This Is A 320
Posted by Budgie at
01:55 PM
As promised...
Forum member Foo dons his Brine alias and delivers us a deep and genre spanning mix into the ever expanding sounds of the Dubstep.
Moody. Minimal. Cavernous.
Essential.
Track : BRINE - "SURF TILL MY MOM CALLS ME IN (PIPE MIX)"
Tracklisting :
// Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands These (Roly Vex'd Remix) / The Eylsian Quartet - Gabriel Prokofiev String Quartet No.2 (Vex'd Remix) / Compound One - Get Loose / Gatekeeper - Let Go / Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Caspa Remix) / Susheela Reman - Love Lies (Hit By A Rock Remix) / Conquest - Moodswings / Vaccine - Wishful Thinking / Intex Systems - Titan (Scube Remix ) / Uncle Sam - Round The World Girls (Tes La Rock Remix) / Ekstrak - Mass Dampers / Monkey Steak - Lighthouse Dub (Pinch Remix) / Benga - Untitled (B1 From The Benga EP Vol 2) / Komonazmuk - Love //
14 Tracks / 65 Minutes / 320k
Enjoy.
Feel free to leave a comment about this in The Pipe section of the forum.
Ta,
Budgie
Level 16
Posted by Budgie at
03:39 PM
"Babylon And Ting"
I've spent the best part of this week playing Jeff Minter's "Space Giraffe" on my 360.
Minter has taken David Theurer's 1981 Tempest arcade game for Atari and remixed it, again in his trademark psychedelic wigout fashion, for the Xbox Live Arcade.
Stick with me on this one. It plays kind of like Tempest (you navigate around the outside of a vector web shooting enemies that approach from within) but instead of controlling a spacecraft, you control a Giraffe.
Yes, a Giraffe.
In space.
Add to this the trippiest light show imaginable, some 100 weird geometric shaped levels and sound effects that include various animal noises, divebombing planes, ringing telephones and The KLF's "MU! MU!" chant.
It all adds up to a bewildering and addictive experience. Once you get the hang of it...
My wife saw the game for the first time yesterday She uttered 3 sentences after watching a few minutes of it :
"It's all just lines and lights"
"No wonder you've got bad eyesight"
and
"Did you actually pay money for that?"
Anyway, this brings me to this post. Each level has it's own unique shape and name. When I got to Level 16 I burst out laughing as it was called "Babylon And Ting".
I'm hoping it's named after this slice of trippy ambient dub...
Track : THE ORB - "TOWERS OF DUB"
You should all know this by now, what with it's Victor Lewis Smith prank phone call beginning and it's epic 15 minute excursion through bass and dogs barking...
Track : PETER RICHARD - "WALKING IN THE NEON (CLUB VERSION)"
As Space Giraffe's light show is part sound to light synthesizer, the game responds well to the addition of your own music. My current fave to have booming out my telly whilst shooting giant flowers and crawlers is this 1985 Italo track with it's "speeding through the cosmos" refrain.
Shame the track wasn't called "Walking In The Nuon".
(one for you Minter fans there...)
Enjoy.
Go Buy : The Orb - UF.Orb
Go Buy : Various Artists - I:Robots : Italo Electro Disco Underground Classics
Go Visit : Llamasoft
Go Visit : The Orb
Feel free to leave a comment about this in The Pipe section of the forum.
Ta,
Budgie
Budgie's Balearic Beats
Posted by Budgie at
02:45 PM
(grainy picture taken on my phone at the Cafe Del Mar a couple of weeks ago...)
Sun in my morning, my afternoon and my evening.
And I come back to Scotland, and there is no sun to be found. Pfft.
Below is just one of the few compilations I knocked up for myself and the missus to listen to whilst lazing the day away in the warm Ibizan sun.
Usual brew of Balearic classics mixed with some old, some recent and some eclectic gems.
So if the sun comes out, get this on your stereograms.
Track : BUDGIE @ THE PIPE - "BUDGIE'S BALEARIC BEATS #5 - Part 2"
Tracklisting :
// Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes / Fug - Ready For Us / Kate Bush - How To Be Invisible / The Dynamics - Move On Up / Izit - Stories / Al Stewart - On The Border / Cantoma - Pandajero / Tangoterje - Diamonds Dub / Estate - Let Her Know / Carly Simon - Why? (Extended Version) / Rene & Angela - I Love You More (Mr K's Instrumental Edit) / Double - The Captain Of Her Heart / Rae & Christian ft. Kate Rogers - Not Just Anybody / Art Of Noise - Camilla (The Old, Old Story) //
14 Tracks / 76 minutes / 192k
Enjoy.
Feel free to leave a comment about this in The Pipe section of the forum.
Ta,
Budgie
(for a limited period, parts one and three are up over on the forum...)
