The Pet Shop Boys are finally doing what I’ve been hoping they’d do for years: letting Stuart Price produce their next album. And it’s coming out in June — less than a year after their last release!
Here’s the official video trailer:
The Toa Mata Band is an ingenious ensemble of toy robots playing drum machines, a stylophone, and a Kaossilator, all controlled by an iPad sequencer via an Arduino interface:
I spent the weekend wiring together a couple of infrared remote controls to build a system that will trigger the shutters of 2 cameras simultaneously (part of my ongoing adventures in 3D photography). I plan to post more about this project soon.
But Chris Shen has accomplished a much more impressive feat of IR remote hacking — he’s hooked up 625 discarded remote controls to create a working television display:
Of course the light from the remotes is infrared, so it can’t be seen with the naked eye. And it looks like it would probably take a display at least twice as big to get a really coherent picture. Still, an ingenious achievement. Read more about the piece, titled INFRA, at Create Digital Motion.
Here’s exclusive video footage from Maxx Klaxon’s conquest of Berlin:
This week and next, you can pick up a CD of PARANOID STYLE — the album on which Maxx’s version of “First We Take Manhattan” was first featured — at CD Baby, for only $4.50. Better Mind Control has never been so reasonably priced!
In no particular order, here are 5 of the tracks I most enjoyed in 2012:
Frank Ocean – “Thinkin Bout You”
FREnchfire and Sangam – “Yellow Leaves” becoming “Set in Stone”
Orbital – “Where Is It Going?”
Crystal Castles – “Wrath of God”
And as a bonus, here’s a little something of my own, off the SPLICEWERK compilation:
Maxx Klaxon’s AUTHORITARIAN IDOL 2012 at Warper
Thursday, October 25, 2012
This Thursday, Maxx Klaxon brings a new installment of AUTHORITARIAN IDOL 2012 to The Delancey! Maxx will perform the third show in this special series at the long-running Warper live electronica event.
Expect a sparkling set of trademark Klaxon electro… plus Maxx’s interactive video interviews with digital avatars of the presidential contenders, speaking in their own remixed words.
It’s a razor-sharp combination of satire and synthpop — and an all-too-accurate take on politics in the infotainment age.
(Check out a segment from the 2008 edition of AUTHORITARIAN IDOL here.)
NOTE: Maxx Klaxon’s set will begin on the first-floor stage, at 11pm sharp!
DETAILS:
WARPER featuring Maxx Klaxon’s AUTHORITARIAN IDOL 2012
@ The Delancey
168 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, NYC
8pm-2am (Maxx’s set at 11pm sharp)
Free / 21+
Madonna’s Erotica is 20 years old today. “Deeper and Deeper” is one of the best cuts off the album — and probably one of the best house-pop songs ever:
