Frank SideBottom – RIP
Timperley’s favourite Frank Sidebottom has sadly passed away at the good-looking age of 58. A fine talent and a beacon for Manchester awareness Frank was a TV superstar, World-Class musician, DJ and host of Timperley Radio on top of being a genuinely funny guy. He single handedly put Timperley on the map and never strayed far from Manchester throughout his entire life. › Continue reading
1-Bit Symphony
Fed up with the music industries relentless pushing of hype over substance? Adding “value” to music in desperate ways to try to stay relevent in this ADHD age of stems, samples and synthesizers when in theory anyone with any interest in music can already produce any kind of music they want for free at home. The reality is even wider than the music company executives realise in that now people can not only use software on their home computers (such as the infamous garageband) but also create music online for free with such amazing services as Aviary:Myna, AudioTool and uJam, hell even check out jamstudio. Forget about music exec’s ideas on how people “should” interact with music by examing such pail concepts as Mxp4 and youSpins. In fact, audio hardware hacking has made a strong resurgance thanks to great products such as the Arduino and Processing, with a whole range of pocket synths and open source schematics available online. Recent favourite of mine has to be Tristan Perich’s fantastic 1-Bit Symphony…
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.
Getchy’own! http://bangonacan.org/store/product/181
More info:
Cantaloupe Music: http://www.cantaloupemusic.com
1-Bit Symphony: http://www.1bitsymphony.com
Tristan Perich: http://www.tristanperich.com
Nomad III
Nomad Version 3 is coming…
What features would you like to see?
Post a comment featuring your ideas, niggles and suggestions!
Go on, you must just get your wish!
DJ Shadow forgets why Hip-Hop Sucked in ‘96
Thanks to Quim Abella for the image
Well… another decade has passed, and here we are living full time in the future that is 2010. I can see that you all handled the change gracefully and are excited about the future! Well Done! Not everyone however has managed the transition. I recommend these individuals remain humbly quiet until they fully understand and master their necessary evolution. There will however be cases where people, frustrated with the change in their mediums decide instead to launch a public tirade, and try to change the world rather than themselves.
Case in point is the venerable DJ Shadow…
Gone are the recording studios (including the historically important Plant down the road from me in Sausalito), the record shops, and the music magazines. Replaced by the oh-so-cynical, oh-so-corrosive AM talk radio of the new millennium, the Internet.
copy©unts
Image courtesy of Loan Sameli
Because sometimes an idea is so awesome, those cheeky monkeys in advertising turn them into bad commercials. Always the original far outweighs in awesomeness than the cruddy TV ads. Sometimes they even re-do them so badly that you just can’t watch the original without thinking of the product!
Who can seriously enjoy scrimping these days since the Honey Monster got in on the act? You wonder if these ad execs want to ruin it for all of us with their lame campaigns – and what’s to stop them? They already use skateboarding, ponies and boobs to sell everything to everyone…
Well fear no longer as crusaders from all around the world now have a platform to alert people of injustice! Men, women and kids of the world unite and read copy©unts.
Nasty’s Guide to Squatting
DJ Superstar and London’s finest barly, Nasty McQuaid takes time out from his Charity Shoppe events to put together a quintessential guide of the hows and how-nots to succeed in modern life squatting.
Take it from us, Nasty is a seasoned veteran of recycling cultures, his Rubbish&Nasty squatted record shop, next to New Cross Town Hall, was quite possibly the most diverse vinyl collection ever sold in London and one that more than likely helped with the birth of Basement Rock and numerous awesomagnificent DJ careers…
Like totally four dimensional
For Nomad v3, we are introducing lots of new visualisers…although we are still picking from our faves… one of the strong contenders is a mandlebrot fractal that iterates in time to the music… but then why stop with just two dimensions? There is the infamous 3D mandlebulb which although a little light on the maths still looks BADASS.
Of course, 3D is so 2001, so check out this Nebulabrot in four dimensions : ( warning, strobey & requires an html5 browser 
Eli Records. Strictly Roots.
Bacup!
Here @Nomad we all favour the homebrew…
Homemade, DIY, Bodged, On-a-shoestring, Done-for-the-love… it’s why we started Nomad and what keeps it running!
And that’s why we love Eli Records , “A small UK independent label with a feel for the unusual and the irreverent”.
Based in the Northwest and holstering a roster of over ten bands and tons of releases, this is a label that is not afraid to give all music a place in the sun, and not just the daily average of dubstep or DnB. In fact, Eli seems to focus more on genres that the UK has been weak for a while with.
Case in point is the venerable and charming, Mrs. Cakehead , whose Lancashire Dancehall sound has been pumping out of our stereo for some time now. Cakehead keeps it real with his homeroots style of Bacup Toasting, and ditches the cliches to evangelize about the real issues in life like the demise of Electronic Reggae, Homebrew that frazzles the brain and the Crime in Criminal Damages… after all, ” I believe I don’t need policing… or do I? ”
Check out these teasers of Bacup Dub & Dancehall :
Cheerful and CheesyCheerful and Cheesy
Don’t Mess With Mrs CDon’t Mess With Mrs C
Funky Dread NowtFunky Dread Nowt
And pop over to YouTube for the latest Mrs. Cakehead LIVE videos! The ‘Dub be Good to Me’ Live is a glimpse of future material for sure!
Strictly Roots Son! As a small label based in what looks like a shed, the music is only available on CD at the moment (with vinyl coming as soon as they sell something!), but don’t let that put you off, as each CD is lovingly hand potato-printed and unique to you at a very good price!
Now go shopping* you filthy pirates! Support the independents!
* also available from Piccadilly Records MCR! 
New Nomad Feature Testing
The future of bugs
Those familiar with Nomad may have noticed a few changes to the site recently, and hopefully you’re all digging the way things are going. Well, as you guys are our heroes we’ve decided to try out some brand new technology on you… › Continue reading
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