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  • Hype Machine – Weekly Top 5 – Mau5 Hau5

     

     

    Here is the long awaited Hype Tracks. This is actually about 2 weeks old as I have been really busy, but I still wanted to give you a heads up on some of the sick stuff from Hype Machine. You’ll notice there’s a lot of Deadmau5 this time around. That’s cuz Deadmau5 rule5.

    3min in to this track it gets AMAZING
    Deadmau5 – Deer Bus

    Flight Facilities – Crave You (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)

    Deadmau5 – Where Are My Keys

    Deadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Extended Remix)

    City And Colour Fragile Bird The SoniXx Dubstep Remix

    And to make up for the delay….

    THE BONUS TRACK!!!!

    Britney Spears – I Wanna Go (Easy Does It Remix)

  • Total Miner: Forge – Grab your pickax!

    Over the weekend my son and I discovered a new great game on Xbox Live Indie Games. Total Miner: Forge

    We (my son and I) are constently on the lookout for great co-op games. We love playing together and we especially love creative games that let you make stuff. Oh, we love smash-em-ups and great puzzles, but our favorite by far is any game with the abilty to make stuff. You know, map editor type gameplay. Total Miner shines in this department.

    There are some great RPG and exploration elements to this game but where we’ve spent most of our time is the Creative mode. A place to just kick back and make stuff. Our world has a massive castle in the ground, deep caves, treasure rooms, monster rooms and lots, lots more. We’ve easily spent several hours playing, which is a good indicator of value in my book. Currently Total Miner is 240 Microsoft Points ($3).

    Here’s a video from the creators detailing some of the stuff you can do with Total Miner:

    Grab it from the Xbox LIVE Indie games area and hit me up. We’ll play online.

  • Spotty Spotify

    Well, the wonderus Spotify service is rolling out in the U.S. The U.K. has had it for a while now and has recieved a lot of hype from major news outlets and a heck of a lot of users. While I think the model is interesting (I’m for any supposed ” iTunes killers”) the service still has a ways to go. Just my quick thoughts on the service…

    Spotify seems to have a really good library. I searched for a few of my favorite bands (Gomez, The Devil Wears Prada and Tool just to name a very few) and found most of their stuff on the service. Cool! Tool was missing, but I’ve never seen a more strict license than on all of Tools music. It would be disappointing, except that I own all their stuff anyway. Sound quality seems good while listening. I’m currently using the Free service and works pretty well. My first album checkout was the new Limp Bizkit album Gold Cobra, which absolutely sucked, but I can’t really blame Spotify for that now can I. The ads are pretty reasonable except when they play music at the begining of the ad and I start thinking to myself “Wow, this album just took a turn for the worst…. oh, it’s an ad!”

    My main complaints are that the Spotify app looks an awful lot like iTunes, and I hate iTunes. Sorry, that’s just me.

    Other than that it’s pretty sweet for free. I’m not entirely sure I’m sold enough to buy the service. I’m really not a fan of rental based music services. I buy my music from Amazon because it’s DRM free (first I might add) and I own it. Granted, ownership of music is a pretty touchy issue in the U.S., but you understand what I mean. I do like the idea of checking out an album before I go buy it from Amazon. I think I’ll get used to that.

    I don’t have any invites to Spotify (yet) but head over to their site to queue up and check it out for yourself. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Spotify comes in Free, $4.99/mo and $9.99/mo.