Archive for September, 2009
My heroes… Chase & Status
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Perfect record for a soggy and gray day spent fiddling with records. Their LP from last year was pretty good drum n bass, but nothing could have prepared us for this. I first heard it back in April and it’s been growing on me ever since. Once again, turn up the bass if you can. [...]
Audio researcher’s “Fidelity Potential Index” pits mp3 against vinyl; science or pseudoscience?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Devin Coldewey over at Tech Crunch has a report on an Audio researcher’s “Fidelity Potential Index”, which pits mp3 against vinyl; science or pseudoscience?. The original report is here: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Magazine/manufacture/0909/, it includes many caveats…
Mad Decent bigs up David Rodigan
Monday, September 21st, 2009Diplo’s Mad Decent radio interviews David Rodigan, don of selectas. Also links to some wicked videos of the man in action RAM JAM PODCAST!!! | Mad Decent
HEH! Prince Zimboo comes to rule…
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Prince Zimboo “Love Diareha” – A fun, funny track with a great groove. This deserves to be huge. It wasn’t on YouTube yet so I cobbled something together and put it up. Zimboo first came to our attention with his contribution to the Major Lazer record earlier this year. Despite the brevity of the track, [...]
Or, you could just buy a proper LP…
Monday, September 14th, 2009Dissection of the new iTunes “LP” feature. Apparently each can be 500MB in addition to the actual “music”!! http://jayrobinson.org/2009/09/11/some-notes-on-itunes-lp/
Sound archive of the British Library goes online, free of charge
Friday, September 4th, 2009Sound archive of the British Library goes online, free of charge – so The Guradian tells us. (But I can’t yet make it work…)
HUGE MUSIC YARD SALE! – 10,000 CDs, LPs, 45s, DVDs – Labor Day Weekend
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009HUGE MUSIC YARD SALE! – 10,000 CDs, LPs, 45s, DVDs – Labor Day Weekend Zip’s Ziggurat presents another Insane! Music yard sale 10,000s of LPs , CDs +12”s Rock, pop, hip hop, country, dance, world, folk, reggae, soul, alt.rock, jazz, funk, punk, r+b, metal, classical, techno, new wave, house, old-timey, breaks, spoken, 80’s, electro, blues, [...]