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Jeff Harrington
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Radiohead Nude 8 Bit, Harddrives and Printer Remix
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM
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A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
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RE: Radiohead Nude 8 Bit Harddrives and Printer Re
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 10:49 AM
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Absolutely great video/remix!
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Radiohead Nude 8 Bit Harddrives and Printer Re
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM
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Notes from James Houston
Video by James Houston
jim@1030.co.uk
Digg this at:
http://digg.com/music/Radiohead_s_Nud...
Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
Thanks to Afrotech and Dr Roland Shregle (ganjatron)
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Subtronik
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RE: Radiohead Nude 8 Bit Harddrives and Printer Re
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 5:33 PM
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Love the concept, don't love the sound 
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
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RE: Radiohead Nude 8 Bit Harddrives and Printer Re
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 5:53 PM
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Subtronik wrote:Love the concept, don't love the sound
I like that... "Conceptually, you rock, it's just..."
I'm not familiar with the orig - but I like the idea around the contest and this person's insane cover version. How the heck did he do that?!?
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Jeff Harrington
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RE: Radiohead Nude 8 Bit Harddrives and Printer Re
Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 1:34 PM
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On a similar note:
Hardware ruleZ! Fuck software! 
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