Interview: Jesper Kouthoofd from Teenage Engineering

The OP-1 synthesizer is now available in our webstore! Same goes for the PX-0 earphones made to match the OP-1 that we designed in collaboration with Teenage Engineering. To mark this joyous occasion, we caught up with Jesper for a chat about the OP-1 synth and the current state of music technology.

New Joakim Video is filled with hot Chicks and weird-looking Dudes.

New Joakim Video is filled with hot Chicks and weird-looking Dudes.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

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The Weekend starts Early

The Weekend starts Early

Lush new mix by Ghostly International's Moderna AKA Missy Livingston

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Interview: Tom Trago

Interview: Tom Trago

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The rising, Dutch house fiend talks about the future of house and his latest collaboration with Bok Bok from the Night Slugs label.

All-consuming Amsterdam

All-consuming Amsterdam

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The AIAIAI crew went to Amsterdam for the launch of the new Fool’s Gold limited edition TMA-1. We talked to Red Light Radio, held a launch party with the beautiful people at Precinct 5, drank ourselves silly, got down like funky robots on the floor of the Melkweg club and took pictures of it.

Arne Jacobsen's House of the Future: Origins of the Flat Screen TV

Arne Jacobsen's House of the Future: Origins of the Flat Screen TV

Don’t press us on the sordid details, but we happen to be in the interesting and privileged position of sitting on documents that contain Arne Jacobsen drawings called ‘House of the Future’. Produced in 1932, a few years after the original House of the Future was designed, these documents display comprehensive drawings of what we’re quite certain has to be the world’s first flat screen TV.

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Monkey Business

Monkey Business

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The eclecticist bass assassins in Modeselektor drop their long-awaited album.

'Nothing Gold', the Latest Album by Joakim Out Today

'Nothing Gold', the Latest Album by Joakim Out Today

The head of Tigersushi records and all-around boss of experimental electro releases his fourth album. ‘Nothing Gold’ is a stylishly subdued affair that finds the versatile Frenchman in a singing mood.

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Theater of Dreams

Theater of Dreams

It’s amazing, spine-tinglingly wonderous and more than a little bit frightening: scientists can now record the images in your head - and they’re on the verge of being able to record your dreams.

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Around the World in Sixty Seconds Time Lapse - Wow-factor = 10.0

Around the World in Sixty Seconds Time Lapse - Wow-factor = 10.0

Shot from the ISS space station as it orbits the Earth at night, this NASA-produced time lapse film takes you around the world in a minute.

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Justice: They've Still Got It

Justice: They've Still Got It

Maybe it’s the untimely death of DJ Mehdi. It could also be the growing backlash on the hipster backlash. Whatever the case, our attention has suddenly been alerted to the fact that the latest Justice video ‘Audio, Video, Disco’ is pure French fire that puts the leather-clad Parisians back on the map. Yes, we're serious.

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Synth Britannia Documentary

Synth Britannia Documentary

Those kind, knowledgeable nerds at BBC Four have treated us to another life-affirmingly intense tour de force of seminal music with the documentary ’Synth Britannia’. Perfect for relaxing, Suntory times on the couch.

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Sci-fi Greenhouse

Sci-fi Greenhouse

This may not seem that amazing at first glance. But once you dig below the surface and consider the implications and possibilities of this Nasa-approved, Japanese technology it quickly becomes another matter.

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Happy Monday Post

Happy Monday Post

So it’s Monday, it’s raining and most of us here at the AIAIAI office have wet footwear and/or undergarments. Mondays sure can suck massive amounts of #&%**@. What we need is some kind of pick me up.

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Underground Landscapes

Underground Landscapes

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Legowelt Releases New Album - and It's Free!

If you’re not familiar with the sounds of mysterious, Dutch, synth-freak, Danny Wolfers, AKA Legowelt, now is the time to get better acquainted. He’s just put out a tight, new album that’ll make you dance and occasionally scratch your chin. In a housey, psychedelic sort of way. Quite surprisingly, you can now download the entire album for free.

New Iceage Video

New Iceage Video

Those snot-nosed, Danish punk brats from Iceage are at it again. For their latest single ‘You’re Blessed’ the Copenhageners used footage from their recent tour of the States to characteristically visceral effects.

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AI vs. AI = AI!

AI vs. AI = AI!

Okay, this is actually pretty interesting. Cornell Creative Machines Lab made their chatbot talk to itself and the outcome was a bizarre but somehow affecting discussion(?) about unicorns and God. And probing questions from chatbot B on whether or not chatbot A wants a real body.

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25 years of Trax Records: Compilation and Documentary DVD

25 years of Trax Records: Compilation and Documentary DVD

Very few contemporary dance music producers can claim that the output of Chicago-based label Trax hasn’t had some kind of effect on their sound.

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CALIFORNIA GAMES: AIAIAI & Drum Machine Party Get the Eff Down in Melbourne

CALIFORNIA GAMES: AIAIAI & Drum Machine Party Get the Eff Down in Melbourne

If we were filthy rich, the first thing we would do would be to get our butts on the first plane to Melbourne where AIAIAI Australia are hosting what looks set to be a grade-A get-down.

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"Less and More": Dieter Rams Exhibition at SFMOMA featuring the TMA-1

"Less and More": Dieter Rams Exhibition at SFMOMA featuring the TMA-1

Design geeks probably won’t be majorly surprised that we’re into design history, more specifically the design philosophy of the German design maverick, Dieter Rams.

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