Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us by Sparks.
Opening track on their 1974 album Kimono My House, a very influential group & still going strong:
Retro (ish) Music Vid:
Central Unit · Computer Music (Hardware Mix)
1987 EBM = Electronic Boogie Music.
A blast from the past!
Electronic body music, EBM or Industrial dance is a style which mixes together elements of industrial music and electronic dance music.
..it first came to prominence in, er…Belgium!?!
More Hardware Hacks
Following my post on Nic Collins book: Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (26th April) here’s some more. Not much info on it but I like it, sounds like a Moog synth.
Nic Collins’ Hardware Hacking: The World’s Simplest Oscillator
These are some of the results of the first part of the Building portion of Nic Collins’ book:
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking delivers a long-needed, helpful, and engaging introduction to the craft of creating as well as artistically cannibalizing – electronic circuits for creative purposes. Along with a sense of adventure and absolutely no previous know-how, the reader can easily subvert the intentions designed into gadgets such as radios and toys in order to uncover a brand new sonic world. At a time when computers dominate audio production, this particular book provides a unusual peek into the core technology of early live electronic music, as well as additional current advancements at the hands of promising artists. In addition to guidance on hacking found gadgets, the reader discovers exactly how to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion boxes, and uncommon signal processors inexpensively and easily.
This revised and extended 2nd edition is carefully illustrated and includes a DVD showcasing eighty-seven video clips and 20 sound tracks by more than 1 100 hackers, benders, musicians, artists, and inventors from around the globe, as well as 13 video lessons representing projects in the guide. Additional improvements consist of further projects, photographs, blueprints, and designs.
