Since working on Racer and launching it a few people have said, ‘oh it’s like such and such a game’ but I’m yet to find something that is truely as unique as this AND is in a browser. Racer is a multi-player, multi-device Chrome Experiment. A retro-style slot car game played across screens. On phones or tablets, Android or iOS. Anyone can join. No apps. No downloads. Just the mobile web. It’s now up for The FWA Cutting Edge Project of the Year. If you think it deserves it please cast a vote!
And if you’re interested here’s the making of video which goes into detail on why it was so tricky to build.
Here’s Racer being demo’d at Google I/O 2013 – live demos are always nerve wracking, thankfully this one went smoothly.
Also awesome and cutting edge is that there’s also an installation version that runs on the same code base as the mobile game. The table was at Google I/O 2013 and another Google event ‘Zeitgeist’. Here’s a couple of pics of the table:
In addition to the table version, there are two flight case boxes containing a line up of mobile devices ready to play. This version also runs on the same code base. Here’s a pic of the cases and me demo’ing it at Cannes 2013 in the Google tent :
Neat idea via Monika for a crowd sourced music video, around 40K people have contributed so far. If you have a webcam you can throw your face C-Mon & Kypski’s music video
Pastor T.l. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir do their version of the traditional spiritual. Also check Louis Armstrong’s version. Edited: traditional spiritual, not Louis Armstrong original, thanks for the correction, @jedws.
DK played this on the latest Solid Steel, nothing like a sweet bit of gospel to wrap a set.
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]:
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.
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