AIAIAI @ The NAMM Show 2013

AIAIAI @ The NAMM Show 2013

This year we'll be hosting a booth at NAMM, so swing by and meet the AIAIAI team. During our stay we'll be unveiling our latest collaboration with a man who needs no introduction, but will get one anyway: Jay-Z's legendary sound engineer and music director, Young Guru, is our new partner in crime and we have exciting things in store. Come by our booth for a drink, to meet Young Guru and to learn more about the TMA-1 universe. We're also hosting a little soiree with our friends from Teenage engineering. More specifically, it's a Stones Throw Records showcase with support from OBEY Records Radio, which effectively means that you'll have to drop all prior engagements and excuses to party down on Friday the 25th.

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The Vyclone Sharing App

The Vyclone Sharing App

Shooting an iPhone video with your friends just got a lot more interesting. Say hello to Vyclone - a social video creation, collaboration, and sharing app for iOS.

Dyskograph: The Graphic Disc Reader that lets You Draw Music

Dyskograph: The Graphic Disc Reader that lets You Draw Music

Here's a mesmerizing installation that invites visitors to draw on a disc with a felt tip pen, which is then translated into a musical sequence to rather startling effects.

Dunkel Radio Interviews Distal

Najaaraq caught the rising, Atlanta-based producer Distal on Skype for a chat about his religious upbringing and falling in love with the rave.

Soundtrip by Soundvenue Featuring Tomas Barfod

Soundtrip by Soundvenue Featuring Tomas Barfod

Tomas barfod, the versatile creative and intrepid AIAIAI product developer, found the time to participate in this rather interesting project that gave him a challenge: make a track in 24 hours, using a car and a modest selection of gear, which (not so coincidentally) happened to include the TMA-1 Studio.

New Levon Vincent Mix for Little White Earbuds

New Levon Vincent Mix for Little White Earbuds

Oh Levon. Is there any better way to enter the new year than with a mix from your hand? Back in 2010, you and the now defunct mnmlssgs blog rang in the new year with an exquisite mix of house and techno of the finest kind. Now, you're doing it all over again!

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AIAIAI Live: Shabazz Palaces @ Loppen

We went to Loppen to check out Sub Pop artists THEEsatisfaction and the mighty Shabazz Palaces who played at this stellar CPH:DOX Event. Thanks to CPH:DOX for setting us up and letting us in.

Fredagsbar Featuring Tomas Barfod (DJ set) - Today at 5pm

Now that everyone's had ample time to get over New Year's Eve, we thought it was high time to get back into the swing of things with a Friday bar. Dive headfirst into 2013 with Tomas Barfod on the decks and free Red stripes for all.

Black Magic Boman

Black Magic Boman

Posted in Music by Emil

I got to know Axel Boman a few years ago in Berlin and we have kept contact ever since. Besides being a great producer and DJ, he is a decent guy with a very sympathetic outlook on the world – and he loves eating hotdogs in Christiania. Adorable!

DâM-Funk Releases a New Drum Machine in Collaboration with Stones Throw

DâM-Funk Releases a New Drum Machine in Collaboration with Stones Throw

The nifty/quirky handheld music device you never knew you that you desperately needed. Dam-Drum is a handheld drum machine and sequencer with four unique sounds selected by Dâm Funk, the undisputed king of iridescently smooth electro-funk. This is a collaboration with Stones Throw and Bleep Labs, who designed and built the drum in Austin, Texas and it does look a treat.

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An Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday Things

An Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday Things

If any and all objects could be used as a musical instrument what would you choose to rock the world with? A Ninja Turtles action figure? A slice of Roquefort cheese? That may sound a bit weird, but it’s actually a very real possibility as interaction designer Dennis P Paul has created this amazing contraption that scans surfaces of objects and transforms them into audible, rhythmic frequencies.

Pixelife on Post-minimalism

Pixelife on Post-minimalism

Throne of Blood's Pixelife muses on the genre that shaped his formative years from Steve Reich to William Basinski, resulting in a choice little read and an excellent introduction to post-minimalist music.

Re: Sound Bottle

Re: Sound Bottle

One of the coolest object I’ve seen in 2013 so far is this. Re: Sound Bottle is an automatic remixing object that can record all given sounds and then automatically remix them into a music beat. Just pull the cork off the bottle, make or find some sounds to record, and this magical little bottle turns it into music!

Dunkel Radio's Guide to Paris

Dunkel Radio's Guide to Paris

As an electronic music lover visiting Paris, these are the 3 must-go-to places in town.

Kúra - Follow Your Heart

Kúra - Follow Your Heart

Kristian made a dope video for Kúra and he'd like to tell you about it. Take it away, Kristian.

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Video From the AIAIAI x Acrylick Backyard Boogie Featuring The Pharcyde

That's right, we hooked up with Acrylick for a Backyard Boogie. But this particular boogie was no ordinary boogie as it featured the totally and utterly amazing hip hop legends from the Pharcyde!

