The Attigo TT is digital DJ setup designed by Scott Hobbs, an Innovation Product Design student from the UK. There are already a few mp3 DJ mixing systems out there, but his is a little different. He didn’t use any breakthrought technology, just 2 touchscreens to manipulate a visualisation of audio files. He used Flash for the interface and Max/MSP to control the sound files. He has a lot of documentation on this project on his website. Honestly, I don’t think that it’s very innovative, but well done anyway. Hey it’s a functional prototype afterall.
I’m a true ni9e / F.A.T. fanboy, here is his next project: Explicit Content Only, a vinyl album. On side A you can hear a curse words only version of N.W.A.’s classic album Straight Outta Compton. On the B side is the Explicit Content Only version of Eazy-E’s ‘Eazy Duz It’. You can of course buy it or download the mp3’s. Or even better, watch it spin.
I know, I’m a little late to this Muxtape party. The tag line explains it all: a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes. You can upload up to 12 mp3’s to this service and share the mixtape with your friends and the world. The interface is soo simple and perfect.
On the technical side, all files are hosted on the Amazon S3 servers (one of Amazons Web Services). I really would like to see some stats and the bill on the end of the month.
Hard Format is a website dedicated to music-related design. Sleevage is a similar website, both have a very nice collection with covers and package design.
An online mp3 player that pops up the websites of Kanye’s favorite brands in real time as he raps them. Hip-hop Pop-Up is a data visualization of the product placement in Kanye’s new album, Graduation, and offers a glimpse at a potential trajectory of the current state of main stream rap music.
Modeselektor is going to release their second album ‘Happy Birthday‘ next month. This track called ‘Hyper Hyper featuring Otto von Schirach’ is going to be a rave hit! Listen to it here.
