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AngelBreaks headlines the launch of SNAP, Nottingham
by Tom on Nov.16, 2009, under Reviews
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A Reimagining of the Stylophone
by Tom on Nov.06, 2009, under Top 5
Everyone’s favourite obsolete instrument, the Stylophone, has been launched into the 21st Century with the introduction of its BeatBoxing younger brother - The Stylophone BeatBox. I know I shouldn’t but christ I want one.
See video for a performance by the world’s preeminent Stylophone BeatBoxers.
Some maths:-
Stylophone + Beatboxing + two creepy northerners + House of Pain = Inexplicably cool.
Review: Buraka Som Sistema ‘Restless’
by Tom on Nov.05, 2009, under Reviews
For those who of you who read the AngelBreaks blog regularly you will know how big a fan I am of Lisbon’s Buraka Som Sistema. For those of you who don’t, you are in for a real treat because having barely recovered from their very excellent album, Black Diamond, and a summer of critically acclaimed sensory overloading live shows, they have only gone and dropped a gem of a single on us. Your education can start here.
AngelBreaks Fantasy Festival
by Tom on Nov.04, 2009, under News
Sony Audio Europe have this week launched a Fantasy Festival game based on the successful model of fantasy football but inspired by the brand’s passion for music and sound.
It is an entirely digital campaign and via its partnership with Last.FM it asks users to put together their ultimate festival line-up, which is then scored according to their acts real life popularity, i.e. online activity.
AngelBreaks has decided to indulge and you see can our festival line-up in the picture above and here. We have gone more with our heads than our hearts, (although we really are secret Cheryl Cole fans,) in a bid for not only the many prizes on offer, but of course the glory also. How can the holy musical triumvirate of MJ, Justice and Daft Punk fail us?!
My only cricitism of the website is that there isn’t an option to navigate through the leagues of available artists. When our budget was starting to get very stretched after dropping a bomb on the ubiquitous Kings of Leon, it would have been great to file through a list of the artists that we could afford, instead of having to search blindly.
Nonetheless, we are very excited about the prospect of this campaign and we encourage you to get involved. It is running for the next six months and hopefully we will see you at the summit of our digital festival superstardom!
Seriously Easy Going
by Tom on Oct.28, 2009, under News
Malibu has managed to digitally hybridise the art of DJing with the art of cocktail making as part of their new marketing project, Radio Maliboom Boom. They have created an app which is an interactive mixer interface, allowing users to mix cocktail recipes with corresponding beats. With the use of EQs and faders you can even finesse the 85 flavours/sounds into your own unique compositions.
