Musical Curiosities

Christmas Songs For Goths:

http://www.post-punk.com/christmas-songs-for-goths/

better late than never

Some rare Oscar Peterson footage!

https://youtu.be/FI-4HNQg1JI

I didn't know the Harmonizer H910 was named in part from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band...

didn't know about the I Love Lucy bit either...

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/eventide-instrumental-instruments

Farewell Cakewalk:

https://youtu.be/i9kuVMOzo4g

2 part mini documentary on the recording of

Brian Eno- Here Come The Warm Jets

https://vimeo.com/249050580

The Story Of The Yamaha DX7 Presets

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/12/29/the-story-of-the-yamaha-dx7-presets/amp/

Bruce!

Him and Quicy together? What I would't do to have been a fly on the wall...

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/bruce-swedien-recording-michael-jackson

Detroit Ghettotech (aka, the sound of my early childhood)

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/05/ghettotech-oral-history?linkId=46537225

Jeff Mills WJLB Detroit Comp:

https://youtu.be/8HdvbXlk3lQ

Star Wars Motivic Material:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJ0Jj-mLfOPUCtcAm_HDGIkFwvHL5gbX/view

Holger Czukay’s solo work collected in posthumous box set:

http://www.factmag.com/2018/01/16/can-holger-czukays-solo-work-posthumous-box-set-cinema

The Line 6 DL4 Is Quietly the Most Important Guitar Pedal of the Last 20 Years

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-line-6-dl4-is-quietly-the-most-important-guitar-pedal-of-the-last-20-years/amp

& they are still absolutely everywhere.

maybe it is, I dunno

I might be wrong but I see it as the wholesale addoption of embracing groove.

Looper pedals (at least the early limited ones) force a focus on groove over larger harmonic themes (or at least those themes are subordinate to the groove 1st and formost.) Always been there but it feels like it's now universally embraced in a bigger way. That kinda thinking has taken over the popular music scene more completelly than it ever has since then. You can see the DNA that led us here by revisiting that period.

It was always there before- particularlly with sequecenced loop based music, this kinda thing just brought it more to the for.

Might be off my rocker but thems my thoughts.

I dunno how accurate that is, there were a lot of loopers people were using for that groove stuff before the DL... I thought the combination of a modelling delay with 3 preset switches and tap WITH a basic looper was the influential part...

Totally agree, I was thinking more of loopers in a general sence-for instance that Boomerang pedal was inescapeable in the early '00 too.

Line 6 stood out for it's addoption rate that was maybe the largest I've ever sceen of the loopers at the time. Others sounded better for sure but the Line 6 regardless of it's shortcomings felt almost like a folk instrument- it was omnipresent & turned on a ton of people who might have only bought it for it's delay who were then introduced to looping. That's part of makes me very inclined to agree that the delay was key- it got a load of people into looper pedals who might not have been otherwise.

That said? I never got heavy into the Line 6 despite owning several models for favoring other pedals- anyhoo

Love to hear your thoughts

I had a DL4 but I broke it too easily and I went abck to rack units for delay effects... i ahd plenty around. Iw as taken with how much it did but the looper felt like mroe foa toy. the whole thing felt like a toy from build quality to what it did to ym dry signal... anyway. ia dha mixed imrpession of it. i think it created a 4 button 'multi-voice delay/looper station' pedal format that's replaced the rack units I favored after I swore off tape delay.

Subcontinental Synth:

David Tudor and the First Moog in India

https://eastofborneo.org/articles/subcontinental-synth-david-tudor-and-the-first-moog-in-india/

Can't sleep soooo...

How Berlin’s Hansa Studios defined the sound of an entire generation:

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/bjyed4/how-berlins-hansa-studios-defined-the-sound-of-an-entire-generation

oh, i saw that already... that was a banging good article! Anyone who hasn't read it should check it out... think I'll read it again.

I dunno how I missed the doc!