ReacTable Tactile Synth Catches Björks Eye — and Ear Y’all have seen this thing I’m sure. It’s one of the fanciest set of knobs and sliders I’ve seen. Yeah I can assign parameters to my knobs, but then I have to remember or write down what knob does what. With the ReacTable you know what [...]
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Correction
I was wrong. I know I’m not a pro journalist, but I should have done some research before letting my fingers fly. I was reading my earlier posts on Feist and Iggy. Leslie Feist was actually born the year before the Iggy Pop interview on CBC. However, the Canada connection, which I did not mention [...]
compression schmompression
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/33549 This is an interesting link Rybot sent to me and the gang on the ever-increasing loudness of mastered recordings. Forgive the silly sample Null, the writer, offers up, but believe the lesson– mastering of pop tunes these days involves ungodly amounts of compression that often squeeze the life out of a song. Our ears [...]
SPIN.com: Smashing Pumpkins to Release Four Album Versions
SPIN.com: Smashing Pumpkins to Release Four Album Versions Does this piss everyone else off too? The label, the big boxes, Billy– not sure where the idea originated– but what consumers/fans want was definitely not on their minds. Yeah, I’m really going to buy the same twelve tracks three times just so I can get the [...]
My lovely quilt
Last.fm– I’m sure you’ve heard of it. Well, I have to try everything out. So here I am with a profile at last.fm tracking everything I listen to at home and work so it can figure out what other stuff I might also like. This process of tracking everything you listen to has been coined [...]
David J is getting huge
Novi Split Likes ‘Em ‘Young’ During my daily rss feed checking ritual in Netvibes something in the Spin box caught my eye. Spin! That’s kind of a big-time publication. And there it was– Novi Split. Get hooked up with the mp3, and then get hooked up with the album. The interesting thing about this track– [...]
WTF Hatto
Masterpieces Or Fakes? The Joyce Hatto Scandal I can say I do not own any Joyce Hatto CDs. This story is just crazy. Damn it, no one plays exactly the same, Barrington-Coupe. You’re f***ed, bro. Technology caught up to your little shenanigan. Thanks again, boingboing.
Pandora Downloader
Pandora Downloader
mtvU
mtvU.com If you read my other blog, you’d know I am the proud owner of a Windows Media Center pc that’s plugged into my living room hdtv. Well, I needed some background noise/color while I did some work. MTV of the eighties would have been perfect, but we all know and complain about the fact [...]
Novi Split = Rock Star
Our pal, David, makes it to the big leagues.