Yeasayer Remix Competition

I've entered a contest to remix the track O.N.E. by Yeasayer. Please consider voting for me/sharing to get me off the bottom of the pack! There are some great tunes there so head to the site for a listen.

Click here to head straight to my track for a listen and to vote!

My New Toy

I'm very excited about getting my life back (I've finally passed my last anaesthetics exam!) and have received this rather super new gadget for music making! This has more of a performance edge than most, so should hopefully herald some interesting new experiments in live music!

The Novation Launchpad, for Ableton Live.

OP-1 The Future is Coming

Having, as I do, an interest in electronic music, I'm incredibly excited at the new OP-1 from Teenage Engineering. This funky little gizmo is well away from release yet, but looks to be a hardware controller for your music software on your PC, as well as having built in synth and sequencer capacity. I WANT ONE!!

Sadly, they're a long way off from release yet!

Here's a pic anyway...

Music production gadgets

Argh! I'm being persued by musical gadgetry! The Create Digital Music blog has been tempting me with pricey technical wizardry!

The bizarrely named Tenori-On is a Japanese invention (who else) which seems to be trying to create a completely new way of making music. It's extremely exciting (and also quite expensive), particularly as a live instrument. Originally created by a Japanese visual artist called Toshio Iwai in conjunction with Yamaha, as well as being able to be used as a sampler/sequencer and performance instrument, it also has brilliant flashing lights! Check out the Youtubes below for demonstrations of the Tenori On.

The other musical gadget that's got me excited is the Pacemaker portable DJ machine thing. It stores your MP3s, plays them, and allows you to do all the things a DJ would traditionally do with decks - beatmatching, crossfading, adding effects, pitch shifting. Again, it's not cheap (although compared to decks+mixer it's pretty good value), and here are some Youtube vids of it in action...

More musical robot craziness with the Thingmagoop

There are more musical robots in action here at Beep Labs - the Thingmagoop is more like a traditional synthesizer in robot clothing, but still looks like it's trying to take over the world (in a friendly fashion of course!)

Robot beat box

A robot that roams around generating samples of things that it hits and then creating drumbeats out of it? I WANT ONE!!!

Myspace

I have a "myspace" now as well as this blog. I'll still be posting all my thoughts/life events here, but the other site is mainly focussing on any music I manage to finish!
http://www.myspace.com/petesandbachuk

Rich's site

Rich now his site up and running with a couple of tunes for us to listen to. I'd strongly recommend checking them out for something a bit different.

Rich's site

My Tunes - Christian Acoustic Rock

I've put a few of my songs on the net for anyone that's interested. Do excuse the slightly dodgy MP3 quality!

My MP3s