Justin Bieber Slowed Down 800% Sounds AWESOME.

J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Gawker has more info and a link to download.

Braford Reed playing the Pencilina

Bradford Reed composer from Brooklyn, New York

Classic Arcade Ambience.

Over at coinopvideogames.com, they now have several pages of recordings that the host and his friend made in arcades with a portable cassette recorder. Not only do you get the arcade sounds themselves, but that impossible to replicate ambience of an early 80s arcade. One (read, me) might foll around and isolate the background noise and use it for a "live" track... would be classier than some boring old public domain crowd noise sample.

Thanx to Monica McCoy for recommending the site!

2NU Gives Their Only Hit Album Away For Free... Ponderous.

Remember the band 2Nu? Yeah, me neither; but I remember their novelty sound-collage hit "This Is Ponderous". If you were at least in third grade by the late 80s, see if this song doesn't ring a bell (not the real video).



This song was the only one of theirs to even reach marginal mainstream radio play. Want to get it high quality for free? Well, go to their website, where you can snag the whole dang album. If you decide you want to pay for it, they also have links to their iTunes page.

David Byrne Turns Building Into Live Ambient Instrument

Utilizing an organ he purchased second-hand, David Byrne has created within the Battery Maritime Building (utilizing dozens of compressors, motors, and solenoids wired throughout the building) an interactive, site-specific musical performance installation/instrument, where the organ actually mechanically synthesizes old-building ambient sound by vibrating the girders, striking pipes and radiators, and blowing air through the plumbing. The project is calledPlaying The Building and it is currently open to the public until August 24, 2008.

"Big Ideas:Don't Get Any" - Radiohead "Nude" Remix By James Houston

This cool remix involves a complete rebuild of the song with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a dot-matrix printer, a scanner and a matrix of hard drives.