When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, […]
Universal Music Group: Decades of Masters Lost
Last year, I wrote an article detailing how record companies have a checkered past when it comes to properly archiving their master recordings. Among some of the revelations noted (thanks to a bril…
Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
An unlikely YouTube star surveys the spoils of an overflowing but precarious industry.
Cassette Deck Vader - Episode 1
Impulse Tracker by Ovi Demetrian Jr
On a quiet night in the year 1996, 20-year old Alan is in his small apartment, about to make an important life decision. His thoughts are torn between the electronic music he makes with his computer and starting a career path with a computer software company.
How The Heck Do Record Players Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
An interactive exploration of how record players work: from a stylus, grooves, and magnets to the RIAA curve and playback speed.
How Sun Records Saved a Lost Collection of Legendary Music - Musicbed Blog
Rock ’n roll was born at Sun Records. The list of earth-shattering artists who got their start there is hard to believe: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and so many others. As Collin Brace, VP of Sun Records, told us, “These guys defined not only a genre, but a generation.” In many ways, Sun Records and its artists paved the way for indie musicians and studios today. They were future minded. Open minded. They welcomed anyone with a guitar and a song. This is how they found legendary, mold-breaking artists like Johnny Cash. And it’s also how they ended up with over 8,000 master recordings from artists who never made it big, if it at all.
10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years.
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The cognitive impact of coding agents
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical …
Dave Stevens - What are we trying to preserve?
Take a look inside Richie Hawtin's DJ setup | One of a Kind | Native Instruments
hey #furry musicians + DJs + playlist makers! if you have any mixtapes or DJ sets to share for the upcoming first issue of The Mixtape Rolls, let me know to get 'em featured. Here's the @semble.so collection to drop by your entries if so: semble.so/profile/multifandom.andreijir…
The Weekly Mixtape Roll Inbox (by multifandom hellscapes) — Semble
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Shipping fresh from the @leaflet.pub publication bakery for the Atmosphere Field Reporter Corps: blogrolls but for mixtapes and DJ sets! Have a mixtape playlist or DJ set to share for its first issue later this weekend? Read on for the deets. #blog #blogpost #mixtape #djset
