Before Google There Was… Speech
Genre jumping again, I know. Check this funky little thang a few years back from an amazing band that played the music business blues in the nineties then dropped from the scene.
NEO Neo
Ok sentimental fools, here in Cleveland we had our own version of the Beatles, or was it Queen? Well anyway, The Raspberries are one of the most underrated bands of the seventies. Check them out tackling this pop classical masterpiece.
Mellow Madness
One of the more radical covers, I dig it for sure. Here's Come As You Are done jazz bassguitar style.
Why Analog Matters
In reply to a thread on CNet about Record Store Day, I laid out a long reply to the idea that buying vinyl these days is pointless, especially if the artist records digitally. The poster implied that the CD format was the gold standard and that prompted my reply. It was too long for their system so here's the whole thing:
The issue with the cd format is not that it's digital, it's that it's 16bit/44k digital. This is not even close to the full analog sound as produced in nature. This number was chosen because it was all the data they could cram through the DAC's built in the late 1970's. The "CD format" as you know it is the best digital audio format that computers (actually IC's) could handle 32 years ago. Anything else a 32 year old computer is "good enough" for these days?
So why do most people think CD is actually the top standard, and that mp3 is "good enough"? Brilliant engineering, understanding commerce, and counting on people's horrible (and often damaged) ears. Let me explain:
Standing Around Playing Music
Proof that every band I like doesn't jump around like maniacs -- early live performance from the Violent Femmes, circa 1985:
Merging For You
Haha the classical musicians and fans are getting younger than the rock ones! Here's some cool fusion going on between Deep Purple and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Pleasant Valley
I've been listening to this playlist lately that contains no one but Chopin & Monk. Then I found this nice jazz rendition of a Chopin piece and I dug it much.
Clean Sweepin The Jango
OK so none of our bands have hit the Jango Global Top 10 yet, but we are definitely on a run over at Jango.
Last week, the 4 Flux-adel bands that are on Jango - Roaming Crazy, 2MERICA, The Stares 20/20, and Ezraz -- all scored high enough for the bonus round. Each of our artists does well overall on Jango, but we've never had all of them score high in the same week. Very cool!
Fans are collecting from around the world (without facebook's help), so however you listen to music online or off, do some promotion for our fun little Flux-adel family.
ps -- we are planning a huge release party this summer for all Flux-adel Artists -- stay tuned for more info soon.
8 Bit Goodness
I present the first computer I purchased and still a favorite of mine, the 8 bit goodness of the Atari 130xe. Commodore people were everywhere back then (like Windows now), waiting 23 minutes to load a game, but my Atari rolled fast and stable. I had a disk drive, a modem, and probably a whole 512k of RAM. Plus leatherette cases!
The whole system. I had a 1200 baud modem to access the FreeNet, the BBS's, and the Gopher servers. Hook into any TV set and phone line and off you go!
So what could this thing do? It had a nice soundchip for the time and could get pretty funky midi going (for 1985). If I had my studio then I would have been producing music on this thing, for sure, but I was just a snot nosed 12 year old.
Out Here Trying To Be A Star
Junie doing his thing solo on Westbound before joining up with P-Funk.
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