Every week at Axehole, we bring you the most unusual audio and music news of the week, the one thing that makes us wonder “WTF?”.

In previous weeks, we’ve tried to avoid to avoid crass and exploitative news about sex and music. We made exceptions, of course, for the MP3 shoes for hookers, the iPod accessory that helps geeks get lucky, and stripper ringtones.

This week we take a look at a “porn-soaked carnal exploration of after-hours dance culture”.

While indulging our interest in electronic music, we came upon a DJ mix release, DJ Groupie, described as “house music meets porn in miami.”

We’re putting a break here, because you can tell already that the rest of this post just ain’t going to be work-safe….
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Infinite Horizon is described as a non-deterministic trance project. It’s a box that automatically generates formulaic trance music (MP3).

From the site:

This neat little box was the culmination of my major in Computer Music at CNMA (what was then ACAT). I had demonstrated using SuperCollider that a non-deterministic sequencer was capable of creating contemporary dance music but being a full hardware artist I needed to get the system into a useable form.

The basic concept behind it is that most “classic” dance music is so formulaic it should be easy for a computer to generate. Generating all patterns and sequences from a small set of rules the unit is able to deliver new and original tracks in realtime. The orginal implementation ran autonomously but the tracks lacked the (often criticized as predictable) build up/down structure so critical in forming a flow. Rather than trying to implement such a complex concept in such a simple and elegant piece of code I decided this task should be performed by a human.

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Next rainy day, you may want to take a trip to the Museum of Techno.

It’s collection include the James Joame Collection of Badboy Kickdrums. Also of interest is the organizations research into restoring pumping, floor-shattering techno drum and bass to archival recordings from the early 20th century, using partial kelly equations.

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In the world of Internet video, there is a strange cult of electronic music fans that can’t seem to keep themselves from publishing their amateur techno dance videos.

We’ve collected a few of the strangest. If you continue, you will see kids dancing techno, half-naked dudes dancing techno, penguins dancing techno, batman dancing techno and even some hot babes dancing techno. And a gimp.

Warning: This page is full of embedded videos and may take a long time to load, and some of the videos are disturbingly mundane.
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Music producer William Orbit, who handled the production work on Madonna’s electronica-influenced Ray of Light, is now working with Gwyneth Paltrow.

“Gwyneth has messed around with husband Chris Martin,” according to source. “She would not work on music with her husband, she feels like she would be treading on his toes.”

Considering that many consider Orbit’s collaboration with Madonna his best work, it will be interesting to hear what results from his work with Paltrow.

“We bumped into each other and got talking and it turned out she was keen to do some recording,” said Orbit. “We’ve already done a track which will make a brilliant first single.”

via Fametastic