I am very happy to announce the 10 year anniversary of Trapez LTD. They are celebrating the event with a two part compilation of brand new remixes of songs from their catalogue and I contributed by remixing Marcus Sur’s release
Eli Pariser shows the detriments of what he calls the “filter bubble” – behind the scenes algorithmic editing of the web by companies like Google and Facebook that slowly filter out what we DON’T click on in favour of what
Self proclaimed propeller head Ethan Winer explodes some audio myths and pokes a rational finger at $20 000 power cables. Joining him (all too briefly) are Poppy Crum a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who conducts research on neural circuits in
Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, has developed a way to play true three-dimensional sound recordings over regular loudspeakers, such as those found in televisions and computer laptops.
Sheldon Allman was a genius. His masterpiece, Folk Songs for the 21st Century, recorded in 1960, is one of the greatest albums of all time – ever – in the universe.
Central Tokyo is a notoriously unfriendly place for busking. It’s illegal in subway stations and train stations and anywhere else a single complaint from the public about the noise will bring the cops around in a downbeat.
First things first. There are always a number of people who have invested a lot of time and energy into obsoleting skills and technology and they often bemoan those who learn and make use of the new tools that displace
Tokyo still feels strange three weeks after the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami that devastated North Eastern Japan and seriously crippled the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima. Although there are massive energy shortages in both fuel and electricity around
I went out for a ride after dark (around 21:00) to see what Tokyo looks like when it is making an effort to conserve energy. I have never seen or heard Shinjuku and Shibuya so dark and quiet at this
Being back in Tokyo after spending a week in Osaka is great but things are a little off kilter to say the least. With concerns mounting over radiation in the water supply, a lack of frequent or informative news on
Once again Liine place themselves at the front of the pack with their latest offering – Kapture Pad – for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Click on images to enlarge them. Radiation Measurements in Japan as of 20th March 2011. src: Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science. Comparative radiation doses (External.) via xkcd
The nuclear crisis at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, 250 km from Tokyo, has been getting a lot of attention in the media lately but fears expressed for dangerous levels of radiation reaching areas further than 30km from
As Japan makes incredible efforts to keep spirits up and get back to work I feel inspired to do the same so I will continue, within my limited capacity, stuck here in a hotel far from home and studio, to
Ume Blossoms precede the burst of Cherry blossoms (Sakura) that start late March early April every year in Japan.
Long lines of cars waiting to fill up were almost everywhere but not a single honking horn or road side tantrum. At first I thought these were cars parked on the side of the street until I realized they were
“Central Tokyo” is generally considered to be the area inside and immediately surrounding the Yamanote train line which makes a 34.5 km loop inside Tokyo. It connects all the main transport hubs in Tokyo with one another and it’s identifying
I went for a ride yesterday to see how Tokyo is doing three days after megaquake and took some photos. The first pictures are of the area west of Shinjuku Station. The large electronics retail chain “Yodabashi Camera” has several
I went out today (2011/03/12) to re-up supplies and this is what I saw at the local supermarket about 10 minutes from Shinagawa Station. It’s a stark contrast to the supermarket in the station itself which was fully stocked and
A very big thank you to everyone who sent me messages and expressions of concern via Facebook and e-mail. I am fine and at home in Shinagawa a full day after experiencing quite a large earthquake in my studio in
Part 2 of 4 РThe Forest takes Root. As we sit in the fading afternoon light eating a late lunch at the Solar Caf̩, I get to thinking about the first time my curiosity was set adrift in the
Part 1 of 4 – Getting there. Sometimes, I’m about as spontaneous as a tranquilized elephant chained to a rock, so when I get a call out of the blue from my good friend, photographer and artist Levi Rinker, to
Kevin Saunderson made a post recently on his website calling out a pair of Italian producers for lifting, wholesale, a loop from an iconic track of his and apparently making a name for themselves off the back of his original
A live set I recorded in Chichibu 2009 will be aired on Greta Cottage Workshop Radio on Soundart Radio 102.5FM on Saturday February 19 at 22:00 GMT. To access the show visit their website, click on “Listen” and download the
A world-first in controllers, Cliip allows you to create and edit MIDI clips with your fingertips using an elegant touch-enabled piano roll.
