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March 26, 2009

The Beautiful Game is no longer football - it's The Unfinished Swan

I invite you to enjoy this demo for the jaw-droppingly wonderful game: The Unfinished Swan

I can't tell you the last time I felt a sheer lightness and joy watching a game demo, but this has a simplicity and beauty that left me wide-eyed and smiling. I've no idea where this is in the development cycle - their parent site says apparently due for March 2009, but that doesn't leave long... nor the platform they're intending this for (looks like could go on Wii nicely).

Anyways. I'm done writing. I'm going to watch it again.

Keep th' faith,

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March 17, 2009

The Mash-up evolved

Witness this You Tube mash up of online instructional videos for various musical instruments and simply fill your boots with awe.

It would be smart enough even if it weren't so goddamn groovy, but with this delivering the clever and the funk in such high measure... Set phasers to 'props' and aim that shit at Kutiman.

Genius.

Keep th' funk,
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January 28, 2009

The Future of Online Music has become clear

Shit. Alive.

This you won't believe. Watch and curl into a foetal position, shaking your head and breathing hard. Microsoft developers have created SongSmith. A true challenger to Garage Band, this product that allows you to just sing into a PC and the programme will then create the backing track and produce your song - much as Mighty Mouse or Brian Eno would if you went to them with a vocal.

Thing is... Microsoft don't think this is such a great product. So they won't push it out there. BUT the developers - they know better, so they have put together their own commercial and put it out there. Enough from me - just watch. And remember - you can buy this:

So, that's clearly a turkey. The worst advert of all time for the worst product ever shat out of a programmer's fuzzy noggin.

The natural reaction is - what were they thinking??? Indeed Adam and Joe on 6Music found this and have pretty much made the point that this is either a work of such sophisticated irony that it transcends humanity's previous boundaries - or... or... Or it's the biggest pile of shit EVER made.

But look again. Look around YouTube. Look and you will see the masterplan unfold. This has tapped into the fun market unlike any product since Twister, and the parodies are streaming in. This is going to be HUGE!

Watch Radiohead's opus Creep - as played through Songsmith:

Now witness The Police's Roxanne

Are you beginning to get the picture? People are going to BUY THIS so they can make whole Songsmith tribute albums! Imagine OK Computer entirely revisioned and remastered by SongSmith. Imagine Jay-Z's Black Album; imagine Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band.

Actually - you don't have to. You can hear it here: