One of the finest DJ’s ever, a guy who opened his own club to DJ his mix of music, called the Warehouse, which in turn helped birth the genre “House”.
Genre games are stupid – this is top end dance … Read the rest
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The Wood Is Good
Check out Warwick’s newly designed space bass, explained by Bootsy himself. That bass is amazing, totally out there. 4 outputs? Damn.
… Read the restThe Problem With A-B’ing And Why Neil Young Is Right About Sound Quality
Great Tape Op post that’s thinking big about audio, music, and hearing.
The main crutch of the good enough team is what is called the double-blind listening test (shortened to ABX). When doing studies based on perception, it is the … Read the rest
A New Audio Era
High Fidelity Audio Enters The Digital Age – SlashdotHi There I’m Walkman 2014
Neil Young’s preaching has been working — Sony recently announced their latest WalkMan, the 35th Anniversary model, and it’s pretty bad-ass. Save the Audio!
That little slab of gadget-lust has got hi-fi audio specs (DAC, amp, wiring, shielding), excellent … Read the rest
Digital Audio Verses Timbre
If an electric guitar and a piano both play a C major chord at the same volume, can you tell the difference between them? Would you be able to discern a difference between the guitar and the piano’s version of … Read the rest
1 Trillion Odors, or alot of Funk
Ha, Imagine That! I’m running all over the internet fighting bad science about hearing and music, and The Journal of Science publishes a study that says scientists have really underestimated the abilities of our nose and sense of smell.
Oh … Read the rest
Howlin’ For My Baby
Bad Science + Business Interests = Trouble
Computer geeks know lots of things. The sheer breadth of stuff that geeks have crammed in their head is impressive.
But their major mistake is often not acknowledging their own ignorance. Many have come up in a world so digitally … Read the rest
Subtly Outrageous
Well it’s 2014, and snarky internet humor is just about all we have left. Prez Obama actually went on Zach Galifinakis’ mock talk show Between Two Ferns to pitch Healthcare.gov.
… Read the restRighteous Audio – Finally!
I love knowing I’m not alone in my rants. I have been complaining about digital audio compromises since the 80’s, and now, finally, a product is coming for people like me. It’s called “Pono” (Hawaiian for ‘righteous’) and its basically … Read the rest
Filler Music
I made an album almost entirely on an iPad laying in bed. Just funkin’ around. I call it Musiak.
I consider it perfect on-hold music if you are calling the mothership.
The filler music on the mothership is Ezraz.… Read the rest
Flip The Lip
Funny stuff, fun with video effects:
… Read the restFollow The Dots
Merlin was one of my favorites way back, and I know I’m not alone, this game was very popular for a couple of years. This guy gives us the backstory on the game, it’s brother Simon, and how Merlin is … Read the rest
How Funny Can Sex Be?
K-Strass and A Lack Of Muscle Memory
Hahaha pranking the news is excellent!
This guy, one of the founders of the Found Footage Festival (a mashup of the worst of unintentionally-bad found video), decided he was bored with promoting the festival on morning shows, so he decided … Read the rest
The First LP… ever
The year was 1948. The funk was about to go mobile.
Colombia debuted the 33 1/3 RPM long playing vinyl disc.
Some serious fiddle by this guy playing this. The breakdown run at 0:34 is amazing.
The audio linked … Read the rest
The Other Side of Paradise
It’s blowing, white, zero degrees out right now. Old Man with snowblower is like a cat herder.
The shittier it gets the more I use music to keep warm. Thinking of summer days with some classic Neville Brothers:
BTW – … Read the rest