This is the web magazine for all things cool. Instead of scouring the earth for brains and going to school, our team of zombies spend most of their time probing the internet in search of the totally awesome. It is our mission, sent to us by Jebus himself, to create a collection of cool products, interesting news, and other distractions from life all into one unique place. Tell your life that you’ll brb… lolz
Manic developed a passion for music at a young age. In 1986, he received three cassette tapes for his seventh birthday that changed his life forever. Two of the three were Hip Hop artists LL Cool J and Salt N Peppa. Manic was instantly hooked on this new style of music and began collecting as much as he could find. Two years later, he moved with his family to upstate New York where his obsession with Hip Hop grew even stronger. Over the next ten years he was exposed to the present-day legends of Hip Hop including Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions and EPMD. By 1997, Manic could no longer just listen to the music but felt the need to contribute in some form. Since he could not afford a sampler or turntables, Manic began to teach himself to scratch using an all-in-one unit that included a double tape deck, radio and turntable on top. With only one record, which he found in an alley, Manic would scratch over various Hip Hop and instrumentals played through a boom box. In 2002, Manic wasfinally ready to take the next step in furthering his skills by purchasing an MPC sampler. Fast-forward to 2007 and we see the release of Manic’s debut EP aptly titled 1986 on Summer Rain Recordings. Many have already compared his songs to the likes of Dj Shadow, Bonobo and Dj Krush, which Manic takes in stride. “Those guys are incredible at what they do and any comparisons are a stretch in my opinion but very flattering regardless. I just want to make music that I like and hopefully it will hit people the way Public Enemy or De La Soul hit me.” In his spare time, Manic works for Beatz, a non-profit organization that teaches inner city and disadvantaged youth how to dj and make music using turntables and samplers. Beatz is located in the San Francisco bay area where Manic has made his home for the past two years. Check out the tunes on his MySpace page here!
Frig you Apple for making such a sweet product like the iPod/Phone but then forcing us to use your crappy white headphones. Here is an adapter that will let you use any type of headphone you wish with your iPod/Phone. “Headphone adapter extends iPhone recessed headphone jack, allowing you to use any 3.5mm stereo headset. This adapter is custom designed for the iPhone, ensuring a perfect fit.”
Developed over four years by renowned British designer Lee McCormack, the McLaren Formula One™ racing team, computer interface designers, and yacht builders, this is the most complete and distinctly personalized lounging oasis in the world, allowing you to safely and serenely shut out the world with the perfect levels of lighting, sound, seating, and privacy you select. This private relaxation theater is handmade of fiberglass and integrates advanced audio, visual, seating, and environment technologies, as well as your choice of Macintosh or PC computer, to create a space that allows you to relax completely. The Oculas has an electronic door that closes silently at a touch, coccooning a sitter inside the well-lit interior.
The optional built-in massage chair accommodates a single person and has four settings from light to vigorous. An integral surround-sound system provides clear audio and the flat-panel video screen allows you to watch your favorite DVDs, or you can connect a video game console. The screen can also connect to the Internet for music and video downloading. All functions are controlled by an interactive touch screen.
Check it out- a new noise maker! The Kaossilator Touchpad Synthesizer. It allows you to move your finger around the touchpad and create beautiful music. It can also by used like a drum machine so you can make some cool beats whilst tapping and rubbing the Kaossilator’s pad. This portable hand held unit’s got tons of loops, samples, drums, noises, and sound effects like the ever famous sound effects from laser blasts and even Pac Man noises. Runs on AA batteries and has stereo outputs as well as headphone jack. Its cheap too, at only $200.00 from Think Geek.
“You can put everything to good use with the built-in loop recording feature which lets you layer virtually unlimited tracks to create complex songs combining lead instruments, drum beats and sound effects together.”
