InMyRadio (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
From February 1 to 7, one of the hosts of MasterMix will Bjon Rohde. It is not just listen to their music, but also know something about them. Here’s who is Bjorn Rohde. Bjorn was born in the early 70’s in a small town in the north of the Ruhr Area and his passion for music began since [...]
Greenpete.co.uk (Free subscription) | 01/12/2010
As I am more and more getting into electronic music, re-mixes, drum and bass, dub-step etc, I figured posting the video of The Art of Noise – Close To The Edit, seemed like a good idea! I really love the innovation, having only gotten into audio manipulation since and with digital computers I see what [...]
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
"The Bose QuietComfort 15 has refined circuitry and redesigned earcaps." Source of caption: print version of the NYT article quoted and cited below. Source of photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below. (p. B8) ....
Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
[Thanks to Bert.] The art of noise, noise sculptures by Zimoun. I think they're very cool. (though I doubt I'd have one in my home!) I especially like those with little motors bouncing around, they are like little animals or big insects. Gawd, what a fantastic amount of work he's put into these works! You have to take your hat off for the industry of some artists. Is it "noise" if it's not...
Breaking More Waves (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
Tomorrow Delphic release Doubt . It’s the bands third single and follows a steady build in the groups profile over the last year. With previous songs Counterpoin t and This Momentary creating enough buzz to get the band onto most tipsters lists at the end of 2009 including the BBC Sound Of list and our very own Ones To Watch 2010 list, Doubt is the moment where Delphic try to up the ante further....
3rings (Free subscription) | 12/16/2009
If you have ever been without an adequate hood, then you know how valuable this simple piece of kitchen equipment can be. Chances are, if you’ve got a small kitchen or an older home, you may have a) no venting hood whatsoever, b) a venting hood so cumbersome and unattractive that it resembles a woolly [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I have just returned from bearing live witness to BB's Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra. An outstandingly funny show consisting of such highlights as: The Dr.Who Theme Reimagined as smooth Belgian jazz (Je Suis Dr. Qui?), pastiches of Chris De Burgh 'Beautiful Ladies In Danger' & Bryan Adams 'Hats Off to the Zebras', live telescopic carbon-fibre alpine horn, the Insect-Nation rock-opera, amusing...
Royston Robertson Cartoons (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
I was asked to do a cartoon to accompany an article about unseasonably warm November weather, with trees in full blossom and roses in bloom in some areas. This put me in mind of the Thomas Hood poem November, because I'm such a cultured kinda guy ... OK, I admit that I only know the poem because it was in a pop song years ago (Opus 4 by the Art of Noise). Anyway, it was a chance to do something
zed equals zee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I promised myself that I would actually make something at Music Hack Day Boston, not just hang out while other people made stuff. So I signed up for circuit bender Jimmie Rodgers’s newbie workshop on making an Atari Punk Console, a simple synthesizer that Jimmie designed and has made available as a kit. It uses [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Stephen K Amos, DVD/On tour Seemingly poised for stardom with his own BBC2 series due in 2010, Stephen K Amos's debut DVD, Find The Funny, gives those new to his charms the chance to find out what the rest of us have been sniggering to ourselves about all these years. Intermingling tersely insightful stories of prejudice (sexual and racial) with audacious audience interaction, Amos can switch from...
Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Now that the Halloween Countdown is over it's time to move back into a more normal posting routine but instead of posting music this week I am going to post links to some of my favorite music blogs from the past month or so. A Closet of Curiosities - lots of "world" music and other eclectics (last three posts: Karaikudi Subramaniam and Trichy Sankaran - Sunada, Eduard Brunner - Dal niente,...
highwayfive (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
My Favorite 100 LPS since I was born. My Top 100 LPs since I was born! 1. American Music Club – California 2. New Order – Low Life 3. The National – Alligator 4. Momus – Tender Pervert 5. Tricky – Maxinquaye 6. Pixies – Surfer Rosa 7. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures 8. Burial – Untrue 9. Portishead – Dummy 10. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me 11. The...
CWNN NEWS (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Anthony Child , known to the hordes of his techno kin as Surgeon , is somewhat of a legend in musical terms and Fabric are extra happy to be able to present the first part of his two part podcast containing musical extremes from the electronic visions of Delia Derbyshire ... Download Pt 1. 24/08/2009 here 1: Isao Tomita - Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque, No3) - RCA 2: Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils...
Too Much Apple Pie (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
It's the Gallup UK Top 100 Singles of the Year 1986 - and your chance to download a whopping 3% of them! Imagine that! 1986 being the zenith (or nadir, depending on your point of view) of my chart-pop-buying lifespan, I bought no less then thirty-eight of the songs listed below on either 7" or 12" vinyl (including the one at #2), and could still happily listen to most of them on a constant...
Serge the Concierge (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
I was so touched reading The price is high when taste comes first (SF Gate, August 30), the first hand...
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