The AIAIAI Best of 2012 Playlist

From hip hop to horror-step, goth to Grimes, trap to techno, rock to rave and so on and so forth, here’s a list of the best in show from 2012. It’s been another righteous year for music and it’s only fair that we share the major players and remarkable rhyme-sayers that filled the AIAIAI airwaves. Those who enter 2013, we salute you with the AIAIAI Best of 2012 Playlist!

Brandt Brauer Frick's New Album, 'Miami'

Brandt Brauer Frick's New Album, 'Miami'

Brandt Brauer Frick's forthcoming album should not be slept on says Emil.

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Interview: Henrik Vibskov

Interview: Henrik Vibskov

Posted in Art by Kristian

The last blog interview of 2012 is an interesting one. Kristian caught up with the multitalented, creative phenomenon Henrik Vibskov for a quick chat about his inspirations, his business and fast-tracking between creative disciplines.

Quantum Stealth: Has Canada Invented a Real, Functioning Invisibility Cloak?

Quantum Stealth: Has Canada Invented a Real, Functioning Invisibility Cloak?

Quantum Stealth! The name sounds like a 007 weapon made by Q. This device is a piece of cloth reminding us of the magical invisibility cloak Harry Potter uses to visually disappear when he hides behind it. It's a garment that renders whatever it covers invisible. In this context Q’s name is Cramer and owner of the Canadian company called Hyperstealth. He claims to have developed this magical camouflage material that works “by bending light waves around the target.”

Label Spot: Nsyde Music

Label Spot: Nsyde Music

Nsyde Music is a Berlin-based label aiming to bring together different electronic genres with one similarity – it’s ‘deeper soul’. Releasing timeless pure house & techno from some of the finest names in the business including New Yorker Fred P of Soul People Music and Underground Quality fame, Japan’s current #1 producer Imugem Orihasam and Denmark’s’ own Samuel André Madsen, Nsyde are on a roll. Dunkel Radio’s Daniel Bruhn Jensen had a chat with head honcho Richard Zepezauer.

Video from the Core77 Designer's Pop-Up Store at Blu Dot New York

This December, Core77 curates and produces a unique pop-up store in New York City that embodies the creative designer community, and our Capitals are the exclusively featured headphone.

A Series of Impossible Human Sculptures Embodying the Human Spirit

A Series of Impossible Human Sculptures Embodying the Human Spirit

- by the team at the Universal Everything design studio. Check out how a Tai-Chi master’s flowing movements are rendered in digital form through a series of fantastical, moving, digital sculptures. It’s delicious, regenerative eye-candy posted to brighten up your Monday.

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Friday ACID Post # 18

Friday ACID Post # 18

It’s been a good long while hasn’t it, acid fiends? This Friday in December it’s time to get down on a full-on educational tip as we give you an old, acid house mini-documentary that provides you with a good indication of just how befuddled grown ups were by this whole acid house malarchy.

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Emil's Where to ho ho ho

Emil's Where to ho ho ho

Tartelet's main geezer sheds a knowing light on the weekend in Berlin. If you like clubbing and you're in Berlin from Thursday - Sunday, this is the one blog post you must read right this minute. Take it away, Emil.

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AIAIART: The Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Scholarship Prize

AIAIART: The Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Scholarship Prize

In which Hans went to take some memorable photos of the three winners of this year's prestigious art prize. Take it away, Hans.

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AIAIAI Australia Presents: Luke Slater/ Planetary Assault Systems

AIAIAI Australia Presents: Luke Slater/ Planetary Assault Systems

Hard at work and wasting no time during the Australian summer, the Aussie division of AIAIAI are cooking up big things in the fair city of Melbourne.

Video from Ghostly International’s AIAIAI-supported takeover at Odin New York

It’s always a pleasure to collaborate with our discerning pals from Ghostly International. Not only are they one of the world’s best record labels, they’ve also gradually evolved into multi-armed powerhouse of style, art and design with notables like Sougwen Chung, Matt Shlian and Charles Bergquist on their expanding roster of visual artists. Check out the video that features a variety of Ghostly tidbits, a few AIAIAI headphones and merry New Yorkers getting it on.

Dunkel Radio's Mini-guide to Hamburg

Dunkel Radio's Mini-guide to Hamburg

As an electronic music lover passing through Hamburg, there are at least 2 places you must check out.

The iPhone Poet

The iPhone Poet

Posted in Art by Ulrik

We asked our young, talented friend, Anton to make us a video that touched on the theme of sound and was relevant to what we do. This yielded a mini documentary about a young, Drake-loving, Copenhagen-based poet who poses poignant, intelligent questions about authenticity and his role in a social media-saturated technological reality where the notion of self is becoming an increasingly fragmented and elusive idea.