I wasn’t sure about this album but got it anyway. But having listened to it for the best part of 2 days I do like it. I don’t like all of it, I don’t like all the new material, but I think that some of the stuff that I haven’t heard before is really good. I’m glad I got it and I’m glad it was released.
Category: Music
Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.
App revisit: Tek Kit
Not a bad little drum machine for my 3G. I think I’ll probably keep it for now.
Aye, by Martyn Bennett
I just got this album after it came out last week, and in many ways I’m looking forward to hearing it as I still love Martyn’s Grit album, which is completely awesome. I just hope that I haven’t set my expectations too high.
App revisit: Synthprobe
Another app that I didn’t really use before, but now it’s sitting on my 3G I’ve found that it’s really good. I know it hasn’t been updated for a while, but it makes some great sounds.
30 years since ‘Only You’ was released
Who could believe it? I had no idea that Yazoo was that old! It’s funny as I saw Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet play at the Mute festival at the Roundhouse last year and I thought they were brilliant.
I think I’ll have to listen to some Yazoo tomorrow.
RJDJ: Shake
When loading up my old 3G with music apps I realised that I had more RJDJ apps than I remembered, so I’ve been using them again and remembering just how good all of these scenes are.
A photo from NodeBeat
I postedthis on Instagram, but I liked it so much I thought I’d post it here too.
App revisit: Junglinge Synth
Another older app that I haven’t used in a very long time. This app has a very interesting user interface and makes some great noises. It is really a noise maker rather than a synth, but certainly something I’ll keep to play around with again.
Getting going with uLoops, or PocketBand …
This is another of those ‘I’ve been meaning to do this for ages …’ type projects. Although not really a project. uLoops, or PocketBand as it seems to be called now is one of a very few Android apps that will a) run on my machine, and b) seems to work.
For a long time I’ve meant to move beyond the basic free version of the app and get the full version, and as it was on sale over the weekend I decided that now was a great time to do just that.
So I hope to get playing with it soon and even make something worthwhile. Who knows, I might even try and get it running on the Android install on my 3G!
App revisit: Star6
It was only through going over my old apps in iTunes that I actually remembered this one. Really quite innovative when it came out, and a lot of fun to play with now. I got it running again on my 3G and it works fine, so much so that I found myself playing around with it for a lot longer than I’d expected to. So it will stay!
I am Ashley Elsdon 