Over at Yanko Design a posting is written about an MP3 Cassette player. Not only do you have to use your finger to rewind or fast forward the songs, they come in 45 min.- 60 min. and 90 minute versions. Exactly that last idea is a great one. Bring in the mix-tapes of yore. Find 20 songs you like and put them on a tape. It’s the most personal gift you can give or receive. The equivalent of my mixtape is found here.

Unfortunately the mp3-player is not in production … YET!

Read more at http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/02/18/finger-power-works-the-tape/

via : http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/02/here-are-three-waveforms.html

The 60s band I’m in (‘the Revolvers)’ is doing a national radio-morningshow this week. The station is playing only 60s record this week, so we feel right at home.
We do a little quiz, fiddle around during the broadcast, and we top it off by doing a 60s version of a modern song every day. It’s like doing a backwards cover if that makes any sense.

The first one we did today was Gabriella Cilmi’s ‘Sweet about me’
youtube original is here

And here is the ‘Revolvers’ version:
Sweet about me – the Revolvers 1:53

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In 1965 the McCoys had a huge hit with ‘hang on Sloopy’, a song named after Dorothy Sloop, a singer/pianist from Ohio.  It became the unofficial fight song for the Ohio state University -their version can be downloaded right here- Of Course as with a lot of 60s songs, there is supposed to be an official dance to it. You guessed correctly: the Sloopy. And what do you get when the French do ‘the Sloopy’? That’s right! ‘LE SLOOPY’!

A Nintendo Gameboy and an iPod combined into the… iBoy!
Here is the flickr-set with instructions.
found via link

Recently I ran into a musical called ‘The Phantom of the Paradise’. Truly a musical-opera. It was made in 1974 by Brain de Palma, and was overshadowed by “the Rocky Horror Picture show” I had absolutely no hopes for the movie, but as it progressed I heard some great music going on. And that paradise-owner was played by Paul Williams. Now where did I hear that name before? That’s right: he was the composer of the carpenters’ “we’ve only just begun”, and more important to me: all the songs in the muppet movie. Remember Kermit singing “the rainbow connection”?
Good times.
***takes a very deep bow to Paul Williams ***

here’s the opening-track from the Phantom of the Paradise, sung by the Juicy Fruits:

Whenever I run into a clip like this I want to know more. And in this case most of the info was in Italian.
Heather Parisi (1960) is a media star in Italy. Heather dances, sings and acts. I don’t know about the quality of those three, but since Aerobics was a big thing in the late 70s and she pulls it off nicely it is safe to say that she’s a dancer. She starred in numerous movies and tv-series from 1979 untill now! Her site can be found here.
This clip is a video from the single ‘Disco Bambina’ from 1979. And the above info does NOT make this bearable!

This cracked me up hard yesterday. It was taken from a 1965 TV-special called ‘The music of Lennon & McCartney” Alan haves is having a hard time playbacking his own lowrey organ solo of Hard Days Night. And to be fair: it is hard to do, but not impossible. I’m saving up for a crazy keyboard moves extravaganza! and this is definitely going to be in it.

Klaus Harmony, and yes, those tiny letters spell out : ‘the mozart of porn’ .

His website is found here (don’t worry it’s safe for work).

Now my problem is I want to believe this. It looks so corny and genuine that it has to be real. It’s not. Klaus Harmony is a fictional character made up by Matthew Strachan, an English composer mainly working in the TV-industry. (who wants to be a millionaire’s soundtrack is from his hand). I think Matthew just needed an excuse to pump out the most corny tunes he could think of. The first three volumes of Klaus’ work are ready.

The reason I’m posting this is not because of the song but more because of the band. Jay and the Americans.
Halfway the song the backing singers come forward and you can see it very clearly.
To the right of Jay is… Donald Fagen and Walter Becker! The lore is that they met in this band and decided to start a thing called Steely Dan in the early seventies.