Create Digital Music » YouTube Roundup: Album Leaf, Lego Breakbeats, DJ with 45s, Museum of Techno

Oct 16 2006

YouTube Roundup: Album Leaf, Lego Breakbeats, DJ with 45s, Museum of Techno

In celebration of Google’s acquisition of YouTube, CDM’s Adrian Anders has rounded up some of the best YouTube videos, from more Museum of Techno madness to mashups with legos, DJing with 45s, and behind the scenes of music production with Album Leaf.

First, some musical inspiration:

Anders: The Album Leaf - Making The Album “Into The Blue Again”, featuring Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv on the beats. A really cool look into the creative process for one indie, electronic music influenced band.

Kirn: This band has really been one of my favorites of the year, between Eustis, a detailed attention to sound, and generally creative music making on acoustic, analog, and digital instruments. And I wish I could mix records in Iceland.

Anders: Binarwiese - A crazy Lego Breakbeat mashup.

Kirn: Legos strike strike again.

Anders: 45king… nuff said.

Kirn: Yeah, I don’t get these people who spin LPs. Darn kids with their new-fangled technologies. All about the 45s.

Anders: ……..WTF?!?!?!?!

Kirn: Start drinking the sherry — total drunken chaos in one of the best clips from the insane guys at Museum of Techno. If you’ve ever wondered if you could watch a YouTube clip and feel drunk, this should answer your question. Oh, and there’s something about recording drum loops. Maybe. Parts I and II:

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5 Comments

WarpedEye

And after watching the Museum of Techno clips, I’m now recieving horrid looks from my girlfriend, probably for the insane giggling coming out of my mouth that won’t stop.

Brilliant!
Thanks, guys!

October 16, 2006 @ 2:09 pm

Michael Una

oh man, that lego breakbeat was out of control. Reminds me of Aphex Twin’s “On” but way faster.

October 16, 2006 @ 5:51 pm

endekks

If you like that style of music in the LEGO bit, you should check out the labels Renegade Hardware, Barcode, Outbreak and maybe a little PeaceOff (cause you gotta give some love to kid606’s breakcore friends) or the newer Planet Mu stuff. There are other labels, of course, but seeing as how Exile is even on Mu…. Well… You get the idea.

Anyway, you’d have better results finding this sound if you called it techstep instead of breakbeat, as it’s more drum’n'bass than anything else.

October 16, 2006 @ 10:07 pm

Rozling

There’s a great Firefox plugin for saving YouTube videos called Ook? Video Ook! which integrates with DownThemAll. If you’re still stuck on dialup you can collect videos in work/about & watch ‘em at home!