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30Jan08 XLIV. Hollatronica, Part II
23Jan08 XLII. L’Electro Francais, Part Deux
22Jan08 XLI. Hollatronica
XLI. Hollatronica
Yes, I made up a new word. Rap mixed over electronica –> hollatronica.
Update: someone apparently beat me to it — Hollertronix is the name of a DJ set from Philly (Diplo and Low Budget).
18Jan08 XL. “Hi, I’d like an Extra Large Good Time”
17Jan08 XXXIX. New Wave
XXXIX. New Wave
Possibly the trashiest part of the 80s, in all its majestic glory, remixed with electro.
09Jan08 XXXVIII. Remix Party, Part IV
XXXVIII. Remix Party, Part IV
Extreme cutting and scratching on my new Korg KP-3 sampler — this thing is way too much fun to play with. Ghetto, house and techno (and some disco), per usual.
07Jan08 XXXVII. Keepin’ it Funky
07Jan08 XXXVI. Euro-House Invasion, Part IV
02Jan08 XXXV. Radioaktivitaet — It’s bad!
XXXV. Radioaktivitaet — It’s bad!
Kraftwerk vs. Michael Jackson. Please don’t hate me. In case you don’t know who Kraftwerk is, they embody the stereotype parodied on the SNL skit “Sprockets”. Kraftwerk also made comments in an interview declaring the supremacy of robots to human life forms. Really, this mix is part of my circular quest to confirm that Michael Jackson is, in fact, a robot.
Mash-up pairings include:
Radioactivity vs. Bad
The Number Song vs. Scream
Computer World vs. Black or White
Neon Light vs. The Way You Make Me Feel
01Jan08 Hey Thnx, Xmas!
31Dec07 XXXIV. Okie Dokie, It’s the Orb on My Podcast
XXXIV. Okie Dokie, It’s the Orb on My Podcast
A mix of samplings from the Orb’s discography. Trippy, ambient and spacy.
30Dec07 XXXIII. Mellow Electro, Part II
XXXIII. Mellow Electro, Part II
The more sensitive, light-hearted side of electro. Up next: Orb mix, and Kraftwerk remixed with Michael Jackson (no, I’m not kidding you.)
29Dec07 XXXII. Dirty, Rough and Fast
XXXII. Dirty, Rough and Fast
Heavy beats, rap and industrial samples over house. Forgive me in advance for subjecting you to a house remix of DMX’s “Lord Give Me a Sign” during which he has an all too intimate moment conversing with the Lord.
23Dec07 Creative Office Tactics
Creative Office Tactics
My boss was in town this week — he’s based in Palo Alto, so I rarely interact with him in person. However, when this does happen, it is usually quite entertaining and occasionally embarrassing, like when he skips down the sidewalk on the way to get lunch and insists on hitting on every waitress in sight.
After I successfully ignored his demands to make the web application we are developing run on his laptop for over a day and a half (no one else had a problem, damnit!), he hunkered down in my office and started blasting Britney Spears until I did something about it. This was more effective of a motivator than any email or phone call I have ever received.
22Dec07 XXXI. Euro-House vs. Club Rap
XXXI. Euro-House vs. Club Rap
More house/rap remixes. Really, where else are you going to hear John Dahlbäck (Swedish house) remixed with Lil Kim and Nelly Furtado?
15Dec07 XXX. Remix Party, Part III
XXX. Remix Party, Part III
A new experiment: remixing rap vocals over dance music. 2Pac, Lil’ Kim, Lil’ Wayne, Ja Rule, Ludacris, Paul Wall, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, et. al sampled over house and funk beats.
14Dec07 XXIX. Get Krunk, Part III
XXIX. Get Krunk, Part III
Lil’ Wayne and Pitbull feature prominently in the last of my installment of the Get Krunk series. I’ll stick to my more white-kid appropriate hip hop remixes, since, well, I’m white and I ain’t got no hustle.
13Dec07 Tribute to Russian Futurism, Part I
Tribute to Russian Futurism, Part I
Click the image to view the high-resolution, zoomable Flash version.
09Dec07 Coding Animation: Mimicking Flash Actionscript motion with Javascript
Coding Animation: Mimicking Flash Actionscript motion with Javascript
When I first heard ‘Ajax’ used by a techie, I thought they were referring to AFC Ajax, the Dutch soccer club. In any case, Ajax lets us do lots of fun stuff we could code with Flash — but with Javascript / XML-based interfaces. Enter Tween - a Javascript port of the motion tween effects from Flash. Not quite as nice, but still very slick. Tween also comes with a sequencer class, as well as event listeners for creating a series of animations each of which trigger upon the completion of its predecessor.
For where you need to initiate this motion through an event inside Flash, you can call Javascript functions via Flash:
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/flash_call.html
For adding fades and other motion effects, I’d recommend using the script.aculo.us Javascript libraries in conjunction with Tween.
[The animation on this site uses Tween in conjuction with script.aculo.us]
