A Welsh View

Video: OK Go - Needing/Getting

You can always count on OK Go to create a very creative music video.

Video: Yelle - Comme Un Enfant (Freaks Remix)

Video: North Korean children's guitar ensemble performs "Our Kindergarten Teacher"

[via Boing Boing]

Firefox.exe Imported as Audio

What Firefox.exe. and MSPaint.exe sound like when converted into audio files.

Video: Stop-Motion Music Video Created with 15,000 Shots from a Canon 400D

VIdeo: Undercover Karaoke with Jewel

Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel

Video: Boards of Canada ROYGBIV

Love this fan-made Boards of Canada video featuring their track ROYGBIV and some classic 80's UK TV adverts.

God Particle Signal Is Simulated As Sound

Scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.

The sounds have been modelled on data from the giant Atlas experiment at the LHC and you can listen to them here.

Video: OK Go - End Love

Another great video from OK Go.

Video: Best Audience Ever

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Video: This Guy Really Likes Oktoberfest (And His Drum)

Stereomood - Music For Your Mood

Stereomood creates custom playlists depending on the mood you are in.

Video: 2 Girls, 2 Cups

Video: It's A New Baptazia!

More Baptazia videos here.

Search for Music on Google using Musgle

Musgle makes searching for music on Google much easier. Simply enter the artist or track and Musgle with format the search query to increase the chances of you finding music that you can download.

Video: Cile - The Very Funky One Man Band

Video: AC/DC vs Iron Man 2

Impressive architectural projection mapping on Rochester Castle.

Video: Taiwan's Susan Boyle

Video: Scott Dunbar The One Man Band

Map of Rock Bands

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Video: Birds On A Wire

A photo of birds on some cables converted into music. Clever!

Video: Michael Jackson Acapella Tribute

Video: Creative Music Video from Sour

Love it!

Video: Abbey Road (and London Calling) Recreated With Rubik's Cubes

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Video: Nyle - Let The Beat Build

Filmed in one take with audio being recorded simultaneously with the film (original here). There are some behind-the-scenes videos here. [via]

Matt and Kim - "Lessons Learned"

A great video but I don't understand the end. [via @jackschofield]

Beyoncé Raw

Raw, unedited, "board mix" of Beyoncé performing. [via @shotbykim]

Video: Funkytown Remix Using Old Computer Equipment

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Related: Bohemian Rhapsody Performed By Vintage Computer Parts

Video: Tilt Shift Music Video

A song called "Clementine" by Keith Loutit that utilises tilt-shift photography to achieve a miniature look. [via & via]

Video: Kutiman Mixes YouTube

Kutiman is an Israeli musician who creates music from various YouTube videos. The result is very impressive and he's created an album of his mixes called Thru You.

The Five Categories Of Heavy Metal

According to this chart, the names of heavy metal bands fit into five main categories: death, deadly things, animals, religion, and badass misspellings. [via]

Video: United States Of Pop

DJ Earworm mashes up the top 25 singles of the year from the US Billboard charts into a single song and video. View the tracklist here. This guy's got some talent. And if you liked the video, he's got more mashups here. [via]

Video: The World's First Music Video In An Excel Spreadsheet

AC/DC have released a fan-made ASCII music video in Microsoft Excel. Windows users can download the video here. [via]

Video: I Go Chop Your Dollar: The 419 anthem

Head over to CrunchGear for the lyrics to this catchy 419 anthem.

Video: Stevie Wonder On Sesame Street (1972)

Kids of today are missing out on great music. Not being from that time, I'm not sure if the kids on the show would have appreciated the performance. [via]

Video: Britney Spears Live

This is sound from just her microphone. In her defense, I bet there are plenty of people in the industry who also sound like that when dancing on stage. It's probably not a good gauge of her voice.

Video: Derrick May Discusses The Strings Of Life

Not sure if anyone will appreciate this as much as I do. Here's an interview with Derrick May, the creator of the seminal dance classic Strings of Life. Released in 1987 you could still play it on a dance floor today. In fact, it's still being remixed to this day. It's amazing how humble he is about his creation.

Here's the full version of the track. It's still one of my favourite tracks.

20 Album Covers Recreated in LEGO

20 albums recreated in LEGO. [via]

1960's Electronica Created By Author Of Dr Who Theme Tune

Delia Derbyshire is responsible for creating the Doctor Who theme tune but she's also responsible for creating an electronic track in 1969 that's way before it's time.

Just today I listened to all 3 parts of the BBC Radio series 'The Definitive History of UK Dance Music' which went back to the early 1960's, but it wasn't until the late 1980's that music like Delia's track appeared. [via]

Ugly Goat Wins Most Beautiful Goat Contest

A rare Damascene goat has won the Most Beautiful Goat title at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [via] Lots more ugly goats here.

Video: Star Wars Floppy Disk

An old floppy disk drive has been programmed to play “The Imperial March” (Darth Vader’s Theme) from Star Wars. The artist is unknown. [via]

Video: Very Fast Glass Harp Player

Wow!

Related: Symphony No 5 by Beethoven

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Video: Music Made From Windows XP & 98 Sounds

A surprisingly good piece of music composed from alert sounds from Windows 98 and XP.

There are also some remixes here and here. [via]

Mixing Desk Belonging To World's First DJ Goes To Auction

A home-made mixing deck, created by the worlds first disc jockey is set to go under the hammer in Boston.

Ron Diggins, who died last year at the age of 90, has been dubbed as the worlds first disc-jockey by DJ Magazine.

He created the mixing deck out of coffin wood.

It was the first mobile disco that used a 25-watt amp and a wind-up gramophone playing 78s on two turntables to entertain Land Army girls and Italian POWs at a village hall in 1947.

The equipment named Diggola is expected to rake in thousands of pounds at a sale. Link

Alice, An Electronic Remix of Alice in Wonderland

Nick Bertke, who is too clever for his own good, has created an electronic track using sounds and images from Disney's Alice in Wonderland. You can download the MP3 for free here. [via]

The Perfect Song = 2 Minutes and 42 Seconds

An interesting article on why the perfect song is 2 minutes and 42 seconds long and it also links to a collection of 2m42s songs.

Video: Utah Saints - Something Good '08

This is what us Welsh get up to on a Friday night. If you're interested, the song is the 2008 remix of Utah Saint's 1992 track Something Good. [via]

Earliest Intelligible Sound Recording Found

Thomas Edison has long been considered the father of sound but a recording from 1860 has been demonstrated that features a woman singing.

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's 1860 phonautogram was made 17 years before Edison received a patent for the phonograph and 28 years before an Edison associate captured a snippet of a Handel oratorio on a wax cylinder, a recording that until now was widely regarded by experts as the oldest that could be played back.

The recording will be presented on Friday along with recordings made in 1853 and 1854. Those first experiments included attempts to capture the sounds of a human voice and a guitar, but Scott’s machine was at that time imperfectly calibrated.

The New York Times has the 1860 recording.

Muxtape - Make Online Mixtapes

Muxtape is an easy way to create and share mixtape online. SImply upload your tracks and share the link.

Can You Identify A 320kbps MP3?

Can you tell the difference between a 320kbps and a 128kbps MP3?