MOTOR / AMBIENT REEL

more about "untitled", posted with vodpod

Trying to keep up and post something everyday! Came across this video on Vimeo by KU-SCHNEIDER which I thought was pretty cool, good music too.

KU-SCHNEIDER is a motion- and graphic designer based in Frankfurt, Germany. Check out his Vimeo page here.

Sunday night stodge

Mezcast transmission 10

While we are on the subject of Mezerik please check out the Mezcast Transmission 10.

For those not familiar with the mezcast transmissions

Mezcast is a monthly podcast of all genres of electronic music with no talking and no bullshit. Just a selection of fine quality electronic music. Over the years that I’ve been collecting vinyl I’ve built up a collection of many types of electronic music which I want to share with like minded people with a love for electronic music.

Mezcast Transmission 10 is mixed by Mezerik with all tracks produced by Carl Taylor – Warehouse-Trax. This is well worth a listen and has been playing on my ipod all this week.

Check it out here Mezcast Transmission 10

Deeper E.P. – Mezerik

Deeper E.P. - Mezerik

Head over to Mezerik to get your hands on his latest E.P. MZ 004- Deeper. Three tracks of beautifully crafted techno. Top stuff from Mezerik, plus it’s yours in aiff or mp3 (320kbps) for no cost at all – yes completely free – thanks Mezerik. You will also find Mezerik’s other releases available for download. Make sure you keep an ear out for the remix E.P. MZ 005 coming soon.

Download available here

Canon IXUS 100 IS test

Lego X Wing pilot, originally uploaded by arbstudio.

I recently bought a new camera a Canon IXUS 100 IS to take photos as I am going on a little trip at the end of next week. I wanted a small camera to fit in my pocket that would take great photos.

After being sucked in by some slick advertising and a recommendation from the shop I purchased a Nikon coolpix 230 – what a disappointment that was. I was expecting it to take nice good quality images and I wouldn’t even to really have to play around too much with the settings.

No, absolute rubbish, the images are so, so, poor, very soft and even breaking up in places. You could probably take better photos on a mobile phone! Please do not purchase a Nikon coolpix 230 camera if you are wanting to take decent resolution photos.

I took the Nikon back the next day and exchanged it. I paid a little bit extra and purchased a Canon IXUS 100 IS. I am really pleased, for the price it takes great photos. The auto setting is great and it makes it very easy to take a great shot just by pointing and clicking.

I took some test shots of some bits around my house, the X wing pilot that lives on the fridge door (above) being one of them, head over to my Flickr account if you want to see the other test shots.

The camera seems great and I am amazed at the quality when you see the size of it. I should have some good photos of my trip to post up here soon.

I don’t like cricket, I love it!

Since getting my iphone I have become addicted to the one game I have downloaded – Touch cricket.

Touch Cricket on the iphone

A very simple game of placing both your thumbs on the screen and sliding them to adjust the position of the batsman. I think it’s strange and maybe rather worrying how such a simple game can keep me entertained for so long!

You can play the quick play version where you are set certain challenges such as score a century, bat for a draw, score x amount of runs to win the match. It keeps all your stats for this part of the games including number of centuries and fifties scored as well as average etc.

You can also play complete matches of 50 and 20 over games as well as an ashes match with teams picked from stars of the past such as Geoff Boycott, Ian Botham, Bob Willis.

I guess it’s a shame there is no bowling option but still the batting I find highly addictive, I spend far too much time playing this game when I could be doing something far more constructive!

Check out the Touch Cricket website for more on the game and a link to download for your iphone.

IMPORTANT : Radio Relay schedule change

This is an important post for all listeners of the Radio Relay show.

The Radio Relay show has gone from strength to strength this year. Over the past ten shows it has featured some great music and dj sets. Including appearences from Mezerik, 1Dan, Sam from Elektrosouls, Sputnik, Blage Parry as well as a few dj sets from myself, 8FX.