My good friend and music collaborator, Kyoto based artist and musician, Baiyon contributed significantly to the music of LittleBigPlanet2. Baiyon’s role is best described in this excerpt from a post on mediamolecule.com about the music in LBP2.
I am happy to hear from Kassey Voorn and Low Battery Recordings that my remix of Jeff Bennet’s track Gimzology made it into Beatport’s Weekly Top 10. The release is getting some great feedback from many top DJs and producers.
DJ And Producer Kassey Voorn has been a solid supporter of my work on Greta Cottage Workshop and Dirty Works. He has also been a great source of inspiration to me for the last few years so I was thrilled
I figured the best way to start blogging this year would be to share a video of someone masterfully ironing a men’s dress shirt. No tricks, no advanced technology; just focus, dedication and style.
Way before there was YouTube (no really) iFilm (now defunct and absorbed into spike.tv) was the place to watch clips and video online and it has been years since I have been able to find this animation, which ranks amongst
Here is a short round up of what I have been up to the last few weeks and as soon as I have a block of time to write some more articles and reviews I’ll get down to it.
The party is not going so well. Something is off. The crowd is edgy, some people are dancing, sporadically, but most everyone is milling around the bar and the promoter is looking stressed. The DJ is playing some good tunes,
The Korg MS-20 is one of my favourite analog synths of all time. I have the Korg Legacy Bundle with the (now discontinued) 3/4 sized USB Contoller modelled after the original and it is always within reach.
Using mistakes as a source of  inspiration can open up a world of possibilities that our tools of correction often negate.
Any given weekend in Tokyo is soaked to the gills in techno events but once you step outside the greater downtown areas of Shibuya. Nakameguro and Daikanyama (a stones throw apart from each other) there really isn’t much happening techno
There are a plethora of music making machines and software programs out on the market these days, many snake oils and, myriad merchants of miracle mojo peddling them too.
My good friend, fellow producer and DJ and Yogacharya, Nik Sliwerski aka Muthafunka fell off his bicycle recently and hit his head really, really hard on the ground. He is in hospital with concussion and a fractured skull (which thankfully
Aldous Huxley’s works are profound and life altering, and he has left a powerful mark on modern culture and thought. Here is a half our interview with him speaking to Mike Wallace.
minimal mosaic – shane berry mixes mosaic records A few years back I used to work at Tokyo’s only alternative cable radio station called radio:on where we recorded hour long shows on to Mini Discs – remember those? Well, after
I’m very happy to have been involved in another collaboration with Information Architects (iA). This time around iA founder Oliver Reichenstein approached me to design some sound to enhance user experience on one of his new projects; a word processor
My latest release on Greta Cottage Workshop has been getting a lot of support from Sasha and this has been generating some great feedback for me. Here is a clip of him opening a four hour set with my track
The touchAble iPad app is ¥2000 (introductory price) and the app that runs on the host computer is a free download from their website.
The TouchOSC iPad app is ¥600 and the Livecontrol app that runs on the host computer is a free download, as are the Livecontrol templates.
Download the trial version for free but up until you buy the license via PayPal for around ¥3000 it runs for 30 minutes at a time before it locks up and then you have to reload it to start afresh
Griid is an advanced clip grid interface which allows you to control Ableton Live (running on your desktop or laptop) from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
TITLE: How to use a Turntable E.P TRACKLIST: 1) Plugitin 2) Putitin 3) Pullitout RELEASE DATE: 2010-08-20 LABEL: Greta Cottage Workshop CATALOG: GCW015
As part of promotion for the upcoming Summer Sounds Volume 2 I will be performing an exclusive live set via the Internet from Sangenchaya TV on Thursday evening the 19th of August at 21:00 Japan Time. (12:00 GMT). I am
How to use a Turntable E.P Tracklist 1) Plugitin 2) Putiton 3) Pullitout Release Date:Â 20th August 2010 Label: Greta Cottage Workshop Catalog: GCW015 Listen and Buy Beatport Description Fresh from remix duty for the Little White Earbuds Download of
For all you old codgers and day trawlers out there who constantly complain that my live performances are always on too late and use the fact as an excuse to never make it out to my shows, pick up your
The annual Just Do It! outdoor techno festival (now called Just) took place this past weekend and as usual it was absolutely fantastic. There is nothing finer than being up in the mountains of Saitama, on the river, deep in
The true techno spirit lives on in the mountains of Chichibu this coming weekend the 17th – 18th of July. I am thrilled to be playing at the “Just Do It!” outdoor festival again this year and it’s my absolute
Amazing time-lapsed animated graffiti/street art by Blu.
George Carlin played with words like Zeus played with thunderbolts. In this video he asserts that the planet Earth will do just fine without us humans and our overblown sense of self importance.
There exists, right now, as you read this, a genuine, unexplored jungle island in the Bay of Bengal inhabited by a pre-neolithic people who have had no formative contact with the outside world in 15.000 years. They kill anyone who
The remix I did for Aural Imbalance’s wicked track, “Think Tank” (which I dubbed “Thought Tanked”) is up for exclusive download from Little White Earbuds. Link Here The audio has since been taken down, but the article remains online. “Where
Have you ever tried to talk to a bee or an ant? Why not? They live in highly structured and sophisticated colonies, even the architecture of a seemingly innocuous hole in the ground rivals the pinnacles of human achievement in
My father passed away in 1997 and for reasons I won’t go into here he was absent during the latter half of my teen years, locked in a prison of his own making, so this poem resonates very deeply within
A collection of comedic diatribes bemoaning the death of rock spirit in modern music.
I have no problem with people sharing my music online, in fact I welcome it. (But to anyone selling my music without cutting me a piece of the pie – “May a thousand Ceti eels stream into your ears.”)
With all the debate buzzing around the Vuvuzela at the World Cup I find myself siding with the “Nuke-it-from-orbit-just to-make-sure” crowd. I have no problem with people enjoying themselves, but it really pisses me off when said enjoyment it is
Although I have a separate space I rent dedicated to making music, affectionately known as “the Bunker”, it remains an untreated studio apartment at heart and while having better acoustics than most wood, brick and mortar shoe box “mansions” in
A joke for the music theory nerds in all of us. Okay maybe not all of us…
I saw this video a while back and it really tickled my funny bone. I would be hard pressed to even give you a detailed rundown of what I did last Tuesday let alone events one thousand years distant.
This TED talk by David Byrne is a fantastic, if somewhat sparse on detail, look at the influence of architecture on the creation of music.
A good drummer for me must have the best of all nuances, funk, syncopation, rhythm and most importantly dynamic range.
TURN OFF THE LOOP SWITCH BEFORE STARTING TO RECORD A LIVE SET! I cannot upload last night’s set at Jam Renaissance because I left the Loop Switch on and that means the entire hour’s set tried to record itself into
Shane Berry Live at Xex can be downloaded here. Big thanks to everyone who came out to Xex and enjoyed the set. While being an interesting space overall Xex is not the best venue volume wise. Halfway through the set
This interesting infographic (via information is beautiful) is a great way to visualize and compare certain avenues of revenue on the internet for musicians.
Just, Whatever, Be with Me TRACKLIST: 1) Just in case 2) Whatever it maybe 3) On the other hand RELEASE DATE: 2010-04-02 LABEL: Greta Cottage Workshop CATALOG: GCW008
Wow, 200 people rocking it out in Air on a Tuesday night, what a great gig! Staff were friendly and professional and fellow live act (and Moph Label mate) Testuji set the pace perfectly and the support DJs before and
The inimitable Reggie Watts and his fantastic parody of Hip Hop culture and music videos.
My good friend the super talented producer and Kyoto based artist Baiyon has his new 12″ release out on D1 recordings. We worked on the track Lupe together and as always it was fun and inspiring. Check it out and
The set I played at Soundbar+ on Friday the 05/03 is available for download here. It has been slightly edited for levels and some timing issues – enjoy! In the end I had a great time as always, a big
Fantastic film for the track “Scissors” by NYC band Liars.
