Archived entries for music
Blue Note: The Movie
An animated remake of Reid Miles’ iconic Blue Note album covers. See Yummy Fresh Grain’s post for background info and related projects.
[via Yummy Fresh grain feed!]
Eduardo Navas: Sampling Culture
Eduardo Navas’ updated Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture provides a sprawling (in a good way) map of remix theory and practice.
The megamix has its roots in the sampling practice of disco and hip hop. While disco in large part experimented with the Extended Remix, hip hop experimented with the Selective and Reflexive Remixes. Grandmaster Flash may be credited with having experimented in 1981 with an early form of the megamix when he recorded “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,”[25] which is essentially an extended mix performed on a set of turntables with the help of music studio production. The recording included songs by The Sugarhill Gang, The Furious Five, Queen, Blondie and Chic.
[via Remix Theory]
Singing Fingers
[via Designboom]
WTSC Radio c. 1968 + 1972
When alumnus Ted Perkins visited Clarkson in 1968 and 1972, he brought his video camera to WTSC and WNTC, the student-run radio stations where he used to work. He has some additional footage that includes a station promo in the soundtrack.
[ via wtsc news ]
KEXP Album Review Archive
KEXP’s Review Revue is scanning and posting the little sticker-based LP reviews that their DJs taped to albums added to the station’s collection. Ranging from Paul Simon’s Graceland to Sonic Youth’s Goo and more. The brevity and small size of the notes makes them amenable to hosting conversations among DJs posted in series, an antecedent to weblog comment communities. Above is the nearly filled cover of Lou Reed’s New York, which split the community a little:
“This doesn’t deserve H. It’s not lighting up my phones. I’d much rather play ‘This Gift’ than this 2nd rate MTV trend scooter music. So there.”
“Oh Phil, you are such a rock historian. Slip on an Aerosmith disc, maybe ‘Rocks’ or ‘Toys in the Attic’ next you’re spazzin’ over the ‘latest guitar thang.”
“Take a listen! ‘Endless Cycle’ is great! Lou & his many hats (+ cigarettes)!”
“The listeners on NNTNBT loved this disc.”
“Besto!!”
“Contrived anger for the masses.”
[Via metafilter.com]
Live! Singing! Ants!
Adword Fail: The YouTube ads that get laid over this when it plays largely deal with ant poison…. Sort of an ant version of emo.
[via designboom]
Rock That Font
The Rock That Font weblog analyzes fonts used on (you guessed it) rock album covers. Here’s a small snip from what they had to say about Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot:
Like the sonic qualities of the music itself, the design was left of of center for a quasi-country act (though Wilco had a track record of arresting images since their first studio album, A.M.). A gorgeously minimal piece of design, the cover featured a photograph of Chicago’s Marina City buildings. The complex was supposed to be a “city within a city,” kind of a one-stop shop for living, playing and working — a perfect compliment for an album as diverse as Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The typography is similarly perfect: the modern classic ITC Avant Garde Gothic, designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase (a font based on Lubalin’s design for Avant Garde Magazine).
[via metafilter.com]
Augmented Reality & Music Marketing
The new Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma [iTunes Store link] release includes a free Windows and Mac augmented reality app, Cosmogramma Fieldlines. Nice.
[via createdigitalmusic.com]
