Apr

24

The marvels of circuit bending at BeatPick.com: meet Cobol Pongide

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Probably few of our readers are familiar with the meaning of the term Circuit Bending. What it indicates is the process of creative short circuiting electronic devices. Over the past decade or so this has become a practice many musicians/electronic engineers have carried out on old Toy instruments and vintage gaming consoles, to often extraordinary effects.

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Homing in Italy, latest BeatPick.com signing Cobol Pongide is definitely one of the finest examples of what circuit bending can actually accomplish with the right mix of technical wizardry and musical taste. After two years of intense live activity, the “duo” (in truth the second member of the band is a toy robot!) have released their debut album “Musica per anziani cosmonauti” (lit. Music for old-aged cosmonauts), a magnificent blend of Eighties vintage sounds, toy chants and melodies, romatic nostalgia and electro-wave cavalcades. A work that truly deserves international attention and appraisal.

Amongst the many, many gimmicks and short circuited devices Cobol Pongide play we can surely list: educational keyboards [such as Bontempi, Casio, Chicco, etc]; gamiong consoles [such as Gameboy and Commodore 64]; self built electronic instruments [such as Casio_bol life generator, Biodrum, etc] that were born through the modifying of toy keyboards’ circuits. Check out these cool photos of some of his toys!

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Apr

2

Hot News: “Please Give” & the BeatPick chart

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We’re very proud at BeatPick.com to announce the closing of an exciting licensing deal involving three of our favourite artists, whose music is to be used in cult woman director Nicole Holocefner’s upcoming fifth film, entitled “Please Give“. Starring the likes of Catherine Keener (remember the bitchy office worker in Being John Malkovich?), Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall. The film is in post-production and scheduled for worldwide release before the summer.

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And BeatPick is incredibly happy to have helped three independent musicians reach the ears of worldwide cinema crowds: so hats off to the lyrical rampage of Bay Area Diva Keldamuzik (”Weight Up“, also featuring Lingo Starr, is the track to be featured), Hip Hop superproducer IZM (”Understand Why“, featuring T.O.C.) and long-time BeatPick artist and Japan resident Windcheater (”Apathetic“) for the excellent works worthy of a place on the big screen!

Also, we are getting in the first statistics from our new website, and would like to share with you our very own Top 20 chart of the most listened to tracks of our catalogue during the past month:

1.SOULAR “Tomorrow Never Comes“
2.JAMSONS NOOK “On Eden St“
3.DEF SHEPARD “Technique“
4.NELL BRYDEN “Goodbye“
5.REDCLOUD & DJ WISE “21 Jump Street“

6.ELEVENTH SUN “Federal“;   7. ALEXA WILKINSON “Lullaby Appetite“;   8. WHITEROOM “Barcelona“;   9. OHN “Any Way U Look at It“;   10. KABOOSE “Goin’ Outta Control“

11. Carl Moses “Crash“; 12. AndreaLoko “Ottobre Come Marzo“; 13. Sharif “You Are My Girl“; 14. Nell Bryden “Tonight“; 15. Olivia “Something Greater“; 16. WhiteRoom “Papillons“; 17. Alexa Wilkinson “Waterline“; 18. Ohn “While you were sleeping“; 19. Spit at Stars “Innocent Breathing“; 20. EgocentriX “Street Samurai“.

So what are you waiting for? Go and discover some of these hot tracks!