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“When Dan [Stowell] started tweeting snippets of SuperCollider code he expected a lot of “throwaway waffle” but collated also a bunch of really interesting things…Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.”
—Susanna Glaser at The Mire writing about the live coding music project Supercollider140, 22 pieces by artists from around the world, each piece created with just 140 characters of code.
Admittedly, I have not been posting a hell of a lot on this site as of late, let alone posts that push the endless music marketing that flows into my inBox everyday. But this is definitely worth sharing.
Mayday have just released an EP for free download called Technology and it is damn good. Think new-album Gnarls Barkley or Outkast at their best. The stand out track on first listen is Crossroads & Avenues, a hard driving, psychedelic soul/hiphop piece that evolves into what can only be described as beatbox drum …
Simon Reynolds is an English music critic who began writing about the UK’s electronic music scene for Wire Magazine back in 1992. This month is the magazine’s 300th edition and to mark the occasion, the editors have released a 7-part series of Reynolds’ work through the years under the title “The Hardcore Continuum” that begins by profiling Hardcore Rave and moves on through Jungle, Drum ‘n’ Bass and Hard Step to Grime and the Dubstep breaks of the last few years.
The series is remarkable for its immediacy, as a …
In 1969, soul music group The Winstons released the single “Color Him Father” which would go on to reach number 2 on the R&B; charts and number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and win them a Grammy Award in 1970 for Best R&B; song.
However what is most remarkable about this record comes from the song on the B-side, “Amen, Brother”, specifically a six second drum break in the middle of the tune that has since become one of the most heavily sampled drum breaks in the course of …
In Tribute to the Beatle’s White Album 40th anniversary, PopMatters is celebrating the milestone with a five day, song-by-song, side-by-LP side breakdown of what Tony Palmer, in The Observer, summed up at the time of its release by stating: “if there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then…[The White Album]…should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making. . . .”
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Currently showing at the San Francisco Art Exchange is Beggars to Exiles: The Photography of Michael Cooper and Dominique Tarle, that documents the Rolling Stones between 1967 and 1971, a period during which the band singlehandedly defined the archetype of the rock n roll star –the fashion, the drug busts, the groupies, the villa in the south of France — for all who followed.
Though somewhat of a pain to navigate, the online version of the exhibit is quite comprehensive and includes such insights as:
To record “Exile on Main Street” …
COMPUTER VS BANJO
You can be pretty sure that if you meet someone at a party and they tell you that they are “cool” or claim to be “the funniest person you have ever met”, they are certain to not deliver on that promise. Indeed they will no doubt prove to be quite boring and you will find yourself desperately searching for a way to escape from the corner that they have backed you into. Such innate traits never require a lead-in and the genuine article will be so oblivious as …
