New-d (DO YOU SEE??!????!!!)

Making music using archaic technology is nothing new - Jack White, for example, records all his work on a wheatgrass-powered four track, while Oasis famously produce their albums in a 300-year-old studio - but this video takes the practise to new levels.

James Houston, as part of some remix competition no one knew about, has ‘reinterpreted’ Radiohead’s ‘Nude’* as a cacophony of whirring tape reels, clicking fax machines and bleeping ZX Spectrum tones. That it basically sounds like a total mess is not a problem, reassures Houston: “It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to“, explains our boffin, using the oldest get-out clause in the book.

Have a look. It doesn’t really get going until the 90-second mark.



* ‘Nude’ is good because it is one of those new Radiohead tracks that doesn’t sound like a bag full of bollocks being smashed against a wall (see ‘15 Step’) and it was on a Skins advert too so it must be good.

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