xaqary's forum posts 444

For just $490,000, you can buy a co-writing credit to Prince’s debut single:

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/02/for-just-490000-you-can-buy-a-co-writing-credit-to-princes-debut-single/amp/

Jimmy Edgar just dug up some tunes from 1996 Detroit Electro-

Check it:

https://ultramajic.bandcamp.com/album/unsolved-mysteries

Mac is much easier to maintain, reliable, and largely hassle free.

PC's are far more affordable and WAY more customizable.

I usually fall into the "don't sweat the details" camp but on computers I personally favor kinda shooting for the moon. For just about everyone its the heart of the studio save the DAW-less jammers.

So with that in mind I'd recommend-

Go for the absolute best you can possiblily manage. Even the modest models put there are more than enough to get you going for a long while.

Learn that fucker inside out

Persoanlly- About 90% of being able to create is comes down to organization and slip streaming my (hate this word but it fits) "workflow". That extends to building my own kit & keeping it organized (samples, patches, effects, etc) but also to keeping my computer healthy- data management, RAID's, updates, etc. It's the less than glammorous reality of making music.

I try to avoid as much of the latter as possible- so I pay for MAC despite feeling like a bit of a sucker cuz it's worth it for me. I've got friends on PC & those who know their machines do just as well if not better than those on MAC.

SOUND SYSTEM

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/05/richard-long-feature

Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/01/steve-reich-schoenberg-coltrane-radiohead

is that link right or did I just blow it?

I couldn't get it to open...

Bummer! They found it!

That was a killer flick-

All the music was still on that version too! Damn

Ndugu Chancler, Drummer On Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," Dead At 65:

http://www.okayplayer.com/music/ndugu-chancler-drummer-michael-jackson-billie-jean-dead-at-65.html

Leonard Bernstein Introduces The Moog (1969)

http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/leonard-bernstein-introduces-the-moog-synthesizer-to-the-world-in-1969.html

Look forward to having time to read this QJ piece:

https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story/amp

Interview with John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis on Elektronauts

https://www.elektronauts.com/talk/120

Damn I can't wait till the Digitone gets to shops...

It's on YouTube till it gets found out if anyone wants to catch it

https://youtu.be/oYJR3It1-lU

Jesus...

this list if credits is just staggering...

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bernie-grundman-mn0000060732/credits

I dunno how I missed the doc!

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

Subcontinental Synth:

David Tudor and the First Moog in India

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

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 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.

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.

Yeah, we were talking about this after a seesion today. She was crazy young. Somethin' is up.

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

Star Wars Motivic Material:

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

FACT article covering it in brief:

http://www.factmag.com/2018/01/05/what-is-opus-audio

piece on some of the less talked about updates:

https://performodule.com/2017/12/18/ableton-live-10-new-feature-highlights/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Welcome!

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

LA Times story here:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-me-rick-hall-20180102-story,amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

Dood, that Snapshot one RULES. Super easy IN SESSION photos of all outboard gear, synth settings, cab settings, pedals, snap a picture of your mic placement, you name it. FUCKIN RULES.

I've been meaning to install it & just gave it a test run pre session today & I absolutely love it. Fuck you piles of shitty recall sheets!

came across this & figured some of you might wanna take a peak too-

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2017/12/28/free-vst-plugins-2017/

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

Gotta a picture you can link us to?

The Story Of The Yamaha DX7 Presets

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

2 part mini documentary on the recording of

Brian Eno- Here Come The Warm Jets

https://vimeo.com/249050580

Farewell Cakewalk:

https://youtu.be/i9kuVMOzo4g

Always seems to be the same spoof Amazon page I emailed ya. That's the only one I've seen.

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

still happens to me as well. appears to happen mainly on product/gear pages for me- hasn't happened yet in the forums.

you get email link I send you GC?

Some rare Oscar Peterson footage!

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

Christmas Songs For Goths:

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

better late than never

United Recording Archives Classic John Lennon Demo Cassette-

A classic cassette demo from John Lennon was recently archived at United Recording by head archivist, Dan Johnson. Retrieved by Lennon's producer/engineer Jack Douglas, the cassette was recorded by Lennon in Bermuda before his comeback in 1980.

http://unitedrecordingstudios.com/united-recording-archives-classic-john-lennon-cassette