Mike Griffiths

Tech and Techno - A music blog

I was recently commissioned to create a music blog for somebody. I love my music so I jumped at the chance. The blog is simply a themed WordPress designed by myself with some help from a friend.

The blog itself concentrates on the techno, electro and house genre of music. There are plenty of blogs out there that do this already – but this one is different. Every week since the blog began the author has interviewed a big name in the industry and this has made the blog very popular in a short amount of time.

It’s worth a read and even a bookmark.

Tech and Techno – A music blog

I recently created a pair of what I call ‘drum pads’.  These are basically Flash movies that play sounds when you hit a key on your keyboard or click the relevant button with your mouse.  It’s quite a simple idea but they’re bloody addictive.  The Slashdot one needs redoing as the samples are wavs and not mp3’s, so unless you have an extremely fast machine and Internet connection it will lag a lot.  The Daft Punk one works perfectly.  Check them out.

DaftPad (Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger)

SlashPad (Fatboy Slim – Slashdot)

There are a lot of music related websites out there, and some are a lot better than others.  From Spotify - a new free web service that allows you to stream all the latest popular music to your computer – to last.fm – where you can keep tabs on all the tracks you’ve played and chat in a community with users of similar taste.

However, there are few, if any, music sites available that are similar to YouTube in a way that offer simple upload capabilities to users and then stream that music to the websites users.  This is why I created BeatSpot.

BeatSpot is designed to allow music artists to share their tracks online for free.  There are no adverts (yet, I may add some if bandwidth costs grow) and no subscription costs.  Users are able to come onto the website and access all of the tracks for free without a sign up.  Additional functionality is available to users who wish to sign up, such as playlist capabilities, a pop-out music player (which I’m very proud of), private messaging and subscriptions to users updates.

I wll be adding RSS feeds shortly as well as promoting it with some AdWords, so stay tuned.

BeatSpot - Upload and share music

BeatSpot – Upload and share your music files for free