“There’s a reason that professional guitarists, from rock to country, continue to use tube amplifiers from Fender, Marshall and Vox, even though solid-state electronics have replaced tubes in every other audio application. That’s because nothing can duplicate the warmth, the harmonic richness and the pure tone of tube-based circuitry. For a sonic revelation, plug your iPod into our Vintage Amplifier/Charger, sit back with the included remote, and browse through your playlists.” Features a rugged steel chassis finished in gloss piano black and includes a massive power transformer, and 3 multi-plate vacuum tubes protected in a removable, ventilated cage.
Buy one for $800 from Herrington’s online catalog.
Art.Lebedev is a pretty cool design company. The set consists of two speakers and a subwoofer and is the ideal accessory for your Mac (or PC, if you are into that sort of thing) These look awesome by themselves, so imagine how cool they will look next to your computer!
Check these stats out: Nominal impedance: 8 Ohm; Nominal output power of subwoofer: 15 Watt, speakers—2 × 5 Watt; Peak output power of speakers: 15 Watt; Frequency range of subwoofer: 50–250 Hz, speakers—200 Hz–18 kHz; Signal-to-noise ratio: 80 dB.
Get ripped off when you buy them here for 120 bucks. But buy them here and save 50. (not fiddy)
“Wreck the decks (or something like that) and create your very own pro-standard mixes directly from your PC with this USB-friendly mixing deck - no vinyl required. Seriously hi-tech yet completely idiot-proof, the all-new iCue USB Mixing Station is quite simply da bomb!”
This little unit is unfortunately PC only (= weak)
Pick on up here for US$247.00
Some features include:
-USB control surface
-Bass, mid, and treble controls
-CUE LE software with automatic beat matching
-DJ-style crossfader
The Artificial Sea is a collaboration between Kevin C. Smith and Alina Simone in which her impassioned vocals and impressionistic lyrics are set to his bedroom soundscapes and melodies. Embracing a spectrum of sounds and techniques including vintage synthesizers and drum machines, obscure samples and found sound, circuit bent creations and homemade electronics, as well as good old guitar, bass, and drums, these disparate strains are all tied together with a restrained aesthetic and fearless beauty. Recorded almost entirely at home they have rejected over-production (for aesthetic as well as practical reasons) and instead welcome any rough edges as integral to the work. The result is at once pleasing and unsettling, comforting and tense. Kevin and Alina write their parts in isolation and usually have little to no say in what the other does. Despite this isolationism (and a virtual lack of common musical touchstones) their individual contributions combine to form a cohesive, organic whole. Their first alum City Island found a home on France’s excellent Travelling Music and a follow up is currently underway. Check out some of their tunes as well as some cool videos on myspace.
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This is the web magazine for all things cool. Instead of scouring the earth for brains and going to school, our team of zombies spend most of their time probing the internet in search of the totally awesome. It is our mission, sent to us by Jebus himself, to create a collection of cool products, interesting news, and other distractions from life all into one unique place.
Tell your life that you'll brb... lolz
Frig you Apple for making such a sweet product like the iPod/Phone but then forcing us to use your crappy white headphones. Here is an adapter that will let you use any type of headphone you wish with your iPod/Phone. “Headphone adapter extends iPhone recessed headphone jack, allowing you to use any 3.5mm stereo headset. This adapter is custom designed for the iPhone, ensuring a perfect fit.”
Developed over four years by renowned British designer Lee McCormack, the McLaren Formula One™ racing team, computer interface designers, and yacht builders, this is the most complete and distinctly personalized lounging oasis in the world, allowing you to safely and serenely shut out the world with the perfect levels of lighting, sound, seating, and privacy you select. This private relaxation theater is handmade of fiberglass and integrates advanced audio, visual, seating, and environment technologies, as well as your choice of Macintosh or PC computer, to create a space that allows you to relax completely. The Oculas has an electronic door that closes silently at a touch, coccooning a sitter inside the well-lit interior.
“Wreck the decks (or something like that) and create your very own pro-standard mixes directly from your PC with this USB-friendly mixing deck - no vinyl required. Seriously hi-tech yet completely idiot-proof, the all-new iCue USB Mixing Station is quite simply da bomb!”
