Radiohead's "Nude" played by old gadgets

Posted by Rob Beschizza, June 5, 2008 5:34 PM | permalink

James Houston's haunting remix of Radiohead's Nude is made of a ZX Spectrum, a Scanjet 3c, an ancient scanner and a rackful of ruined hard drives. If you subject yourself to one wonderful cacophony this week, make it this one.

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#1 posted by shutz , June 5, 2008 6:05 PM

I bow to James Houston's talent and dedication in producing this outstanding and haunting (I know I'm using Rob's word here, but it's precisely how I felt when the music sprang out of all the initial noise.)

I guess all I can do now is to plug my own puny remix, which can be found at:
http://radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=1924

It's nowhere near as impressive, but I'm still proud of it. (And it's not like I'm whoring it out, as voting is over on that site.)

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#2 posted by Doomstalk , June 5, 2008 7:32 PM

The HDD speakers remind me of a hack a good friend of mine made: http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm

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#3 posted by tylersweeney , June 5, 2008 11:00 PM

this is exactly why i go on bb gadgets when i'm high.

marvelous.

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#4 posted by dw_funk , June 6, 2008 1:53 AM

I hope when we're all uploaded to the Cloud, this is what our music sounds like.

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#5 posted by License Farm

, June 6, 2008 7:28 AM

The vocal effects from the hard drives is amazing, as is the rest of this. One semantical quibble: if this uses no elements from the original, is it really a remix, or is it a cover?

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#6 posted by Milarepa , June 6, 2008 7:37 AM

BEAUTIFUL!
A shame that I'm not high *g*
#1s use of the word haunting is exactly how I felt.
#5 I think the casette player 'has the song in it'.
so it might be a remix...

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#7 posted by JayeRandom , June 6, 2008 12:37 PM

If you feed the audio from 0:10 to 1:09 into a ZX, will it render as the BASIC program used to perform the melody?

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#8 posted by dculberson , June 6, 2008 12:39 PM

Yeah, the hard drives area really just acting as voice coils, playing a recording of the song. So it's a remix rather than a cover..

That is to say, it's an awesome remix.

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#9 posted by historyman68 , June 6, 2008 9:02 PM

@8 - tiny correction: the hard drives are probably just playing the voice track, since that was made publicly available, not the entire song.

Sorry - but yeah, it is beautiful.