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This dude can’t sing to save his life, but it’s a massively impressive piece of work. Quincy Jones would buy him a pint i reckon.

More cowbell!

TED talks are normally good, but this one is brilliant.

Since 1979, Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. He’s known around the world as both a guest conductor and a speaker on leadership.

He has two passions: classical music and helping us all realise our untapped love for it; and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

Inspiring stuff.

Minilogue have teamed up with Kristofer Ström again to release to follow-up to the brilliant “Hitchhikers Choice” video.

Minilogue - Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

For best viewing open the video on Vimeo and switch to HD and Full Screen mode.

Director/Animator/Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström
AE/Filmmaestro/Cutting: Erik Buchholtz
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: varelsen.com / ljudbilden.com
Music: Minilogue.com
Track: Animals
Label: cocoon.net

Getty Images came in to show us some new products last week. One of them is a mashup called Moodstream, which is designed as a visual brainstorming tool.

Moodstream adjusts its visual and audio output based on settings the user sets up. Users can also create and save a moodboard to refer back to when beginning a project.

If you’re in an emergency pitch-type moodboard scenario there’s also Catalyst. Enter one keyword… and select the best match.

I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks and am in the careful process of choosing the right music for the break. Essential stuff you know.

However being the caring sharing type I wanted to point you in the direction of a couple of stonking mixes you need to get for your collection.

It’s got nothing to do with the fact I know the guys behind them both. Honest.

MIX 1

The Cosmonauts - Voyage Uno

http://thecosmonautsexplorations.blogspot.com/

Free download

1. Cosmonauts - On Planet Woonsen (Senip)
2. Secret Stealth - Stealth 1 (Bear Funk)
3. Reverso 68 - Take Me Back To Yours (Eskimo)
4. Lullabies in the Dark - Song for Marie (Aeroplane Mix) (Permanent Vacation)
5. Todd Terje - Italian Stallion (Full Pupp)
6. Ytre Rymden Dansskola - Kjappfot (Prins Thomas Mix) (Full Pupp)
7. Ajello - Magic Feet (9Radius)
8. Sally Shapiro - I’ll Be By Your Side (Tensnake Mix) (Permanent Vacation)
9. Aeroplane - Pacific Air Race (Dub) (Eskimo)
10. Lindstrom - Another Station (Todd Terje) (Clone)
11. Das Pop - Fool For Love (Aeroplane) (Prestel Records)
12. Cosmonauts - The Human Ghost (Senip)

Mixed & Edited @ Studio Woonsen by The Cosmonauts

MIX 2

Sasha - Involver 2

http://www.globalunderground.co.uk/invol2ver/

Buy it here

1. Badger - Intro
2. Telefon Tel Aviv - You Are The Worst Thing In The World (Invol2ver Remix)
3. Rone - Flesh (Invol2ver Remix)
4. Sasha Vs Ray LaMontagne - Eclipse (Ray LaMontagne Vocal Version)
5. Sasha Vs Adam Parker - Lowlife (Adam Parker Vocal Sample)
6. Charlie May - Midnight (Adam Parker Vocal Sample)
7. Apparat - Arcadia (Invol2ver Remix)
8. Home Video - That You Might (Invol2ver Remix)
9. Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (Invol2ver Remix)
10. M83 - Couleurs (Invol2ver Remix)
11. Thom Yorke- The Eraser (Invol2ver Remix)
12. Sasha - 3 Little Piggys
13. Engineers - Sometimes I Realise (Invol2ver Remix)

So that’s it, I’m signing-off to enjoy my break. Cya…

The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” was remixed specifically for the film “21″ by Soulwax, brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, who have blazed a trail in the dance/electronica and pop universes. Love it.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want (2008 Soulwax Remix)

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Blip.fm is a new web app that lets you tell people what you’re listening to… with a comment.

The look and feel is also similar to Twitter posing the simple question ‘What are you listening to?’.

It’s a really nice example of integration and how apps and services are finally feeling “more connected” hooking up to Twitter, Last.fm, Friendfeed and others.

Rubbish Exhibit A:

I press play in iTunes, like the song, and want people to know about it and have a listen.

iScrobbler listens to what i’m playing

Last.fm receives that data and publishes it

Blip.fm looks at that data to help make suggestions for my “blip”

Twitter automatically sends out a new ‘”tweet”

My Facebook status and blog rss feeds are now updated with a direct link to the listen to the MP3.

The frustrated DJ inside me is grinning.

Weezer “Pork and Beans”

This promo is quickly becoming the most-watched video on the internet.. within 2 weeks of it’s release it’s already generated over 5.7 millions views on YouTube.

Tapping into the YouTube generation it uses solid post-production to mix classics clips with new footage of internet “stars”, who were flown out to Los Angeles for the 4-day shoot. “Pork and Beans” was directed by Mathew Cullen of Motion Theory.

Weezer’s Memetastic Video Director Spills the ‘Pork and Beans’:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/director-behind.html

Links to the original videos:
http://buzzfeed.com/scott/weezer-pork-and-beans-video

Radiohead & Microcosmos - J Tyler Helm video

JT Helms edited this promo for Radiohead with footage from the 1996 French film “Microcosmos”. The sensual pace and delicate melody of the song reminded him of a world much smaller than ours, with all the love and violence we experience.

Watch better quality version:
http://jtylerhelms.com/films/allineed.html

Radiohead - MTV Exit Campaign

MTV Exit is a campaign about freedom — about our rights as human beings to choose where we live, where we work, who our friends are, and who we love. Most of us take these freedoms for granted, but hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world have had these basic human rights taken away. They are victims of trafficking – modern-day slaves — and criminals have forced, defrauded, or coerced them into various forms of labor, or prostitution.

End Exploitation and Trafficking:
http://www.mtvexit.org

More videos:
http://uk.youtube.com/user/radiohead

Muxmaster is a wicked desktop app built with Adobe AIR that lets you stream music from Muxtape.com, and explore different mixes to find new music.

All my iTunes music is on an external HD which I often can’t be bothered carting about so this app is great if I’m travelling or streaming music around the house at the weekend.

We’re developing 2 AIR apps at glue at the moment and it’s clear that it’s sexy interfaces you can create and the cross-platform nature is really giving the desktop app / widget market a good kicking… but this is one of the best out there.

Have a look:
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/04/25/introducing-muxmaster-a-kickass-open-source-muxtape-playerdownloader-built-with-flex-and-air

For streaming I use AirTunes and Airfoil.