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Linsey Pollak’s garden hose

Paul — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:51:59 +0000

This is Australian woodwind player and live looper Linsey Pollak playing quirky and absolutely amazing music on common household items. I love live music like this with all my heart.

Baseck – Stirred Up

Paul — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:18:52 +0000

New mix available for free download from LA local DJ and producer Baseck. This mix features on of my favorite DJ handles of all time: Duran Duran Duran.

Direct download: http://baseck.net/mp3/baseck_-_stirred_up_baseck.net_djmix.mp3

From the site:

“Stirred Up – Mixed by Baseck”

run time: 33mins 12 secs

tracklisting:

baseck – intro
current value – heavy weight
all leather – well fed fuck
le jad – beat 133.333 pour bank
duran duran duran – furious george
monster x – get up to kill
otto von schirach – night terror
the teknoist & scheme boy – versus unleashed (gancher remix)
the outside agency – industrial cooking spray (feat. tapage)
receptor & engage – wi-fi waves
i:gor – los control
cooh – down boy (feat. dean rodell)
halves – autumn
broken note – meltdown
xanopticon – tempcw_5
wmx – possibilities (acid rework)

notes: this mix was originally made for rob booth’s electronic explorations show last year but it never seen the light of day. now hear it here first… BASECK EXCLUSIVE!

End piracy, not literacy – FIGHT SOPA NOW

Paul — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:15:53 +0000

We are winning! SOPA and PIPA are dropping co-sponsors like flies, but that just means we need to push harder to ensure these harmful bills don’t pass. Go to https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ and join the petition now!

Oramics machine

Paul — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:44:22 +0000

Daphne Oram‘s incredible oramics machine for producing electronic music via hand drawn waveforms is easily one of the coolest synths ever.

Watch video of it in action via the BBC here.

Chunky Move – “Mortal Engine”

Paul — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:47:27 +0000

Australian contemporary dance troupe Chunky Move and the most incredible live motion capture paired with exquisite dance you will ever see.

James Cruz on why CDs sound better than vinyl

Paul — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:48:39 +0000

James Cruz is a Grammy award winning mastering engineer who blogs about such things, and he has written an article making the controversial claim that vinyl is inferior to CDs in that the former has far more limitations. The summary is that in any analogue format, the medium itself will react differently to certain situations, right down to the fact that the inner region of a record handles sibilants far differently than the outer. Interesting read from an amazing pair of ears.

The moral of the article is a lesson all audiophiles really need to learn, which is that most things don’t sound better or worse, just different. Of course, we’re all just listening to MP3s at 320 now, so maybe it’s a deck chairs/titanic sorta thing.

Signal Path – Some Take Flight

Paul — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:43:08 +0000

The ultracool Coloradan trio Signal Path released a free EP on the first day of every season in 2011. This is is their winter album, “Some Take Flight”, and it is available for download via the player below.

Some Take Flight by Signal Path

The other free downloads from this series can be found here:

Souls Unswayed
Minds Make Lights
The Prosaic Fades

Though essentially the new kind of glitch hop that has drops, the overall sound is surprisingly, deliciously, secretly acoustic at its core, and that’s what makes Signal Path stand out. Hooray free music!

“Born in the mountain enclave of Missoula, MT, Denver based Signal Path bends musical genres and deep melodic ideas around a core of unrelenting rhythm and massive low-end. They create a depth and intricacy of sound that become more commanding every time it’s heard, and by blending live instrumentation into their production they create a live experience that is as beautiful as it is intense.”

Christoffer Schunk – “Prague”

Paul — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:01:01 +0000

I’ve had the honor to sing in Christoffer Schunk’s just intonation drone piece Prague. “Just intonation” means every interval is related by small whole numbers, as opposed to equal temperament, which is the standard tuning system based on even ratios. It’ll probably sound a little off at first, simply because you aren’t used to it, but then your ear will adjust.

Prague by Chris Schunk

Opiuo – Slappy Cans

Paul — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:53:19 +0000

Free download from the funktastic glitch hopper from down under Opiuo!

My last REDCAT post of the year

Paul — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:35:20 +0000

My name was mentioned in a very positive review of “Yes is Not Passive” at the Times Quotidian. Neat, huh? Stay tuned for my piece in the Next Dance Festival sometime next Spring!

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