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Music
Turning trash into sound
Felix Thorn builds musical sculptures out of dead technology
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Music
The FBI on ODB
Dirty's recently-released FBI file is strange, violent, and revealing. Photo by Danny Clinch
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Music
Motherboard Mixtape 2011
What, you like good, innovative music too? What a coincidence.
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Music
Pitch Shifting, Echo Jamming
On the eve of the release of his new album, Motherboard looks back to the afternoon we spent with synth guru, Dan Lopatin.
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Music
Chris & Cosey: Inside The Studio With the Electronic Music Pioneers
The season finale of Motherboard's original series, Electric Independence leaves us where it all began.
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Music
On the Table
Turntable.fm is a big hit in the Valley; some call it the next Twitter. But what does a guy who has touched an actual turntable think about it?
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Music
Motherboard TV: Maestro of the Speak 'n' Spell
Reed Ghazala - parts Dr. Frankenstein and Willy Wonka - invented a new way for thinking about music, electronics hacking, and old toys
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Music
Skype Rock
Free music. It's also a verb.
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And Out of the Syrup Haze Stumbled Kitty Pryde
Imagine Kreayshawn or, really, any other internet-famous rapper popular among the internet cool k...
May 08, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Happy Interstellar Jazz Day
Today is the first UNESCO-sponsored International Jazz Day, which, according to UNESCO, “is inten...
Apr 30, 2012
by Ben_Richmond
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(video)There's Now a Rap-Themed Trading Card Game
Let’s get this out of the way first: there’s a difference between rap, which is what ... (video)
Apr 27, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Meatloaf and Celine Dion Achieve Singularity
It sounds like a party trick: Cue up the videos for Celine Dion’s “It’s All Com...
Apr 27, 2012
by Jonathan_Liu
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Jay-Z's Euro-punk Future Cost Him At Least $1.15 Million
Four years ago this week, the value of the euro reached an all-time high against the U.S. dollar:...
Apr 25, 2012
by Jonathan_Liu
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(video)MBTV: Ralph Lundsten's Galaxy
Ralph Lundsten started recording music in the roaring 60s. Unlike many of his equally-psychedelic... (video)
Apr 24, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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A Handy Pocket Guide to Foreign Translations of Rap Names
Last Friday, keen-eyed Twit-wit, Andrew Bloch, noticed something slightly askew in his copy of Ma...
Apr 23, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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An Interview With Record Store Day Co-Founder Michael Kurtz
In the last half decade, Record Store Day has inspired some bizarre limited edition offerings. Th...
Apr 21, 2012
by Alyssa_Noel
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Research Proves DJ Drivers Are All Going to Die
It’s time for us all to admit that driving and the “I Want A Song To Exactly Fit My M...
Apr 18, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Madison Rapper F.Stokes on Winning the Internet
Rap has always been about braggadocio. That’s not to say that a lot of rappers aren’t...
Apr 17, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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(video)MBTV: Electric Independence: XXXChange
Just because it’s Tuesday and some of us are still recovering from the weekend doesn’... (video)
Apr 17, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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The Science of Music Snobbery
In 1997 I moved from Detroit to Colorado’s Front Range. The Front Range isn’t rural b...
Apr 17, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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(video)Who Actually Thought the Tupac Hologram Was a Good Idea?
Coachella, long the hipster’s choice for desert festivals featuring hyper-relevant indiebuz... (video)
Apr 16, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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A Kraftwerk Retrospective Retrospective
No one we knew went to the Kraftwerk shows last night — MoMA was reportedly very stingy wit...
Apr 12, 2012
by Alex_Pasternack
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(video)MBTV: Felix Thorn's DIY Machine Symphony
Kinetic, psychotropic visual soundscapes. Give me a second to catch my breath, but that’s t... (video)
Apr 11, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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(video)Beatsurfing Is Maybe the Most App-y MIDI Controller Ever
The iPad instrument-app landscape is already plenty cluttered. A quick search yields a fairly bot... (video)
Mar 27, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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(video)MBTV: Electric Independence: John Foxx
English synth legend John Foxx has been making waves ever since he left Ultravox for a solo caree... (video)
Mar 21, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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(video)Control the World's Largest Synthesizer (Video)
Long before Joe Paradiso would epitomize the Media Lab professor — with expertise in sensor... (video)
Mar 15, 2012
by Alex_Pasternack
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Why We Love Sad Music
The fact that we get pleasure from any music, let alone sad music, is a complicated question.
Mar 13, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Who Would Shut Down Hipster Runoff? A Gchat with Carles
When I heard that Hipster Runoff had been hacked and shut down this morning, I was bummed, but I ...
Mar 13, 2012
by DerekMead