With the continuing success it has now been decided that the show will be moved to the more suitable time of 6 – 8pm. Yes, an extra half an hour of quality electronic music!

A big thank you to James for playing my sets this year it’s been great to hear my mixes on the radio and I’ve enjoyed listening to all the other shows. Also just a quick mention to Mezerik who has done a fantastic job at setting up the Radio Relay website as well as sorting out all the technical stuff with the Radio Relay widget and listen again/podcasts. Nice one fellas!

So don’t forget the new time is now 6pm – 8pm. Standby for a very special show this weekend featuring Sheffieldbleep. This is one you don’t want to miss!

iphone, comics and comixology

Argh so it’s been a while since I have posted anything. Resolution for 2010 has got to be to keep the blog a little more updated.

Recently I decided to upgrade my cheap mobile phone contract and get an iphone (I’ve been on about it for ages). So glad I did, so many cool applications, lots of room for music, video and pictures. I can’t believe I didn’t have one before.

One of my favourite apps has to be Comics by Comixology. If you like comics this is an absolute must. Check out the website here.

They have an extensive collection of comics which can be purchased for between 59p or £1.19p. There’s also a few free ones in there to start you off. It’s basically like itunes but with comics.

Madman The Oddity Odyssey

I started by downloading number 1 of Madman : The Oddity Odyssey by Mike Allred for free. Very enjoyable and I have just downloaded the second part for 59p.

Walking Dead

Also worth of a mentioning is the fact they have the zombie ‘Walking Dead’ series by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore which I will be purchasing sometime soon.

The application is free, and if you want, everytime you start reading a new comic it can bore your Twitter friends and followers with the fact. Great if all your friends are comic geeks I guess!

DJ Mix archive updated

Control Unit 005 has now been added to the DJ Mixes archive page, head there now to have a listen. You can also find links to all the other Control Unit mixes plus more.

Radio Relay #009 – listen again

It was very enjoyable putting the two mixes together for Radio Relay #009. If you missed the show on Saturday it’s now available to listen again via the podcast or you can follow this link.

A big thank you to James C for playing the mixes on the show. If you have missed any of the broadcasts please head over to the Radio Relay website where you can listen to any of the previous shows, or use the podcast links on this page. There has been some really great mixes in there over the last 9 weeks.

Here is the tracklisting for the two mixes broadcast on Saturday…

Distant Signal
01 Crucified (Quantec Remix) – Aaron Carl
02 Rauta (Girl Remix) – Trentemoller Vs. DJ Lab
03 Drifter (Drifting Drums Mix) – Beat Pharmacy
04 Kingston’s Burning Dub – Intrusion
05 Thieves – Claro Intelecto
06 Redux – Sven Weisemann
07 Oasis (Substance & Vainqueur Remix) – Peter Dundov
08 Oasis – Peter Dundov
09 Free For All (Soundstream Remix) – Rhythm & Sound
10 On & On – A Made Up Sound
11 Play Doe – Joker & Rustie
12 Bomb 20 – Disrupt
13 Ting Dub – King Midas Sound
14 Police (Disrupt Dub) – Mahanee

Technologize
01 Music (Aaron Carl remix) – DJ Bone
02 Orange – Deetron
03 Dissaffected (Norman Nodge remix) – Function
04 Acid Digestion – DJ Sneak
05 Land of the lost (Pooley’s Infected Mix) – Green Velvet
06 1.1 – Frozen Border
07 Ankoku – Rennie Foster
08 One with Hats – Steve Rachmad
09 Floating – DVS1
10 Rock My Dub – Random Noise Generation
11 Fake & Phoney – Green Velvet
12 Hold it (Deuce remix) – Planetary Assault Systems
13 Low Cool – DJ T-1000
14 Fusin’ – Technasia
15 A World Divided (Jupiter II mix) – Octave one
16 Cornucopia – Green Velvet