Intua proudly announces BeatMaker, the first music creation studio for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
BeatMaker introduces a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn the iPod into a unique, inspirational software instrument.
Visit now www.intua.net to read the announcement !

I just would like to thanks everyone supporting BeatPhone. I didn’t realised I would have such a great feedback about it.
Keep updated … More news to come soon … !
BeatPhone, the beatbox for the iPhone, has now an official page.
Visit the official BeatPhone Page

Hello, another music recommendation. Yep.
The first one is “Dimlite”. I saw him at an electronic hip-hop festival, not knowing about this band. A very very
good surprise ! If you know Boards of Canada and Prefuse 73, then imagine a mix of both, with more personal compositions. I recommend you “This is Embracing”, released on 2006. More information about Dimlite : here.
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Here’s an interesting music recommendation, it’s about record degeneration trough time.
I’ll just quote the website :
This record was created by taking some of Phil Collins’ greatest hits, smearing them across time, completely destroying them. The result is haunting, beautiful, hypnotic, frightening, and relaxing! Give it a shot, you might be surprised…
Check it out here : http://in_tense.illformed.org/?dir=music/Phil%20Fucking%20Collins
Right after the first episode of chilled beats podcast, here’s the second!
It’s called “Dark Melodies”, and it’s a mix of unique songs from hip-hop to electronica. Here’s the tracklist :
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Sountrack - The Bookhouse Boys
Bonobo - Animal Magic - Kota
Sixtoo - Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man - Part 3
Bjork - Homogenic - Bachelorette
Atoms Family - Angels & Insects - Plead the 5th / Buggin’
Cypress Hill - III : Temples of Boom - Illusions
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence - Mantra Two fet. Tyondai Braxton
Autechre - Chiastic Slide - Cipater
Loden - Valeen Hope - Tenofour
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Music is Math
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet - Chimeras
Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of You
DJ Krush & The Opus - Tri-He-Dron
Quasimoto - Broad Factor EP - Broad Factor Instrumental
Here it is. I decided to make my own podcast : The Chilled Beats.
No, seriously, the idea behind is interesting, sort of static radio with episodes. I’m always recommending music in this blog, so podcasts adds a new dimension to music sharing. Just add my podcast to your iTunes and listen!
To suscribe to the podcast (with iTunes):
- Copy this to your clipboard http://mateo.bblk.net/podcast/podcast.xml
- In iTunes, navigate in the menu to : Advanced Settings > Suscribe to podcast …
- Paste the above link !
- On the left side, go to the “Podcast” icon
Here’s the tracklist for the first episode (playing order) :
DJ Krush - Zen - Candle Chant
Roots Manuva - Brand New Second Hand - Soul Decay
Fat Jon The Ample Sound Physician - Lightweight Heavy - Torn Again
Underwolves - Bird Song
Tricky - Nearly God - Bubbles
Lootpack - The Lost Tapes - Hip Hop
DJ Castor - Real Y Medio - Bosta’s Brain
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children - An Eagle in You Mind
Dub Tractor - Opiate & Dub Tractor Split EP - Clavinette
Almojabana - Tribu Ultravioleta
Plastina Mosh - Aquamosh - Ode To Mauricio Garces
Manu Chao - Casa Babylon - Señor Matanza
Da Lata - Pra Manha
Celia Vaz & Wanda Sah - Zanzibar
ENJOY AND STAY TUNED FOR MORE SOON !
Listening to music with headphones takes a different dimension.
That’s why I want to share my best experiences with listening discs with headphones.
My top would be :
- DJ Krush - Kakusei
- Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
- Opiate - While you were sleeping
- Company Flow - Little Johnny from the hospital
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddies
- Tim Hecker - Harmony in ultraviolet
- Subdub - Jihad
- Steve Reich - Different trains
- Dose One - Slow death
- Fila Brazilla - Black market gardening
- Req - Sketches
- Pole - 3
- Gridlock - Live traces
- Sofa Surfer - Cargo
- The Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole
- Autechre - EP7
Another music recommendation.
This time it’s about cutting, taping and looping cuts of audio tapes to make experimental music.
I got my hands on 2 albums of The Loop Orchestra : Not Overtly Orchestral and The Analogue Years.
It sounds really warm but weird at the same time. If you like experimental music, then this is definitely some albums to listen to !!