Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is definitely one of the funkiest songs on the planet – It was released way back in 1972 on the Talking Book album and climbed up the UK charts quickly. Stevie came up with the song by playing the original funky drum beat that starts the track and humming a melody over [...]

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The ondes Martenot (which is French for “Martenot waves”, also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales) is one of the first electronic musical instruments ever created. It was invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot and it’s sound was very similar to a theremin – except with much more control over the [...]

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Artist Pierre Blanc makes beautiful fancy vases with emblems of hard rock bands.  To me, this just seems like such a strange fusion of concepts that I simply can’t decide if they are compelling or just downright ugly.  Nevertheless, each piece is unique – signed, dated and numbered.
I’m not too sure who would buy these [...]

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Here’s a video that should satisfy the gadget geek in all of us.
Take:
- a Nintendo DS Lite with (with Electroplankton)
- a Nintendo DSi(with Korg DS-10)
- an iPod touch (with Mokugyo)
- an iPhone(with Bloom)
- and a Kaossilator
Connect them all up via a Belkin Rockstar. Here’s what you get:

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Maybe … but not in the way you were thinking. Many people beleive that a violin’s tone gets better with age. This is subjective of course, however there is a fairly large concensus when it comes to this. There are a few reasons why the age of the instrument could affect it’s [...]

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It was once thought that the earliest recording of the human voice  was made by Thomas Edison in 1877, when he recorded Mary had a Little Lamb on his new invention – the phonograph.
BUT… a new recording has turned up.

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In 1951, some groundbreaking progress in the world of music technology was transforming the way music would be made today.

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In March of 1967, Jimi Hendrix went up on stage at London’s Finsbury Astoria and gave an electrifying performace - it built up to a frenzied dramatic ending, when he doused his guitar in lighter fluid & burned it.
Hendrix had to be rushed to hospital with minor burns to his hands after the stunt, and the guitar, slightly damaged [...]

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