Music

Samplr is an iPad synthesizer designed to make it easy for the user to manipulate samples via multitouch. The user can use up to 5 sound effects and 6 samples at once in 7 different play modes.

A mashup of 25 of the biggest pop hits of 2012 by DJ Earworm. Similar to what he did last year, DJ Earworm took the music and videos of the songs and turned them into one song. Grab the mp3 here.

Hey Now is a song by Hannah, Daniel and Dot, aka London Grammar. The London trio make icy cool pop, as if the voice from Holy Other learned to speak English. Watch them play here.

Comedy duo Rhett & Link and a handful of other YouTube celebrities teach us a trick about dressing for the Holidays. They sound like early Hot Chip, except you know, a lot sillier.

It’s Jamie Foxx turns the Brady Bunch theme song into something good enough to make love to, even appropriating the styles of underwear-melting singers Babyface, Luther Vandross and Prince.

(NSFW: Language) Andy Rehfeldt replaced the instrumental of Killing in the Name with “less angry” versions. The result is Rage Against the Machine meets Steely Dan. Hilariously confusing.

The much-hyped speaker is finally available. The “sound deliverer” has two 6″ woofers, two dome tweeters, a 100W PWM amp and the classic Marshall cabinet design. It’s as beautiful as it is expensive.

In celebration of 50 years of the mixtape, Ithaca Audio created this brilliant 16-track live mix performed entirely on a 23-year-old Tascam 1″ reel-to-reel tape deck.

Here’s OkaySamurai with his latest treatment of pop songs as sung by what must be a Thesaurus-loving English professor. We demand the rest of Extraneous Gangnam Style. (Thanks everyone!)

A new song from up-and-coming electronica whiz kid M4SONIC. Watch the 21-year old play Virus live using two Novation Launchpads cued with original samples as well as effects and vocal loops.

We were just talking about Michael Winslow, and now here he is with some fresh content – a lighthearted track backed by DJ Yoda, and plenty of Winslow’s trademark wacky vocal sound effects.

Accomplished blues guitarist and vocalist Matt Andersen belts out an impressive and creative performance of Bill Withers’ all-time classic Ain’t No Sunshine. Hear more from Matt here.

James McVay created the MechBass as his Engineering honors project at Victoria University of Wellington in 2012. The machine makes quick work of the intricate bassline from Muse’s Hysteria.

At first glance, you’d think the girl on this French TV talent show was going to sing some dainty little ballad. You’d be so very wrong. We wonder if this is Rachel’s cat. (Thanks Thomas!)

A track by Turkish producer VEYasin with an intriguing blend of driving electronica and Middle Eastern grooves. It makes for a mellow but shapeshifting sound. Video is by Harun Roon Işık.

(NSFW: Lyrics) Rapper Macklemore and beat maker Ryan Lewis rock the office of NPR Music in this episode of Tiny Desk Concerts performing Same Love, the hilarious Thrift Shop and Can’t Hold Us.

We’ve already heard a few great covers of Adele’s powerful James Bond theme song, but none quite as rockin’ as Erock’s metal remix. We’ll have that martini shredded, not stirred.

(NSFW: Language) The latest cut from Big Boi’s upcoming album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, In The A is a bumpin’ shout out to Atlanta, featuring fellow ATL-iens Ludacris and T.I.

Melodysheep’s remix of Charlie Chaplin’s famous speech in the final scene of his Hitler parody movie The Great Dictator. You can get it as part of Melodysheep’s pay-what-you-want album.