Collected Data
Watch: "Unsound Preview"
The internet has transformed the world, but there are unintended consequences. Now that people expect everything on the internet to be free, what are the consequences? As the music industry collapses from the consequences of FREE, so too has journalism. What are the impacts on society when all culture becomes free? Find out who really is benefitting from the so-called free internet.
“Art belongs to the people.” Good idea, but who’s going to feed the artist?"
What happens, is that the artists are in a position where they can no longer live on their work. They have to worry about that. They need to become performers. That's another kind of work we do. I go out and play music. The big boom in performances is partly because of streaming, isn't it? We know, for example, that there are big rock and roll bands that will give their records away free. You just have to buy the ticket to the concert. The cost of the record is rather small compared to the price of the ticket. It's shifted around a little bit; they're still paying, but they're paying at the box office rather than at the record store. The money still will find its way.
Philip Glass on controlling your output and getting paid for what you make
"Listening to The Ramones mono version on vinyl is like placing your head against the band’s collective chest: You can hear the heartbeat of the music. And it pounds!"
Marc Campbell;
There will be plenty written about The Ramones 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. As someone who was there in the beginning of what was to become known as punk rock, it is impossible for me to be objective about the scene and how it altered my life. Writing about The Ramones dispassionately would be like dropping acid and Thorazine at the same time. What’s the point?
the heart and the soul of the package: a newly re-mixed and mastered mono version on 180 gram vinyl. This splendid mono release was produced by the album’s original producer Craig Leon at Abbey Road studios. Mixed from the original analog master tape, the record has a presence, a melt-your-faceness that will hit you like a tuning fork struck by the hand of God.
BACK TO MONO: THE RAMONES’ DEBUT ALBUM IS 40 YEARS OLD AND IT’S THE BEST RELEASE OF 2016
The mono mix is incredible.
Listen: "MIDI Sans Frontières" by Squarepusher
Tom Jenkinson;
THIS PIECE OF MUSIC WAS WRITTEN IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE REFERENDUM AND I PRESENT IT AS THE BASIS OF AN INTERNATIONALIST COLLABORATION WITH SOUND MAKERS IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT KIND OF MUSIC THEY MAKE, WHERE THEY LIVE, THEIR BACKGROUND, THEIR AGE - ALL ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. IT IS NOT OFFERED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION BUT AS A COMPLEMENT TO IT. I PUT IT FORWARD IN DEFIANCE OF THE BIGOTRY THREATENING THE FRAGILE CONNECTIONS THAT EXIST BETWEEN US ALL. I HOPE IT WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REAFFIRM SOME OF THOSE CONNECTIONS AMIDST A VERY DISTURBING SITUATION.
You can download a WAV file of the mix as well as stems @ http://www.squarepusher.net
Listen: " Detrimentalist" by by Venetian Snares
If you want some kinda IDM bloop beats with a bunch of effeminate pads off your fucking nord or something then you will hate this record.
"Punk rock started in 1976 on New York's Bowery, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum."
"The writing was done 6,000 miles apart, which I think was to its benefit"
"In a way it's the opposite of what musicians do when they tend to write with other musicians, which is get everyone in a room together and 'jaaaaaaammmmmm.' That's the enemy of all creativity as far as I'm concerned, cause when you 'jaaaaaaammmmmm' you tend to pick a chord or pick three chords and all stay on the same bloody thing again and again and again until you're not just sick of music, you're sick of living.“
FFS: Inside the Franz Ferdinand / Sparks Collaboration by Tom Avis for exclaim.
Watch: "Squarepusher Discusses his Ufabulum Live Show"
Squarepushers Damogen Furies is out today.
Surprisingly, Pitchfork didn’t hate it, but did give it a generic review.
Listen: "Damogen Furies" by Squarepusher
Andy Battaglia for NPR;
Intimations of humor are never far from Squarepusher's challenging music, which is all the better and more powerful for the unusual alliance he strikes. There's fertile middle ground between furrow-browed intensity and appreciation for the gleefully absurd, and Damogen Furies finds a sweet spot somewhere therein. Even at his most unhinged, however, Squarepusher has a knack for flashes of virtuoso control, as in the drum-run in the last half of "Exjag Nives" or the many little wiggles and shifts in "Baltang Arc." It can be hard to know how exactly to react to every moment, but making a case for fruitful confusion is Squarepusher's specialty.
First Listen: Squarepusher, 'Damogen Furies'
“As Van Halen’s creative direction became uncertain in the early 1980s, it became increasingly apparent that we would have to take the steps necessary to remove Roth from power”
Watch: "Human Highway" Trailer
Human Highway (Director's Cut) Trailer from Shakey Pictures on Vimeo.
The original version of this film is horrible, except for this...
(via exclaim!)The flick features a (...) collaborative version of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" with Devo (and Booji Boy).
Which is brilliant. I’ve been dreaming of soundtrack release for years.
"1000 songs in your pocket."
One of the music industry's most iconic pieces of technology has gone the way of the Walkman, since Apple has quietly discontinued its iPod Classic players.
R.I.P. iPod Classic
My first iPod was a 15GB 3rd Generation. I’ve owned 5 iPods and it’s the only one I wish I still had.
Listen: "The Axiom EP" by Badawai
"Dub Step? Truth is music is made from only two things: Frequencies and choices. Once you see it that way genre has absolutely no power anymore and can be mutated into any shape imaginable." - Raz Mesinai
Listen: "THWIS" by Dj Olive
THWIS is a warm bass journey through the untravelled back streets of brooklyn's underground future dub landscape. Though you can hear the rootsy lovers feel THWIS is not a derivative dub record but a truly original reflection from one of brooklyn's loved underground producers. THWIS follows in the footsteps of Olive's classic Bodega release and his work with New York's legendary electronic trio We™.
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