Space Babies » music

So let it be houze

joost — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:18:00 +0000

For an as of yet undisclosable project I am researching house in all it’s various incarnations. It only took me three searches to land in the realm of house music, and have spent considerable time re-listening to the classics. Like this one:

Fuckin’ aye.

Friendly Alien Space Takeover

joost — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:12:03 +0000

I couldn’t help but notice this podcast of Future Vintage, a show on Radio 6. With titles like Space Invasion, Sirius Space Party, Interstellar Low Ways, When Planets Explode, Tales from Outerspace and Distant Planet you can’t go wrong! Download the MP3 now!

If you would rather listen online, you can do that too.

People enjoying their Space Babies

joost — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:45:03 +0000

Recently I have sent out stickers by post with basic building blocks of ‘Space Babies’. They’re a huge hit! After the break you can see xhtmlized’s Dave Rosen enjoying his baby. So sweet!

The stickers were designed by Dirk Laucke, major props to him!

The idea is this: you receive a sheet of building blocks (these are the stickers) and a postcard to which you can paste the blocks. You assemble your Space Baby according to the examples. Each baby has six variants. Or you use your own imagination. As a matter of fact, most people do. Guess they are too impatient to follow the example (which I admit will take a few minutes!).

You want a sticker? Leave a comment here!

Enjoy my muxtape

joost — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:58:07 +0000

Thanks to John Gruber I recently discovered Muxtape – a great app to create and share mixtapes. I’ve created one, naturally, and invite you to listen!

The site is currently experiencing somewhat of a daringfireballdotting, but is still holding up. Ymmv. They are not using Rails (because Mootools …. ahh I crave!) but they (he? she?) are/is using Amazon’ S3 to store all music.

Smart move.

40.000 x 10 MB x 12 songs is …. ehh …. a lotta.

Musick (sic) industry

joost — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:51:57 +0000

I really like this comment on slashdot:

If you look at the history of American railroads in the nineteenth century, it was similar. They controlled distribution of goods and in many cases could charge what they wanted. Farmers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers suffered, but had no alternative. At least till technological development changed things (trucks and highways). Then suppliers and consumers had a way of bypassing the rails, and did so. Eventually the rail companies adapted (mixed mode transport) and even prospered.

Clicky

Desyn Masiello

joost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:55:08 +0000

You sir are brilliant! Brilliant!

The live mix performed on John Digweed’s show Kiss 100 FM in 2005 is one of the best musical journeys of this century. Really, it is that good. Grab it if you can.

Turn up the basssss

joost — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:28:58 +0000

Recently I discovered all releases of Turn Up The Bass ever
made! How cool is that?

I remember hiring these CDs from the local video store since I couldn’t afford them. And now they’re available online, plus they fit on a DVD easily. Sweeeet.

Artist blogs

joost — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:14:28 +0000

Today appears to be the day where stuff gets done!

I just implemented a blog import tool for GO Magazine. Ruby and Rails just make it so easy. I generated two models: Blog and Post. Blog gets hooked up to an Artist, and Blog has_many :posts.

Blog is hooked up to a Link as well. Every day, I just traverse the Links, fetch the feed and parse it using Ruby’s built-in RSS Parser. Walk the items and insert them into the database, done!

I’m even surprised at the speed, tens of blogs are imported in a few seconds.

It's being used

joost — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:06:16 +0000

Funny when something I’ve built actually gets used.

Last week I added a section called livesets to GO Magazine. Just a page where anyone can submit a live-deejay mp3 set. Of course anyone can then download the set, plus people can vote. Basic stuff.

Originally I wanted to use it just for myself, since people throw their livesets at me all the time.

But then I decided to mail this to the artists I know and what do you know? Now every day livesets are added, people are downloading and voting like crazy and I have lifted some gems off the net already! Flow’s liveset is great, as is the one by Ellen Allien.