Roglok Live
Anyone in the area: Get there! I will bring my 303 and some drummachines and play stuff from my latest album…
Out Of Disorder
What the guys from upitup say about “Out of Disorder”:
“With his second album Roglok releases yet another insane masterpiece. It seems that the kid who designed our website has not only found his own sound (we call it hobby) but also brought it to perfection: gummy acid basslines over punchy dancefloor beats, that ridiculous melody you can’t get out of your head, some gabber and techno. His legendary set at Picknick in Berlin turned the place upside down and made the hipsters lose their aloofness. You just have to dance! Out Of Disorder finally puts an end to waiting for new Roglok stuff after Radetzky March 303 got us hungry last year. Hasi is not the only one who calls it a ‘Brett’ (ace), cause this is the freshest shit you can get anywhere!”
Download a zip file of this release and discover loads of other phresh and free music at Upitup Records.
Cover
Interview for “Yomu Ongaku”
Masayuki who is running the music forest blog interviewed me about Upitup Records and the future of the music industry. The interview was published in the book Yomu Ongaku (Reading Music) made by J-Core producer DJ Technorch. “Yomu Ongaku” is written in japanese and limited to 300 copies - unfortunately I couldn’t get a printed specimen. Below you can download the english version.
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Yomu Ongaku interview (1,5 MB, japanese)Yomu Ongaku interview (4 KB, english)
Scans
Isocloud 3000 Type
Extra bold and bubbly but at the same time readable and demure, the monospaced Isocloud 3000 type works well for cuddly headlines with a feminine touch or silver piece graffiti bombings.
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Isocloud 3000 (Win TT/Open Type TT)
Aquabon UMR
I have built a custom enclosure for the highlyliquid universal MIDI retrofit. The i/o connections are exported to a DB-25 connector – this allows a variety of keyboards to be used with the box after a DIP switch adjustment. Pictured is my Casio Rapman keyboard, ready to receive triggers.
Psychoactive Wallpapers
Back by popular demand (as featured on Rhizome), my flickering little demo of psychoactive GIF wallpapers. See the RGB Arrowz background implemented on my my myspace site.
“This is just the type of thing to push you over the edge to insanity after programming for 15 hours straight…” Georg Kaindl from arbi.trario.us
Geekfont
The Geekfont is a monospace font using pure CSS, no images. With stylesheets deactivated, you’ll see plain HTML text. The characterset is a bit limited (each sprite is just 6×3 squares), but the most important stuff is there. There are only 9 CSS classes but a lot of <span> tags wrapping the characters. Try it out and don’t forget to take a peek at the source code!
Icon Collection
A selection of GIF-icons I made for an application that has sadly never been realised. Feel free to spread these on the web and use them on your homepage as I don’t want them to go mouldy on my harddrive.
700|_71|\/|3
I wrote a little essay about authenticity in contemporary creative production which was published in the great book Shake Your Tree #3 by cool guys Manuel Bürger, Sebastian Haslauer and Florian Bayer.
APC
My take on the popular 555 timer based “Atari Punk Console”. I guess these jam-packed units are amongst the smallest APC’s that have been built so far. The black one went to Pierlo as a gift. This is a great way to get started with DIY audio electronics. Schematics for a 556 (2x 555 in one package) version can be found here.
