The Tegos Tapes is an interesting example of an obscure and heretofore unreleased Vangelis soundtrack unknown by many of even his most devoted fans.
The Tegos Tapes were produced originally by the Greek medical professional Dr. Stergios Tegos, and contain educational examples of his microneurosurgery work. This VHS set of tapes was not intended for general release to the Public as these training videos were mainly intended for student surgeons in training or offered to other microneurosurgeons via Dr. Tegos exclusively.
Dr. Tegos asked his close friend Vangelis to create a background soundtrack to accompany these videos and Vangelis agreed, composing nearly 8 hours of some of his more pleasing and ambient music. Dr. Tegos thought that a background musical score composed and performed by Vangelis himself would ease the monotony and dryness of the subject matter and help the viewer to focus more effectively.
This music was lost to obscurity for years because of the esoteric and hard to find nature of the videos. Now they have been ripped from the original content for all to enjoy. The voiceovers of Dr. Tegos have been removed and you will only hear pure Vangelis.
"I started listening to hardcore / breakbeat in 1991, going to raves and buying tapes and getting tapes off mates. It was a big disappointment around 1993/4 when the Scottish scene split. The old hardcore / breakbeat was gone up here in Scotland and our scene moved to the bouncier harder style. Don't get me wrong, I loved it for a few years until 1997 when it just got too fast and the raves were playing mostly gabba. I stopped going to raves early 1997. Around 2004 I found some old rave tapes in my parents house and listened to them. Fell in love again and started to roam the internet to find some of the tapes I used to listen to. Found a website (am sure it was called Hardcore Will Never Die) and they had tape rips from a lot of English raves. I started to download from there and it spiralled."
LudoTune is a musical toy for building tunes, loops, songs and musical sculptures. Please note: Safari and mobile browsers are not fully supported at this time. For the best experience, Chrome is recommended. LudoTune was created by Dylan, using Tone.js for sound production and scheduling, and Three.js for 3D rendering.
A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage, in the form of a static, serverless, web application. Connect to any number of online storage services, including S3, Azure Blob or Object Storage, Dropbox, GDrive, or WebDAV
Self-hosted music streaming server with RESTful API and Web interface. Think of it as your very own Spotify! There are a couple of mobile clients out there also.
Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time. Many of them are commercial, proprietary-licensed and almost none of them support all major operating systems at the same time.
Helio is an attempt to rethink a music sequencer to create a tool that feels right.
It aims to be a modern music creation software, featuring linear-based/pattern-based sequencer with clean UI, integrated version control for synchronizing project between devices, microtonal temperaments support, small portable builds and more; mainly targeted at hobbyist composers, game developers and indie artists.
Blackle Mori's online drumkit databender. Play around with the settings until you come up with a sample or pattern that you like and play it. Works a little bit like a tracker in that you can build pretty complex patterns - not just drum lines, probably entire songs.
In Depth Music is an independent online music library focusing on late 70βs and 80βs music genres such as post-punk, new wave, indie rock, and many more genres from that time. You can for example easily discover new bands which used to be difficult to find. Each band has their own band page with important information and discography.
βIn Depth Music are also focusing on 90βs, 2000βs, 2010's and present post-punk, gothic rock, deathrock, darkwave and other independent/alternative music genres that existed from late 70βs & 80βs. There are separate lists of these bands on the website, where you can find links to their band website, Facebook and Bandcamp.
This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although Iβve included βstandardsβ, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.
The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.
Self-hostable music streaming platform. Separate back-end and front-end. Looks like it's in the early stages.
FLOSS alternative to subsonic, supporting its many clients. Music streaming server / subsonic server API implementation. Browse online. Realtime transcoding for streaming. Jukebox mode. Multiple users. Scrobbling to last.fm. Tries to be lightweight enough to run on something like a RasPi.
Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface. Lightweight - designed for something like a RasPi. Recommendation engine built in. Custom tags. Realtime transcoding for streaming. Implements the Subsonic API for compatibility.
Relies on MusicBrainz Identifiers in the ID3 metadata.
EmissionControl2 (EC2) is a standalone interactive real-time application for granular synthesis and sound file granulation. Make new sounds to use in synthesizers, samplers, or other fx-related stuff.
With Jazzit you can just add a decorator to your functions and jazz it up. You can have a elevator music to go along with your long running script. Even play humiliating music when it errors out to put you in your place. There are default tracks you can use, or you can use your own custom tracks.
Pretends to be Spotify for your music collection. Read the Dockerfile to figure out how to install it manually. node.js, unfortunately.
Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It's like your personal Spotify! Tries to be as resource-light as possible. Builds are available for all of the usual platforms, including the RasPi. Multi-user. Skinnable. Compatible with many net.streaming clients like the subsonic and Airsonic devices.
Requires ffmpeg. Requires node.js to build. :(
Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available. Supports all the major platforms as first-class citizens (even the RasPi). Can backfill your library. Full integration with Kodi.