SelfCtrl – Blog: Archive

Beat Mining with the Vinyl Hoover →

Broadcaster Toby Amies digs into the archives to discover the value and significance of old vinyl. He uncovers a network of dealers and buyers, supplying a community of ‘crate diggers’ and ‘beat miners’ and a world in which samples from records bought for a few pence in a car boot sale can provide the basis for a million-selling hit.

Mar 31st

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Mar 30th

Tebay Services | Westmorland →

As a veteran of the motorway service station I never dreamed that something like this place existed. The best ever motorway services ever. All produce locally sourced, independently/family owned, beautifully designed and maintained and best of all reasonably priced. Made four tired artists very happy on their drive back from Edinburgh.

Mar 30th

“Come back to ours, you’ll get all six balls and the bonus ball!”

– Simon Peplow

Mar 28th

This is the internet alright →

I’m sure many people reading this page are thinking ‘Wait a minute, is this the internet?’ well the answer to that my friend is a resounding YES! you are infact reading the internet this very second.

Mar 27th

Mar 25th

How to Sync iPhone with multiple computers →

In order to sync your iPhone with multiple computers you always had to “erase” one iTunes library and sync with another, no longer! Thanks to Andrew Grant at Shiny Things who create a step by step instruction for syncing your iPhone with multiple computers and giving you full manual control on how you want to organize your iPhone music between multiple iTunes libraries.

Mar 25th

Mar 22nd

“it’s finally time to take IE6 behind the shed and shoot it.”

– Bring Down IE 6

Mar 20th

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Mar 20th

Daft Punk Console →

Just wasted 10 minutes bashing my keyboard and pretending I was wearing a robot suit.

Mar 15th

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Make Us Laugh! →

I say, I say I say … For every jocular comment posted on this thread today, we’ll send a £5 donation over to Comic Relief. So send us your funnies, or not as the case may be. We can be the judge of that. In the spirit of the event, sarcastic comments about other peoples’ gags count. Go on, dig into your inner Tarbuck.

Mar 13th

Intua Beatmaker →

BeatMaker is a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn the iPod into a unique, inspirational software instrument.

Mar 12th