Stoned Ape Theory
Just remember folks, its just a theory.
Edited: January 5th, 2012
Hey there everyone, I don’t often review software,
but I have been using this program to combat RSI for a couple years.
As a producer, I am often sitting in front of the computer in the studio for many hours without a break. Some days I work many hours on the computer in a row, and other days my work is quite varied so I need a solution to keep an eye on my ergonomics while I get lost in my workflow. Enter Breakz, my Personal Ergonomic Assistant.
Breakz 5 used to be called MacBreakz and it is basically a program that reminds me to take regular breaks. While this may seem superfluous since I could just set a timer, the software actually monitors what sort of activity I am doing. This means that if I take a short break it will remove this from the time-to-next-break.
I have found that the program really suits my style since it monitors my keyboard and mouse use and suggests rest time regularly. It also suggests some great stretches that I can do any time.
Check out this software below:
Download the latest version of Breakz from the App Store
Edited: November 4th, 2011
Here is a track that was made by the Ottawa-based vocal duo Massaad + Garland and just released at the begining of March 2011 on the independent electronic label ATAM Productions
I’m a big fan of the vocoder sound so this one is an instant win but also worthy of attention is the instrumental version which doesnt have any of this vocal. A bit of history about the track: the music and percussion was originally made for last summer but for some reason or another it never got finished. This year a vocal was added and the whole thing was remixed and mastered giving you the following . . .
Buy the track now on CDBaby Massaad + Garland – Atmosphere (CDBaby)
Buy the track now on iTunes Massaad + Garland – Atmosphere (iTunes)
Preview it on Soundcloud
Atmosphere by ATAMProductions
Edited: March 21st, 2011
This has to be the greatest 8 bit brilliance I have ever heard.
Edited: October 4th, 2010

Like many music lovers I learned guitar when I was in high school. I saw my first music video showcasing some really hot licks and I instnatly fell in love; I needed to master those six strings.
Unfortunately it’s not as simple as getting your hands on the instrument. There is tuning, pracice and guitar lessons that all helped to get me off my feet.
I have taken many classes to improve my skill, but this one tiny product helped me imensely. If you want to take your guitar skills to the next level find out about the Pentatonic Primer by Clicking Here!
Edited: May 7th, 2010
By Alex Massaad
THE rumbling bass from the party animals next door need no longer keep you awake at night. Cheap and effective soundproofing can be yours in the shape of novel tiles made from latex and a few plastic buttons.
Low-frequency sounds, especially, seem to seep through most domestic walls. That’s because of their long wavelength, says Zhiyu Yang at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Kowloon. Bass sounds at 100 hertz have a wavelength of over 3 metres in air, “and several times longer in solids”, he says.
To block out all sound, buildings would need walls several metres thick. Now Yang and his team have developed soundproof panels made of latex and plastic buttons, that will do the job (Applied Physics Letters, DOI: 10.1063/1.3299007).
These noise-cancelling panels consist of a latex rubber membrane stretched over a 3-millimetre-thick rigid plastic grid of 1-centimetre-wide squares. In the middle of each square is a small, weighted, plastic button.
When sound waves hit the panel, the membrane and weighted buttons resonate at difference frequencies. “The inner part of the membrane vibrates in opposite phase to the outer region,” says Yang. That means the sound waves cancel each other out and no sound gets through.
Each weighted membrane only cancels out sound waves within a small band of frequencies. But changing the weight of the buttons alters the operational frequency, says Yang. By stacking five membranes together, each tuned to a specific band, you can create a soundproof panel that works in the range from 70 to 550 hertz.
With these panels you can soundproof homes, says Yang. And the panel’s weight is equivalent to ceramic bathroom tiles, “although it’s slightly thicker at 15 millimetres”, he adds.
The panels could be used “in noisy environments such as airports”, says Xuanlai Fang at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. “If these metamaterials can be manufactured economically, the impact can be very significant.”
Edited: February 27th, 2010
I’ve been listening to this for a long time now, and I really love this song. While this zippyshare download isn’t a release quality link, it does allow me to play this song out to more people who can love it too via iTunes or Ableton!
You can download this song here: The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot -Silicone Shelter (King Unique Bootleg) on zippyshare
Here’s proof that our future is not becoming less free.
Edited: February 3rd, 2010
This NPR video looks at the history of the boombox:
The boxes had to be big, to make that bass boom. The speakers in early boxes had extra-large magnets to push all that air around, and they were housed in heavy metal casing to deal with the vibrations from all the bass. Fab 5 Freddy says they got pretty big.
“I remember some boxes so big, they required 20 D-size batteries to an already heavy box,” he says. “So these boxes were so heavy that some cats that would carry their boxes all the time, they would develop massive forearms and biceps.”
The boxes were part of a style that included white Adidas and big gold chains. Freddy was a filmmaker and artist at the time, and he says he took his box everywhere.
“I traveled with my massive boombox,” Freddy says. “That thing moved with me, you know. I remember, like, being on the plane — it couldn’t go in the overhead bin, but that was my baby. It traveled first class right along with me.”
Doesn’t it make you want to go hunting for a vintage boombox?
via noiseforairports
Edited: January 27th, 2010
Little Boots records a special merry christmas song. I love how she made a Christmas video specially for the Internet. Awww
Edited: December 30th, 2009
Edited: November 25th, 2009