May 2012
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Early hard disk in Glasgow →
(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
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“Why don’t more people start their own business? Normal people are...”
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January 2012
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“Life is a bit like a long call option: It has a beginning and an expiration...”
May 2011
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October 2010
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Creating thumping bass lines
Use the adjective that you prefer: thumping, rumbling, or just plain FAT. If you listen to electronic music, especially of the danceable variety, you probably enjoy the sensation of the clean, fat bass sounds vibrating in your auditory canal. But as a music producer, how do you create this?
First thing’s first, get good monitor speakers or headphones — i.e., something with a flat...
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A call for submissions: Any audio recording made...
It’s unlikely that I was the only one periodically taking out my iPhone to acoustically sample small slices of Nuit Blanche last night. When looking over your digital loot from last night, if you find some recordings, would you care to share them with me? It would be a nice bonus if you can recall what general area (or zone, i.e. A/B/C) you were in when the recording was made. Also, include...
August 2010
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WatchPVT (formerly known as PIVOT) will be releasing their new album “Church With No Magic” in a few weeks. They’ve made the MP3 of the track “Window” available for free here: http://pvtpvt.net/window
This is a very nice combination of electronic tools (Novation LaunchPad, a MIDI keyboard, and wonder what software DAW… likely Ableton Live) and analog performance...
July 2010
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Luca Ricci - Seven [BADmusic Remix] →
Just for fun, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and submit a ”minimal” remix of Luca Ricci’s upcoming release “Seven” (referring to the so-called seven deadly sins). [Listen here]
One shouldn’t expect too much from a remix competition as one never really knows what type of sound the label is looking for. Even worse, some artists/labels even use remix...
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June 2010
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WatchDoes anyone know “Box Fresh”?
There’s a guy in Toronto who goes by the moniker “Box Fresh” and I’d like to give him proper credit for using his voice in my latest track. Then there’s also “Doug”, but I think he’s in Seattle…
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The good old days of science...
Reading about the great vibrating string controversy; a vituperative scientific dispute of the mid-1700s, drawing into battle all the leading mathematicians and physicists of the time, which is to say, d’Alembert, Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange and (later) Fourier.
May 2010
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Univox SR-95 rhythm machine as an Ableton Live... →
Here are the sound samples from the Univox SR-95 (aka Keio MiniPops MP-7) drum machine packaged up as a drum pad in Ableton Live 8.1.3 (not backward-compatible with earlier versions).
The Univox SR-95 was an analog machine from the 1970s famously used by Jean-Michel Jarre on his Oxygene album in 1976.
All sourced samples are 44.1 kHz, 16-bit wav files. They were not individually normalised...
April 2010
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Whiney Ah Synth Voice - Custom Image-Line Harmless...