David Hughes

Blogger To The Gentry Since 2003

Tag: music

OMD’s Design Manifesto

Efficient, logical, effective and practical. Using all resources to the best of our abilities. Changing, designing, adapting our mentalities. Improving our abilities for a better way of life. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Genetic Engineering

Orbital & Matt Smith At Glastonbury

Matt Smith joins Orbital on stage at Glastonbury 2010 to perform Doctor? I love how Matt drops into character and that you can hear him chuckling with glee as he joins Orbital. My daughter, a budding Dr Who fan, loved this and was most upset the BBC doesn’t use it as their TV title music. [...]

New Music From Underworld

Never mind all that election malarkey - Underworld have released their first live music in two and a half years, and it’s available free from Underworldlive until May 20th. Underworldlive describe Scribble as “a gene-splice between Yellow Magic Orchestra and Grooverider blasting out over the dancefloor at Fabric on a Friday night”. I was more than [...]

Rjd2 : Work It Out

I love this video featuring Bill Shannon who you may have seen in the recent Visa advert.

Beautiful Ceramic Speakers

These ceramic speakers are just beautiful. Designed by Joey Roth and created using simple materials including cork, aluminium, cast iron and of course ceramic they are wonderfully minimal and stylish. Whilst their form is beautiful their function is of equal importance: Typical speakers are designed to play even the most compressed or poorly recorded track. [...]

OK GO : One Take Wonder

I’m sure we all remember OK Go’s viral video sensation for Here It Goes Again otherwise known as “that cool treadmill video“. Well Ok Go have been at it again with not one but two great videos for their new song This Too Shall Pass. What’s interesting is that both videos are one shot videos: [...]