparison to the original Apple equipped earphones. Those simply sound horrible. In the case of the K 324 P the sound is a bit too much bass-accentuated, but this is typical for in-earphones and it can simply be adjusted from within the iPod.
For people who are not used to use in-earphones this is quite new, but after finding out how to plug them into the ears, you will never miss that amazing sound again. The K 324 P comes equipped with three different sizes of earpads (l=large, m=medium and s=small) to match the actual size of your acoustic meatus.
In the end: we would say there are no better in-earphones for less than 50€ like the K 324 P.
The issue with the earpads
The good thing is: you can apply those earpads who actually match your acoustic meatus, but this also means you can easily detach them. The thing is they sometimes detaching by themselves. For instance when having put the earphones into your backpack or bag and you try to get take them out in a hurry. Of course AKG anticipated this issue and included a little box for the earphones, but you know it: you don’t always use such a box. And after a while it comes you have lost one of the earpads.
How to obtain substitute earpads
Now you got two choices: go to Thomann and try to buy them (they are getting sold for 2,50€/item – which really can only be a joke for this little plastic) or try something else.
We tried something else. We simply called the german distributor Audio Pro (helpdesk for AKG products +49.(0)7131.2636-492). And a very polite woman named Heike Kubicki asked us how she may help us. We really wondered since politeness is not too typical for Germany. We told her, we lost one of these earpads and how to obtain substitutes. And guess what she said: “No problem, I will send them to your place FOR FREE. Please tell me your address and I will send you 2 pairs of your actual size”…
And what do you think? We think this is grade A++ for one of the best support hotlines having had to call during the last years. We swear we’ll never buy any other head- or earphones but AKG!!! Outstanding…
Be careful with this new MP3 search engine called “SkreemR”. Besides many legal MP3s by more or less unknown artists, SkreemR also seems to be able to find music that is definitly not allowed to be distributed that way. SkreemR claims to have indexed more than 5 million MP3s.
For legal reasons we can’t link to SkreemR from our beloved Germanistan.
Seid vorsichtig mit den neuen MP3 Suchmaschinen. Beispielsweise findet “SkreemR” neben vielen legalen MP3s von mehr oder weniger bekannten Künstlern auch Musiktitel, die definitiv nicht auf diesem Wege verbreitet werden dürften. SkreemR wirbt damit, mehr als 5 Millionen MP3 in ihrem Index zu haben.
Aus rechtlichen Gründen verlinken wir SkreemR nicht.