If deep boogie mechanics sound appealing, put this radio show in your headphones. Each set is available on-demand, so there’s days of delicious back catalogue listening.
Mathew Herbert is currently touring downunder so part of this week’s show ran chronologically through some of his tunes under various aliases… Highlights : the sweet synth/ high-hat (77 mins into the show). Herbert – Shuffler [Phono, 1996]:
Followed by this little number from Doctor Rockit – Café De Flore (2000) around 80 minutes in:
Sunset with Simon Caldwell plays on FBI Radio 96.9 in Sydney Australia, Monday evenings.
Tune of the day is on an electronic angle. This reminds me of those great 90s electronic artists like Plaid, Boards of Canada and Mouse on Mars. Great build up and layering.
Another soulful track for the end or the start of a garage house set. This one came about in the late 90′s, after hearing it as the sun was coming up at the Home nightclub in Sydney I dug it up on this compilation: Looks like it’s getting rare. $74 for a new one…
I’m going to keep rolling on the SOTD posts and add a funky little tune I heard on my favorite deep house community radio program. Simon Caldwell’s Sunset on FBI.
This is a classic end of the night tune, smooth bassline nice little loop.
That Neal Stephenson video is a classic. Kickstarter is getting more professional and competitive. I wonder if those VC guys really are nervous about crowdsourcing…? A thread started on Quora for the topic.
My favorite Kick Starter pitch vid so far from games industry veteran and ex LucasArts guy Tim Schafer great sense of humour and makes you feel like you’re almost going to be working with him on the project.
Both Stephenson AND Schafer made their targets on Kickstarter. Double Fine raised 3.3M when they only aimed for $400K and Stephenson scraped by with $526K of the $500K target. Venturebeat reported that Shafer is making a documentary of the Double Fine Adventure game with the additional Millions.
Kickstarter is a great platform for fans to vote with their dollars for awesome projects, it’s also the perfect way for indie personalities to leverage their popularity.
If you’re looking for a sweet setup for music in your office check out the Turntable FM. It lets up to 5 people DJ at once, multiple people can hangout and listen.
If your staff are too busy to DJ (c’mon!) just set it to one of their rooms – music for coding is one of our faves.
An interesting report about Australians breaking into the US market in tech. It’s generally critical of the Australian governments support of local tech industries. There is support via AusTrade for Aussie businesses to enter the US market but the report suggests we should be building our own Silicon Valley in in Australia. But should we really be competing with the US in that respect, or just get better at leveraging it through partenerships..?
The report should at least check out Atlassian for Aussie tech successes, they are completely home grown and had huge success globally. They’ve won awards but I wonder whether AusTrade helped them get there..?
In a pitch-a-palooza we hold at least every year at work, one of the guys came up with “All I want to do is hit a button and BAM! my favorite food comes to me.” If pizza is your favorite, here you go
Andrew Dickey riding freestyle through the streets of Melbourne. This is amazing. The height and insano distance Andrew Dickey gets in this video… incredible. Sweet track Attack Ships on Fire by Architect too…
The video is published as volume 1. Can’t wait for Vol. 2
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