Artist: Babylonia
Title: Motel La Solitude
In brief: Well-produced electronic rock/pop from Italy, obviously influenced by DepMode
I don’t remember exactly where and how I first bumped into Babylonia. I probably heard their rather fantastic single “(If U Want) My Love” which spurred me into blind-buying their first album “Later Tonight v2.0″ from a German online retailer. I enjoyed the album immensely, especially “A Spreading Infection”, one of the v2.0′s extra tracks which was noticeably harder-hitting than the rest of the rather poppy, at times bordering on cheesy, album. In fact, it made such an impression on me that I had to contact the band. View full article »
Allow me to introduce a small-ish application which has saved me a lot of grief in the past year or so. I stumbled on HD Sentinel by accident, and it was one of the luckiest accidents I’ve ever had. View full article »
It was only very recently that I finally had a moment to hook up the Logitech G25 to my PS3 and to really get to grips with Codemasters’ Colin McRae Dirt. It’s a lot of fun – especially on a 3-meter-wide screen sitting at a distance of 2 meters. I was really looking forward to DiRT 2. It arrived from Amazon.uk today, and I stole an hour off work to try it out. View full article »
Lots of cool gear came in today. Philips BDP9100 Blu-ray player is supposed to be able to change the placement of subtitles on the screen, so I just had to ask Philips for a review unit.
Interview after the jump to stop RBMA’s player app from hogging your bandwidth when browsing my front page: View full article »
I’m building a video editing workstation and decided to upgrade my Canopus EDIUS 4 to version 5. While looking for info on the upgrade pricing, I found Grass Valley’s Firecoder Blu. It’s supposed to encode Blu-ray specced H.264 from HD source at speeds up to 2x real-time. That’s 48 frames per second which is far better than the 12-15 frames per second I get with a brand spanking new Intel Core i7 920. View full article »
Hobnox Audiotools is not a new thing, apparently, but it was news to me when I bumped into it earlier today. Imagine running a Korg Tenori-On, a Roland TB-303, a TR-808 and a TR-909 with FX units… in your web browser. I know, it’s insane!
But Hobnox has really done it. They’ve created passable emulations of Roland’s legendary boxes and made them run on Adobe Flash. I fooled around with Audiotools for a while and was utterly amazed by how well the whole thing works. Sure, the sound glitches sometimes when you twiddle the knobs etc. but that’s to be expected, I’d say.
Head on over to Audiotools and have a blast.
Tämä viikonloppu sujui leppoisasti pöydän alla könytessä, johtoja kytkiessä ja laatikoita penkoessa (etsien lisää johtoja). Otin nimittäin itseäni niskasta tukevalla otteella ja päätin, että nyt se penteleen studio laitetaan toimintakuntoon. View full article »
