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A little-known Nintendo DS piano peripheral meets homebrew sound
Switch 2, sure, but — have you plugged a tiny piano into a Nintendo DS and used some powerful homebrew software and custom scripts to make a handheld experimental music instrument?
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Happy 20th to Imogen Heap’s Speak for Yourself
Imogen Heap is always up to exciting new things, but let’s take a moment to celebrate 20 years ago. Her landmark Speak for Yourself turns 20, and it’s getting. a proper part with a vinyl release (at last), a remaster, and even the chance to listen to “Hide and Seek” in Spatial Audio on Apple Music. Good timing, too: the TikTok generation has made “Headlock” a surprise second smash from this album. Now the full record gets a second life.
1996 peak Microsoft chillwave: if you heard it at all, you only heard it once
Move over, Brian Eno. “Velkommen” by Stan LePard is 90s Microsoft chillwave at its best. But like catching a fleeting glimpse of Brigadoon, for many years this song was heard over Microsoft installations and then lost to time–until passionate fans archived it for the ages. Even if that happened before you were born, you owe it to yourself to experience the supreme calm that only this track can bring.
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