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Ze Frank : Making music with your pain

Ze Frank asked his extended community to leave voice mail describing their pain & suffering. Then he asked some DJ’s and audio freaks to convert those voicemails into a set of percussive, loopy & twisted samples. Now he’s asking you to make music with these 60+ MB of sounds…

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Completely absurd music education record

Thus begins this fairly hillarious set of five tracks from an oldskool (elementary school?) music education record. Ten years ago, I used one of these samples to launch an epic drum ‘n’ bass DJ set up on top of a mesa in northern New Mexico. Hope you find some good use for these too.

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Robotic cats and dogs, oh my!

These weird quotes come from an even weirder story on NPR about robotic seals.

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