Watch as these 16 floppy drives belt out true electronic music

[Shawn Knight]

Electronic music and floppy drives seemingly have little in common but try telling that to James Willis. The Cardiff University student recently combined new-age gadgets and software (an iPad, myRIO and LabVIEW) with technology from yesteryear (floppy drives and MIDI) to create what he calls the ultimate electronic band.

Willis used a total of 16 drives to create the following five-song set list:

1. Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
2. Imperial March – John Williams (Star Wars)
3. Super Mario Bros. Theme - Koji Kondo
4. Get Lucky - Daft Punk
5. The Final Countdown – Europe

The idea isn't entirely new but nevertheless, Willis did an excellent job both with the project and his selection of tunes.

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[Jeff Re]

I had a program that could play a song on my Commodore 64 5.25" disk drive. I'm sure it was HORRIBLE for the drive so I only tried it once or twice.

 

[Geforcepat]

Too much time on their hands.

 

[Axiarus]

I don't really understand why this was posted. Music on floppy drives is well over three years old :/ Reaching for content?

 

[Duckeenie]

Tough crowd 'ere.

Eye of the tiger sounds amazing, I think the other tunes are less convincing though.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

Are these people who do these kind of things in the joint? They seem to have a lot of time on their hands.

 

[Namtrooper]

I don't really understand why this was posted. Music on floppy drives is well over three years old :/ Reaching for content?

It's new for me since I missed the past projects by whoever wherever.

 

[ShallBeNotNamed]

I don't really understand why this was posted. Music on floppy drives is well over three years old :/ Reaching for content?

It's new for me since I missed the past projects by whoever wherever.

You should search the game of thrones opening song made from floppy drives ...