Common Sense: Shane Berry Live In Shibuya (including encore set) I played an underground party in Shibuya at the end of January, in a small club called Effect. It was fantastic. The crowd was enthusiastic and responsive, the sound was
Chris Supranowitz is a researcher at The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Along with a number of other spectacular studies (such as quantum optics, trapping of atoms, dark states and entanglement), he has taken some amazing pictures of
‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries
In January 2010 I played an intimate underground show with the Just Do It crew as co-guest with DJ Wada at the Gamuso Art Bar in Asagaya. As always the hand crafted monster stereo sound system was tuned to perfection
I provided Kyoto based Artist Baiyon with a few sounds and he put together this dirty bass driven Tech House track for his new Digital Label Descanso. You can hear/buy it at beatport, and iTunes The re-mix by Takuya Morita
Self proclaimed propeller head Ethan Winer explodes some audio myths and pokes a rational finger at $20 000 power cables.
Interesting 3 part series and interview with Tom Silverman (Tommyboy Entertainment) about New Music and the numbers of “New Artists” breaking into the music selling industry.
My good friend and fellow co-conspirator a few years back Timo Preece (AKA Gravity Terminal) turned me onto this great video.
Two Amazing Animated Wall Art videos by street artist Blu and David Ellis.
Great 3 part BBC4 documentary on the history of House music.
This set was played the year Michael Jackson died, since he was and still is a huge influence on my performances and music making I made a little tribute to him in the middle of the set. Actually this set
The end of year arrives and everything comes to a blessed slowdown, everyone going somewhere or nowhere at all, reflecting on the year behind and pondering the year ahead. To all my friends, fans, supporters and critics, you make what
TITLE: THE MISSING EP (RENNIE FOSTER, SWAYZAK, SHANE BERRY) TRACKLIST: 1) Easy (Shane Berry’s Dirty Works Mix) 2) Hof Ter Lo (Rennie Fosters Dirty Works Mix) 3) Easy (Original Mix Swayzak) 4) Hof Ter Lo (Original Mix Swayzak) RELEASE DATE:
Placenta EP TRACKLIST: 1) Placenta 2) Saucerful RELEASE DATE: 2009-11-06 LABEL: Greta Cottage Workshop CATALOG: GCW0005
What: Hennessy-Artistry “the global art of mixing” promotional campaign When: 09/11/14 SATURDAY Where: Soundbar+ How: First half of the evening is invitation only, after Â¥2500 Who: Xavier Morel, Trippplnippples, Shane Berry Live
Sometime around 1999 Swayzak released a 50 copies only white label of tracks “Easy ” and “Hof Ter Lo” as a taster of their 2000 album “Himawari” Neither of these tracks made the album in the end, but they are
Placenta E.P (New Friends Vol 1) GCW005 Tracklist 1) Placenta 2) Saucerful Release Date: 6th November 2009 Label: Great Cottage Workshop Catalog: GCW005 Listen and Buy Beatport Description PLACENTA – An inspiring piece of Techno. The compulsory phat rolling bassline
A few weeks back, I headed out to Shibuya to meet Gabriel Ananda and his girlfriend Alice Rose to have dinner and play a few games of darts.
DJ Wada – One Tracklist 1 one 2 alternate life 3 falaba 4 kalin (collaborate with Shane Berry) 5 madagascar 6 quantum 7 choose one 8 albino (collaborate with Heigo Tani) 9 first contact (collaborate with A-Inc) 10 pino Buy
TITLE: As Of Now EP TRACKLIST: 1) As Of Now 2) Sketch RELEASE DATE: 2009-09-09 LABEL: Dirty Works CATALOG: DTS-027
As of Now As of Now by Shane Berry Showing his versatility as a true creator, Shane presents a tech-house masterpiece with progressive over-tones destined for big club play and big name support. A beautiful bell melody drives the straight
SUBTRACT / MIKUS Shane Berry Tracklist 1. Subtract 2. Mikus Listen and Buy Here. Description My release Mikus out on Moph Records.
The craziest thing happened, Bonobo was gutted by fire! As far as I know no one was hurt, thank goodness, and the front bar is still open for business so all is not lost. I hope everyone is okay and
What: Exotec Lounge When: 2009/08/29 SATURDAY 21:00 – Late Where: Bonobo How: Â¥1500 (1D & Free Food) Who: THE KLO,Shane Berry Live and more
TITLE: Subtract/Mikus EP TRACKLIST: 1) Subtract 2) Mikus RELEASE DATE: 2009-08-28 LABEL: Moph Records Japan CATALOG: MDL002
