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I’m digging this Nomad Travel Speaker, which was apparently inspired by vintage luggage.

It comes with a dedicated Aux input, and a built in AM/FM tuner, and is available online for $72 from Urban Outfitters.

I just came across these amazing sketches by a guy called Stefan Glerum which illustrate the obsessive nature of crate digging.  The drawings, titled Crate Digging: Don’t Do It! depict several reasons why crate digging can be detrimental to your health.

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So you may have thrown out most of your milk crates from the golden days and bought a fancy new cabinet to store your records, but that doesn’t mean the era of the milk crate is completely over.

Check out the BriefCrate by Things Matter, which as you can see is a laptop bag which gives the term digging in the crates a whole new meaning.

[via CrateKings]

Here’s another set of stupidly overpriced speakers for all you rich audiophiles out there.

For a mere $180,000 you can solidify the destruction of your eardrum with the Grande Utopia EM speakers, which can be mechanically adjusted to point in whatever direction you want without having to move them at the base. While the price may be outrageous, these look pretty bad ass.

Grande Utopia EM via BornRich

If you enjoyed that video I posted showing DJ Z-Trip showing his support for Barack Obama at the Manifest Hope Gallery, then check out his newly dropped Obama Mix.

Download : Z-Trip - Obama Mix (dirty) or (clean)

I’m in complete awe of this video which shows the legendary 45 King absolutely tearing it up on a couple Handrytrax turntables.

T-Pain shows that he doesn’t take himself too seriously in this parody of his use of the vocoder.

These speakers dubbed the Speaker Buddies were created by Alex Underwood as an homage to a often neglected material: Expanded Polystyrene, a lightweight material that is often regarded as useless.  The speakers work in pairs, and depict child-like postures, meaning certain bedroom dj’s will finally have an audience.

via Home Tone

This impressive sculpture called the “Sound Wave” was created by Korean artist Jean Shin, and is meant to show “the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete”.
The piece is a part of The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibit “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary”

NY Times via Neatorama

Peep the new mix from the We Make It Good Series, this time featuring Gaslamp Killer.

“The GLK goes from dirty scratch beats to dirty south rap, to some new new beat shit, to Nirvana! Then straight to Bombay India for some Bollywood fun, right into some Jaylib! And that’s all within the first 10 minutes of this mix. Nuff said. Peep it.”

-Gas Lamp Killer

We Make It Good Mix Series, Vol. 5 feat. Gaslamp Killer

Track Listing:

GLK INTRO
BUCKETHEAD – SKRATCH BEAT
UGK – INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS ANTHEM
ROBOTO – VORTEX COOKIES (fLako Rmx) – GLK EDIT
NIRVANA – SCENTLESS APPRENTICE
KALYANJI ANANDJI – DHARMATMA THEME – TOMMY’S EDIT
JAYLIB – CHAMPION SOUND
DABRYE – ENCODED FLOW INSTRUMENTAL
FUZZ FACE – BRAINSWAPPER
SAMIYAM – PORNO SLAP
THE ROOTS – GET BUSY
THE CLIPSE – GRINDIN’
DJ SIGNIFY – LISTEN / THE ISOLATIONIST – INSTRUMENTALS
ALEXANDERS DARK BAND – DRUM ATTIK
OHNO – FAST GAMBLE
BULLION – I KNOW THERES NO ANSWER
THE SLAPPED EYEBALLERS – REDE HET SIE GSEIT
LES MOGOL – KALEIDOSCOPIC DREAM
THE GASLAMP KILLER – SHOWSTOPPER
FLYING LOTUS & THE GASLAMP KILLER – GNG BNG
…FIN…