Last night Jon Gomm played On Stage at Red Town Shanghai. Here’s some pics…

Last night PiL played at Shanghai’s MAO Livehouse. Here’s some pics…

Drunk Girls is the new video from LCD Soundsystem (Wikipedia). It is stunning! Directed by Spike Jonze. Embedded below from the You in Tube.

Video of Australian band Axis of Awesome demonstrating why all pop songs sound the same: four chords.

Jim Pavloff has put up a couple of videos up on YouTube that re-create two Prodigy numbers in Ableton Live. He starts from a clean slate and gradually builds up the songs from samples and loops. It’s fascinating viewing.

Playing around with the Sony Ericsson S500c, I tried out the built-in MusicDJ app. Similiar to GarageBand it allows the user to build up a song in blocks. It’s a bit fiddly trying to compose on such a small screen and it’s really something that you need to do either with headphones on or away from other people. MusicDJ uses MIDI rather than real audio clips to keep the file sizes small but it is possible to convert to audio as follows. I transferred the file to my Mac (by emailing it to myself from the phone)…

In 1983 Steve Jobs in a characteristically brilliant speech introduced the Mac as the solution to IBM’s dominance in the PC industry. “IBM wants it all.” He says a few times. A clip of the speech is available on YouTube (embedded below):