Comments on: Jamie Lidell “Remixes” the Nintendo DSi; How About DSiTracker in an App Store?

By: Drix

Drix — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:16:46 +0000

I love Jamie Lidell, and good or not, i hope this vid creates a spark on making more music apps on the DSi. It has huge potential!

The Korg DS-10 is great fun, and I hope more will follow soon. Only have the DSi, and i love it.

By: David

David — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:35:16 +0000

The only problem with nitro tracker right now is that it cannot read from slot-2 ram. I cant wait fopr a DSi compatable ver. though.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:57:09 +0000

@ Johnnyfive…. While I too can appreciate looseness, slop, and even chaos in electronic music, this seems jarring by design (and not in the usually cool “warp records” way).
Why would Nintendo get behind something so generally unpleasant?

Hate to be a Jamie Lidell anti-fanboy, but the guy was a real piss-gums when I did his sound at a radio venue in Philly 2 years ago; hostile sound-check, lax load-out, kept pushing levels into the board hot, and said ugly things to the crew. He may have a sweet voice, but he’s got a SOUR vibe.

By: fallafel

fallafel — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:45:04 +0000

it’s so bad that it’s cool.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:39:49 +0000

Well, yeah, exactly. I think it’s good fun. It’s just musical candy, and I think JL has the right to make some of that now and then. It’s obviously got a sense of humor. And, frankly, it *is* possible to create some fun mobile apps that would let you mess around in this way, even if the current DSi app doesn’t.

By: jonnyfive

jonnyfive — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:30:45 +0000

Well i think this is just awesome, fake or not. Maybe I’m a little bit of a fanboy, but I think you all need to give JL some credit here: He’s a master technician, and maybe you don’t like some of the aesthetic decisions hes made here, but I would wager that the falling apart loops, cutting out, and “sloppy” sample playback are choices or possibly actual(or maybe even artificially exaggerated/manufactured) technical shortcomings of the app hes supposedly using. But I love looseness in electronic music, so much of it, imo, is over quantized, and like I said I’m biased by years of admiration.

By: Dan Gillespie

Dan Gillespie — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:04:04 +0000

Yeah, sorry Peter, I’m usually with you, but this is the supreme corn.

It’s really a shame too, because I’m really into the idea of gaming platform as legitimate (read: not hacked) music creation too. I think if this is their only ad for this it will turn a lot of people off.

OTOH, Wii music looked pretty lame too.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:09:16 +0000

Disclaimer: I may have been hopped up on Dr. Pepper when I wrote this / jealous of the nonexistent imaginary app he isn’t using. ;)

By: peter

peter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:44:19 +0000

Boo on Mario Coins sounds forever.

By: Tom Carter

Tom Carter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:51:28 +0000

ugghh – what a massacre of his own track. he is like the alan partridge of funk…

and why is it sooooooooo long?