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found at Caterina

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Wow, superhot stuff!

Next time we do a liveact I know how the stage will look like…won’t do it without these totally cool projection cubes (it somehow reminds me of audiocubes – but that’s for another story).

via: TodayAndTomorrow

I knew about Freddy Mercury (realname: “Farrokh Bulsara”) but I never thought about Elton John or George Michael when it came to stage names (although I could have guessed it). So here they are:

Elton John realname: Reginald Kenneth Dwight

George Michael realname: Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou

I have absolutely no doubt, that they became way more successful using those names, than if they’d used their realnames instead. What do you think?

read more at the list of real names of 182 musicians

The name of the band is “The Ting Tings” and so far I never consciously took notice of ‘em. My bad…

There’s a live version of the song on Youtube which I love since I first saw it. I love how she moves and sings. You can see that she absolutely loves what they’re doing:

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It seems that they use a guitar and a synth playback track and I guess they used a vocal sampler to loop her voice in the second half of the song. Great stuff!

The track is also available as a studio recorded version at Youtube: The Ting Tings – That’s not my name

Update: There’s another song I know this band from: they did another track called “Shut up and let me go” which was used in an Apple Ad. I know it from a little fun video that my beloved iJustine made.

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I don’t know why this works but it looks quite astonishing.

Do you know? Please tell us below!

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Another example of a good beatboxing performance – in my eyes ears – is this video showing Alex Tew the creator of the milliondollarhomepage imitating a drum set:

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That reminds me of a time when I used a few samples of my recorded voice to set up a virtual drum set that I used to arrange a little song with a tracker program. Nothing that would change the world eventually, but you can have quite some fun with your own bodys noises that way, just try it (ideally invite a friend to max the fun…)

And now to the final round, Dharni AKA Vash takes it to the limits:

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Astonishing!

I think the devices could as well be synthesizers and noone would be taking any notice. Funny how close design of vintage computers and design of vintage synthesizers really are.

The projects homepage is located at corememoryproject.com and includes some previews of photos you will find in the book. Here you see some screenshots of the page:

The blue color reminds me of the PPG Wave 2

A valve preamp? Probably not, but could be

Looks like an old drum computer doesn’t it?

See these and many more photos inside the book available at amazon: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers

The Song is driven by the main sample or sample idea which itself is taken from the song “Wanna be startin’ something” on Michael Jacksons “Thriller”-Album which was produced by Quincy Jones and released 25 years ago (man, is it already that long…).

I like it very much when old music lines (that proved to work earlier) are taken into a whole new context. Especially when many people have forgotten about the original song or were not even born when the song came out.

What song(s) that contain a sample or line from an older track do you like? Leave your comment, I’m keen getting to know.

And now all: “Mama-se, mama-sa, ma-ma-koo-sa”…

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