Competitive Intelligence: Hewlett-Packard’s Prototype DJammer: A Potentially Revolutionary New Musical “Instrument” — Revolutionary?
“Invent” – HP’s slogan, seems to be ringing true for the first time in the post-Fiorina era, after Wired posted an article about the new DJammer, which the company is calling potentially as significant to the production of modern music as the first electric guitar was to rock-n-roll:
As significant as the electric guitar? Ho man! Are you kidding me??? It’s an electronic kazoo at best!
To get some perspective the “scratching” is to todays music what the tambourine was to the hippy music of the 1960’s and what the conga drum was to Cuban music of the 1930’s. There’s also the wah-wah pedal of the 1970’s to be considered on the list of never-ending fads. In fact the scratching fad may be nearing its end.
U.S. chipmakers, Taiwanese engineers, Indian software developers, Korean displays and Chinese factories. I hear Carly is getting a band together since they booted her out. The band will be called TechJam and produce music under the HiPod label. Media Matrix will handle the tour, which will be promoted with free downloads from the World Music Bank, a Steve Job-Paul Wolfowitz company. TechJam is almost ready to release World Pie in stereoAM.
I drove my Volvo to the sea, but I dropped my iPod so help me God, them good old boy were drinkin whiskey and rye, downloading for a fee. Did you write the book of love and do you have faith in Carly above?
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Pat O’Furby
You’re with US now.
Kinda like this:
2http://www.bathroomgraffiti.com/article.php?rubrique=5&article=155&pos=1
Like lemmings to the sea, build it and they will come.
I sure in heck hope that both scratching and sampling are over. When lame rock bands such as Sugar Ray started using scratching/sampling, you know it’s time to end.
And even “cool” 90s bands such as Pizzicato Five sound incredibly dated nowadays due to scratching/sampling.
But like you say, this has happened before. For the life of me I cannot understand why the Beatles did all of that sitar crap. While most of their music sounds timeless, the sitar crap sounded dated about five minutes after it was recorded.